Hi All,
I do allot of cage work, involving collecting empty folded cages. Anyhow my steel toe cap boots don’t seem to last long the leather just drops off and rips all over the steel cap below. Then the cap starts to loosen plus I look a tramp. So I’ve had a thought to find some external capped boots, used to be used in the pit?
However trying to find these boots seems nearly impossible any ideas where I may get some ?
Kevin
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Just googly external toe cap boots.
Literally hundreds come up up on a Google search (Carryfast must be asleep, Google is available at the time of posting! 
). I thought they had been made ‘illegal’ in certain industrial places years ago but I’m obviously wrong?
Pete.
windrush:
Literally hundreds come up up on a Google search (Carryfast must be asleep, Google is available at the time of posting! [emoji38] ). I thought they had been made ‘illegal’ in certain industrial places years ago but I’m obviously wrong?Pete.
I thought they banned in pits in case the steel struck a spark? I could well be wrong on that. Again.
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Used to be a lot of fitters wore wore external steelies cos they were always on their knees begging for more grease to spread over your door handles, steering wheels etc.
External steel toe capped boots weren’t used underground in the mines in the NCB days. You’d need a pro’ historian to delve into the archives to find when or even if they were last used underground.
Did you know that it was the NUM who set the precedent for everyday safety gear to be provided FOC by the employer ?
If you need a pair of safety boots that last, then you really need to look beyond the £40-£50 pairs of Dickies, et al, that actually leave China at about $1.50 a pair.
kev909_2000:
Hi All,I do allot of cage work, involving collecting empty folded cages. Anyhow my steel toe cap boots don’t seem to last long the leather just drops off and rips all over the steel cap below. Then the cap starts to loosen plus I look a tramp. So I’ve had a thought to find some external capped boots, used to be used in the pit?
However trying to find these boots seems nearly impossible any ideas where I may get some ?
Kevin
I have mine from William Lennon @ Stoney Middleton in Derbyshire, you can order from their website www.williamlennon.co.uk
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I used to buy “miner’s safety boots” from a local industrial footwear shop.
They were green with external toecaps.
And my socks lasted longer with the caps being on the outside.
Beau Nydel:
Used to be a lot of fitters wore wore external steelies cos they were always on their knees begging for more grease to spread over your door handles, steering wheels etc.
■■■■ off we always find plenty on the fifth wheels for them special jobs 
Wondered why there was never any on the fifth wheel even after a service.
Search google for Uvex Quattro. Had a pair lasted just over a year before the leather started cracking at the toe cap.
On the odd occasion I have reason to ■■■■■■■■■■■ with the yard muppets . . . . Sometimes (depends upon time of year) we have reason to discuss cold feet & the sufferring thereof.
One or two have followed my advice & in the eyes of those one or two, I gets loaded /unloaded first & all of the ignorant knuckle draggers can go [ZB] themselves.
You [ZB]wits I assume are all wearing Dickies because Dickies are a rampant soshal meedya advertiser . . . All I can say is you don’t always get what you pay for.