I Bought Anti-Poaching Boots Made in South Africa.

this is a South african-made armored and enhanced version of one of the most popular boots on the entire planet Let's Pretend these hocas are Trail Runners they're cushioned they're lightweight they're lined with gortex they allow you to easily fly over rough terrains and trails as you go for a run but what if we had to build Trail Runners for African Rangers one of the most dangerous jobs of all time where one of their biggest duties of course is to stop poachers the regular hokas wouldn't do they're not armored enough they're not Tough Enough we need to be able to run over giant Thorns Chase hurt animals and po and run over fire sometimes of course and these are what you get when you need to make a trail runner for an African Ranger they're very cool African Rangers are in an allout War it is estimated that two to three African Rangers are killed every week by poachers in Africa and on top of all that African Rangers often times don't have adequate food or equipment which they need to protect for lack of a better term some of the most legendary creatures that Earth has to offer the big fat ones the small skinny ones the quick ones that go underground which one am I this handsome devil is Gareth Crouch he is a third generation shoe and boot maker and a former walking Safari guide he owns or is part of I don't want to say the wrong term both Crouch Footwear and more importantly the brand that we're talking about today Jim green this boot is not just the brainchild of Jim green this is an amalgamation of recommendations from the African Rangers on what they would need in a perfect boot it is built by them and my favorite thing is South Africa has one of the most famous boot Silhouettes in the world you've seen it you know it you love it you're probably interested in buying and this is simply an armored version of that and today we are diving into that so without further Ado let's hop into today's agenda number one Jim green is not named after a man it's named after a tiny frog along South African rivers that is often eaten by fish we'll jump into that real quick I mean hoppen number two the Feldon Philly is considered the greatest boot ever designed for Aid climates it's also the great-grandfather of this boot but more importantly when I say the last name of the guy that brought it to Britain in the US you'll go freaking nuts number three is of course the African Ranger itself we're going to focus on how this boot was armorize from the original boot it was based off of I'm just making up words left and right today but essentially the boot that this is based off of is now considered a casual boot it was sneakers before sneakers so how do you make that into an armored Trail Runner and finally we always have to answer the question are they worth it these boots are probably a lot cheaper than you think when you compare it to other boots of this type but still I don't know if they're worth it for absolutely everybody so we'll get into that Jim green is not the name of gareth's father or grandfather or anything it's the name of a small frog that stands near South African rivers and then gets eaten by fish I wanted to figure out what specific frog it was cuz Jim green is a nickname couldn't find that out I'm hoping Gareth can send me a picture of one of the frogs then I'll identify it but I think it's the natal Cascade frog fun fact that the ma in Call of the r Cascade frog is a faint series of low grading clucking noises that sounds sexy in the 1940s while serving on the staff of the West African Brigade in Burma in India a man was given a chore by his family while you are serving look for boots and shoes that are cool that you can take back to our shoe factory that man who has a very recognizable last name found the Felon FY which is Africans for a field shoe comma leather I think I don't speak Africans that was my best shot I've ever pronounced it right he found the Fel sh phy which was originally worn by boar Farmers oops it's not boar Farmers like a little piggy it is a Bo farmer who they don't even Farm Boors was originally worn by boar farmers and then was picked up by servicemen but it was a very popular Aid climate leather field shoe it was the perfect shoe kind of boot this field shoe or field boot was made out of roughout leather it had two to three eyelets on it on average it had a very thin comfortable grippy Sole and it was made using Stitch down construction so the bottom of the boot flared out it was brought to England by a man named Nathan Clark Clark's desert boots [Music] is something wrong babe nothing are you sure I just wish there was a way I could get 90% off anything without a coupon well you can all you have to do is use carrots deal hop feature can you tell me about it in under 30 seconds yeah it'd be [Music] easy step one is to download the carrot extension on Google Chrome or you can download it from the IOS app store on your iPhone oh wow I know step two wow we're already at step two 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hope someone invents sneakers soon boom Clark desert boots right in between they're not super casual but they're still way more comfortable than regular shoes and they exploded in popularity in Clark's desert boots became the de facto face of that silhouette of that design style but it originated in South Africa and it is still in the DNA of Jim green boots in my opinion Jim green makes their own fies which are a different Beast than clarks's they have a steel shank in them an extra eyelet they use rough out leather I would say fellies from Jim green are what bore Farmers Bo would still use as opposed to desert boots which are something that you'd wear really more for a dress reason I have gym green fies obviously and they're a very important part of this video but I forgot them at home so just home be roll today sorry about that okay so the question becomes how do I take fies and upgrade them until