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.

[Kodiakmac]

Used logger's corks (caulks) back in the early 70s in McBride BC area.  Didn't use them much.  Although they had some value if you were falling (we didn't call it felling back then, city folks came along and told us we were saying it wrong) and trotting along the trunk to limb, they were no good if you were also running skidders or cats...slippery as heck.

For some reason early or late season snow seemed to like sticking to the cleats, to the point that you'd have an inch or snow of snow gummed up on the soles.  Haven't used them since.  I just look for boots that have a relatively soft sole compound with wide pyramid-like openings in the treads so that snow/mud can be knocked out with a side-ways kick against something.

Got a pair of "WorkPro" right now that seem to do the trick...heavy as hell, but they're good and wide and have warm thermolite liners.  Had them on yesterday morning on the skidder in - 23 C and they were still gripping okay because the sole is soft enough.   

[SwampDonkey]

Red Wings fit that bill with their soft soles. But, avoid hard soles in this climate. I had a pair of hard soles and it was horrible trying to walk on winter logging roads and yards. My feet went in all directions as if I was on ice. As fair as caulks snowing up, I have never seen that. I worked in wet snow and dry. However, any boot will ball up if your walking on partial frozen ground in late fall where your boot steps in a wet spot, then in the dry cold snow. I can imagine trying to wear caulks and driving skidder, that ain't going to work, neither will studs. 

[timberfaller390]

zack are you talking about caulk boots or something else. It sounts like you had some kind of do-it-yourself caulks. Is that right?

[zackman1801]

yes and no i have a pair of husqvarna boots, the orange rubber ones, and they sell some studs that you are supposed to put in them with a allen wrench looking tool, but it works like crap, the holes are about the size of a pinhole and the studs are about the size of a pellet for a pellet gun (look similar too) you are supposed to shove the studs in a be done, but as you walk they bend forward and dislodge themselves. although these arent anything that i could have dreampt up.

[SwampDonkey]

Is one end of the stud your inserting bigger (larger diameter) than the other? I guess there is no way to get the wrong end in because they fit that wrench. If your going to wear studs all the time, might as well get caulks and be done with it. You can get the same boot with the caulk soles. Caulks screw in on a  thread.

[arojay]

Baileys has a high top, lace up, pack boot that can be had with caulks.  They are kind of like a winter Viberg boot.  I have leather Vibergs and they are good boots.  I have been using Husqvarna caulks for a few years.  I am hand felling(falling) and line skidding and the caulks are good when on the ground and not so good when on the skidder.  As they dull a little they are better on steel.  Probably the greatest advantage for me is when I'm hauling out mainline.

[timberfaller390]

If your going to wear studs all the time, might as well get caulks and be done with it. You can get the same boot with the caulk soles. Caulks screw in on a  thread.

I agree if you need more traction, get a pair of caulk boots and don't wory about the "studs" falling out. I ordered myself a pair of "corks" from Bailey's I'll let you know how I like them as soon as they get here.

[Bret4207]

I have a pair of those Viking Tusks from back when Nokia made them They're the only safety type boot I never had cold feet in. The screw in corks worked good and you could take then out if you wanted to. I did because I couldn't enter any business in town with them on. Flatlanders.

[timberfaller390]

Got my new Red Dawg caulk boots in the mail today. I think I am going to like them but it is going to be a long hard break in. They seem to run a half size large too compaired to the danner firelines I normally wear but I don't think it'll be enough to hurt anything.

[SwampDonkey]

I'd rather have a touch large, than under sized. Cramped feet and blackened toe nails ain't fun. 

[grassfed]

yes and no i have a pair of husqvarna boots, the orange rubber ones, and they sell some studs that you are supposed to put in them with a allen wrench looking tool, but it works like crap, the holes are about the size of a pinhole and the studs are about the size of a pellet for a pellet gun (look similar too) you are supposed to shove the studs in a be done, but as you walk they bend forward and dislodge themselves. although these arent anything that i could have dreampt up.

Spit on them first.

I have changed the studs on my husky boots 3 or 4 times in the last 6 years. If you spit on them to lube them then push them in with the tool, then turn the tool around and push hard on the tip with the flat end of the tool they will seat and will not fall out. You can use rubber tire lube if you want to get fancy.

[zackman1801]

i used soap the other day, but half of em will stay in and the other half fall out....

[chevytaHOE5674]

Spend the cash and get yourself a pair of caulked boots and you will be set.

[zackman1801]

already spent my money on Labonville leather boots. not caulks this winter, but the snow seems to be covering up most of the ice anyways.