Fossil Collecting Gloves

[LiamL]

Anybody have some good recommendations for great fossil collecting gloves.

I'll be hammering hard nodules and will also need to have good grip.

[Kane]

I just bought a pack of nitrile-coated gloves after experiencing the pitfalls of regular work gloves losing grip when working in mucky, wet conditions. The benefit of the nitrile gloves (and, to some extent, thickly rubber-coated grip ones) is puncture resistance. Garden gloves wear out very quickly, particularly if you use your hands to wipe away debris.

[Uncle Siphuncle]

I use weightlifting gloves for the padded palms and exposed fingertips.

[Kosmoceras]

I wear a fingerless weightlifting glove (padded palm) on my hammer-hand. Only wear the pair during winter collecting.

[jpc]

Pounding concretions is your hand is a great way to screw up your anvil hand bones.  I used to do it that way, but now mostly I set the ting on the ground and hit.  I recommend finding a rock to use as an anvil.  If I wear gloves it is leather, and generally only for fun things like shoveling, and a single glove to protect my chisel holding hand.  

[Ludwigia]

I don't wear gloves unless it's cold. I prefer to feel the rough stone and dirt and the tools directly. I suppose that's not very sensible in the eyes of some, but I always at least have a few bandaids in my knapsack as a precaution

[caldigger]

I work mostly in sandstone so I wouldn't have any skin left on my hands if I didn't.

These I get in a ten pair pack for $10. So only $1 per pair.

One pair can last me 2-3 trips. Available from  a store that starts with Home and ends with Depot.

I have used rubber coated gloves and many other kinds and they just don't hold up like these.

 

 

 

[Kane]

15 minutes ago, caldigger said:

I work mostly in sandstone so I wouldn't have any skin left on my hands if I didn't.

These I get in a ten pair pack for $10. So only $1 per pair.

One pair can last me 2-3 trips. Available from  a store that starts with Home and ends with Depot.

I have used rubber coated gloves and many other kinds and they just don't hold up like these.

 

 

 

 

I field tested with a pair of these yesterday, also acquired in 10-pack. Apart from some light wear on the nitrile-coated side, I found them pretty handy in not getting soaked like cloth gloves. If it is a bit cold or damp out, these will not cut out a chill wind, but one of their advantages is that you can pick up small pieces without taking off your gloves first. Thicker gloves makes the occasional sifting and such awkward.

[caldigger]

Cold...damp...whats that?  I live in California.