If anyone has any advice for BIFL , wide toed winter boots that are also waterproof , available to be shipped to canada, dont use goretex, AND have good traction on ice or steel cleats? please let me know.

Edit : I forgot to add I dont buy from lem’s shoes. Ever again.I plan on walking like 10 or 20 KMs in -30 °C weather with these almost every day. Yes in the snow, mud, rain, or ice. Whatever I encounter.

Also something that I notice about that boot is that there lat met to med met based on this picture of a foot https://www.researchgate.net/figure/Foot-sole-area-measurement-The-surface-areas-of-9-different-individual-regions-were_fig3_325610182

My feet are extremely wide through it s entirety .

From the lat arch to med arch of my foot that is probably wider than the distance from the lat met to med met for my foot. So there is the possibility that barefoot boots might be a best option for me since they are probably the most malleable shoes in the world so they should be able to hug around my sole without squeezing too tight.

  • nomad@infosec.pubEnglish
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    4 hours ago

    Yeah like cleaning and some leather fat to keep the leather from drying out and becoming brittle.

    • UnequalExchange@lemmy.worldOPEnglish
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      2 hours ago

      Does beeswax work well on leather in the plsce of leather fat ?

      Or is beexwax more expensive than leather fat and therefore not worth considering when it comes to rubbing a waterproof layer on the leather?

      Also what about vegetable oils, mineral oil and other oils if you happen to know about them please? I sae a dude create a waterproofing solution for his clothing where he xombined beeswax, paraffin wax, and mineral oil and it was flexible wuth the clothing and it worked!