Some of you may remember that I posted on pond gloves earlier and have
several different pair. Today I got the ultimate in pond gloves. They
are 33" long and reach to my shoulder. They have a strap that holds
them up so that you can reach down in water up to your armpit and not
get any water in the gloves. They are dark green, not camo as shown in
the photograph. They are heavy with a nonslip working surface. I got
them from:

Aquatic Eco-Systems in Florida.

They are available at:

http://www.aquaticeco.com/index.cfm/...il/iid/11352/c
id/2731

They also sell 3/4 length pond gloves and the 28" gloves which most
places sell. It seems to be a good place to deal with. I got my 5/8"
aeration diffuser heads from them. They work great. No one else sold
them.
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Re pond gloves The straps sre a good idea, going by UK prices not badly priced either.

On Thu, 06 Oct 2005 15:04:02 -0400, Stephen Henning
wrote:

Some of you may remember that I posted on pond gloves earlier and have
several different pair. Today I got the ultimate in pond gloves. snip
Aquatic Eco-Systems in Florida.
http://www.aquaticeco.com/index.cfm/...il/iid/11352/c

Okay, I may be a little dense, but where does the elastic strap go? Are the
gloves hooked together so it goes across the back perhaps? Kind of like the
old string and clips one would run thru a kid's coat so they wouldn't lose
their mittens? )

I have the older type, gray with bright orange hands. More often then not
I'm just using one.... and with being back in the taxpaying work force now,
it doesn't allow me waiting and milking every last ponding minute out of
the season, I'll probably be doing less cold weather ponding.

Yesterday it was really a nice day, nice to be working outside in a sweat
shirt type weather, no gloves needed yet. Course I now use garden claws to
stag my tropical lily baskets to the shelf, and then two shorter ones to
hook each side of basket and lift out. This keeps my hands out of the cold
water and saves on my back.

If I can only get over trimming off all those buds. ( ~ jan

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~ jan jjspond wrote:

Okay, I may be a little dense, but where does the elastic strap go? Are the
gloves hooked together so it goes across the back perhaps?

Yes. You put them on like putting on a coat. You put your arm in one
sleeve and then put on the other sleeve. The strap ends up across your
back below your neck.
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