OP what size are you? I have some black TDU trousers in XL for sale here: http://www.bushcraftuk.com/forum/showthread.php?t=126740
Just be cautious with il lago as loden is used as a colour description more than the materialAskari hunting do loden trousers and many others at decent process.
Last pair of keks I can remember ripping on barbed wire was the tarten things my mother made me when I was a nipper.
They made me look a right bleedin Rupert and I detested them, they also didn't get ripped by accident.
Since then I have been able to get over or round barbed wire fences without ripping my keks.
Can't say I've ripped many on bramble bushes but nor do I run through them like an over enthusiastic puppy either.
What do you do that means you need it to be medieval torture implement resistant? Gardener clearing an area that's been left for years?
If they are on your land (or land you have permission to cut on ), the cut it away with a bladed brush cutter on a harness. If it isn't your land, you shouldn't be hacking at it anyway.
It concerns some of us though. You have already observed that brambles act as refuges for rabbits. They also provide food and shelter for other species. It is perfectly possible that the landowner wants them left for that purpose. I have piles of decaying wood left specifically as a Stag beetle habitat, long grass left for reptiles and amphibians and tangled dense thorn areas left as nest sites inaccessible to predators. These may look like "wasteland" to a trespasser, but if I caught one slashing at them with a billhook, I would ceertainly seek criminal prosecution.
Whatever your common sense tells you you are committing more than one criminal offense by using your brush hook on land where you have no legal right to do so. Its irresponsible acts like this that influence landowners views of allowing access and bushcraft in general. If you must trespass, at least have the decency to leave no trace.
k9wazere, out of curiosity have you ever lived on the East Coast, Lincolnshire area? I only ask because it was because of a***holes like you that NO ONE is welcome on the small area of land that I own now.....they used to dig up Reeds that 'THEY' decided were useless they also dug up Marsh Marigolds and Water Mint etc that 'THEY' decided was just in the way. It's a shame there used to be a lot of bird watchers spent many hours and were welcome to do so on the area I owned but because of knowalls like yourself they now miss out.