they become the perfect African Ranger boot again my theories here here's a list number one I keep the three eyelets that the FY has but I add two speed hooks so I can tighten the boot on the foot and increase stability when running number two instead of soft floppy leather we upgrade to very thick robust leather and what you're looking at here is wild buffalo hide that's even thicker and more robust than standard African Rangers more on the wild buffalo hide in a second Jim green does some crazy things to get this leather number three pad the ankle this not only is more comfortable but it also helps seal your foot in more when it's tied tight and protects your ankle from things that may hit it number four instead of having a floppy regular tongue you can gusset the tongue so it's less likely for water and debris to get into it as you're running and on the Move number five is take your already durable Boot and reinforce it with two layers of leather where it counts your toe and your heels number six is use Stitch down construction and Stitch your boots together with 2.2 millimet nylon threads number seven use some synthetic materials on the inside of the boots so they dry faster when they do get wet correction not adding synthetic materials for water resistance but rather adding a toe and heel stiffener for added support and durability my bad and finally number eight use a soft wedge sole so that way when you're creeping through the African bush Feld you're quieter also that right there on my boot is a crazy gash from a wild buffalo we'll talk about that in one second so to me there's two possibilities the second one is way cooler than the first the first one is that the African Ranger was built off of the back of the Felon FY intentionally and it was just an armored version with tougher leather different outsole different eyelet count and everything like that the second one though is if this boot was truly just a collaboration effort from African Rangers and Jim green didn't say hey this is the base of the boot then they came up with an upgraded version of the Fel F which is considered the greatest boot ever designed for Aid climates and and they only proved that statement even more by recreating the bones of the Felon fi once again from scratch either way felon FY African Ranger so then we finally get to the question why so cheap and are they worth it and obviously when I say why so cheap I mean compared to other boots that are built in a similar way with similar materials why are these cting lower number one stitchdown construction is a lightning fast way to construct boots so it's cheaper but coincidentally it's also really the best at keeping out debris and Waters and everything like that it's not the highest grade leather it uses synthetic materials it's not using vium soles or anything like that and since this boot is 100% built in South Africa when it comes to the US it doesn't hit import duties or tariffs which is the pain in the butt I'm ordering a lot of Japanese denim for the next run of prologue jackets and jeans those tariffs buddy it's really a boot built simply and very quickly with a specific use in mind in order to keep prices down these have to be affordable for African Rangers even though one out of every 10 pairs I believe is donated to an African Ranger they still need to be affordable for the people that need them so would I recommend that you get these boots yes but you have to know what that entails and what these boots are built for to me these boots are very function over form they are very wide they give your feet a ton of room the toe box isn't super high I would like it a little higher for me personally the construction isn't crazy the quality of materials isn't insane but these are just bulletproof tanks that should last you absolutely forever editor Mike here when I say not insane construction or not insane leather I don't mean not good leather it's very very good leather and construction but it's not insane like what you see on, boots is what I'm saying but it's very good their main purpose in life is to cover your feet and to protect your feet no matter what and to be very easily repairable when they no longer protect your feet that is the DNA of this boot and that's it all right and finally my boots are made out of wild buffalo hide and you may be thinking did Jim green go out and shoot a wild buffalo for these boots not at all they actually did the opposite I will read it to you from Jim Green's lips each year hundreds of Buffalo are removed from our local reserves for disease and population control measures with everything on the animal being utilized but the skin we decided something needed to be done we sent out a skinning insulting team into a Conservancy to gather and prepare these skins for our Tannery these skins were purchased for the reserve raising much the funds for a byproduct that would have been disposed of and that's besides the boots of course is why everybody on YouTube loves Jim green Rose Anville me K morowski that's not everybody on YouTube but you know what I mean it is because unless Gareth and Jim green duped us and we're all fools they are just a rock solid company that makes a good product they have a really cool mission statement Gareth just seems like he wants to go run in the bush Feld all day and I love that makes a really cool company and you could see that in the DNA of all of these boots so it's very cool small brand anyways with all that being said thank you so much for watching from the bottom of my heart to the top of my eyes it means an absolute ton that you watch I really appreciate it and uh I hope that you tune in next week because that is when I'll see you next or actually maybe sooner than next week

Channel: The Iron Snail

Views: 120,666

Keywords: Jim green, african rangers, poaching, anti-poaching, stitchdown, africa, elephants, mens, fashion, iron

Id: taQfYv3_P18

Length: 10min 52sec (652 seconds)

Published: Tue Feb 27 2024