White Powder mold!

[JonB]

They call 'em "barn boots" around here. The Brits would call them Wellingtons or "Wellies".

We called them swamp boots. I suppose the area where I grew up, there was more swamps than Barns?
The Sherburne National Wildlife Refuge [a 30,700 acre refuge] which was just outside my hometown, was pretty much all swamps and sloughs.

When my job moved me to Glencoe, which is just about all flat farmland and any swamp that there was, has been drained for growing crops, I learned they were called Barn Boots. One of my first visits to my friend's Pig farm outside of Glencoe, I think it was 1987? I seen his Dad had swamp boots on, and I'd think to myself, why is he wearing Swamp boots? there is no swamps around here?

 

[RBHarter]

Always been muck boots to me .

 

[Petrol & Powder]

Wellies, Muck boots, barn boots, swamp boots, whatever. They go by many names, but they are all basically the same.

A tall, slip on, rubber boot.

My grandfather always had about a half dozen pairs of varying sizes lined up in the basement. When grandkids visited, they were "assigned" the pair that sort of fit. When you were done with them, you cleaned them and put them away. Until my feet stopped growing, I probably wore every one of those boots at some point.

My grandfather was from Canada, so the rubber boots were "Wellies". I recall they had some type of fabric inside with the ubiquitous green rubber outer bonded to that. If you were in-between sizes, you were told to grab the next bigger size and double up your socks!

I still have a pair of black ones that actually fit! They aren’t great for a lot of walking but they sure are good for that short trip to the woodpile, mailbox, car, barn, etc.

 

[Snakeoil]

In certain areas of Central NY, they are considered a fashion statement.

 

[Bret4207]

Yeah, when you get behind the relief milker at the checkout counter and he's still covered up to his hips and even further north in cow s....manure, that's a real statement! Doesn't bother me a lot, but some folks make a big deal about it while they buy their milk and ice cream. I wonder if they ever put 2 and 2 together?

God bless the farmer!