I burned up the bottom of a bunch of pants before I figured out the best way to prevent it was to tuck em into the boots and wrap the bootlaces around the top of the boots. a month or 2 later I started wrapping the leftover back of the greenie weld jackets around my pants inside the boots and tieing them off, she cuts em into strips and sews the edges. Ive never since I started doing thathave I got a hot one in the foot and haven't burned up the bottom of my britches either, and I do a whole lot ofn very heavy overhead and vertical welding, cutting gouging and jetarcing in some damn tight places on this equipment.
Intrestingly I went to work in a few shipyards over the years when I was traveling, when I was taking the weld tests they made undo this getup saying I would burn up my feet, I tried to tell em they were full of ****, but they insisted. So I complied, guess what 2nd day in yard I get a hot one and burned up the britches at the bottom, after that all bets are off and Popeye is gonna take care of himself. Damn safety cops think they know it all
