$200 logger boot shootout

[Seachaser]

Was able to get bigfoot into summer time boots. Chippewa NC2085. They seem to run in that $200 range. Was able to get a pair for $155 shipping included.

https://www.chippewaboots.com/en/classic-2.0-8-inch-lace-up-21092.html?dwvar_21092_color=Chocolate%20Apache

My logging camp is still full of mid-shin rotten snow. Bigfoot is gonna walk the timber sale boundary to start breaking in his G9382 boots. I picked up a pair too. Saw some dall sheep on the drive back north.

Hoping to get 10 acres down before them trees start soaking up water weight. Ground still frozen.

Are they pretty much sized to fit?

 

[mainer_in_ak]

Not sure which ones yer asking about but the Chippewas and the Georgia boots are both true to size. Only brand that hasn't been is the timberlands: half size too big.

 

[Seachaser]

Not sure which ones yer asking about but the Chippewas and the Georgia boots are both true to size. Only brand that hasn't been is the timberlands: half size too big.

Was talking about the Chippewas, but just checked my email and Georgia Boots has three logger designs on sale for $99. I think it’s today only. Ordered a pair thanks to this thread. WP design.

 

[mainer_in_ak]

Was talking about the Chippewas, but just checked my email and Georgia Boots has three logger designs on sale for $99. I think it’s today only. Ordered a pair thanks to this thread. WP design.

Congrats on the good deal! Yah Georgia boot sales cant be beat. So far im testing five different pairs of georgia loggers. 7 pairs including bigfoot.

That sale was impressive! Was actually able to stack a 15% off coupon code on top of the Friday fire sale. Looks like big foot getting nother pair ah boots! A made in the USA boot for a smoking price, free shipping to Alaska?!

Georgia Boot Men's USA Scalloped Heel Waterproof Logger

Get the job done in Georgia Boot USA Logger Waterproof Work Boots. Made in the USA with full-grain leather and the Georgia® Waterproof System, the USA Logger boot boasts an Ergo-Fit safety toe design with EVA midsole, durable double ribbed tempered steel s

georgiaboot.com

 

[mainer_in_ak]

Bigfoot has done three days of cutting in rotten snow in his "top of the line" G9382 georgia loggers.

Ive been in my redwings. They got soggy and will have to let them dry a couple days. The redwing exclusive waterproofing is not waterproof. Maybe for a few hours at most. The redwing exclusive cosmo comfort has kept my feet warm.

Just dressed up my G9382's with Nickwax and its a better boot than the redwings. Thinsulate ultra, and gortex. The leather is also thicker than the redwings. Actually, the redwings have the thinnest leather of all the boots im testing.

The redwings have a better fire and ice tread, which has a wider temp range where the rubber stays soft. Its an ideal tread for the mucky stuff on the south-facing slopes

 

[davidwyby]

After breaking in, my black Carolina loggers were too big. I wear them with thick wool socks. 11.5 I stumbled on these red ones on clearance for $50, I was afraid 10.5 might be too small with the steel toe, but looks like they might work. I have some old Chippewas that don’t. BTW, I have a mess of boots in that size range I need to sell…

 

[Seachaser]

I use inner soles if the shoe is a little big. My feet swell as it gets later in the day.

 

[mainer_in_ak]

*****Notable info on the Vibram Tacoma Tread:
The rubber compound is extremely HARD. The tread is outstanding in muck and rotten snow. But on any ice, yer feet will go out from under yah, quicker than you can catch yerself. I dont regret buying them and will continue wearing them, but any sign of icey patches, ill find another boot.

Because the Tacoma tread compound is so hard, you CANT install boot studs. Its fine until theyre stored through the winter where the rubber compound turns to a rock in below zero temps. Then the tension in the rubber cracks. Which is disappointing, becuase they really need carbide boot studs due to the hardness of the rubber compound.

Theres no beating the Vibram Fire and Ice compound like on the Redwing Loggers. It has a far greater temperature range. Even without carbide boot studs, the fire and ice tread on the redwings grips VERY well on icey patches.

3 Pairs of my boots have this Tacoma tread:
Chippewa loggers, Thorogood loggers and the Georgia Loggers(on my feet). I won't get another pair with Vibram Tacoma tread:


Where the hard tread cracked in winter storage:


Avoiding the ice patches today:

 

[krag]

I don't know what the objective is with boots except to be able to walk around in comfort, heavy leather so that there is some protection and durability. Steel toe boots are controversial as a Home Depot manager told me. If a heavy wheel rolls over them they may do more harm than good.

I use the same boots for backpacking and hiking as for tree oriented work, those these days that's limited to ground work and log splitting. I have two pair of Limmer standard boots, tough leather and re-soleable. As most backpacking hikers will tell you, there isn't a true waterproof boot, and Goretex is more a gimmick than really useful.

 

[Catbuster]

Steel toe boots are controversial as a Home Depot manager told me. If a heavy wheel rolls over them they may do more harm than good.

