An old machinist once told me. "You can walk on a fake leg. You can chew with fake teeth. But you can't see out of a fake eye.". That was all I ever needed to hear

As a flatbed trucker this info was invaluable. Thank you. I learned two things: 1) cheapo safety glasses are awesome 2) I’ve been paying 15 bucks for something worth a dollar.

As a safety professional and an OSHA approved instructor I really appreciate you bringing this level of safety awareness to your audience and content. I grew up in an automotive shop and my father taught me the importance of wearing safety glasses and other important life safety tips.

Honestly the bog standard sunglasses shocked me in how well they preformed. Really went to show how SOMETHING is so much better than nothing at all. And actual safety glasses are an improvement to that even further.

The fact that you guys address ACTUAL real-world scenarios, like leaving your glasses on a bench and getting overspray on them, sets this series well above any other test series I’ve seen.

Would love to see car jacks tested to destruction. Does a $20 Dollar jack give you enough lift?

One thing they didnt test, is the insane amount of fogging up that can occur with either a badly designed or a badly fitting pair of safety glasses. That's one thing that is a deal killer for me. That's why I generally hate the "gasket style glasses, once you have a seal at the top of the glasses and theres no airflow, they'll instantly fog up. If you need that level of protection, just wear a face shield.

Great stuff, Donut! As a mechanic in a steel mill, I can tell you I’ve been exposed to some wild things including the shattering cutoff wheel. We have a safety cabinet full of safety eyewear. The cheap to midrange design. What do we always restock? You know it, the cheapies! Truthfully, anything beyond a bit of sawdust though, grab a face shield. You can get them under $20.

As a safety professional...like professionally, for my job... I thoroughly enjoyed this one more than usual. Have you ever thought about testing gloves, or work boots? I could see some fun experiments coming out of that too, lol.

The value of the Oakley's is that you can get prescription lenses put into them. Also pretty comfortable. They are not for light wear, they are what you buy when you have to wear them 8-12 hours a day.

Two "fun" notes real quick: for those among us who use corrective lenses, don't use JUST your normal glasses! I know the over-the-glasses safeties suck, but I can super recommend getting prescription safety glasses! The other fun thing: I was shown a video as part of the annual OSHA retraining stuff about a BB gun being fired into different lenses. Really hammers home how much stronger properly rated lenses are!!

The biggest surprise for me is how well the sunglasses stood up. I mean sure they lost but they did their best!

I wore those $1 ones every day when i was metal fabricating for a career. Dont think they were bison brand, but looked exactly the same, and were free in and bought in bulk. I ended up taking home like 20 pairs so im good for awhile. Glad they were legit protecting me.

There’s a big difference between glasses deigned for impact protection only, and those you’d use to protect from sprays and aerosols. The latter do make a seal with your face.

I once had a non-brand Dremel piece snap while using it. A shard flew towards me and hit me right above the eyebrow. It was a 30 second job and I wasn’t wearing safety glasses. I will never forget that near miss and have learned from it!

Don't ignore eye protection! I previously worked in heavy manufacturing and the golden rule was always 'the higher the risk, the higher the protection'. Eye protection was mandatory on site and the $1 glasses were standard issue but because of crap in the eye incidents the minute a grinder was picked up the addition of a face shield was required. Equipment that satisfies standards doesn't have to be expensive - it just needs to be used.

Guys, I’m an Autos Teacher (High School) and always stress the importance of safety glasses. This video was so fun to watch, I am showing it to my class right now! Will forever be a part of my safety unit now :)

Loving this duo together, great move Donut Media!

Ohhhh she wet 😂😂😂

As a military aircraft mechanic you guys made me feel alot better about the Air Force spending a dollar on our safety for the cheap pair of safety glasses for us. Awesome video love yalls work!

I think unfortunately you guys missed one of the MAIN points of the oakleys and that's the ability to pop prescription lenses in (and also get your insurance to pay for it) to the inner black portion. That's the reason they're so expensive, not because they offer better protection necessarily.

Good to know the cheap glasses are up to par! Best thing I’ve seen in a shop is having a spot to store/mount a set of safety glasses by every tool that necessitates their use. Have a pair mounted by where you store your angle grinder, another pair mounted by chop saw, another by drill press, another in your cordless drill bag, etc. Easy to do if you buy a pack of the cheap glasses, and that way it’s a visual reminder to put them on every time you need to use a tool.

