My lad needs a pair of size 13, you know what they say about big feet,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,yep, big socks.
After mentioning to my mother about getting her a pair of my boots in her size, the suggestion was greeted with the following...
"big bloody German army boots -are you joking? ASDA stock wellington boots for under a tenner and in many different colours, too!"
I guess that's the end of that, then. But a quick update about my pair:
I realised today I had not broken them in as quickly as I thought I had done. This past 3 days I have been labouring in them packing, carrying and unloading heavy 70 kilo bags of horse manure and just earlier I went for a quick run in them at my local playing field and finally the odd tightness around the mid-foot area that I had mistakingly thought to be a design feature has dissapeared and the boots generally feel alot more comfortable than before.
Earlier today I cleaned all the horse crap off them and took the oppertunity to use the Nikwax boot cleaning stuff that I thought I may as well buy along side the bottles of the long overdue Nikwax Woolwash that my stinking Merino wool garments badly needed! (tip: charity shops are full of it!)
Well I'm not impressed. After using a stiff nylon brush with warm water to scrub the dirt off, I then applied a very generous amount of Nikwax cleaning gel to the whole of the boots leather and after a few minutes I washed it off with a softer brush.
All was well until I then applied the Waterproofing wax as per instructions and when it came to rubbing the excess off after 3 minute wait, the white cloth was jet-black within the first few wipes! What a load of crap that "Nikwax Footwear cleaning gel" is!
"lifts dirt off the boot" my ar*e!
Why all the praise for Nikwax products on this website?? or maybe it's just the footwear cleaning gel that's crap?
and does anyone have any good reliable information for cleaning boots and keeping them waterproof?
I've learned from my mistakes with my previous boots and want to look after these German boots as well as possible.
Is beeswax any good for waterproofing? My local farmers market has a raw honey stand and sell the stuff on the side.
and does anyone have any good reliable information for cleaning boots and keeping them waterproof?
I've learned from my mistakes with my previous boots and want to look after these German boots as well as possible.
Is beeswax any good for waterproofing? My local farmers market has a raw honey stand and sell the stuff on the side.
and does anyone have any good reliable information for cleaning boots and keeping them waterproof?
I've learned from my mistakes with my previous boots and want to look after these German boots as well as possible.
Is beeswax any good for waterproofing? My local farmers market has a raw honey stand and sell the stuff on the side.
and does anyone have any good reliable information for cleaning boots and keeping them waterproof?
just out of interest guys, i recently got rid of a pair in the gift-it-on thread ( post No. 967 ) from that piccy, can anyone tell me what Mk they were ?