Wear Gloves at the Lumber Store

[Ben]

I need to drill this into my head. Whenever I'm actually doing a "lumber run" for a bunch of lumber, I always grab the Mechanix gloves I keep in the truck and wear those into the Home Despot or wherever to load lumber. However I often leave them if I'm going to get "X, Y, Z, and a couple of 2x4s".

It never *expletive deleted*ing fails that every time I do that, I end up with a major splinter in a hand from the one or two pieces of wood that I handled. Like this morning - one sheet of plywood and four 2x4s. Extra irritating is that I was cognizant of not having gloves on, trying to be extra careful, and STILL got a splinter that I just now had to remove with a knife and tweezers. It's never a splinter that sticks out a little that I can grab with my fingernails.

First world problem, but still just so irritating, because splinters are kind of like paper cuts: very minor wounds that hurt way more than they should. Anyway, stupid Ben, take your gloves into the store even for one piece of lumber.

[Brad Johnson]

Hey Ben, have you ever considered taking your gloves into the store even for one piece of lumber?

Brad

[MechAg94]

It is possible to handle the wood more carefully to avoid sliding skin along the wood (that really sounds bad from the gutter perspective).

 Kind of hard to do in practice.  Try gloves.   

[Ben]

There was a reason I said "lumber" instead of "wood". 

[RoadKingLarry]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FshU58nI0Ts

[HankB]

Hey Ben, have you ever considered taking your gloves into the store even for one piece of lumber?

Brad

Have you ever figured out how many pieces you have to handle while sorting through a stack to find ONE that isn't warped, cracked, or knotty?

[WLJ]

Better wear two sets of gloves, could be COVID in that lumber

[Ben]

Have you ever figured out how many pieces you have to handle while sorting through a stack to find ONE that isn't warped, cracked, or knotty?

Today I think it was 7 to find 4, which I think is par for me. I have had days where every piece I pulled was straight and good.

[MechAg94]

I work with a Hispanic guy who said it is relatively easy to talk them into giving a discount for the reject wood pieces.  It may depend on what you need it for.

[Kingcreek]

Today I think it was 7 to find 4, which I think is par for me. I have had days where every piece I pulled was straight and good.

If the lumber is good and straight it means they just cut the bands on a fresh bunk.
By the time you get them home, they will be all warped and twisted.

[Cliffh]

On those times when I forget to wear gloves, I've found that fingernail clippers work well to remove splinters.  If the splinter doesn't go straight in, you can usually snip off a piece of skin containing the splinter without a lot of digging.

[Ben]

What kills me is that the same lumber that constantly gives me splinters when I'm loading/unloading it? When I build the stuff I bought the lumber for, outside of Winter I never wear gloves, and I rarely get splinters while working with the lumber.

[Perd Hapley]

What kills me is that the same lumber that constantly gives me splinters when I'm loading/unloading it? When I build the stuff I bought the lumber for, outside of Winter I never wear gloves, and I rarely get splinters while working with the lumber.

Once they see you cutting up their friends, and putting nails and screws in them, the boards stop trying to fight back.

[K Frame]

I work with a Hispanic guy who said it is relatively easy to talk them into giving a discount for the reject wood pieces.  It may depend on what you need it for.

If you're building a canoe and need internal ribs, Lowes has all of the pieces you could ever want.

Lowes. Land of the L-shaped Lumber.

[230RN]

Why didn't you just call the guy?

[HankB]

Today I think it was 7 to find 4, which I think is par for me. I have had days where every piece I pulled was straight and good.

I really hope you rode your win streak and bought a lotto ticket on the way home. 

[230RN]

On those times when I forget to wear gloves, I've found that fingernail clippers work well to remove splinters.  If the splinter doesn't go straight in, you can usually snip off a piece of skin containing the splinter without a lot of digging.

Good hint.  There are two kids of clippers.  The usual concave ones, where the blades curve in, and the ones where the blades curve out slightly.  I think these are toenail clippers and are much more useful to grasp things with.

Has anyone figured out how come nail clippers are always highly polished smooth chrome plated and seem to be designed to be slippery?  My fingerprints are very worn, and manipulating small smooth things drives me boogey.

[Doggy Daddy]

Good hint.  There are two kids of clippers.  The usual concave ones, where the blades curve in, and the ones where the blades curve out slightly.  I think these are toenail clippers and are much more useful to grasp things with.

Has anyone figured out how come nail clippers are always highly polished smooth chrome plated and seem to be designed to be slippery?  My fingerprints are very worn, and manipulating small smooth things drives me boogey.

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[French G.]

This is why you have kids. Lift with your children, not with your back. Step two, tell them splinters build character.