Re: RC: EZ boots and foam vs. duct tape

[DreamWeaver <nvrider@home.com>]

At 04:03 PM 08/07/2001 -0700, guest@endurance.net wrote:

>The question is, from you EZ boot users, pros and cons on the duct tape
>vs. the foam??? The tape is MUCH easier to deal with, thats for sure. Just
>wondering, as it did work well for us. (but we did not have mud to deal
>with when we started using the boots on the XP)

Jonni:  I had brought a lot of duct tape with me to the ride, but then 
ended up hardly using any of it.  It was a lot easier to foam the boots on 
without a heel strap and leave them on for two weeks at a time. I think it 
all depends on your perspective.  I didn't have anybody to help me with 
putting boots on or off (my crew has yet to put an easyboot on or take one 
off, he's great for lots of other things, but that ain't one of 'em), so I 
thought it was great that I didn't have to worry about their feet getting 
full of poop every night if the boots were off.  The two boots that I had 
foamed on at the start in St. Joseph stayed on thru all the mud, even 
without a heelstrap.  By the end of the ride lots of other people were 
doing it the same way, Jim Baldwin, Terry Nance, Dorothy Sue.  When I came 
home I didn't even take their foamed on boots off for a couple of days, but 
when I finally did all 8 feet looked great and you'd never know either 
horse did anything all summer (just 19 50's each is all).

I think that even if I would have had four horses alternating I would have 
kept the boots foamed on for a couple of weeks at a time, so I wouldn't 
have had to keep cleaning that many feet out every day.

k