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I've got three lifetimes worth of wool clothing scrounged up. Hudson's Bay blanket jacket amongst them. Also some newer wool stuff from a local outdoor company.
Gypo Logger
Timber Baron
I have lots of military underclothing to help stay warm, but I wish I could find a better pair of warm work boots.
I have a hard time with sweaty feet in the winter also. I have a pair of Mukluk style boots (from a different company) that are great but have no toe or ankle support. Not something to be used around saws and logs. My Irish Setter boots are soggy from perspiration by noon.
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although it only got down to about 10 degrees here last night i second the motion for a warm beach and a bottle of rum. 
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I HATE Windows 8. Wish I still had Windows 7. I've been a PC guy all along, but having Windows 8 turned me into a Mac guy. I don't have one yet, but when this computer gives up the ghost, I'm heading straight to the Mac store.
I have heard good things about Windows 10, but I'm done.
The best way I've found to make boots warm is to buy wide... as in, wider than you think you need or feels right.
Leave room for your toes to wiggle freely and your foot to slide side-to-side slightly... even with heavy socks.
It's that air gap that insulates, not the boot material... the boot material is the transfer mechanism that robs the heat from your feet.
Do you remember those boots (can't remember what they were called) that had the schrader valve in them?? The colder it got, the more air you put in them, which created a thicker air gap between the outer and inner boot. Of course, the problem was blow-outs...
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zogger
Tree Freak
Try some linux, it is free. You don't even have to install it to try it, run it from a "live" cd. Download an iso and burn it, boot from it.
distrowatch.com. Pick any from the top ten (right hand column). If you want smoothed out and really pre tweaked, try Mint.
My feet stayed toasty warm in Thinsulite insulated boots. I like those better than the heavy Sorel packs. I wasn't standing around though, my job was walking a lot, and if I move, I keep warm. You can't take the liners out and switch them, like Sorels, but I have a boot dryer.
I think the air filled boots are called bunny boots. They didn't used to make them in my size or I would have tried a pair when I was a lifty at the ski area. Some of the guys had them.
It stayed at 52 in the shade today. The strange bright orb made an appearance this afternoon and it even smelled like spring. I have crocus flowers that will be blooming in a day or two. I transplanted some primroses, which are colorful and were on sale and still might freeze if winter returns. The rose bushes are leafing out. Strange weather and I guess we should be hollering about global warming. Don't move here.
I think the air filled boots are called bunny boots. They didn't used to make them in my size or I would have tried a pair when I was a lifty at the ski area. Some of the guys had them.
It stayed at 52 in the shade today. The strange bright orb made an appearance this afternoon and it even smelled like spring. I have crocus flowers that will be blooming in a day or two. I transplanted some primroses, which are colorful and were on sale and still might freeze if winter returns. The rose bushes are leafing out. Strange weather and I guess we should be hollering about global warming. Don't move here.
Gypo Logger
Timber Baron
Yes, that makes sense about the air space. I'm wearing those orange husky boots with liners. Not sure if my toes are frozen or I just have gout. Lol
Ya, I've seen those inflatable boots and would like to give them a try.
John
Gypo Logger
Timber Baron
Where do I get the free Linux boots? Is there an app for that?
John
Gypo Logger
Timber Baron
We can't seem to win, the conditions are either too hot, too cold, too muddy, too wet, too windy,too dry or too sensitive. It's a wonder how anyone makes a living in the woods anymore. Lol
Well, around here the roads are rocked and built for use in wet conditions. A yarder side can work year round if the snow doesn't get too deep and if there are no wildlife restrictions or if it rains enough to keep the woods from drying out during fire season.
Huh? You downoad an iso file (cd image that can then be burned to cd-r, or one with more goodies, to dvd-r). Then with "burning" software, you write that to appropriate optical media. Then do what's needed to enable booting from the cd/dvd drive and go.
If you like the distro in question, you install it. Bada-bing. Ubuntu linux is well-supported.
Gypo Logger
Timber Baron
K thanks, I'll try that.
John
John
zogger
Tree Freak
Pull the liners and try layers of socks instead, make it so it isn't tight. Just barely loose and good socks, light/medium/heavy insulated pair, like that.
Yep. Winter has been wide open here. Only a week of near zero, very little snow. Have only succeeded twice in getting into the wood patch. Too muddy to even pack a saw in mostly. Gets somewhat dried out and then rain or slight amount of snow - back to mud.
Harry K
So I've been hearing... I've even heard some say they liked Windows 6 (Vista) better. As far as I'm concerned, both Vista and Windows 2000 couldn't have been any worse.
Why not reformat and install Windows 7 on your current machine now?? Although the buzz is Microsoft is gonna' let Windows 7 die an early death... not even gonna' issue a second service pack. Not that it matters; heck, I I'm posting this with an XP Pro machine now... but it's getting a bit long-in-the-tooth.
I've played with both Mac and Linux, both have their strong suits.
But the thing is, I'm stuck with a windows environment at work and I need my laptop to seamlessly transition between several networks. I manage the office network, my home network, plus several WANs for clients... I'm a windows guy out of convenience and necessity. I did setup a Mac machine and a Linux laptop at work for a while... neither one was worth the cross-platform headaches. And to be blunt... when I'm out in the field I flat ain't got time to be screwin' 'round with compatibility issues.
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Also for warmth be sure that your outer socks are wool or smart wool. Otherwise the cheaper heavy socks are just like a sponge.
Nope. I'm kind of allergic to wool. I can't wear it all the time. Here in the wet country, I have found that the synthetic blends of Wick Dry socks work well. Those, with evil synthetic Thinsulite boots worked in the Up Nort country quite well. Having moved back to the wet side, I can find a much larger selection of socks. There apparently are men with small feet who work in the woods and Madsens and Sunbirds stock good, not too expensive socks in medium sizes.
Synthetic brands of longjohns vary in weight and warmth too. I like to wear some loose, Remington medium weight fleece under tin pants out here when temps dip into the 20ish zone. Yup, that's nothing like in Up Nort, but here it is a damp cold. Since my return, the coldest I have worked in HERE is +8.
