This is amazing, whenever I am looking for anything work boots TheBootGuy already made a video about it over 6 years ago. A man really ahead of his time.
I've been using these zippers for 20 years. I work in a sawmill. Unfortunately they only give you one pair of laces and each zipper requires a pair.... so that makes four laces if you have two feet. So you have to use the pair of laces that actually come with your boot. I usually have one set that are way too long and the other pair are not quite long enough. I actually came here to find out how long the laces are that come from Thorogood but a guy in the comments said that he uses black zip ties..... I'm going to try that this time. I've got an "old" pair of zippers that I'm going to put into my new Summer boots. The reason I purchased these in the first place is to spare my poor hands and fingers with all the pulling and tightening every single day of my working life. You've seen elderly people with the really crooked fingers.... that's 'cause our fingers work so hard all of our lives and I wanted to give mine a break every day. I also purchased a skate lace tightener which is "T" shaped with a handle and hook and I gently pull the metal tab up the zipper with that..... not with my fingers.
1. Wrong! The Velcro is there to block the zipper from unzipping. 2. Wrong! The age of the boot has nothing to do with this system. 3. If you need to silence the zipper, your blousing strap will do that.
One string method: place zip over tongue inside boot eyelets. Drop laces In the boot laces eyelets from the outside in then through the zip from the outside in bringing the strings against the tongue of boot, then pic a side to start first. Which ever side you pic bring the string up from the inside through the shoe eyelets out then across through the zip eyelet going in and tighten down making sure wholes stay lined up. Continue this method to the last two lined up wholes at the to of the boot and string should end up headed inward. Take the string across and bring it down a hole doubling through a previously used eyelet so from the outside there will appear to be just double bands of laces per eyelet accept the very top hole and when folded out to reveal what the strings are doing inside they will appear to be x ing or crossing over going down. To starting point. If there is string remaining run it up through the crosses or x's on the inside . Remove slack and keep holes lined up.
I have a pair myself, I use them for my Danner acadia boots. Now, Danner makes a lace in system but its made from non leather materials. They crack after 6 months and the zipper teeth are hard plastic. They break real easily. Thourogood, All leather materials and brass zipper and teeth. I’ll have to try a different lacing technique. Used the one Danner suggests for their lacing system and they hurt the top of my teeth. I may end up making a pair of my own; since I do leather work. I would recommed these lace in zippers. Good product. You don’t fimd pride in craftsmanship or product like Thoroughgood!!
I think that your channel is about to take off man !Great vid! Also i think it would be cool if you did like cowboy boot reviews or just a bunch of other types of boots. If you do start doing cowboy boot reviews than i would suggest that you do the Ariat Rambler as your first review. Ive had them for a while now and they are still very comfortable and durable and the more you get em dirty the better they look. They are also very affordable for one of the best cowboy boots on the market right now. Take care bubba and good luck
You had me at the ultimate lazy man boot. As a trucker in the oil field I have to have steel toes. I want a boot I can slip into to get out of the truck and slip out of so I can drive in comfortable clean shoes. This sounds like my solution.
great review.. please can you or anyone else tell me where i can get these boots i live in the uk and cant seem to source them.. have they stopped making them perhaphs ?
Old Timers complain, "These zips aren't like the old ones. My old ones were brass." Sure you can get the brass zippers made in India or China for $10 and they are JUNK! Thorogood Zippers are the best on the market that I know of (unless Danner makes some I don't know about). I am an EMT and I've had a pair in my duty boots for two years and they take a beating four days a week. No fails. Sometimes those boots are also my motorcycle boots. No fails.
@@qazmko22 Four Years and Two Pairs of Boots later... I had to replace the Zipper Tab on one of the zips that broke for $3. Still going up and down smoothly for me. I put a lot of miles on my boots as well.
I just bought some of these zippers. I can't figure out how to lace them in. The instructions are really hard to read. This video moves too fast. I can't see what your doing. Black boots. Black zippers. Black laces. Too hard to see anything.
I need brown. So here's question? Why do you-all need an instruction manual to lace a boot? Is it the lack of big brothers and father figures or just the smarts of guys who wear tactical boots?
