What Do You Wear For Boots While You Are Logging?

[Meadow Beaver]

Viberg 105, yep, great boots.

I just got a pair of Viberg 105T boots, quite nice on the feet.

 

[tramp bushler]

Viberg 105 T .

I just got a pair of Viberg 105T boots, quite nice on the feet.

.. Yes they are pretty amazing shoes , What top height did you get .. Mine are the short little 10" tops because they had them already bui;lt and the size was perfect for the tracings I sent them ...... They sure are great ...... I use Loggers Wear ,black and nasty boot oil or Huberds shoe grease on mine and have since I got them in 2004 .....................I have approx 22 months wearing them 6 days a week , and it looks like I may get twice that , which will make them not only at least as comfortable as any pair of corks I have ever had , But by far the least expensive .. At this point the cost is around 60 cents a day ..........That is something people don,t realalize about best grade boots . In the long run they are very in expensive ...... I don,t know how long the guys wearing Kulien's get on their boots , but I bet the cost per day is pretty low , and they have shoes their feet are all day comfortable in ......... Same with the guys wearing Whites , or Wesco,s , or Currins /Greene ...Ect . I like Currins , but I think they don,t make corks any more ... ..
. But I know of NO boot that is built nearly as well as Viberg's ..... I even wore my 45,s with steel toe , moose hunting for 4 days this week ... Wadeing around beaver dams and climbing mountains ... That Seirra Vibram is an excellent sole . My 45 have 12" tops , my lace to toes have 15" tops .. The 45s never leaked .......That Water Buffalo leather is great stuff .......I hope you have great sucess with your 105s !!!

 

[Greystoke]

Pemerals is no longer in business. I have shoe goo but moved recently so don't know which box it is in. But all of the other places will have it. And, I may stop in at Kuliens and ask their opinion. Or I'll just use it on one spike and see how it works.

A shopping trip is in the works. Then more unpacking.

The shoo goo trick does work well and I used it all the time with my screw in Kuliens. I would NOT use a drill though because I found out that you can get some screw in receptacles and corks that are bigger or smaller than they are supposed to be, and in turn will strip out your receptacles if you are not careful. I found this out when I bought a bad batch of redwood corks, and screwed them in with my drill, and ended up losing about ten in each boot, and stripping out the holes. Now I always dip them in shoo goo first, then I start them by hand and screw them in carefully with a hand wrench...I know this is slower but, imho, better.

 

[Meadow Beaver]

.. Yes they are pretty amazing shoes , What top height did you get .. Mine are the short little 10" tops because they had them already bui;lt and the size was perfect for the tracings I sent them ...... They sure are great ...... I use Loggers Wear ,black and nasty boot oil or Huberds shoe grease on mine and have since I got them in 2004 .....................I have approx 22 months wearing them 6 days a week , and it looks like I may get twice that , which will make them not only at least as comfortable as any pair of corks I have ever had , But by far the least expensive .. At this point the cost is around 60 cents a day ..........That is something people don,t realalize about best grade boots . In the long run they are very in expensive ...... I don,t know how long the guys wearing Kulien's get on their boots , but I bet the cost per day is pretty low , and they have shoes their feet are all day comfortable in ......... Same with the guys wearing Whites , or Wesco,s , or Currins /Greene ...Ect . I like Currins , but I think they don,t make corks any more ... ..
. But I know of NO boot that is built nearly as well as Viberg's ..... I even wore my 45,s with steel toe , moose hunting for 4 days this week ... Wadeing around beaver dams and climbing mountains ... That Seirra Vibram is an excellent sole . My 45 have 12" tops , my lace to toes have 15" tops .. The 45s never leaked .......That Water Buffalo leather is great stuff .......I hope you have great sucess with your 105s !!!

Mine have 10" tops too, I had a stock pair of Wesco's with 12" tops and they were the most uncompfterable boots on my feet, and I hated the fact that you could only use Wesco calks.

 

[2dogs]

:bang:

I believe you are now a fashionista. But I think Birkies are better to wear when meeting with the environmentalists. For your state, they'd best be the vegan style, not made out of leather. :biggrinbounce2:
I believe the same holds true for the Oregon crowd too.

My salmon shirt wore out. :bang: They don't make that print anymore!

Ok I tried on a pair of Birkies but before I had them all the way on they started smoking and then caught fire. I ran around the store yelling "I' m melting! I'm melting". Someone ran up and poured Coca Cola on my feet and then my dog bit me on the butt and I woke up. Whew, that was close.

 

[Ljute]

The key to choosing proper boots is, of course, who is your target audience. When dealing with fellow cutters then I wear black White's that I leave dirty so it looks like I'm a logger. These can be worn with black or blue pants. Any shirt will do. When dealing with the authority having jurisdiction then it is hiking boots, blue jeans, and a generic environmental t-shirt under a long sleeve shirt with the sleeves rolled up. For Fish and Game it is hiking boots and a flannel shirt, green pants and a Trout Unlimited baseball cap. When I meet with environmentalists I wear Earth Shoes (Crocs in the winter), no name jeans with colored webbing sewn on the cuffs and a back pocket missing. Match that with an Earth First t-shirt, 3 day stubble and no bath for a few days, and a few beads and I'm good to go.

I get such a good edumication here on AS. THANKS!

 

[Meadow Beaver]

Ok I tried on a pair of Birkies but before I had them all the way on they started smoking and then caught fire. I ran around the store yelling "I' m melting! I'm melting". Someone ran up and poured Coca Cola on my feet and then my dog bit me on the butt and I woke up. Whew, that was close.

You should take it easy on your sugar intake before bed.

 

[tramp bushler]

:agree2::kilt::kilt::rocker:

 

[slowp]

Fear not. I wore a pair of Birkie Hiking Boots on my Grand Canyon adventure. I only lost one toenail a couple months later. I still like to see trees hit the ground, and I still get into arguments with our tree huggers.

I wore them huckleberry picking the other day too! The caulks take too long to put on and take off. Meanwhile, the berries are falling off!!!

 

[Meadow Beaver]

I just got a pair of Dakota hikers for normal work. They're steel toed and extry easy on zee feet.

 

[u.p.ghlogger]

I just wear, http://www.redwingshoes.com/productdetails.aspx?prodid=1793

 

[RRSsawshop]

I just wear, http://www.redwingshoes.com/productdetails.aspx?prodid=1793

OK,boot for working in a factory or a garage but NOT for logging!!! NO ankle support I'd have them rolled over in a day!!!

 

[Meadow Beaver]

OK,boot for working in a factory or a garage but NOT for logging!!! NO ankle support I'd have them rolled over in a day!!!

5 minutes for me

 

[056kid]

Rolling ankles SUCKS

 

[u.p.ghlogger]

well thats just my 2 cents, but I've been wearin em for a while now and nothin bad, oh well

 

[RRSsawshop]

well thats just my 2 cents, but I've been wearin em for a while now and nothin bad, oh well

We all have our own preferences what works for one may not work for others!! :monkey:

 

[hammerlogging]

My recently rediscovered old plastics Birk clogs replace my crocs for my pre and apres calks footwear when its wet- my cutoff xtratuffs are too wore out, my former wet weather alternative. Makes me laugh, but most of my antics make me laugh.
I found the xtratuffs at a trailer next to the dump with a table out front and a sign on it that said "free". I scored, my size, some old guy cleaned out his garage.

Calks, to answer the question.