Honmestly, I'm really glad all the actual safety glasses worked relatively well, because while I would probably spend a bit more rather than buying the cheapest safety glasses ever, I know there are always going to be people who will, and it also means that wearing even these cheap safety glasses is always better than not wearing any. Protect your eyes, people!

As someone who lives in an area with a lot of factories and industry, I could see someone in that field of work buying the Oakleys. They aren't likely to just get tossed in a tool box and those people have to wear them any time they aren't on break. Comfort in that situation is a big deal.

The Gas Station ones are literally hit-or-miss It can surprise you, or it can let you maimed

Giving me mythbuster vibes. Great series guys

Personally I would get the $20 goggles and use a full face for grinding and goggles because if the disk shatters the face shild will protec my hole face which is actually the recommended ppe for use angle grindings

when dealing with chemicals and/or sparks you really need goggles with an elastic strap to seal tight, or a full face shield. The full face shield is really important for the cut off wheels, I don't want one of those hitting any part of my face, not just my eyes.

Had that exact cutting wheel scenario happen to me. Had my seeing glasses on but they’re just normal glasses. Cut my cheek wide open and the line was PERFECTLY inline with the center of my eye, and my glasses deflected it and just busted into pieces and I could still see. Was so scared I lost my eye for a second though. Wear* your damn safety glasses boys.

As someone who’s needs corrective eyewear Oakley is just above everyone when it comes to glass quality and clarity. I rely on them for both seeing and protecting

Tool party is quickly becoming one of my favorite shows (Hard to beat HiLow). you guys should add a playlist of them.

Even though sponsored ads are annoying, I cant help to appreciate how much effort donut puts into them.

This has definitely become my favorite show that Donut is putting out. The dynamic duo do a great job! Make more!

On watch standing Shut down Reactor operator on a sub, myself and a compadre did some tests of safety glasses. We had a stapler in the space the we code named “The Baby Killer” because it had a big lever and could staple like 40 pages at a time especially if you smacked the shit out of it. I think we tried 30 times to get staples to penetrate the lens of cheapo safety glasses and literally nothing went through. Sometimes it would stick in, but never through. Even trying in the same spot multiple times on the lens. We were impressed and since then have had mad respect for safety glasses.

Pro tip: if you find yourself at shooting ranges often and wear prescription glasses. Invest in prescription sport goggles. Hot brass bouncing and wedging itself between your eyes/eyelids and your prescription glasses is not how to have a good day.

I would want to see “over glasses” safety glasses as well. Just to see a variation of this test for what I would need.

Loving this new Cheap vs Expensive format! Keep up the awesome work, can't wait to see what y'all try next!

I love how the tests are 100% perfectly scientific 😂

I bake corndogs at home. I then place 6 of them in my jacket pockets to sneak them into a buffet. I place them by the other food and then watch customers of the buffet pick them up and eat them thinking they part of buffet

I’m a nurse, and we wear those 3M ones all the time because of covid. I’m so sick of them that I think I’d rather work without them in a garage and hopefully go blind. But they do a good job keeping patient fluids from my eyes

Those Oakley glasses are likely intended for military use. I checked them out and the website says "designed to fit snugly against the head to help block wind and dust." They are also UV protected. So they are definitely not your every day safety glasses.

I'm not saying to use dollar sunglasses but they sure did perform well in most tests 🤷‍♂️

You guys forgot condesation: Those cheap ones are stable, yes. But if you work in a lab for example it makes it impossible to see through those cheap glasses. They will fog right up just by the moisture of your skin. Thats what the more expensive ones are about: coatings and able to wear prescription glasses.

Having worked for Oakley in the past I’m a bit bias but really anything that is officially stamped and certified with ANSI Z87.1 is going to be up to the job. One interesting thing to note is that it has been said all of their lenses are up to par with those standards but getting every single lens they make certified is very expensive. COOL VIDEO!

Would love to see different kinds of mechanic gloves tested. Everything from cheap disposable nitrile gloves to relatively expensive Mechanix Wear type gloves. Do they offer protection against oils, chemicals, puncture and general hand injury? What kind of feel and dexterity do you have when wearing them?

I love this series… you guys are like a budget / uneducated / non-scientific version of project farm 😂

I've used those same $1 safety glasses for almost 10 years every day at work, they are the best. If they get scratched up at all, just chuck em in the trash and put on a new pair. Super light weight and comfortable to wear all day.

You guys are becoming the Mythbusters of cars and I’m here for it tbh

I want to see a series like "how dangerous is this tool?" where you maim those ballistics gel dummies with unsafe predicaments.

