Disposable Glove Alternatives

[Gibbybox]

Hi folks,

Just heard back from APS regarding this years lambing order. Fantastic company to deal with btw, highly recommended!

However, all disposable gloves are out of stock until further notice, which is understandable given the rapid increase in demand over the past year!

We go through about 20 boxes of the Robust 9.0 gloves over lambing and find them fantastic. Have had others in the past and are usually too weak to bother with. Does anyone have a recommendation for an alternative source or gloves of similar quality?

On another note, all Marksman sprays are OOS until end of March and then jumping up in price, I’m moving over to APS own Rapid Dry.

Cheers

 

[exmoor dave]

On the rapid dry sprays, we've started using them this year, so far very good!

Changed from MVF markers now they are near £5/can
Ended up doing our whole pre lambing shop with APS

 

[Norfolk Hill Farmer]

Another vote for AP supplies here . Perhaps screw fix have some HD gloves at a reasonable price ?

 

[exmoor dave]

Hi folks,

Just heard back from APS regarding this years lambing order. Fantastic company to deal with btw, highly recommended!

However, all disposable gloves are out of stock until further notice, which is understandable given the rapid increase in demand over the past year!

We go through about 20 boxes of the Robust 9.0 gloves over lambing and find them fantastic. Have had others in the past and are usually too weak to bother with. Does anyone have a recommendation for an alternative source or gloves of similar quality?

On another note, all Marksman sprays are OOS until end of March and then jumping up in price, I’m moving over to APS own Rapid Dry.

Cheers

Black HD marigolds or neoprene gloves, couple of £ in the supermarket, probs cheaper online in bulk.

Wear them til they leak, can wash hands in them, each pair lasts surprisingly well

 

[JCB_JCR]

Barrier cream maybe? Been using some for workshop jobs since last year when I couldn't get any gloves from usual place. Put some on before dipping hands in dirty water pit to fix the pump. Washed off and hands didn't smell

 

[Gibbybox]

Cheers Dave, we’ve used the Rapid Dry markers before and got on fine with them so no problems switching over.

Screwfix seem well sold out of everything. Reusable might need to be the way we go but to be honest it’s more for easiness and a change of gloves between sheep that the disposables are so handy.

Barrier cream would be good from a skin point of view but still would need a good wash before assisting a lambing, good suggestion though if I could get the old man to use it!

 

[Highland Mule]

Interesting that so many wear gloves for assisting lambing. I have a hot water system in my lambing shed and a bottle of soap, so wash regularly and never wear gloves for assisting. Am I wrong?

 

[Gibbybox]

Interesting that so many wear gloves for assisting lambing. I have a hot water system in my lambing shed and a bottle of soap, so wash regularly and never wear gloves for assisting. Am I wrong?

Not wrong at all. I often do the same personally (but with cold water in a bucket, no such luxury), but others involved suffer from cracked hands during lambing if they don’t use gloves. It’s good to have the option and it’s often quicker to shove a pair of gloves on and crack on with helping the sheep rather than washing beforehand

 

[Highland Mule]

Not wrong at all. I often do the same personally (but with cold water in a bucket, no such luxury), but others involved suffer from cracked hands during lambing if they don’t use gloves. It’s good to have the option and it’s often quicker to shove a pair of gloves on and crack on with helping the sheep rather than washing beforehand

I've posted before, but it's one of these:

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bought for a fiver at a collective sale. If it stopped working though, I'd happily pay the money for a proper system (probably something like one of these). https://www.screwfix.com/c/heating-...tion=beverage_boilers|hand_wash_water_heaters

 

[Boydvalley]

EUP6 - Morco 6 Litre EUP Water Heater

Market leaders supplying central heating and hot water solutions to the caravan holiday home industry for over 60 years

www.morcoproducts.co.uk

Bottle of gas, mains water in, hot out to a tap. No electric.No flue in an open shed. Easily adjust temp so can set it the right temp for milk powder.

Best purchase for lambing I’ve made. You can only really get things clean with hot water.

 

[Boydvalley]

PRO UltraGRIP Blue Nitrile Gloves

Comfortable yet tough glove

www.hygienedepot.co.uk

they are around just expensive. At that rate need a whole lamb just to pay for the gloves

 

[Kidds]

PRO UltraGRIP Blue Nitrile Gloves

Comfortable yet tough glove

www.hygienedepot.co.uk

they are around just expensive. At that rate need a whole lamb just to pay for the gloves

Not available in large, my hands won't fit in medium. I don't do lambing so don't know if medium or small is a requirement for the job.

I've posted before, but it's one of these:

MBR 3/55 Electric Water Heating Boiler Hire from the UK's largest Heating & Hot Water Boiler hire range

3kW water heating boiler hire with 55 litre capacity, ideal for care homes, hospitals, restaurants, leisure centres , hvac & m&e contractors and schools.

www.watkinshire.co.uk

bought for a fiver at a collective sale. If it stopped working though, I'd happily pay the money for a proper system (probably something like one of these). https://www.screwfix.com/c/heating-...tion=beverage_boilers|hand_wash_water_heaters

Never buy one of those with a spout on the bottom, they are a complete waste of time for anything other than the very briefest of rinses, in fact a bucket of wet wipes would be better.
The ones listed as xlitres under sink are very good but you would struggle to fill a bucket with hot water (you would get half a bucket full)

EUP6 - Morco 6 Litre EUP Water Heater

Market leaders supplying central heating and hot water solutions to the caravan holiday home industry for over 60 years

www.morcoproducts.co.uk

Bottle of gas, mains water in, hot out to a tap. No electric.No flue in an open shed. Easily adjust temp so can set it the right temp for milk powder.

