Looking for recommendations for gloves to handle hot things

[Rkh]

I'm not a welder, but do you guys recommend them to handle things like oven, hot wire wood, etc? Or do you recommend another type of gloves?

 

[kevinj54]

I use welders gloves because I have them but I am sure that they make gloves for even higher temps.

 

[caterpillar guy]

I just use a pair of pliers or channel locks and even a grip wrench for hot pieces. I just put on gloves for cold weather.

 

[Dusty MI]

Welding gloves will burn when they touch red hot metal, they just protect your hands from red hot heat and sparks.

 

[Fixingfarmer]

My favorite ones were TIG gloves they are thin enough to do stuff. DO NOT use them like I have seen my father and most other farmers use to just grab the 500 degree plus piece of metal and hold it walking to quench it. That’s what pliars are for this is to protect your hand. The thicker welding gloves will also work and be fine On a 350 degree oven a clean unused tig glove would be perfect. Most things you pull out of the oven you aren’t going to sit and hold in your lap. Especially that hot wire I would think a tig glove would be the ticket allows freedom of movement. They are more expensive.

 

[Ray,IN]

I had my old pair of Asbestos gloves I used in the heat treatment room. Never found a use for them after retirement, so gave them to my nephew. With those long cuff gloves i could pick up a hot piece out of the annealing furnace and never feel heat on my hands and wrists.
Can't do that with any leather glove, that much heat hardens leather so much you can't move your fingers.
Protective clothing containing Asbestos is still made and sold.
reference;

B. Federal Register, Nov. 5, 1993 (58 FR 58964), Factual determinations: "Continuing restrictions on certain asbestos-containing products."​

In this FR notice, EPA stated its position regarding the status of its ban on various asbestos containing product categories. The status is briefly summarized below:

Asbestos-containing product categories no longer subject to the 1989 TSCA ban include:​

• asbestos-cement shingle
• asbestos-cement corrugated sheet
• asbestos-cement flat sheet
• asbestos-cement pipe
• asbestos clothing
• automatic transmission components
• brake blocks
• clutch facings
• disc brake pads
• drum brake linings
• friction materials
• gaskets
• millboard
• non-roofing coatings

• pipeline wrap
• roofing felt
• roof coatings
• vinyl-asbestos floor tile

 

[4435]

Having worked for the Fire Dept. 28 years I have several pair leather fire gloves. The leather in them will succumb to the heat eventually but have handled many very hot items. They have a moisture barrier in them also. Tom

 

[wore out]

I'm not a welder, but do you guys recommend them to handle things like oven, hot wire wood, etc? Or do you recommend another type of gloves?

GOOGLE or Amazon "foundry gloves", an endless amount to choose from and some darned high heat ratings.

 

[BarnyardEngineering]

Define "hot." What specifically are you trying to handle? I don't know what an "oven, hot wire wood" is.

You trying to handle something that's electrically "hot" or physically "hot?" How much voltage and/or what temperatures are we looking at?

 

[Tgrasher]

Leather with insulation inside off the rack at your local farm store would get you by. You'll know when something is too hot to handle and the longer you hold on to something the hotter your hand will become.

 

[560Dennis]

Glass craftperso have hand le pretty hot , saw them over in Corning New York ,might be something to look into

 

[sonny2]

I have a pair of asbestos gloves that I got when the plastics plant where I worked shut down. They are very bulky but they keep your hands from getting burned

 

[Eman85]

A pair of welders gloves will do what you want, start with a pair from Harbor Freight or Northern Tool and see how they do.

 

[Rkh]

I meant taking food out of oven, handling hot firewood,etc

 

[kevinj54]

Oven food is not that hot, there are all types of kitchen gloves, hot pads etc.

 

[Tony in SD]

I use what my high school buddy and blacksmith used. Plain old yellow fuzzy farmer gloves. If it is hotter than what they will take, I use a pliers. He correctly said that leather gloves get hot and stay hot. The plain old yellow fuzzy farmer gloves loose head a lot faster.

 

[Mobuck]

Those silicon grabby thingies should work fine for hot dishes. Tongs are the suggested tool for 'handling hot firewood', red horse shoes, and other things of that nature(and degree of hotness).

 

[Janicholson]

I use what my high school buddy and blacksmith used. Plain old yellow fuzzy farmer gloves. If it is hotter than what they will take, I use a pliers. He correctly said that leather gloves get hot and stay hot. The plain old yellow fuzzy farmer gloves loose head a lot faster.

Leather also becomes harder and harder as it is overheated. soon the glove becomes a cast. Jim

 

[flying belgian]

Years ago at a coed wedding shower bride passed gifts around. When they got to my batchaler cousin who I was sitting next to asked,,, welding gloves?

 

[flying belgian]

Years ago at a coed wedding shower bride passed gifts around. When they got to my batchaler cousin who I was sitting next to asked,,, welding gloves?

Oh forgot to tell, they were oven mitts