Corked Boots

[nate379]

Looking to get a set of cocked boots. I end up climbing wood piles while cutting and while I am carefull regular work boots aren't exactly the most "grippy".

I've been seaching online and I'm trying to find something that is just a "regular" steel (or plastic) toe boot. I don't need knee high hooker boots or 28lb firemans gum rubbers.

Not these:

(broken image removed)

or these:

(broken image removed)

I'm looking for something in the under $200 (with shipping) area. I don't need a pair of boots handcrafted by a 90yr Amish that will take years to get or something so solid it will take a year to break in.

 

[schlot]

Ever thought about having a standard boot that you like caulked? I think Hoffman boots does this.

 

[StihlHead]

Try my favorite logging supply place, Madsen's in WA state: http://www.madsens1.com/

They have several hiking boot type caulks for under $200.

They are spelled caulks, but pronounced 'corks' on the west coast.

 

[nate379]

Ever thought about having a standard boot that you like caulked? I think Hoffman boots does this.

The steel toe boots I wear everyday cost 22.95$ at Walmart.m I buy a new pair every year or two. Doubt they'd hold up to the spikes.

The Madsen place might be a great place in person but their website doesn't have much on it. I can't find boots at all.

 

[basod]

The steel toe boots I wear everyday cost 22.95$ at Walmart.m I buy a new pair every year or two. Doubt they'd hold up to the spikes.

The Madsen place might be a great place in person but their website doesn't have much on it. I can't find boots at all.

Have you considered a set of Wolverines(I've had good luck with the Harison series), and most similar work boots have Vibram soles that'll take boot studs.
The best set of outdoor work\hiking boots I think ever owned were LLbean with stitched soles they had stud holes - no safety toe unfortunately
Sportsmansguide.com has a decent selection of work/hunting/hiking crossover type boots as well

Either way I think your feet will thank you if you wrap them in more than $23 boots

 

[Flamestead]

I started using a pair of Hoffmans this winter and am very happy with them,

 

[Thistle]

I keep an old pair of Carolina steel toed loggers around with 1/2" shank hex head screws driven into the Vibram soles.Work very well on steep/muddy slopes,walking/climbing & especially nice in winter on ice covered sidewalks,parking lots & other areas.Local businesses frown on me when I walk across their nice wood,tile or carpeted floors however.... Pretty soon I'll get a regular pair of caulked boots,just havent decided on which ones yet.

 

[StihlHead]

The Madsen place might be a great place in person but their website doesn't have much on it. I can't find boots at all.

Jeez... man, just click on the online catalog. You will see it all.

 

[nate379]

Doesn't load up.

 

[jeff_t]

The catalog is a PDF.

(broken link removed to http://www.madsens1.com/catalog.htm)

 

[nate379]

It just sits there and loads the page and never opens up anything. I tried it on 2 computers and my phone...

 

[StihlHead]

It loads for me... comes up in about 10 seconds here. Boots are on pages 56-69.

Try to help you man, and you just complain.

 

[nate379]

I'm not complaining, just saying it doesn't load up is all.

 

[Backwoods Savage]

I like a good logger's boot for what you describe but don't like steel toed boots at all.

 

[nate379]

I have a big toe that barely bends and several 10 thousand $$s in hospital receipts from an injury years ago that steel toe boots would have prevented. After that happened I've worn steel toe boots just about to even butter a toast.

 

[Thistle]

I started wearing steel toed boots back in the mid-'80's,almost 10 years before employers made it mandatory.I dont even mow the yard without them.

 

[nate379]

(broken link removed to http://www.ebay.com/itm/Oregon-Forestry-Steel-Toe-Boot-with-Leather-Upper-Caulked-Sole-spiked-537310-/300862308138?pt=US_Men_s_Shoes&var=&hash=item460cca7f2a)

These don't seem too bad?

 

[Thistle]

(broken link removed to http://www.ebay.com/itm/Oregon-Forestry-Steel-Toe-Boot-with-Leather-Upper-Caulked-Sole-spiked-537310-/300862308138?pt=US_Men_s_Shoes&var=&hash=item460cca7f2a)

These don't seem too bad?

Those look good.Too bad they dont have a size 9

 

[nate379]

Ordered up a set.

Size 9... is that for your kid?

 

[DexterDay]

Ordered up a set.

Size 9... is that for your kid?

Wow.... Not everyone is BIGFOOT!!

It just sits there and loads the page and never opens up anything. I tried it on 2 computers and my phone...

I know you use an iPhone and my iPad loads it immediately. So??? What's wrong???

 

[HDRock]

It just sits there and loads the page and never opens up anything. I tried it on 2 computers and my phone...

Took about 3-4 min to load for me

 

[HDRock]

Ok, I turned off the part of Norton toolbar add on, that has been causing me problems , and it loaded smack right up

 

[Thistle]

Ordered up a set.

Size 9... is that for your kid?

If I wore snowshoes on a daily basis like some do,it'd be impossible for me to climb 40 ft extension ladders,7-8 frames of scaffolding & the occasional tree as part of my occupation.

 

[nate379]

Yeah... no thanks!

I get the cold sweats getting up on a 4ft step ladder to change a bulb after I fell off a roof and broke my back. Not that I was very fond of heights before.
A few weeks ago I had a nightmare that I was falling (happens a few times a month), I guess I grabbed onto the headboard in my sleep and was pulling on it so hard that I broke part of it off. Could barely walk the next few days cause I had tensed up every part of my body.


Anyhow, should have the boots in a few days, hopefully I ordered in the right size. I traced my feet out on a paper and gave them the measurements.

 

[basod]

If I wore snowshoes on a daily basis like some do,it'd be impossible for me to climb 40 ft extension ladders,7-8 frames of scaffolding & the occasional tree as part of my occupation.

Don't you be insulting my flippers
Size 14's come in handy in the water - not so much when trying to find boots in EEW