Drake Off Road Tools 400 Welding Gloves Lined Leather, Blue - 14"

I bought these gloves 7 years ago for use with my wood stove. They have served me every day since and have held up extremely well. I'm now ordering a second pair because my original is beginning to show signs of wear. My husband has much larger hands than I, but we both find the gloves very usable. Coverage along the lower arm is good, allowing us to reach in further than we otherwise wood. They are absolutely heatproof. One of our best purchases on Amazon. This time around, I did see several other brands that cost more but these gloves are inexpensive and exactly serve our purpose. I did notice they cost $2 more when we bought them years ago.

I've had the same pair of these gloves for about 3.5 years now, using them a few times a week. They take a little breaking in, but they're the best pair of welding gloves I've ever had. I didn't have any of the fitment problems that other people have had, but I guess that's just the luck of your hand size. Like another reviewer said, they're designed to be able to flick off easily if they get too hot. Now having said that, I've only had to do that maybe twice, in hours and hours of welding and other hot work.They are VERY well insulated. Sometimes I'll get impatient and starting handling work pieces too soon, either after welding, torching, or plasma operations. I'll notice the fingers of the glove start smoking where I'm touching the metal but I can't feel anything unless I foolishly continue to hold it for another 20 seconds or so. I also use them to pull freshly cast aluminum pieces from the sand, also with no burning to my hands. I see a lot of reviews talking about using them to handle wood stove doors and such - I'm using them to handle things way hotter than that, so I imagine these would be ideal for flipping firewood and cast iron stoves.They're finally getting to the point where I'm starting to wear them out (I've been getting lazy and also using them for work gloves from time to time), and I plan to just re-order this same pair again.

Great price for a nice quality pair of gloves that I use for my wood burning insert. I had a more expensive pair of "fire place" gloves last year that only held up for one season so I decided I would buy welding gloves. The welding gloves are of a much better construction than the previous product I owned and so far have held up well. I use them regularly to open and close the wood burning insert and they manage the heat just fine. I also use them to pick up hot coals and logs and, while I can feel the heat, it is still comfortable. I don't recommend holding anything that's on fire for more than few seconds. If they were a few inches longer it would be nice so I could comfortably reach the back of my stove, but that's not what they're made for so it doesn't affect my rating. Just be cautious and you'll be fine.

he good: These gloves are sold at a great price from Amazon (got mine for only $11), and they do a great job of blocking heat. I use them for loading wood into my stove and handling the damper on the stovepipe, and I feel no heat whatsoever. With my regular gloves, my hands would feel like they were on fire, if there was a hot bed of coals. The material seems to be well made and durable (I will update if there are any issues with longevity). The length is also very good, providing ample protection of the wrist and lower forearm (anything longer would be unwieldy, so I'm glad I didn't buy the longer ones). So for the most part, these gloves are fantastic. However, there is...Some bad: These are only available in one size for some reason, and that size is LARGE. I would be a medium, so these gloves are way too big for me. Since I only use them when I'm loading the stove, they're fine, even though the size is not ideal. However, there is no way I would want to try welding with these, because there is too much extra finger room, limiting my mechanical dexterity. This is something to definitely keep in mind, if you're purchasing these for the purpose of welding, or will need to do some kind of work that requires good dexterity. Different sizes should be available! Also, the color is nowhere near what they manufacturer posted for a photo. This isn't a huge deal, so long as you don't mind bright, royal blue gloves, but this product inaccuracy is frustrating. Finally, these gloves are made in China, which I feel is deceptive, since the company goes by the name of "U.S. Forge". They further hide their origin by printing this nugget of information on a tiny tag way up inside of the glove... it wasn't easy to find or read (this is also where the size is revealed). This information is not printed anywhere on the big piece of cardboard that keeps the gloves attached, although they did find the time to print "U.S. Forge" all over it in huge text.

I love these gloves. I use them every weekend to move hot coals around in my smoker. I have a tailor smoker and a smaller bullet shaped family size smoker. When I need to move hot coals around in the fire or add wood chips, I put these gloves on and I have never been burnt. I have a typical bullet shaped home size smoker which you can buy at any retail store. It's the kind that has a deep bowel in the bottom for holding coals, another bowel in the middle for water, and two grates for holding food with a large dome style removable lid. While I was adding some briquettes to my fire bowel after a few hours of already smoking meat, the large bowel slid off its holding tabs and fell to one side. I was able to pickup the bowel by its 1/2 inch rim (full of hot burning coals) and squeeze it back into it's place. That took about 10 seconds. My hands did end up getting very hot but not burned. I later touched the bottom of the coal bowel to test the gloves and my hands heated up rapidly in 3-4 seconds. The smoker was running at 250F and the fire was about 350F so I was amazed that the gloves outperformed their rating and let me hold something that hot for so long. I highly recommend these to anyone.