"Sacha" wrote after..
"Bob Hobden"asked
Everywhere I look I come across the same Wellington Boots ( Town &
Country
etc) sold at Garden Centres, marketed at gardeners, that are useless for
digging as they haven't got a steel mid-sole and digging pad and will
fail
if they are used for digging. Some fail very dramatically and painfully
as I
know!
However after talking to the chap on the Hunter stand at Chelsea it
appears
they make a suitable boot...
http://www.wellie-boots.com/ukmofcar...y-knee-dp.html
anyone used them? Are they any good?
Anyone found a real gardening Wellington boot of another make?

Have you got a store like Tucker's (seedsmen and country store) or Mole
Valley Farmers near you, Bob? Ray wears wellies sometimes but the other
men
here tend to wear steel capped boots. Don't know about the sole but I'll
ask when I remember!

Not that I know of, I used to use the Cornwall Farmers in Wadebridge for
stuff like that but our friends that used to live near Camelford now live in
SW France so I don't travel to Cornwall anywhere near as much. I'll take a
look at the Safety clothing shops, of which I've seen a couple, around here
but somehow I doubt they will stock boots with a digging pad.
I have got a pair of DeWalt trainers with steel toecaps etc which I wear
when using the mower but I do like to wear Wellies if I'm digging or using
the Rotovator otherwise I get covered in mud and get a shoe full, messy sod
that I am.
Perhaps I'll just wait and put them on my Christmas pressy list! :-)

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Regards
Bob H