DUmmies Discuss Work Boots - A Very Short Thread

[GOBUCKS]

I thought this was a strange thread, because I couldn't understand what a DUmp democrat would do with work boots:

livingonearth (428 posts)        Tue Oct-04-11 09:42 PM
Original message
I found and bought a pair of American made work boots yesterday! 
I usually try to buy American made products, but find it hard to find things like clothing and shoes that aren't made outside the country. I have now discovered Thorogood brand work shoes. The pair I bought seem very well made, and were actually a few dollars less in price than the boots made in China next to them on the shelf. I used to buy Red Wing and Carolina boots, but those brands are now made overseas. If anyone knows of any other American made boots, I would like to know.

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=439x2057035
Well, there was no explanation, here or anywhere in the thread. So I still have to ask, what in the world would a DUmp democrat do with work boots?
Birkenstocks, flipflops, Chucks, beatle boots, but never work boots.

eallen (1000+ posts)      Tue Oct-04-11 10:01 PM
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4. It's worth spending money on a good pair of workboots
If well made, they will last decades, and many soles.

I don't rightly know these days where the hell to get shoes re-soled.

Not holding membership among the freeloading 99ers, it's probably just me, but I've never worn out the soles on a pair of boots, and I've never heard of anyone having them resoled.

Dress shoes, all the time, but boots?

I'm pretty sure DUmmy eallen has never owned a pair of work boots.
 

[DefiantSix]

I'm pretty sure DUmmy eallen has never owned a pair of work boots.
 

And wouldn't know what to do with them if he did.  Probably a Croc-wearing pansy.

[ChuckJ]

I thought this was a strange thread, because I couldn't understand what a DUmp democrat would do with work boots:http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=439x2057035
Well, there was no explanation, here or anywhere in the thread. So I still have to ask, what in the world would a DUmp democrat do with work boots?
Birkenstocks, flipflops, Chucks, beatle boots, but never work boots.

 
Not holding membership among the freeloading 99ers, it's probably just me, but I've never worn out the soles on a pair of boots, and I've never heard of anyone having them resoled.

Dress shoes, all the time, but boots?

I'm pretty sure DUmmy eallen has never owned a pair of work boots.
 

I know why they would need boots in a figurative sense: to wade through the bullshit that they spew. I don't know why they would need boots in reality. Maybe they've spent all their time ranting on DU so the floor never gets cleaned. Not cleaned to the point of needing a boots to protect their feet from the grime.

[Odin's Hand]

About the only way you could wear out the soles on modern work boots is to take a bench grinder to them. More lies from the liars.

[DLR Pyro]

I used to buy Red Wing and Carolina boots, but those brands are now made overseas

No,Red Wings are still made in America.  They have a lower brand named Worx that are made over seas but the Red Wings are made in Minnesota.

[thundley4]

A mixture of rough concrete and chemicals will wear out the soles before the rest of the boot. I buy cheap ones at Walmart or K Mart and they last as long as the expensive ones that some co-workers buy.

[NHSparky]

No,Red Wings are still made in America.  They have a lower brand named Worx that are made over seas but the Red Wings are made in Minnesota.

And still very much worth it.

[LC EFA]

About the only way you could wear out the soles on modern work boots is to take a bench grinder to them. More lies from the liars.

Actually lack of use or exposure to some chemicals can do that.

I had a backup freebie pair of steel-cap work boots that sat about in a cupboard for ages. Took them out because my normal pair were wet and wore them over a long weekend walking about through the scrub. Before leaving I'd fuelled up a truck and walked through a lot of diesel. Come the end of the weekend the little remaining sole could be scraped away with a fingernail.

[vesta111]

Actually lack of use or exposure to some chemicals can do that.

I had a backup freebie pair of steel-cap work boots that sat about in a cupboard for ages. Took them out because my normal pair were wet and wore them over a long weekend walking about through the scrub. Before leaving I'd fuelled up a truck and walked through a lot of diesel. Come the end of the weekend the little remaining sole could be scraped away with a fingernail.

Tops of steel toed boots wore out faster on my boots. Soles OK but no leather over the steel toes. [20]

[Odin's Hand]

Actually lack of use or exposure to some chemicals can do that.

Well, yeah...I mean if you are constantly bathing them in oxidizers.

[IassaFTots]

And still very much worth it.

Indeed they are.