Question:
looking for a steel toed work boot , made and assembled in the USA with
available metatarsal protection ?
Answer:
Falcon Shoe, which is near where I live, makes very nice safety shoes,
but may be difficult to find. The seconds show up in the local salvage
store regularly. I've seen a few pairs with the metatarsal plate that
were otherwise similar to a regular pair of steel toes I have.
I can relate to the search. I went through a lot of trouble to replace
my old pair of work boots, a pair of J B Goodhue Foresters. The pair I
had was made in Canada, felt like sex for my feet from the first day I
put them on, and were supple but tough leather.
I finally tracked down the model and make, ordered them in special...
and got a pair of made in Vietnam boots that felt like they were
hardened cardboard leather and started to chafe right off the bat. Yeesh!
Hope the penny saving fuckup of a CEO that decided to source these
somwhere cheaper gets a nice severence cheque when the company goes tits up!
Now I have to find a decent built pair of boots again. No more J B
Goodhue for me.
I too look for the homefront first if I can, though our domestic
manufacturing vase is small and growing smaller.
Well, here in Chippewa... there used to be at least four shoe and boot
factories. All are closed, and the machinery shipped to China. They
even used to make some of the Redwing shoes here in town. No more.
If someone dropped a BOMB and blew the factories all to hell, someone
(in management) might have cared. As it was they all made millions, and
sent the workers home.
The Chippewa Shoe factory eventually became an assembly plant for
electronics. Celestica bought it up, as they did any other assembly
house they could find. They bought it to get the contracts, and moved
production here form another plant they had aquired, and were closing.
Then they bought more assembly plants, and got all the electronic
assembly contracts associated with them. Then they shut them down, once
they had all the contracts, and had destroyed all the assembly plants
they could touch, they had moved all the manufacturing to China, which
was their overarching plan all along.
