So you've got chainsaws and is that clean X-boxes here
No, they're not clean X-boxes. These are some rougher gloves, and I want to talk about these
I'm sharpening saws. We're cutting firewood now. We doll these saws pretty quickly, so I'm taking the chains off
just doing things that expose me to grease and grime and things
I don't really mind having grease and grime on my hands, but it's easy enough to wash
but there is the issue of absorption. absorbing toxins through your skin
And I think there's a concern there. So for the last, I don't know, maybe three, four, five years
I've kept different kinds of rubber gloves, I'll call them, in stock in the shop here
And they use them for finishing, or if I have to do some really greasy, oily, oily work on vehicles, stuff like that
The first rubber gloves I used, disposable gloves, were just the kind that doctors use
And they're pretty thin. They do the job, but they're not. not all that strong. They work too for if you want to like yank a tooth with a pair of needle
those pliers, you know, family members had a tooth issue. Okay, I'll keep that in mind
Well, you kept that in mind, that's what I mean, didn't you? Oh, did I? Did I wear some rubber
gloves? Maybe you just joked about it. I don't know that. I have extracted teeth from you kids
Well, that's what I mean. I didn't wear gloves at the time. I didn't wear gloves. But anyway, I'm not the only one. Protective disposable gloves are becoming more more popular. And
they're getting better because uptoll barely recently we just had to make use with medical type
gloves which as i said are kind of thin and not really well suited to the job one pair one kind i really
like are these monkey wrench gloves they they really are uh they're a disposable glove but they're
actually kind of a work glove and i like them because they're stronger than regular rubber gloves
They've got a textured surface here, so they're a little easier to grip
And they just last a long time. They work really well. And although they're disposable, they're not, you don't have to dispose of them right away
if you buy them large enough. So my hand is not really an extra, extra large hand
But don be afraid to buy gloves of that size because this is a supposedly extra extra large size And you know I mean it not as tight as some but it still pretty tight and you can still pick up little parts and things
It looks pretty thick there. Can you give us like a stretching demo? See how resilient it is
Yeah, I could do that. Well, anyway, extra, extra large means I can take them off, so I don't have to be throwing them out all the time. I don't like to throw out
If you're throwing out gloves all the time, chances are you're going to be reluctant to put them on all the time when you should be two, because you don't want to waste them
But let's give it a try. I haven't actually tried to break these
Torture test here. Oh, well, it did break. But how often are you going to stretch them like that
I mean, in practical use, I find that they hold up really well
Let's try another one. on regular dentist or doctor gloves. Yeah, that one's stronger
Probably the one on the top of dried out a little bit. You could have. It's kind of like an exercise thing
It took a lot of force, though, to do that. I mean, you do that without even stretching it at all with regular medical gloves
Yeah, they just pop right off. So my only complaint with disposable gloves is the fact that eventually you have to dispose of them
and something like this is going to take a long time to bio-degrade
Like, they estimate it takes about 200 years in a landfill for these to bio-a-grade
So we don't have to worry about it then, right? Well, we don't. I personally, I want to be on my own personal life
Yes, that's a good policy. Yes. So, brand new, green monkey, landfill biodegradable disposable gloves
So is that, like, the same brand? Same brand. Monkey wrench, green monkey
Yeah, monkey wrench, green monkey. That sounds like the same here. Right. Well, it's from, it's from the same company
And Watson gloves. They've been making gloves in Canada for more than 100 years
So I just got these. I don't know anything about them yet
Let's take it up. Well, they're green. They're green, which is appropriate
And they're supposed to bio-degrade in landfills in 10 years instead of 200 so now I can see these are thinner These are 8 mil which means 8 1 of an inch thick
And these are 4 mil. So they're probably not going to be as strong
But they still feel beefier than probably better than they're better than they're similar
They are a little stronger. And I did get them, I did get these in. I did get these in the extra, extra large size
So, I mean, the only thing better than a biodegradable glove is a glove that you don't have to throw out right away at all
And they're made of something called nitro. Both of these are, actually, nitril and nitril
That's important to know, because nitrol is a synthetic rubber. And it's stronger than the other kind of gloves
technology which is latex latex is a natural rubber so they get latex from tree sap
from rubber trees and they they treat it so that it's instead of being a liquid it's kind
of a semi-solid the problem with latex is that people fairly frequently develop allergies to it
not right away necessarily but so if you start wearing rubber gloves for your work around the
shop and you find that your hands are itchy or you're getting some rash or something like that
it very well could be the gloves you're using if they're latex
But nitral is not that kind of a glove. I had a question about our regular dish washing gloves, like the yellow kind
Are those latex? I don't know. Some of them are. But I think some of them are also some kind of nitral because they're fairly thick
At least the ones that I've seen are thicker than most latex. This editor has been getting a little allergic reaction on her hands lately washing dishes
and I kind of think it's to do with... Are these tall enough to do the job
I mean, for dishwashing? Probably. Fairly long-cut. I don't know what those regular dishwashing gloves are made of
if it's any different than this or not. Could be. Well, give them a try. Yeah
Anyway, so I keep a box of these on hand. I find that it just saves me from having to wash particularly gunky stuff off my hands but the main takeaway I think is limiting your exposure to chemicals It not something that you might think of when you too young but the older you get the more precious your health
becomes, or the more you realize how precious it's been all along. When you only have a few years
left, do you want to max? Like who? Well, I wasn't going to point fingers, but if I will point fingers
I hope I have a few years left. We'll see. But anyway, so I'm going to be trying to be
trying these biodegradable ones now, I'm going to do a little experiment too and put them
under a rock somewhere in the compost, corner of the compost pile and see how long they're
last. Check them in 10 years? Check them in 10 years. Because I won't be around then, right
Yeah, that's true. Yeah, I'll have to check them. Um, so, uh, when it comes to
gloves for protecting you from chemicals, I know I've used different types of rubber gloves to do
wood finishing on things. Right. And I've noticed, I think I've used like regular medical, you know
doctor's gloves for wood finishing before. And maybe I was just rubbing the finish on too hard, but it seemed to me at the time
like the finish somehow. And I think maybe it was an oil-based thing. I don't remember
But it seemed like it was wearing through the gloves. And they would eventually rip and break and let finish get in onto my hands
Yeah, and probably even make it worse than before because now you got finish held against your skin all around the exact
I guess was it something chemical happening there? Yeah, I think so. Those are probably latex
You know, I remember when you're doing wood finishing in the shop here, we were in our latex glove mode at the time and besides being thin the gloves you were using could also be
broken down by the finishing okay well that's what i thought this this stuff is different i mean
these are made for workshop use right this isn't something for someone in a lab or someone in a
beautician's office or something like that i mean these are real gloves used by people who do real
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