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Buy a pack of cheap gloves and you can make them last all season. Go into a place like IRL in PG and there will be some hanging on a rack, and if you just buy the box/bag of them you'll be set all season+ be able to sell some to folks mid season. Or get some online or another work-wear dealer, Marks or Home Depot might, but they usually get their $$ by selling them for 3-4 per glove.

• Newly washed pair every day, after the day of work put them with laundry. Also remember: when buying gloves some types don't wash well, and will fall apart faster - such as the ones that look shiny on the "dipped rubberized" part. or especially the wooly types. All of them likely have that rubberized look, but the shiny surface ones wear out much much faster, it flakes and then peels off while the more dull black is more a part of the fabric and tends to stick to the lycra type fabric. In the end they all wear out, it's just a matter of helping it to not wear out as quickly as it would with just whatever glove you find and shoving your hand in dirty ones.
  
  
• Use ducttape on your fingers kind of like people wrap them when they go gloveless, though this is in order to save the knuckles & fingertips of your gloves. It makes your fingers less damaged from rocks and thorns as well too. Not all of them, just the 2-3 fingers on your tree hand & the thumb. Think about guarding the glove & your knuckles with the tape like with one thin long strand just the width of your middle-finger going from the top of your hand ---> up your finger and around the tip of your finger ---> finishing on the inside of your finger near your palm. Then wrap two or three little bands around the finger to hold it in place. You'll figure it out.
  
  
• Some days on rockier days I tape down the tips of my fingers inside the gloves for more padding since it's your fingernails grinding on the grit in the gloves against rocks which poke out the end of the gloves. We've all gone through a single pair of gloves in a day - having a roll of ducttape and a few strips of tape per day saves gloves through entire seasons, especially when you factor in flipping gloves over & scrounging them during the season and having a rotation of 5 or so through the laundry.
  
  Then at the end of the day I take the tape off. I've accidentally had it run through the wash before and it usually melts into the glove slightly and makes it tough to get all the grit out. It's a bit of a chore, but it beats jamming your nail on a rock and having your glove split at 9AM and your backup fail an hour later. This way you save your gloves lots of wear and tear.
  
  I like wearing a padded glove for the shovel hand some days, or one thicker for wet and cold days. Cutting out finger-holes in the end of a wool sock can make a nice arm warmer & also sort of protects vs devils club and retains some nice residual head in the shovel arm. For the tree-hand I like to use thinner nitrile gloves but guarding them from wear like described above. During the day I never take off my tree-hand glove since it's taped up, and use my right hand for food. And since the tree-hand will be more damp from going in the ground it makes sense to sometimes wear some different style on the shovel hand.
  
  As for pants there's a few useful types
  
  
• lighter coolmax ones with quick-dry fabric, maybe with zipoff pant legs
  
• thick ones like restaurant pants or mail-carrier ones - water repellent/anti-thorn-penetrable
  
  I prefer just tights/shorts/gaiters for most days, though in the hot summer the light quick-dry ones are good to keep your legs cool, and some people really enjoy having a stout pair of denim or somesuch - I just find thicker fabrics to make me sweat too much. On crazy devils-club blocks it might be nice to have a thick pair of pants, but other than that I have come to like the simplicity and comfort of tights/courtesy shorts.

I have a pair of these scarpas and I really like them for planting. My girlfriend wears only asolos and swears by them.

Planting shreds any boots. Why people want a more expensive boot like a scarpa is the balance of longevity and comfort. But at the end of the day, the important thing is comfort. Go to different outdoor stores, try them on, find what feels really good. Try 10 different pairs on! Also don't order boots, unless you've tried them on in person before getting a discounted version somewhere else.

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The boots you posted are probably both fine but I'd say the kailish ones'll probably be better for you.

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