Starting to feel like a episode of myth busters Please do one on breaker bars and different thickness

Can absolutely vouch for the comfort of the Oakleys. I was supplied safety glasses by work but hated wearing them due to them hurting the sides of my head, poor fitment, etc. Decided to try a pair of the Oakley Ballistic glasses as I own a pair of regular Oakley sunglasses, and I wasn't let down. I can wear them on my face for a full 16 hours, and forget I'm wearing them until I'm home. Well worth the money.

Turns out the best face and eye protection are the full face shields you wore to do the testing on the glasses!

I’ve never been one to spend a significant amount of money on something like safety glasses, which I can buy 10 for like 5$, or just get them free from my old job. However, recently I got a pair of those Milwaukee polarized tinted safety glasses, with the gasket on the backside for small debris, for 45-50$ a pair, and they turned out to be some of the best safety glasses I’ve ever put on my face!

Great video! I think a great addition would’ve been a fifth head with no protection to show that anything is better than nothing

I value my sight so I'll still never use them as safety glasses, but I've got to say- I'm impressed at what the gas station sunglasses were actually able to stand up to. Personally I use a set of glasses with built in face shield. No idea how much they cost new because my dad stole them from his work, but they do the job really well.

This video makes me appreciate ProjectFarm so much more, every trial was different, no control, no replication.

I buy the tinted 3M ones from Home Depot. About 25 bucks for a six pack and they look good as sunglasses.

Overall we came to know that the Gas Station sunglasses are the best safety glasses.

Should have also checked out the ESS Ice eyewear glasses. They’re about $30 but do offer some ballistic protection and come in clear and shade

To be honest, I bought a bunch of the one dollar safety glasses and I really like them. They are confortable and they have a polycarbonat lense wich also protects your eyes from UV ligh. Nice to see, that they also did well in your test. I belive, that those cheap safety glasses are very important, since they are so cheap that about anyone can afford them and they are impressivly safe. Great video!

safety glasses are very important if you have health issues and work around metal, if you get metal in your eye and need to have a mri done it can possibly make you go blind if the metal is still there at the time of the mri so please everyone be careful!! Amazing video love everyone here at donut media

I was issued those style of Oakley's in the military. They had a display of them with bird shot from a shotgun stopped in the glasses. Cool in theory but I'm still not wanting to get shot in the face lol

I would have liked to see some lab-type safety goggles tested, as they are sometimes used. They are flush with your face on the top and bottom, but stuff can get in through their vent holes. I wonder how they would have fared in these tests. Otherwise, I am really shocked by the results of these tests. The sunglasses faired far better than I would ever think they would - which would defiantly warrant wearing them in a worst-case scenario. I am also surprised that the dollar store glasses worked so well against anything that did not require an eye seal. With all said, I probably will stick to my current safety routine - using really cheap safety glasses for every scenario not involving small particles, and my lab safety goggles for anything with small particles. Although, I still have no clue what can penetrate the not-so-hard lab goggles (I might actually test this and update the comment with my results).

I would love to see cheap vs expensive toolboxes

Related to this, years ago I was driving along with the driver's side window open. I was wearing regular sunnies (sunglasses) at the time, when a truck's tyre threw a stone up at my car. It hit me just to the side of my eye. Since then, I've been wearing wrap-around ESS Crossbow anti-ballistic sunnies. They're super comfortable and they sit close to the wearer's face. -They also cost less than those Oakley glasses and they're on the U.S. military APEL (Approved protective eyewear list).

i love that Joe has time to do these while also filming Animal Kingdom....solid show btw

This explains why I always get specs in my eyes even though I'm the only guy in the shop wearing safety glasses. I got myself the cheapo set and I should probably upgrade. Cheapo's fine for all-around safety (probably saved my vision when a shop-air coupler exploded in my face) but I do too much cutting and welding for something without gaskets.

Honestly would love to see prescription glasses put to the test. As a glasses wearer.

Man, stumbling across this while shopping for safety glasses now, it's REALLY obvious why you two deserve (and we need) your own channel! BIG TIME GUYS!!!

The “JOBEEEEE” yell based off the iconic “HAAAAMMMMOOOONNNNDDDD” yell by Jeremy Clarkson was great.

2:50 if you want to, why don't you?

I've always bought nemesis glasses because they are relatively cheap and comfortable. They also stay in place on my hat when not needed. Lots of others just fall off at the most inconvenient times.

