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Wellington Boots for the garden
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? -- Regards Bob H 17mls W. of London.UK |
Wellington Boots for the garden
"Bob Hobden" wrote in message ... 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? -- Regards Bob H 17mls W. of London.UK what is digging ? |
Wellington Boots for the garden
You need to be looking in agri/construction industrial suppliers
rather than garden places, no need to pay Hunter prices. Most of the work boots I've had have been from the Dickies range. The current wellies are Branded Dickies Super safety - Ultra Safe. Reinforced toecaps and mid-sole though not steel. Having said that I tend to do most of my digging in ordinary workboots with reinforced mid sole and toe, they've usually been Dickies but the current excellent pair are branded DeWalt, all numbers and markings are worn off because they've had a couple of hard years of all day everyday use, including digging 14 new deep beds in heavy soil - each roughly 50ft x 4 ft - the instep of the digging foot is breaking down now though. -- Rod My real address is rodthegardeneratmyisp "Bob Hobden" wrote in message ... 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? -- Regards Bob H 17mls W. of London.UK |
Wellington Boots for the garden
"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! :-) -- Regards Bob H |
Wellington Boots for the garden
In message , Bob Hobden
writes 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? I do my best to avoid digging but I can vouch for Hunter boots. I have a pair of 3/4 Argyle farming boots which have three great advantages - they really are comfortable when worn for extended periods, they cope well with rough terrain and they are relatively easy to take off. I bought them about 5 years ago and they are high on my list of 'best ever buys' . They are available at branches of Mole Valley and some tack shops. -- Robert |
Wellington Boots for the garden
On 25 May, 20:38, Robert wrote:
In message , Bob Hobden writesEverywhere 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? I do my best to avoid digging but I can vouch for Hunter boots. I have a pair of 3/4 Argyle farming boots which have three great advantages - they really are comfortable when worn for extended periods, they cope well with rough terrain and they are relatively easy to take off. I bought them about 5 years ago and they are high on my list of 'best ever buys' . They are available at branches of Mole Valley and some tack shops. -- Robert In over 50 years of digging I have NEVER had a pair of wellies damaged by a spade I was always told when I was young to use the ball of my foot on the spade and in those days we were on heavy clay, when I started on the parks in Hastings we hand dug all the beds and borders every winter, and when I moved over to market gardening we used to hand dig all the greenhouse plots during the winter, a total of over half an acre for 2 of us. Some old gardeners used to put a bit of split hose pipe over the top of the blade. David Hill Abacus Nurseries. |
Wellington Boots for the garden
On 25/5/07 20:38, in article , "Robert"
wrote: In message , Bob Hobden writes 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? I do my best to avoid digging but I can vouch for Hunter boots. I have a pair of 3/4 Argyle farming boots which have three great advantages - they really are comfortable when worn for extended periods, they cope well with rough terrain and they are relatively easy to take off. I bought them about 5 years ago and they are high on my list of 'best ever buys' . They are available at branches of Mole Valley and some tack shops. I don't do the digging but I've had my Hunters for at least 12 years. Ray prefers cheapie ones from Tuckers which have very wide tops. He can slip them on and off with ease as he comes in and out of the house whereas my Hunters are a bit fitted round the calf. Thank heaven for stone flagged floors, is all I can say! -- Sacha http://www.hillhousenursery.co.uk (remove weeds from address) |
Wellington Boots for the garden
"Dave Hill" wrote ...((snip)) In over 50 years of digging I have NEVER had a pair of wellies damaged by a spade Lucky you, I had one of a pair of Barbour wellies (a present) go suddenly and catastrophically when under full pressure and really did think I'd cut my foot in half it was so painful. Years ago I had a pair of Huntairs which were wonderful but they don't make them any more and, again, they aren't designed for digging anyway. -- Regards Bob H |
Wellington Boots for the garden
On 24 May, 23:17, "Bob Hobden" wrote:
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? http://tinyurl.com/yt9exd There are others on the Dickies site, but I have bought these from the local farm shop with great satisfaction. I've never seen one with a steel insole without it having safety toecaps, mind, but it's no bad thing. |
Wellington Boots for the garden
In message , Rod
wrote You need to be looking in agri/construction industrial suppliers rather than garden places, no need to pay Hunter prices. Most of the work boots I've had have been from the Dickies range. The current wellies are Branded Dickies Super safety - Ultra Safe. Reinforced toecaps and mid-sole though not steel. Around £23 from ebrookes http://www.ebrookes.co.uk/?c=1305 or cheaper for 'unbranded' http://www.ebrookes.co.uk/index.php?f=itemdetl.php&p=070119 -- Alan news2006 {at} amac {dot} f2s {dot} com |
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