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Yeah, but please note I'm not the one who started the damn argument. I just asked for advice on trousers.

Shame that has no relevance whatsoever to what I'm doing. Which is clearing a tiny amount of brambles from some waste land. Not marsh marigolds, not reeds... brambles. In small quantities. I can't decide if this holier than thou thread derailment is funny or just downright sad. So many people...

Seriously, no one cares about this old mining land. Except apparently you. You probably don't even know the kind of land I'm talking about. It's covered in heaps of old mine "tailings" (uneconomic rock that is considered worthless), plus brambles, and pretty much nothing else. You know what...

You're worrying for nothing. These areas are just full of overgrown brambles, and pretty much nothing else. It is a very common habitat. We're not short of rabbits, or brambles for that matter. Common sense tells me I'm having no real impact in clearing a relatively small amount of these...

It isn't my land, no. It's wasteland. Possibly owned by the Duchy of Cornwall or some other land owner like Lord Falmouth, who between them own vast swathes of Cornwall. The question is, does anyone care if I cut a few brambles down? I don't think they do. It's land that is just off the...

Wading through overgrown mining wasteland, looking for shafts, adits, and anything else of interest. These areas are often left to go fully wild, and are not trafficked at all by human feet. Which is great if you're a bunny rabbit, but otherwise you end up as bramble fodder. We're talking...

Thanks mate, but I'm not quite an XL (yet!). 34 W, 31 L (ish)

The Blue Harbour ones are on sale atm. http://www.marksandspencer.com/regular-fit-moleskin-jeans/p/p22155518?mfPartNumber=T170403B&carousel=ASPV_RR Are these the ones then?

Do these chaps make one impervious to brambles? I mean, I'd like to wade through a fully overgrown patch of land (with brush hook), and come out with legs as soft as a baby's bum. Is that too much to ask?

Fiskars Brush Hook... check :) (not used in anger yet, just got it :p) Canvas gaiters... check. These are great, do the job perfectly, but my thighs still get torn open. Btw we're talking Cornish brambles that are fully established :p They are fed on mine waste, with arsenic and all sorts of...

The Tac Lites are ripstop too :/ http://www.511tactical.com/taclite-pro-pants.html The brambles tore a 5" parallel rip in the butt area, the barbed wire cut two clean 3" holes in the knees. I'm not sure what ripstop is supposed to do, whether it did in fact stop the rip from being worse...

Hey there, Google brought me to a thread on this very topic from 2009, but it's a tad out of date now :) Back then, Cactus Supertrousers could be bought for £86, today it's more like £186, which is out of my price range (£86 would have hurt!). As with many people I suspect, I started off...