Sock-twist... (& sometimes trouser-legs too)

Danllan

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Sir Gar / Carms
If you tuck your trouser legs in to your socks you'll find your socks don't fall down or twist and neither do your trousers. A bit more tricky with jeans due to the thick overlappy bit at the bottom but can be easily accommodated by expert level tucker-in'ers.

It has the added benefit of making you look like the local lunatic when you take the wellies off in public too (y).
A fair point, but... I don't wear 'posing' boots, so no straps to tighten the tops up. This means if I do tuck trousers - no jeans - into socks, there will be even more crap, straw, haylage etc. falling down inside the boots than at present. I am minded to use some inner-tube rings at the top of the boots to stop this altogether, but I am rather lazy sometimes and find it a pain to put the boots on / off with these.

Anyway, who takes their wellies off in public...? o_O
 

foxbox

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Location
West Northants
A fair point, but... I don't wear 'posing' boots, so no straps to tighten the tops up. This means if I do tuck trousers - no jeans - into socks, there will be even more crap, straw, haylage etc. falling down inside the boots than at present. I am minded to use some inner-tube rings at the top of the boots to stop this altogether, but I am rather lazy sometimes and find it a pain to put the boots on / off with these.

Anyway, who takes their wellies off in public...? o_O

Partially inflated armbands may work too with the added bonus of extra HSE points along the way. It'd be important to only do this with steel toed wellies though as otherwise if you get out of your depth you'll float upside down, albeit in a highly visible fashion.

And if you've not taken your wellies off in public you've not lived, especially if you do so as a sock tucker-in'er. You'll amaze the local population with all of the exciting day to day farming items that will emerge unexpectedly and there's the added bonus that occasionally you'll catch things like your knife before they land in the crap that you're standing in (y)(y)
 

Danllan

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Location
Sir Gar / Carms
Next time you empty the bath, make sure the water goes the other way down the plug hole by stirring continuously. This will reset the local gyro system and your sock will not twist. This has to be done at least once a week, of course.
Alternatively, wear tights.
Already do the plug stirring - who doesn't? - and tights also reverse and do not allow for natural calls as well as socks... have considered smoking pineapple backwards as an alternative. ;)
 

yellowbelly

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Livestock Farmer
Location
N.Lincs
No 'twisting leg' problems but I've recently changed my brand of overalls and the blasted things won't stay tucked in my wellies. That's OK on a dry day (stops straw getting in my wellies) but on a wet day like today (well yesterday now, I suppose) if I don't notice it's happened the bottoms get absolutely blathered in sh!te.:mad::poop:
 
My hat! My fffffffing beany hat! It has a small logo at the front and if I'm working say fencing or something it will somehow manage to go all the bloody way round to the back of my head. I have absolutely no idea how the hell in gods name it does it!
Mine too! Every time! It just gradually works it's way around in a clockwise direction. Makes me look like a total loonie!:D
 

Danllan

Member
Location
Sir Gar / Carms
There are certainly some strange things going in, not just in the sock and trouser departments, but clearly with hats and overalls too - I sense a plot - but that may just be my suspicious nature :sneaky:...

Anyhow, is would seem sensible for there to be some sort of 'Clothing Assurance' scheme which would allow us to buy with confidence (y).
 

yellowbelly

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Livestock Farmer
Location
N.Lincs
Anyhow, is would seem sensible for there to be some sort of 'Clothing Assurance' scheme which would allow us to buy with confidence (y)
Hmmmm. There could be some mileage in this.
"The Little Red Overall" scheme. Manufacturers would have to pay to have their garments tested on the premise that they could charge more for them if they passed(won't ever happen, but we won't tell them that). We could all become inspectors. Nice little income stream.

Maybe I'm getting carried away. Who in their right mind would sign up to anything like that:scratchhead:
 

Danllan

Member
Location
Sir Gar / Carms
Hmmmm. There could be some mileage in this.
"The Little Red Overall" scheme. Manufacturers would have to pay to have their garments tested on the premise that they could charge more for them if they passed(won't ever happen, but we won't tell them that). We could all become inspectors. Nice little income stream.

Maybe I'm getting carried away. Who in their right mind would sign up to anything like that:scratchhead:
Perhaps the sort of people who's National Union is really there for its own interest and not theirs?:(
 
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I put wellies on before stepping out of the house, and have done no matter where I lived. Australian and Med summers or Highland winters, all the same. I bought a pair of rockin. boots long ago - not Rogerson's of Rothbury, but similar. I have occasionally worn them and my son will inherit I suppose.

Never had problems with trouser twist. Socks but rarely, yet for the first 40 odd years socks would always end up off my feet and in the toes of the wellies. I then began to buy cotton socks instead of the (originally) wool or plastics/wool mix. Never had a problem with socks coming off since.

Bless my little cotton socks.
 

Paddington

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Location
Soggy Shropshire
Who remembers Spike Milligan and the world of Beachcomber ?

A peer was stalking a roebuck
In a misty Scottish glen.
BANG! went his well-charged rifle.
A miss, then BANG! again.

"TWO misses", roared his lordship,
as his stockings trailed in the wet,
"Serves me right for not wearing
a Thoroughgrip Garterette".




A dustman was emptying dustbins
In the heart of a horrible slum,
Where no Viscount's white foot had e'er trodden
And no Marquess would venture to come.
How taut were the socks of that dustman
Would show that he didn't forget
The people's best friend in all troubles
Threadgold's Thoroughgrip Garterette.
 
I have a problem with my trouser legs gaining turn ups whilst wearing my rigger boots, the turn ups gather sawdust and hay, which is bad enough when you cover the floor with it in the evening, but it is down right dangerous when you cut or weld, the sparks tend to ignite the dry material inside. It's not a problem today as it's damp.
Another slight problem, an embarrassing one actually, it's when you go to someone else's house and have to take off your boots but you forget to roll the legs down, as you look as though you rolled them up yourself. That rolled up leg look has been out of fashion for quite some time!
 

foxbox

Member
Location
West Northants
I have a problem with my trouser legs gaining turn ups whilst wearing my rigger boots, the turn ups gather sawdust and hay, which is bad enough when you cover the floor with it in the evening, but it is down right dangerous when you cut or weld, the sparks tend to ignite the dry material inside. It's not a problem today as it's damp.
Another slight problem, an embarrassing one actually, it's when you go to someone else's house and have to take off your boots but you forget to roll the legs down, as you look as though you rolled them up yourself. That rolled up leg look has been out of fashion for quite some time!

:LOL:
 

willy

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Mixed Farmer
Location
Rutland
Does this affect you?

I have a right-foot only problem with this; regardless of what type of sock I have on, when I wear wellies the right sock will twist at the foot so that the part that should be under my sole is on top and vice versa. Irritating.

Amusingly, I sometimes suffer from left-trouser leg syndrome twisting too; even if I try and compensate for this by twisting it more the other way, it still twists right back around.

You'd think that in the 21st Century we could overcome these trying problems...


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