That Home Depot manager is wrong. If a safety toe boot’s toe crushes and damages your toes, you would have lost them in a soft toe boot too. It takes a lot of weight to deform an ANSI rated steel toe, or aluminum toe, and/or crack a comp toe, that would have Flat Stanleyed your phalanges in a soft toe boot. I’m not a crazy lover of industrial safety standards, but the idea of a good safety toe doing more harm than good is false.

Just like the people who will tell you that sometimes wearing a seatbelt is more dangerous than not. Being ejected and/or being partially ejected and then being crushed is almost certainly worse than staying in a car.

Goretex is more a gimmick than really useful.

Gore-Tex is useful when it’s cold & wet. That’s why my Frank’s & White’s go on the shelf and I switch to Danner Quarry boots in the winter. I don’t really need an insulated boot, or a muck boot, but an all leather boot doesn’t dry in January like it does in June. That, unlike the safety toe, though, is just my opinion, and your experience may differ.

 

[mainer_in_ak]

End of the day, took a hard spill on a patch of ice under leaves. Ground is still frozen. Was still wearing the Georgia loggers with the Tacoma tread. Landed hard on my knee. Broke the rest of my fall on a five gallon bucket. Knee is a bit sore so will go to a lighter boot tomorrow. Will be nothing but felling. Bigfoot will buck and limb.

Will probably run the thorogoods with carbide studded Tacoma tread.

 

[mainer_in_ak]

That Home Depot manager is wrong. If a safety toe boot’s toe crushes and damages your toes, you would have lost them in a soft toe boot too. It takes a lot of weight to deform an ANSI rated steel toe, or aluminum toe, and/or crack a comp toe, that would have Flat Stanleyed your phalanges in a soft toe boot. I’m not a crazy lover of industrial safety standards, but the idea of a good safety toe doing more harm than good is false.

Just like the people who will tell you that sometimes wearing a seatbelt is more dangerous than not. Being ejected and/or being partially ejected and then being crushed is almost certainly worse than staying in a car.



Gore-Tex is useful when it’s cold & wet. That’s why my Frank’s & White’s go on the shelf and I switch to Danner Quarry boots in the winter. I don’t really need an insulated boot, or a muck boot, but an all leather boot doesn’t dry in January like it does in June. That, unlike the safety toe, though, is just my opinion, and your experience may differ.

Yep, gortex is EXCELLENT in this rotten snow and muck, especially when the leather starts getting soggy.

Regarding the steel toe: yesterday the wood trailer ramp fell on my foot when releasing a ratchet strap. It cut the leather and gouged into the steel toe. The ramp probably weighs 40 lbs and fell from 2.5 ft above my foot. I ran thickened epoxy over the cut in the leather so hopefully the leather won't tear out further.

In winter, My cabelas Saskatchewan mukluks have gortex and cutting overflow, my feet stay warm and dry, even being submerged in slushy water.

 

[mainer_in_ak]

Clearing about an acre a day. Today was a full 8 hrs in Thorogood loggers. Theyre nice n light! See the little American flag on the laces? Made in Merca
Big foot doing all the limbin and buckin. We cant move wood yet, ground too soupy with all the snow melt.




Big foot rockin a 590 timberwolf 28" bar, and top of the line georgia loggers:

 

[SawAddictedFarmer]

Clearing about an acre a day. Today was a full 8 hrs in Thorogood loggers. Theyre nice n light! See the little American flag on the laces? Made in Merca
Big foot doing all the limbin and buckin. We cant move wood yet, ground too soupy with all the snow melt.

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Big foot rockin a 590 timberwolf 28" bar, and top of the line georgia loggers:

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What do you do with all the logs? Are they just for firewood?

 

[mainer_in_ak]

What do you do with all the logs? Are they just for firewood?

Some of the bigger birch get milled, most gets sold as firewood $500 per split cord. Theres usually about 20-30 cord per acre.

In Interior Alaska, split birch sells before the wood truck even makes it to town.

The pure birch is my personal property, once its cleared, dozer comes and turns it to a 4 acre log landing to park my giant spruce saw logs off my timber sale.

 

[mainer_in_ak]

40 degrees out, sunny. No need for the insulated Thorogoods, into the danners for today's felling.

 

[mainer_in_ak]

Not quite an acre today, in the Danner Loggers. Very light boot. Glad its the weekend.

 

[Phil187]

I bought a pair of jk boots last year and won’t buy anything else after. Amazing boots once you get your size dialed.

 

[SawAddictedFarmer]

I bought a pair of jk boots last year and won’t buy anything else after. Amazing boots once you get your size dialed.

My problem with boots that expensive is if I catch it on a piece of metal or something and rip it open... Yeah I can't afford that.

 

[mainer_in_ak]

Was in the Chippewas today. Good solid boot, doesnt stand out anywhere. Just a good simple toyota-corolla-commuter of logger boots. Feet felt great end of the day. starting to open up a good view of rhe river.

Bout 6 hrs of felling today. Had a couple sketchy, rotted leaners that stressed me out. So called quits early to calm my nerves. No crushed saws or injuries.