Posted by Mike Field on September 27, 2006 at 01:14:01 from 203.129.43.131 user mikefield.
In Reply to: Re: Splatchers posted by Andrew Craig-Bennett on September 26, 2006 at 13:25:33:
Andrew, I have a sneaking suspicion that the wickerwork construction would do just what you suspect; but that that might also be just the thing to make them work better than my ply ones did.
The wicker surface would, I suspect, act like a whole lot of small cleats to stop any sliding, and in that respect might be more effective than the cleats I added to the bottom of my fitings.
If one were to stand still in wicker splatchers they would presumably sink slowly under the wearer's weight, with the mud oozing up between the interstices of the wickerwork. But that could be negated by not standing still, or even just walking in them, but by runnning in them -- which of course is just what the Mastodon did do.