Question about Hoffman Boots

[JH CLIMBER]

Hi,

Could you tell me what the benefit of having the Calk (spurs) Hoffman boot if your climbing with spurs?

Thanks!

 

[lego1970]

walking on logs, especially after they have been de-barked.

 

[pdqdl]

I didn't think anybody walked on them after they had been de-barked?

 

[lego1970]

?????? Have you never walked on a log that has had it's bark peeled back? It's slippery then snot. Ever been to a GP papermill to pick up a load of paper, or to a sawmill that makes utility poles? Probably not since you have no experience in trucking, but I know you're smart enough to know that there are other processes in lumber that require a man to walk on debarked lumber. Not every log is so precious that even the leftover lumber used for stickers can,t afford to have little 1/8" pokes in them from the calks. Why you would even respond to my reply on such a basic question/answer thread suggest to me that either you have no experience at all in tree work (which I don't believe), or you have a bone to pick with me. I'm guessing you have a bone to pick with me...... Eitherway, I don't really care. 80% of the replies on this and most forums are to try and belittle the other guy to make one's self feel better, not to give a HONEST answer (good or bad) based on one's experience. Typical of society. I guess you couldn't make it as a chemical engineer so you decide to make yourself feel better and pick on lower educated tree workers since you know on a chemical engineering website you would look like a fool!

 

[IcePick]

?????? Have you never walked on a log that has had it's bark peeled back? It's slippery then snot. Ever been to a GP papermill to pick up a load of paper, or to a sawmill that makes utility poles? Probably not since you have no experience in trucking, but I know you're smart enough to know that there are other processes in lumber that require a man to walk on debarked lumber. Not every log is so precious that even the leftover lumber used for stickers can,t afford to have little 1/8" pokes in them from the calks. Why you would even respond to my reply on such a basic question/answer thread suggest to me that either you have no experience at all in tree work (which I don't believe), or you have a bone to pick with me. I'm guessing you have a bone to pick with me...... Eitherway, I don't really care. 80% of the replies on this and most forums are to try and belittle the other guy to make one's self feel better, not to give a HONEST answer (good or bad) based on one's experience. Typical of society. I guess you couldn't make it as a chemical engineer so you decide to make yourself feel better and pick on lower educated tree workers since you know on a chemical engineering website you would look like a fool!

Having a good day are we?

 

[pdqdl]

Whoa there partner! I not picking no fights, and I wasn't even thinking that I was belittling anybody! Just adding a comment. You'd have to have some screws loose to try walking on a slimy recently debarked log without some pretty good traction shoes. I just don't think there are many folks that do that.

Have no experience trucking? I did over-size flatbed freight for about a year, over the road. I got LOTS of experience, but none hauling debarked logs.

Sure! Lots of industries blast the bark off of logs, but they generally process those logs very shortly afterward, and I am reasonably certain that they are usually handled entirely by machinery after that.

Regardless of whether anybody is walking on the snotty logs, that is a pretty small market to sell calk boots to. I think the bigger market is to lumberjacks that legitimately walk on some severe terrain and down the fallen timber de-limbing it.

I have considered buying a set, but I just don't think they would ever get used enough to justify owning.

BTW: Despite having a fairly good background in chemistry, I never took any college courses in chemical engineering, and never considered a career in it. I don't know where that came from.

 

[stihlman0123]

Calks also work good to get that added traction when walking on icy downed logs. I know my next pair will definitely have calks on them after doing some work during the icy cold northern New York winters.