Working woodsman boots

[awarner]

Looking to buy a decent pair of working, hiking boots that are !00% waterproof and can go a good ankle deep+ in salt water.
Currently my much loved Solomons have had their day and while they are the most comfortable I have ever work having goretex on the outside id great until the dirt gets into the fibres and that's it for being waterproof.

Not posted in a while so background is I look after the Curbridge Nature Reserve for the National Trust which is an ancient woodland (wet woodland so lots of mud) and it also runs along the river Hamble which I sometimes have to cross at low tide to get to part of the site.

In deep winter I use a good quality wellington but for dryer spells and heavy working coppicing etc plus when I am not knee deep in mud I need something to cover me for the reset of the year with the exception of a hot summers day when I have lighter shoes or the Solomons before they completely fall apart.

Wondering what everyone else uses?

 

[bobnewboy]

Berghaus Explorer Trek with goretex for me. I have had about 7 pairs over the years. I always buy them in sales. As you say the goretex liner eventually succumbs, but until then they are light and comfy as a pair of slippers. With ankle support

 

[baggins]

Have a look at Arbortec boots for foresty and arb work. A work boot that is now more akin to a heavy duty mountaineering boot. Mine last me about 2 years, but thats doing heavy arb and forestry work every day. They have a pretty decent range, but no idea what they cost (work buy them).

 

[GuestD]

It's worth having a look through the Stihl and Husqvarna catalogues.

 

[Robson Valley]

I had the chance to work as a professional fisherman for a federal research agency.
In that and for many years that followed, Greb Kodiak were the boot of choice.
You get what you pay for. Redwing were #2.

 

[Klenchblaize]

I had the chance to work as a professional fisherman for a federal research agency.
In that and for many years that followed, Greb Kodiak were the boot of choice.
You get what you pay for. Redwing were #2.

I think they're simply known as Kodiak now:
"The last Greb plant in Kitchener, a Kodiak boot plant on Hayward Avenue, closed its doors in 1991."

K