Best purchase for lambing I’ve made. You can only really get things clean with hot water.

Similar things half price on ebay, son has one for camping and they are very good. Might need pressure regulator for mains water (may be included in the dear ones)

 

[CopperBeech]

Don’t wear gloves. Another saving

 

[primmiemoo]

Unscented glycerin soap is kind enough for mildish hand eczema, with a simple emollient cream applied afterwards, but it very much depends on the individual.

Have you looked at AI gloves at all? MVF sells a transparent "sensitive" touch arm length glove, but not that cheap ~ and tbh, I find they act like tourniquets on my crocky fingers, so I can't get on with them, although others will no doubt be fine.

 

[Gibbybox]

I've posted before, but it's one of these:

MBR 3/55 Electric Water Heating Boiler Hire from the UK's largest Heating & Hot Water Boiler hire range

3kW water heating boiler hire with 55 litre capacity, ideal for care homes, hospitals, restaurants, leisure centres , hvac & m&e contractors and schools.

www.watkinshire.co.uk

bought for a fiver at a collective sale. If it stopped working though, I'd happily pay the money for a proper system (probably something like one of these). https://www.screwfix.com/c/heating-...tion=beverage_boilers|hand_wash_water_heaters

It’s funny how one conversation leads to another, I’ve actually got an Ariston Lux 15L under sink heater coming tomorrow for the wash house (where we mix milk etc). Had a Redring 15L over sink one a few years back and it was as @Kidds describes, great for washing hands but bucket half full sort of job. We do have another bigger heater in same room for mixing a pail up, just not possible to get it plumbed into taps so it’s scalding water or nothing.

All that said, the lambing action takes place in 2 sheds away from the wash house so would be a pain to come back before/after lambing sheep to wash hands every time. A.I. gloves are a good shout and I will put one on if I’m going in for a right guddle about!

 

[StormurShepherd]

Last place I worked in over here we had the full arm length gloves, which was my first time using them. I prefer to lamb without them but keep a glove or two on me incase it is needed.

If people have issues with drying hands, are they using moisturisers? I had really bad splits last time I lambed after I lamb kicked the lid off the navel iodine bottle Tried loads of brands and found that O'keefes Working Hands was a great one to have.

 

[Highland Mule]

O'keefes Working Hands

good stuff - available in screwfix.

 

[Al R]

O’keefe’s working hands for overnight and udder cream for daytime as it’s cheap
don’t wear gloves but always got a pair of black milking gloves in my pocket and each vehicle has 1x arm length glove in the medicine box incase there’s a rottener.

Also always had alcohol gel in those small bottles in the front of quads to clean hands between lambings or if unsure if one wasn’t right. Towel in the quad box helps to dry hands too

 

[neilo]

I've posted before, but it's one of these:

MBR 3/55 Electric Water Heating Boiler Hire from the UK's largest Heating & Hot Water Boiler hire range

3kW water heating boiler hire with 55 litre capacity, ideal for care homes, hospitals, restaurants, leisure centres , hvac & m&e contractors and schools.

www.watkinshire.co.uk

bought for a fiver at a collective sale. If it stopped working though, I'd happily pay the money for a proper system (probably something like one of these). https://www.screwfix.com/c/heating-...tion=beverage_boilers|hand_wash_water_heaters

I’ve got a similar heater to that Screwfix one, installed over the cheapest bathroom sink I could source (£20 iirc).
Next plan is to fit the old mixer tap stripped from the kitchen to have a better regulated temperature and more hot water.

 

[Spartacus]

Re using gloves or not, a friend had a pretty serious health issue this year and posted this on Facebook....

I wasn't going to post about this, but given the time of year and the seriousness I feel I must.
To cut a long story short, please consider wearing gloves for lambing. I didn't for all the years I lambed and very nearly died. This is particularly important if your hands have cuts, cracks or any sort of open skin.

Many of you may remember that I was very lucky to survive a leaking anuerysm this time last year. I am posting the saga not for sympathy, but to show the problems caused.
Unfortunately this was the start of many months of 2020 spent in hospital.
I was re-admitted to hospital twice more in February and March with kidney damage and infection which was eventually identified as Campylobacter fetus (symptoms in ewes are abortion, small/weak lambs/dead lambs although ewes may carry the bug and be immune).
This had caused the anuerysm, damage to both kidneys and had also got in to my spine. I was on IV antibiotics nearly all year and then oral.
Early symptoms in humans include gastro-enteritis type illness, fever, then fatigue and painful joints. I had sought medical advice in 2015 but was diagnosed with anxiety which I thought such a lot of rot I did not follow it up for five years until my back pain had become unbearable.
I had a major relapse and sepsis in September and after being stabilised I was sent to St Thomas' in London to a top specialist for a huge operation to replace the repaired artery with vessels harvested from both my thighs.Two further infections were identified.
The problems are ongoing and whilst I feel very lucky, I'm sure you would agree that it would have been better avoided!
This is a rare occurrence, but I unfortunately know of several livestock farmers who have died of anuerysms, and they would not have been investigated for infection...... we tend to be a stoic lot who don't like to "bother" our GP's. Please, should you show any symptoms that take you to your GP, make sure you emphasise your involvement with livestock as so many have little understanding of the diseases carried.