What are those fancy shoes!?!?!?!?

[see_lucas]

i have seen some guys wearing some rock climber esc shoes to climb trees, and i would like to know #1 what there name is #2 are they better than a good steel toe redwing, and how come i havnt heard of them?? I mean realy, i love gear, and i try to stay on top of the industrys progress, but i think i missed something. also are they better for the tree, climber, or what??

 

[Waldo]

i like to climb in my asolos. i had them first for backpacking, and liked them so much i decided to wear them to work. now i can't get em off my stinky feet.

 

[oibrí_crann]

I wear Meindl Airstreams... they are chainsaw protectant, but are the mountaineering style.. super comfortable.. memory foam and all... I am just used to the mountaineering style boots and can;t stand the super high heel of loggers.. from my understanding any of the mountaineering style boots that are suitable for crampons are adequate for spurs... I can only speak from minimal experience though

 

[Tr33Climb3r]

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i like to climb in my asolos. i had them first for backpacking, and liked them so much i decided to wear them to work. now i can't get em off my stinky feet.

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yea you are stinky....overall

but anyways here is a good site for tree type shoes/boots for a tree type site

Click Here

 

[TreeClimber17]

i cant imagine climbing let alone doing any work with out loggers boots...but then again im stubborn and dont wear anything but loggers

 

[treehumper]

Oibri, where'd you get the Meindl's?

 

[oibrí_crann]

I got mine from www.treeworker.co.uk they were very helpful in answering all of my questions and Rob even shipped them in two seperate boxes so that he could call them a product sample. he did this to avoid me having to pay an import tax. They are very very comfortable.

 

[treeclimber1]

ive been climbing in loggers all my life. hermans to redwings one pair of whites crappie. now i have a pair of reddawgs from baileys the are great steel shank i cant even feel the gaffs where as all the others it bothered me after a half hr or so not these 16inch bad boys and they are only 209.00 right around the same price as the redwings but allot more comfortable. Some people can wear anything but after twenty yrs hanging in the saddle me feet bother me after awhile.

 

[Winch]

I used to climb on a pair of Klima Air Tirol Fighters. They were great, lasted 2 years, then a resole, now they are pretty much trashed. I have heard of people wearing some resoled boots of different varities (Wescos, Red Dogs, etc.) for extended periods of time (5+ years), but I have never had this experience with any footwear that I use for work. Now I wear a Haix Protector - see it at:

http://www.lawson-his.co.uk/scripts/products.php?cat=Chainsaw%20Boots&brand=Haix

It is a great chainsaw-protective boot with a shank and gore-tex. I have been wearing it since August, and I still love love love it. But we'll see where it is in a couple of years, which I def hope it lasts at it's exorbitant price. I paid about $370 for these, even in the separate boxes (like Oibri above). I bought my last from treeworker.co.uk and had the same pleasant experience. If you can afford something from there shipped here, do it, it is worth the experience.

Cheers!

 

[andy_engelsk]

Haix Protector rule, cant plug them enough.
Great to see another fan, although you will feel the spikes after a while. I have had 3 pair now and am just about ready for the 4th, the leather has a good ten year in it its the soles that fail as they do after 3 year of hard graft. i resoled my first pair at a cost of 100 dollar New Zealand. a couple months later I needed new boots. It just didn't work out! 3 year on work boots tho, and they have no break in period. AWSOME!

 

[Lampea]

oibrí how much did thet cost U.S. ?

 

[see_lucas]

Thanks for all the info, i'm attached to redwing loggers. but saw some guys wearing a flat flat sole boot shoe thing, didn't know if they were good bad or indifferent

 

[allmark]

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I wear Meindl Airstreams... they are chainsaw protectant, but are the mountaineering style.. super comfortable.. memory foam and all... I am just used to the mountaineering style boots and can;t stand the super high heel of loggers.. from my understanding any of the mountaineering style boots that are suitable for crampons are adequate for spurs... I can only speak from minimal experience though

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How are these for footlocking?