What's your favorite winter time clothing gear?

[Clover13]

Figure most are wearing some form of Carhartt but figured I'd see what everyone recommends for those of us with open tractors working outdoors in the winter plowing/blowing snow and doing other chores where you'll be less mobile than on foot!

What ya have? How do you like it? How's the warmth? How's the sizing/fit?

 

[SidecarFlip]

Goose down vest and a woolrich windbreaker for walking the dog. If I'm really out I wear my KUIU Goose down parka, merino wool undies and thermal socks and Kennetrek hunting boots with 800 gram Thinsulate and KUIU insulated hunting gloves. Expensive but worth it.

Carhartts are heavy and not all that warm. Keeping warm is about layering, not overwear.

Hard to beat goose down and Merino wool.

 

[Tughill Tom]

KLIM's Keweenaw Parka and Bib's, warm, waterproof and not bulky. Also expensive, but worth every penny. I've had mine going on 10 years and still look new. I wear them mostly snowmobiling were at -10F and 70MPH it's just starting to get cold

 

[Freeheeler]

I live in TN. If we actually get snow, I usually wear shorts and a t-shirt to shovel it.

 

[jms]

Layers are important. It is really hard to beat wool. One of the few things that still keep you warm when wet.

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[sheepfarmer]

Wool underwear top and bottom, turtleneck T and jeans, then sweatshirt or wool sweater, then snowbibs, cheap, I'd like a better waterproof pair, then knitted neck cover, wool hat, down coat, and Mud gardening gloves. It's only early December and I'm already up to most of those layers already. The garden gloves are stretchy but thin so I can do a lot with them on. I have found that the secret to warm hands is to overheat the thorax.

 

[GBJeffOH]

I have heated clothes. Draws a max of 12 amps. When it was 30 below I was toasty warm.

https://www.revzilla.com/hotwired

 

[North Idaho Wolfman]

It's the small jacket pocket where I can keep my flask safe, and easily accessible!

Oh and the long soft shirt sleeve that will stick out of my coat sleeve to wipe the snot that's running down my face, Nobody should have snot-sickles.

 

[Newlyme]

Wool underwear top and bottom, turtleneck T and jeans, then sweatshirt or wool sweater, then snowbibs, cheap, I'd like a better waterproof pair, then knitted neck cover, wool hat, down coat, and Mud gardening gloves. It's only early December and I'm already up to most of those layers already. The garden gloves are stretchy but thin so I can do a lot with them on. I have found that the secret to warm hands is to overheat the thorax.

How can we be sure that it is really you inside all of that?
When I dress like that the first thing I usually do after I am all dressed up is head to the bathroom!

 

[sheepfarmer]

How can we be sure that it is really you inside all of that?
When I dress like that the first thing I usually do after I am all dressed up is head to the bathroom!

Uh huh, that is a common problem. Also when fully geared up if I fall down in deep snow getting up can also be a problem. seems like the older I get the more I feel the cold.

I tried Carhartts when I was younger. Useless, too stiff. My friend who is a wizard with a TLB says you have to drag them behind the tractor for a week to limber them up.

 

[RCW]

Oh and the long soft shirt sleeve that will stick out of my coat sleeve to wipe the snot that's running down my face

Man, I can relate to that one! Made me laugh!

I'm my father's son....I don't need a thermometer to tell if it's <40F...not 42...40..I've got his beak, too...

My leather gloves bear the brunt.. just stick them to the garage wall when I'm done....

 

[sheepfarmer]

I once had some riding gloves (horse, not snowmobile) that had a terry towel patch on the back conveniently located for people riding horses that wouldn't stand still long enough for them to unzip a pocket and rummage for kleenex...very handy if unhygienic by the end of winter

 

[skeets]

OH yeah and when you do get your carharts soft,,,,, never,, NEVER wash them cause your right back to where you started

 

[CaveCreekRay]

Gloves. When I am riding my motorcycle or walking my dogs early in the AM.

Otherwise my zip-up Columbia fuzzy jacket. Great for early morning coffee inside or out.

 

[WFM]

Goose down parka and Cabela's green wool windproof hunting pants. I used to ice fish at -25 below with my Goose down parka and stay as warm as toast. Boots are Lacrosse with felt liners -40*below boots.
I plow with my pickup and pick and choose when I use my tractor to bucket and blow snow. But when the parka comes out. You know winter is here.

 

[RCW]

Whoops - - I missed winter-wear, got "stuck" on something else!

Down to 25 or so, I don't wear a coat. I have a couple Arborwear heavyweight sweatshirts with a layer or 2 underneath. Love those things. Also, lined Schmidt work pants from TSC. As I get older, my legs get cold...6'4" and 36" inseams don't help.

Below that, add a jacket, but it's Carhart insulated bib overalls with long-johns and Carolina Loggers, insulated.

I think my bride shrunk my bibs in the dryer...may look for another pair...(translation; someone has expanded their "horizons," and some of my older stuff doesn't fit around the "Equator.")

 

[skeets]

I think my bride shrunk my bibs in the dryer

Hummm coff coff coff,,, yep I tried blaming mine too, that did not work well,,lol

 

[WFM]

Whoops - - I missed winter-wear, got "stuck" on something else!

Down to 25 or so, I don't wear a coat. I have a couple Arborwear heavyweight sweatshirts with a layer or 2 underneath. Love those things. Also, lined Schmidt work pants from TSC. As I get older, my legs get cold...6'4" and 36" inseams don't help.

Below that, add a jacket, but it's Carhart insulated bib overalls with long-johns and Carolina Loggers, insulated.

I think my bride shrunk my bibs in the dryer...may look for another pair...(translation; someone has expanded their "horizons," and some of my older stuff doesn't fit around the "Equator.")

It could be your bride is too good a cook !!!

 

[RCW]

I think my bride shrunk my bibs in the dryer

Hummm coff coff coff,,, yep I tried blaming mine too, that did not work well,,lol

Didn't work any better for me..... wife is half Italian, half Irish... WOO BOY, didn't work any better....

It could be your bride is too good a cook !!!

I'm normally the cook, and my wife's pies are unrivaled.....makes matters worse...

I started the "What's Cookin' Boys?" thread because I like to cook....several years, and inches ago...

When I was a young "slender" restaurant cook, a waitress gave me a pin that said "Skinny Cooks Can't Be Trusted." Still have it 35 years later, in my office.

I'm VERY trustworthy now....

 

[D2Cat]

RCW, that's funny (very trustworthy now)!!