boot studs

[zackman1801]

ok well i got a set of the husqvarna boot studs and it took me forever to put them in, i got them in and i felt good, so i put them on and took a few steps, much to my dismay every one of them fell out! so how do i get them to stay in the boots? im not too happy about wasting $15 on them.

thanks
zack

[Maineloggerkid]

I had the same thing happen last winter. If I was going to get studs again, I would get the viking boots with the large based studs.

[SwampDonkey]

Yeah get the chaulk boots with the screw in studs. You get a wrench that tightens them in. Those studs are a waste of money. I have a bag of replacement screw-ins and the wrench some place in this house. I'll probably never find them when I want them.

[zackman1801]

I had the same thing happen last winter. If I was going to get studs again, I would get the viking boots with the large based studs.

i would but i dont have $50 and no one around here has them in my size. labonville only carrys them in 8-9

[beenthere]

Do the caulk boots have similar studs  as the screw-in kind?

Is there a web site that has a pic of the screw-in kind?

[Maineloggerkid]

I had the same thing happen last winter. If I was going to get studs again, I would get the viking boots with the large based studs.

i would but i dont have $50 and no one around here has them in my size. labonville only carrys them in 8-9

just get the studs

[zopi]

I wear mine to play golf..

[SwampDonkey]

Well I can show you an old dirty boot from the shed. There is an online shop but it doesn't show the soles to see the spikes.

These have leather uppers, but you can get the same boot as the boys are talking about only with the screw in caulks. They are around $75 here. Mine below were $99 I think. Mine are dull from walking on stones.




http://www.irl.bc.ca/Safety%20+%20Clothing/boots.htm

wrench and replacement caulks

[SwampDonkey]

You playing golf on ice zopi?

[zopi]

You playing golf on ice zopi?

nope...tall timber!

I did hit a hole in one this summer though...won me a ball cap and got my name in the paper...funny thing was I thought I'd lost the ball...didn't think to look in the hole...

ah..thread drift...

[Maineloggerkid]

MY Harviks were $110 without studs, and my Emersons were $180 without them.

I only wear my Emersons. THose rubber boots have no liners, and I can't fit liners in them.( I ordered the largest size, and they just barley fit)  They also bother my feet and bhack, as I am flat footed.

[SwampDonkey]

You can get these with liners, ones I seen where $149 with liners. That's out right &$%#@#, for a felt liner. I know what your talking about as far as fit and feet. I also know putting studs in boots is a waste of time. My feet never hurt much in these boots except my toe nails take a beating when walking on sloped ground all the time. I have to put a Dr Schroll's insole in mine, for work boots. I don't wear these in winter. If I had to go to the woods in winter with caulks I would get Viberg, but they are expensive boots. I only use these caulks in summer season cutting brush. Those rubber logger boots people wear thinning up here take the hair off your shins by summer's end, with a liner they cramp your feet.  I can't stand up on wet brush with just regular work boots. Aspen brush is the worst dang slippery stuff to step through. I don't thin hardly any of it but there is always a few pockets of it. Oh well, everyone knows what works best for themselves. 

[Maineloggerkid]

Aspen (poplar) is very slippery. I almost slit my wrist with the saw this summer while limbing a poplar on a rainy day. I was thinking of getting some spikes for this winter. I would like them a lot for when I cut big pines and you have to  " walk them" to limb them becasue of the snow and diameter of the tree.

[SwampDonkey]

Talking about aspen, I also learned to wear gloves when working around it or even walking in thinned ground over the brush with some left standing. They will have branches that don't break off flush to the main stem. If you fall with a hand against a small broken limb, that snapped off close to the main stem, you can cut your hand on the sharp stuff. A softwood branch will bend unless it's fir and real cold out.

[dsgsr]

SwampDonkey, you mentioned Viberg. I goggled them and They're not available here in Maine USA. Is there another boot You or anyone else could recommend that is Warm for logging. I know moving fast is the way to stay warm but I don't move very fast but I still have to be out there in the woods playing in the winter or I'll go nuts.

Thanks,
David

[SwampDonkey]

I never looked around for logger boots at Trader Joe's or Sleepers up in Presque Isle or Caribou Maine. If you live in a mill town, see what folks are wearing. Or if you have a quality men's shoe store in town or a big town nearby, go for a visit. Maybe someone can chime in. I know we have had lots of boot discussions on the forum. If I could get spiked soles on a pair of Red Wings, that's what I'd go with. Most comfortable boot I ever wore.

[zackman1801]

where can i get just the large studs then?

the only boots ive seen for sale around here are the viking boots, and the husqvarna boots aside from labonvilles leather boots that i also have, but they dont have any stud holes in them.

[Reddog]

I have Hoffman's in the thinsulate pac, cork tread. And really like them. Fit well for a pac boot.

[Kevin]

These are the Black Tusk pac boots by Viking.

[Samuel]

Must be nice to actually need boots in Forestry   .  Mr career has turned in such a drastic turn, I have to fight for a field day besides our audits.