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the_jersey_lilly_2000

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Congratulations Jerry H!!!!

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Congratulations, Jerry H, on a nifty picture. Those boots are built differently than any I've seen before, with the pull holes located in an unusual spot. They look like they're built "foot tuff." Who made them for you?
 
I also noticed the different pull straps. But somethin else I noticed is, they look like they are cut strait all the way around at the top, instead of havin the drop down point in the front and back, and higher sides where the pull straps go.

Interestin pair of boots, and would like to know the "why for's" in the different style???

I have a brother that's a bootmaker, and also an uncle (passed on now) I have two pairs of boots made by my uncle. And neither pair fit like I wanted. Best pair of boots I have are the worn out ones I wear now (Prison made).
 
thanks soapweed and jersey lilly
i have them made at beck's boots in amarillo
they have made two pair for me and i like them both
the first pair i have been wearing for 4 years now and had to have them resoled and a hole in the top patched where it wore on my sturrip learther
the fit great and they last realy not very expensive if you figure how long they last

lilly
the why's
i have the tops made round so they fit right at the top of my calf and just below my knee
that way when i'm in the brush or in the woods in your case and i'm wearing chicks or batwings the brush doesn't get down in my boots
as for the pull holes i just have them leave the front ones off so the brush can't go down in there
and i don't know about ya'll but i don't ever use the ones in the front anyways
thanks again
jerry
 
Jerry H, I see that you wear your spur buckles on the outside of your boots. Some folks (me included) wear their's on the inside. You bring up some good points about why your boots are made the way they are, so I am curious about your reasoing for the spur buckles on the outside.
 
Jerry H said:
thanks soapweed and jersey lilly
i have them made at beck's boots in amarillo
they have made two pair for me and i like them both
the first pair i have been wearing for 4 years now and had to have them resoled and a hole in the top patched where it wore on my sturrip learther
the fit great and they last realy not very expensive if you figure how long they last

lilly
the why's
i have the tops made round so they fit right at the top of my calf and just below my knee
that way when i'm in the brush or in the woods in your case and i'm wearing chicks or batwings the brush doesn't get down in my boots
as for the pull holes i just have them leave the front ones off so the brush can't go down in there
and i don't know about ya'll but i don't ever use the ones in the front anyways
thanks again
jerry
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Mine I have now have been 1/2 soled 3 times and full heels and soles twice. Man I hate that week and a half that they are gone when that hasta happen. (It takes that long at least cuz of all the paperwork you hafta do to get em in and out of the prison) Mine just have the pull straps, not the holes.
If I"m out in the woods/brush I wear my jeans outside my boots. Keeps unwanted critters such as fire ants out of my boots LOL or at least it helps, it don't always KEEP EM OUT!!! Them lil beggers will go anywhere. My spurs (which don't see a whole lot of use) have the buckles on the inside, and I always think how unhandy it feels to buckle em on. My chinks buckle in the front, cuz I just thought it so unhandy to have them buckle in the back. So when I made em, I did em the way I wanted. I don't know how many times Mr Lilly told me...."yer doin it wrong" LOL I said...it ain't wrong if that's how I want it.
Thanks for sharin your reasons why. Always interestin, even the little details. Never know when ya might learn somethin useful. :D
 
soapweed
i have lots of guys that wear their spur leathers on the inside but most of them ride with just the ball of their foot in the sturrip
growing up i wanted to be a saddle bronc rider so i always rode oxbow's with my foot run in there deep and the bukle tends to rub on my foot when it's on the inside
and even now i ride a 4 inch flat bottom sturrip i still put my foot in to the heeel some habits are hard to break
and if i remember correct my grandpa put my first ones on the outside
so right or wrong that's the way i have always done it

lilly
i always were my jeans shotgunned
my grandma swore that it helped keep chiggers and ticks out if you wore them on the inside and we had plenty of both growing up in north east texas
she also liked the way it kept the sweat from your horse off tour britches
and besides all that it just looks punchie
as for you chinks having the buckle in the front
that is a safty thing if you get that strap over the horn it gets real ugly if it doesn't break
my self i like mine to buckle in the front like yours
but when i have them made i just make shure there's a place in the belt that is thin enough that it will break if i get fouled
until later
jerry
 