F*** the safety glasses I'm loving all that subtle sarcasm🤣

“Why don’t they have sights on these?” Hahahaha funniest joke I’ve heard all day!

I used to wear ones like the 20 dollar ones back when i worked at a workshop with moving machinery and metal edges everywhere. The fact that the face sealing thingy is opaque makes wearing these a lot more dangerous, since it cuts a lot of your periferic vision, and you could end up running into something. This makes these ones a lot less safe.

I think welding hoods would be good for a similar test to these glasses, as someone who works with metal all day, my helmet has been my safety glasses through everything. Maybe like a $25 Bruffer hood, $80 honeywell hood, and a $200 carbon fiber pancake.

12:40 their nailing themselves and loving it

The fan service at 2:50 made me lol.

Can you guys please do an episode where you list the best Ferraris?

Great video as usual. Happy to know that the cheap safety glasses that I've always ware are a good as the Oakley's. How about an episode on jacks and Jack stands. There are all kinds and I may or may not use them beyond their rated weight.

i’ve watched this 3-4 times when cooking but i don’t skip. i like it.

haha Donut has always the BEST ads for sponsors, i dare you to change my mind on that

It's nice to know that the $1 glasses are what warehouses give you and then they say safety is #1. Lmfao. I done even need them glasses

This reminds me of my dad's story: he was wearing his safety glasses, but a metal splinter shot into his eye from below, so that's why you should pay attention to gaps and such... Here's how the story went on: dad went to see a doctor who said "I've worked in the jungle and removed stuff from eyes before. I can get it out right now or the guys in the hospital can do it, but that'll take some time." The splinter hurt quite a bit, so he just let him do it. The doctor held dad in a head lock with his left hand, a dremel in his right hand and lightly touched the metal splinter with the dremel. Dad even felt it flying out. That was over 30 years ago, but an optometrist can still see this small scar. We go for our contact lens check up every half a year and the optometrist recently let an intern take a look as well without saying anything at first. "Did you see anything off?" "No" "Ok, check again" "I can't find anything" "Look in this part" "Oh, what is that? I don't recognise it..." "That's a scar. Sir, can you remind me how you got that scar?"

loved that the end of the video just became two dudes having fun

"Your next blink is gonna be spicy, Jerry" took me tf out.

Prescription eye glasses with side shields would have been a good one to test as well. Most companies allow them as a substitute to safety glasses

Try to look at project farm as he does the best product testing I’ve seen on KZfaq. The tests are well done, scientific, and relevant to each product that is tested. You may not want to go to the depths of this guy as the production cost will go through the roof, but he is good to check out.

"Why don't they have sights on these?" - a phrase to give any nail gun manufacturer a panic attack

This video got an automatic thumbs up from me just for the idea of nailing your glasses to your eyeballs. It's funny for so many reasons!

I have had 3 pieces of metal removed from my eyes over the years and I wear glasses. When I worked as a mechanic they let my regular glasses slide as safety glasses as long as they had the right lenses... which obviously is a problem. I went full face shield for grinding as most people seem to recommend but even with that and glasses when I took a chest full of sparks they funneled them into my face and I got a piece of steel in my eye that oddly enough I probably wouldn't have without the safety equipment. These days I wear googles and I took the same approach of find the ones that fit your face regardless of cost and and buy a lot of them and that was the best option. I keep a fresh pair in a google bag on my drill press, bench grinder, chop saw, welder, and in my grinding disk drawer. After the last foreign eye body removal I also have them with my impacts and in my socket and wrench drawers, if I am working overhead I have a pair on.

You should have included regular eye-glasses in this test to see how safe they really are. I personally do not use safety glasses because I wear regular corrective lense glasses all the time.

Whoever made that nail gun had the apocalypse in mind 😂

When the screen cut to all the glasses stacked up for grinder wheel 😆 😆 😆 😆 Dying laughing guys !

I've always seen Oakley as one of those brands that will get you a good quality product but will still make you pay a significant extra just for the brand name and marketing.

I have $20 Milwaukee safety glasses. I like them. They've done pretty good.

Literally died laughing when I saw the glasses totem

Great point on the advantage of having a bunch of cheaper safety glasses around in different spots in the shop

13:15 "Right through the pupil" that's what school shooters say 😱

i mean i like this, to be honest, way you guys are testing stuff that people use to show us what is better or not. (generally). but where are the show type of episodes? hi-low, money pit, etc.? strictly just curious as i do enjoy these videos too