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5th March 09, 09:28 PM
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Best Kilt for Farm work
I live on a small farm that I wish to do more with. I would like opinions concerning the best
contemporary kilt for farm work. It would have to stand up to planting, harvesting, pitching manure, and care for livestock. I don't want to subject my tank to that kind of abuse.
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5th March 09, 09:38 PM
#2
I live on a very small farm, really a very small, desert orchard converted from a regular plot of land. I have done some of the work in a Buzz Kidder canvas kilt.
If you plan on doing all the work in a kilt, I suggest learning to make a X kilt because eventually you will ruin it, just like jeans or overalls. If you are like me, you wear the work jeans until the butt rips out and can no longer be patched.
I stopped wearing the BZK before I ruined it.
And yes, it is a pleated canvas, man skirt.
Last edited by Bugbear; 5th March 09 at 10:48 PM.
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5th March 09, 09:49 PM
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Blue Denim Utilikilts Original - if you can find one. Scottish Jeans for sure!
Ron
Ol' Macdonald himself, a proud son of Skye and Cape Breton Island
Lifetime Member STA. Two time winner of Utilikiltarian of the Month.
"I'll have a kilt please, a nice hand sewn tartan, 16 ounce Strome. Oh, and a sporran on the side, with a strap please."
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5th March 09, 09:57 PM
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Utilikilts Original here. Takes all the abuse I give it whilst tending the garden. Weeding, planting, maintaining the equipment, and whatever else that I try to destroy it with. I wore it when I replaced the roof on the barn a few years back, cargo pockets full of roofing nails on one side, cool beverage on the other. int:
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6th March 09, 03:24 AM
#5
I would think you would need a tartan with lots of brown in it!
[B][COLOR="Red"][SIZE="1"]Reverend Earl Trefor the Sublunary of Kesslington under Ox, Venerable Lord Trefor the Unhyphenated of Much Bottom, Sir Trefor the Corpulent of Leighton in the Bucket, Viscount Mcclef the Portable of Kirkby Overblow.
Cymru, Yr Alban, Iwerddon, Cernyw, Ynys Manau a Lydaw am byth! Yng Nghiltiau Ynghyd!
(Wales, Scotland, Ireland, Cornwall, Isle of Man and Brittany forever - united in the Kilts!)[/SIZE][/COLOR][/B]
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6th March 09, 04:48 AM
#6
I believe in Tweed !
It's cheap, indestructible and looks great !


Best,
Robert
Robert Amyot-MacKinnon
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6th March 09, 04:49 AM
#7
I've used my RKilt working around the house, splitting wood, doing the chickens, etc. Try to stay away from grease, oil. One of those kilt aprons would probably be a good idea.
If I picked up a really inexpensive kilt I'd probably use it more while working outside. Stillwater thrifty for instance.
Matt H.
Insperata Floruit! - Flourished Unexpectedly!
KABOOM; Kilted Christians; Kilted In Carolina; Matt Newsome Kilt Owners Group; R Kilts are Awesome; SEKS - The Great Southeastern Kilt Society; The Order of the Dandelion
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6th March 09, 05:24 AM
#8
I wear an old Sportkilt (tatan, not contemporary) for feeding our chickens and waterfowl, and our rabbits. I also wear it or my Stillwater economy black kilt for bushhogging and doing other things with the tractor. Both are washable and have stood up well in the last 3 to 4 years since I started wearing them.
"A day spent in the fields and woods, or on the water should not count as a day off our allotted number upon this earth."
Jerry, Kilted Old Fart.
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6th March 09, 05:38 AM
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Might I advise extreme caution when wearing your kilt around farm machinery.In fact don't do it! Power take off(PTO) shafts in particular are to be watched at all times kilted, or, not. Farm machinery has always been very unforgiving.I have been to all too many funerals of people killed,often in appalling ways, on farms. There is no place, at any time, for a kilt to be worn on a farm whilst working.In the UK there are more deaths and serious injuries in the agricultural industry than ANY other. Even worse than the building and construction industry. I don't suppose it is much different anywhere else in the world.
Last edited by Jock Scot; 6th March 09 at 06:07 AM.
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6th March 09, 06:37 AM
#10
Only slightly tongue-in-cheek...the best kilt for farm work is a heavy canvas, bifurcated, and with a "bib-front."
DWFII--Traditionalist and Auld Crabbit
In the Highlands of Central Oregon
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