Another Mole Trapping Thread - Gloves

[outandabout 27]

I wear gloves all the time when mole trapping. I don't want to be touching cat/dog/fox/badger shit. Occasionally there's one you don't notice!

 

I don't care a jot about human scent on traps, it's just a PPE thing.

 

Disposables are my choice, but is there anything 'better' I could be using?

[tilimangro 1,013]

I use rubber tarmacing type gloves thin enough to have some feel put cut and excrement protective

[Mr Muddy 141]

I wear some of the yellow leather gloves you get from garden centres.

The only reason I chose them is that when I was a kid I used to stay up to watch a program where the main character used to wear yellow leather gloves. The program was called 'V', it was about people fighting against space aliens. I expect if I saw it again now I'd think it was a load of s**t - still brought the gloves though, very happy with them too; taken the sting out of trapped fingers a few times this winter.

[myersbg 1,385]

Gloves are for softies, do you sit down to pee??

[earth-thrower 493]

Gloves are for softies, do you sit down to pee??

In YOUR opinion, that is ? lol

[Rowan 308]

found some gloves in the local builders merchant , reflex thermals , they are a brickies glove really , but are fit for purpose and cost all of £3.

[Hands of Stone 154]

You only get one pair of hands, you need to look after em!

[outandabout 27]

Thanks lads, I'll try some of those suggestions. Yellow gloves sound a good idea so you don't lose 'em (not forgetting looking cool )

 

Aside from excrement on molehills, I need to look half presentable for other jobs throughout the day. I can't turn up at offices or a household with hands covered in mud, it doesn't wash off easily when you're trapping a lot.

[shropshire mole 190]

latex disposable gloves, always use then to keep hands clean

[Nicepix 5,650]

I just get gloves from the gardening section. In the really cold, wet weather I use ones with a fully latex palm and put dry ones on every job. Otherwise I use a similar type but thinner and with a lighter latex coating on the palm. They last about a month, the thicker type three months at least.

 

When I was renting a cottage on a farm and walking to the traps I didn't bother with gloves, but I don't like getting the car mucked up.

[J Darcy 5,871]

http://www.amazon.co.uk/gp/product/B00GH1KZS8?psc=1&redirect=true&ref_=oh_aui_detailpage_o02_s00

 

Best you'll get IMO.....can't fault them. They are warm and very water resistant. It's the water that chills your pinkies IMO.

[bryn27 89]

Look after your hands, or you'll live to regret it as I do now.

5 ops on the right and 3 on the left over the last 20 year.

Edited February 19, 2015 by bryn27

[perthshire keeper 1,239]

latex disposable gloves, always use then to keep hands clean

rubber latex milking gloves...£4 for 100 put 2 on at a time and keep a box on the quad...and used ones make a good sneaky marker for traps

[IanB 0]

I've tried a lot of gloves and these are what I use, they don't affect dexterity, they are thin hard wearing and 100% totally waterproof across the full glove, as there designed for oil/chemicals.

[J Darcy 5,871]

Put a link up to them bignose.....