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5 Years ago I was working in my yard
and decided to cut up an old lacrosse goal and toss it in my dumpster.
While holding the vertical pipe with my left hand and cutting the upper horizontal pipe with my right something happened….
the overhead weight of the recip saw must have caused me to lower the saw just enough ...
for the recip blade to exit the pipe kerf and the blade "hit" the pipe.
That punching action caused the recip saw to come back at me, and also drop!
While dropping, the blade “punched” my left hand once, puncturing and severed my thumb tendon. I was out of work a month, worked one-handed for another month and PT lasted at least 3 months….. it took awhile to come back to 100%
According to the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics, more than 1 million workers go to the emergency room each year because of serious hand injuries.
Like me, the vast majority of those injured were not wearing gloves.
The #1 (63%) listed injury for hands is from lacerations - like mine.After this my injury I did NOT start wearing gloves. But after reviewing the Milwaukee Demo gloves on my remodeling projects - Im now looking at gloves differently.
There are two styles of work gloves that I tested out including: The regular Demolition gloves - came out in 2016 and the Impact Demolition gloves were introduced in late 2019.
I've never been a glove guy, except in cold weather, when I only wore gloves to keep my hands warm.I wore theses Demo gloves on a recent two-month gut / remodel project to see how they felt. Wearing them every day.
There are things I like and dislike but either way, I'm SOLD on these gloves. I don't think I'll do any demo or framing again without them. . . Why? No more splinters, cuts, busted up knuckles, and my hands and fingernails are way cleaner at the end of the day. I use to pride myself in having rough working hands, but the reality was I was constantly living with micro-cuts,
festering splinters, and tears all in various stages of healing. My hands - were sore more than they weren't.
The Demolition Work Gloves I wore sell for $ 22.00
The gloves have a fingertip, palm and thumb grip material that grip well and a fabric material on the backside that is breathable. I found my hand never got hot.Milwaukee uses a material called Armortex to reinforce the PALM grip material. Armortex is a specially selected fabric, that includes Kevlar thread, [like whats used in ballistic vests] This fabric yields high tensile strength and superb surface resistance performance.
Since we're talking about the grip material, the grippy palm area is padded. A knuckle protection pad provides ultimate knuckle protection from scrapes and impact without limiting movement. This is an area that is constantly getting banged up, especially when performing demo, or rebuilding and sistering floor joists or rafters.
The Impact Demolition Work Gloves look like an heavily-armored version of the gloves I wore or to put it another way - gloves on steroids!! They sell for $29.00. The impact demolition gloves are set up similar, only with much thicker padding in the grip area.
I would not wear these daily, but if your doing masonry you might. I kinda wish I was wearing these the day I had my accident.The outer hand over-mold rubber protection on these gloved has a larger coverage area that extends across and protects the metacarpal ligaments. Additional rubber strips extend the outer length of each finger and thumb. This glove has WAY more robust protection.
As a remodeling contractor, I'm working in the field, but also constantly fielding phone calls, from clients and other trades-people. I found the velcro wrist strap holding the glove on incredibly annoying, every time I tried to peel a glove off to deal with a call or text, I had to fumble with the strap.
The gloves have a feature that Milwaukee calls a Smart Swipe, allowing you to navigate your phone while wearing the gloves. This is a great idea in theory but is useless in the field, and it doesn't work with the iPhone fingerprint unlock.
It literally took one day of constantly dealing with that Velcro strap before I cut it off. Once the strap was gone, I found I could quickly take off or put on the glove to navigate the phone or reach into a pocket. Problem solved! The gloves also designed have a webbing pull-loop so you can easily pull them on or attach them to a tool bag for storage.
Overall - Milwaukee did a real nice job with these gloves.They focused on maneuverability, performance, durability, and protection.