The battery lasted about half the day with both zones on full blast, and my cellphone sucking electrons. On a windy 10-degree January morning, I climbed up on the windy (flat) roof, turned both zones up to the max, and plugged my battery-draining old iPhone into the USB jack. There are two heating zones to the jacket (shoulders and torso), and there are three settings for each zone (minimum, medium, and maximum).Īdditionally, you can plug an iPhone into the battery pack, as noted above. We had hoped to visit Marvin’s window factory in Warroad, Minnesota, in February but were unable to coordinate the trip before coronavirus locked everything down.Īs it turned out, I had to be satisfied with *almost* the coldest part of Minnesota during the coldest part of the year. I was excited to try this jacket visiting the coldest part of Minnesota during the coldest time of the year.
The interior pocket provides warm phone storage. It meant that my phone would slip out whenever I bend over to pick up my pencil.Īfter using the front pocket as intended, however, I noticed that the cord retains the phone. What seemed like a bug was actually a feature. There’s a slit in the shell that allows you to weave a cord from the battery pack in the lower back to a pocket in the upper front where you can charge your phone.Īt first, I was disappointed that the phone pocket in front was open at the top. The red strip makes it easy to run the correct zipper, and also looks cool like an understated racing stripe. It is also stylish in a way that this recovering remodeler finds satisfying.Īgain, the liner zips into the shell seamlessly. The jacket looks great it is obviously a high-quality jacket. The shell is a thick ripstop polyester that provides wind and water resistance. It turns out, my wife is delighted that they fit her so much better than they fit me. Not one of the bigger ones, not one of the smaller ones, one of the medium ones.
In fact, I did not measure them at all I was in a hotel room, so I chose “Medium,” based on where I tend to fall when in a crowd of people. I take 100% responsibility for this because I did not measure my hands the way the sizing chart instructed me to. The gloves are a little too small, but not by much. After zipping the liner into the jacket, though, the fit felt much better. When the jacket system arrived, I was worried that it was slightly small when I put on the liner, it felt like I needed a little more room. Milwaukee has a sizing chart to help you double-check, and it turns out the table is accurate. My Carhartt jacket is large, so I ordered a large Milwaukee jacket. If you want to skip all of the words down below, here’s the bottom line: I decided to write to Milwaukee and tell them that if they’d outfit the cameraman (me) with a heated jacket and gloves, he (I) would write a review of the coat for ProTradeCraft’s readers. It seemed like an excellent opportunity to test out the heated jacket that I’d seen lighting up the Instagrams. Because what else was I going to do during the winter, sit in a warm office making animations of sunny days? A high-quality jacket that adds BTUs to your bod when you need ’em most: on a roof in Minnesota during winterĭuring the planning stages on the Building Resilience show, we came up with the bright idea to shoot construction on a jobsite in Minnesota during winter.
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