What do you use on your boots?

JcMack · Mar 8, 2016

'I finally found some leather 8" lace up leather boots that are actually waterproof. I really like these and they fit my fat feet. I've had them about three months and maybe would like to start cleaning or conditioning them. They're dark brown and I don't care if the product changes the color some. What do you guys use? I've got mink oil I used in the past on other boots.

chaparrito · Mar 8, 2016

Mink oil works fine, but for workboots I give them a good saddle soaping scrub down first and let them dry, then apply the oil. I like pure neatsfoot oil, but waterproofing isn't much of an issue for me.

Skeetr57 · Mar 8, 2016

on my leather boots, I have always used a product called Sno-Seal. It is mostly beeswax and is best applied to boots that have been cleaned with saddle soap and then warmed with a blow dryer. I apply it heavier around seams and joints between uppers and soles and then go back over with the blow dryer to melt it in. It will discolor leather darker, but it will definitely water proof and protect the leather.

M3Stuart · Mar 8, 2016

Can't believe I got to say it first:

Mud! Apply lots of mud to your boots, then try to get it off - but not all of it, then track some of it in the house!

Old Corp · Mar 8, 2016

Another vote for Sno Seal. Had a pair of Browning Vibrams (pre-GoreTex) that about every other year, I'd place in oven at lowest setting for 10 minutes, and then rub Sno Seal in. Boots lasted over 20 years and remained waterproof.

Salty RI · Mar 8, 2016

What you use depends on how they are tanned boots that are dry tanned you use silicon and boots that are oil tanned you use oil.

bagga · Mar 8, 2016

https://www.pecard.com/product/classic-leather-dressing/
i use this on my boots. i have 10 pair of redwing boots and they all get some of this when they need it. made in green bay, wisconsin USA

mrrick · Mar 8, 2016

I used to use mink-oil, but found it rots the stitching. Switched to sno-seal.

Marshwheeling · Mar 8, 2016

Sno-Seal or Nor-V-Gen Shoe Paste. What else, I'm from Minnesota.

arjay · Mar 8, 2016

I keep a can of silicon spray in the garage and hose em down as needed

chaparrito · Mar 8, 2016

How to grease boots is prolly 'bout as contentious as how, or whether to grease guns.

Fishslayer · Mar 8, 2016

Usually just whatever mink oil I have around. I have also used the "hose 'em down with silicone spray" technique in a pinch.

old tanker · Mar 8, 2016

There is a misconception that tanks operate on all kinds of terrain, but that is not true. They only work in mud or dust. Sno-seal will do what Kiwi never did; keep the water out.

JcMack · Mar 8, 2016

Thanks to all for all responses and info.
Jim

mtelkhntr · Mar 8, 2016

I've used a product called Montana Pitch Blend for over 25 years. It does great but like most products needs to be reapplied every so often.

OLDSTER · Mar 8, 2016

aerosol silicon spray

Cooter Brown · Mar 8, 2016

Nikwax works very well. Snowseal works pretty well too. I lean towards Nikwax.

What boots did you get?

I put a lot of miles on boots bird hunting in the upper midwest and the southeast every year and I hate wet feet. Even with the most careful maintenance I've never had a pair of boots stay dry more than a season and a half or so. Goretex is a scam. The construction of the boot is more important--moccasin toes don't last. The closer the upper is to being made of one piece the better.

finesse_r · Mar 8, 2016

I usually use a knife to scrape the bull manure off of mine.

gregintenn · Mar 8, 2016

Red Wing oil. Pretty much any boot oil should work. Neatsfoot is good.

two-bit cowboy · Mar 8, 2016

finesse_r said:
I usually use a knife to scrape the bull manure off of mine.

While it's still wet, or after it's dry and not quite so aromatic?

Sorry for the "drift." Seems the OP has his answers, and I just couldn't resist.

What do you use on your boots?

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