Me n Chiggers aint no stranger. We got em here. LOL They didnt bother me up until last year. got my first 1....2...3....etc. I learned real fast to spray everthang from the waist down with deep woods OFF. Ain't the best smellin stuff (so Mr Lilly told me) but hey, when I"m out doin somethin I ain't out there to smell perdy.
Also figgered out how to get rid of em once ya got em. Put fingernail polish on em, then before it dries, get out the blow dryer and put it on high......point it at the spot you painted.....and hold it there till ya can't stand it no more. It won't itch anymore!!!! Gone...baked....dead chigger LOL
I find if I have em tucked in when I'm in the woods or tall grass I get chiggers worse then if they are out. Anymore tho...in the summer months I hafta spray all over cuz the skeeters try to tote me off if I don't. Seems I'm the only one of the family that the skeeters like. :roll:

This has been a real interestin thread/contest.
 
Jerry H said:
soapweed
i have lots of guys that wear their spur leathers on the inside but most of them ride with just the ball of their foot in the sturrip
growing up i wanted to be a saddle bronc rider so i always rode oxbow's with my foot run in there deep and the bukle tends to rub on my foot when it's on the inside
and even now i ride a 4 inch flat bottom sturrip i still put my foot in to the heeel some habits are hard to break
and if i remember correct my grandpa put my first ones on the outside
so right or wrong that's the way i have always done it
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I like the "convenience" of having the spur strap buckle on the inside of my boot. Also be doing it this way, the pretty tooled part of the strap is on the outside where it is visible when the rider is horseback. It works well to cross one leg over the top of the other to put on or take off the spurs. If a person wears their spurs all the time, this part doesn't matter. It is somewhat cumbersome to drive a pickup (for me) while wearing spurs, and when I'm fencing or doing other type pedestrian work I don't like dragging around the extra weight of spurs. Besides, there is no point in me wearing my spurs in town trying to put on the image of being a better cowboy than I am. The neighbors all know me too well. :wink: :-)

Here are another couple pictures of "boots" while I was messing around the other night.


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Soapweed,
When I first seen your entry, I thought you'd taken pictures of Peach Blossom's boots. If them's yers, you must have an awfully small foot. Least they look little. Could be the ridin heel tho. I always think that makes a person look like they have a smaller foot than they actually do.
I sure do like them perdy blue tops :D
 
the_jersey_lilly_2000 said:
Soapweed,
When I first seen your entry, I thought you'd taken pictures of Peach Blossom's boots. If them's yers, you must have an awfully small foot. Least they look little. Could be the ridin heel tho. I always think that makes a person look like they have a smaller foot than they actually do.
I sure do like them perdy blue tops :D
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Well, I always went on the same theory that Will James and Spike Van Cleve used. A cowboy always tries to make their feet look smaller than they are, even if your boots are too tight and it makes your feet hurt. Now with the new theories behind "big feet" and other things that might indicate, it is probably no honor to try to make your feet look as small as possible. :shock: :roll: :wink: :-)
 
the_jersey_lilly_2000 said:
Soapweed,
When I first seen your entry, I thought you'd taken pictures of Peach Blossom's boots. If them's yers, you must have an awfully small foot. Least they look little. Could be the ridin heel tho. I always think that makes a person look like they have a smaller foot than they actually do.
I sure do like them perdy blue tops :D
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Lilly didn't you know Soapweed is just a dainty little fellow. :wink:
 
But....them shadows on the ground he keeps takin pictures of...make him look soooooooooo tall :P Figgered he'd need some big feets to hold up all that height LOL ya know...with the stiff winds they have up there in them sandhills. Need anchored somehow.....
 
to tell the the truth my first thought of that piture was "now there's a cowpuncher with all the sh!! kicked out of him"
i had to laugh as i had left my boots and hat like that once and someone said that about me

and soapweed i'm with you on taking off my spurs to work afoot i take them off when i have get off my horse and work that way
that's not very often unless i have to get afoot and work in the prossesing barn or at a branding
when i go to town i wear a nice clean hat and a pair of shoes like chukkas or somthing "don't want to look to punchie as the folks around here know better also"
it's neat to see how folks do things in other areas with the same equipment
i've punched cows all this country and some in mexico and seen alot of other punchers and every one of them has somthing just a little differnt that they do
and i have tried to learn somthing from all of them be it good bad or indiffernt
until later
jerry
 

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