When I started work as a framing carpenter a few decades back, there was an incredible variety of footwear on the job site. Some days, you’d even see brown boots AND black boots stomping around! The one thing you could rely on when you bought a new pair of work boots, be they black or brown, was that you were probably in for a week or so of discomfort and blisters. This is affectionately known as the “break-in” period. The foot fanatics at Keen have been putting their heart and sole into eliminating both boring boots and blisters. Join us as I strap a pair of the new Keen Davenport work boots on my dainty dogs, and we’ll see if they kicked it through the uprights, or put their foot in it. Read More
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Caterpillar Safety Boots – Let The Cat Guard Your Dogs
“Your hands are your most important tools” is what a woodworker or carpenter – who must consciously keep his fingers away from flesh hungry blades of death – will tell you. But job site hazards come in many forms, from foremen to foul ups. Caterpillar – the yellow machinery and equipment company – knows that you won’t be moving earth if you can no longer move yourself. So it’s no accident that they have a line of footwear designed to protect those bony flesh tools at the ends of your legs. When Cat foot the bill for a pair of their Caterpillar safety boots, I gathered up my phalanges and metatarsals, plunged my paws into a pair of eleven and a halves and starting kicking the crap out of stuff! Now that I’ve worn them awhile, it’s time to grade their performance. Read More
