I have just noticed that my aged wellingtons have started to crack. They are Dunlop, probably dating from before the brand name was sold.
Is my choice these days between something cheap and PVC, or really expensive?
Chris
If you plan to walk any distance at all in them I’d say it’s absolutely worth spending a decent amount of money on them and trying them all on. No on-line purchasing. Nothing worse than sloppy boots flapping around on your feet. Horsey tack/food supply places tend to have a fair selection as do cattle market shops.
Also look out for a decent heel tab to ease removal. My posh boots *don’t* have a knobbly bit behind the heel and If I have clay on my boots they’re a nightmare to remove!
Tim
I think you can still get decent wellies from a builders merchants or from a farm and horse suppliers place
Not all cheap wellies use PVC, some use synthetic rubber (neoprene etc) which is pretty good.
But real rubber is available still at sane prices:
you need one of these then
My PVC Wellingtons purchased from Toolstation have lasted well (5+ years) and have had plenty of use tramping over very muddy fields. Currently the same/similar ones are around £19
Slightly OT
I keep a pair of Wellinton boots in the car boot but found every time I needed to put them on the tops had closed up. Balancing on one leg and trying to get my other foot into the narrow opening was a PITA, especially if trying to hold the bottom of the trouser leg tightly around my calf so they also slid into the boot at the same time.
That was until I purchased
Why not just cut the top and bottom off a couple of 1 litre plastic bottles and split along their length to allow them to overlap and fit any size of wellie?
Have you seen how thin plastic bottles have become? The relatively cheap plastic inserts I purchased are MUCH thicker and will not collapse as would a cut up plastic bottle. The price on the web site is for 5 pairs.
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Do you need wellies for gardening or walking, i.e. with or without steel toe and insole. I bought a pair of Dunlop Purofort Safety wellies (with the steel bits) for gardening in a farm suppliers and they are excellent.
And not cheap, which is what most people want for occasional gardening or bad weather episodes.
For gardening all you need is 3/4 length wellies which Argyle used to do, but their priduction was moved to China and the quality vanished. They cracked and failed within a couple of years.
There's more than enough strength in most plastic soft-drink bottles (not milk) for the wellie job. I have to stand on Robinson Quosh bottles to crush them. I reckon that most 1 and 2 litre bottles (and now 750ml with "shrinkflation"!) will cover just about all sizes of wellie. You could always try leaving the bottle intact by not cutting off the bottom, or combining two or more if you think they aren't strong enough.
I have two pairs of Dunloop boots that have failed like your. For a while I was able to wear the left boot from one pair and the right boot from the other pair. The Hunter boots are made in a different way and were not to expensive.
Certainly what happened to my Argyles, I may have delayed it if I'd left them stuffed with scrumpled newspaper, rather than laying "flat" which bent the sides tighter ...
You can make one of those, quite easily...
Short bit of floorboard or similar, cut a V into one end, fix bit of
1x1" timber a little way back from the V, to prop the V in the air.
Sure you can, but will it look like a giant iron insect with big feelers crawling on your floor?
One has to make *some* concessions to aesthetics or whimsy.
But I found the cheap ones didn't have the steel bits so not relly suitable for gardening. Having had a pair crack across the insole when digging , thought Id cut my foot in half, I always now get safety wellies. A necessity if you use a rotary mower.
I think there’s “using a rotary mower” and “USING A ROTARY MOWER”. I’ve used a rotor mower for the past 40 years and never felt in danger of chopping my toes off. My lawn is flat and I think the risk is minuscule. If you’re gonna use one on a slippery slope however…
Tim
More risk with a Flymo than one with wheels
Especially if you grab it by the deck to trim the hedges
You should use a multi-purpose tool for edge trimming the lawn and cutting hedges - such as a chain saw.
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