 G'day. How are you going? I'm going to do an unboxing today But first welcome to Wajib country. I acknowledge the traditional custodians of this land So this box has arrived from South Africa, and I guess you can guess What manufacturer that is? So let's get into it So this box has arrived from Jim Green in South Africa I'm very excited because it's going to be my second Jim Green, of course You'd have seen my African ranger videos But this one is the first Chelsea boot that I would have got from Jim Green and it's arrived in a nicely packaged Korea bag as usual. It's got the brick bar Dutch or Africans for fragile. So let's get it open If I can figure out how and There of course is Jim Green the frog in the Jim Green shoebox and Let's open it up and take a look So, oh, that's very nice. So as usual we have The Jim Green card talking about boot care tips. The legend was born And Here is the stopman the Jim Green stopman in Really nice smooth leather quite a wide last They're packaged nicely With cloth bags Couple of Jim Green stickers So I'm please probably go in my computer and Let's take a look at the boots as they come out. So As you can see the stopman is a Chelsea boot Very interesting goreng here, which is quite that's the kind of the most textured goreng that I've ever seen Little Jim Green tag Two pull loops front and back From what I can see it's lined on the inside with the Jim Green Removable insole the leather actually looks really nice It's built on a Commando lug sole. It's a Jim Green proprietary one It feels Quite solid and it smells a rubber. So it's quite a solid rubber compound The stitching is a stitch down construction You can see the uppers have been flanged out and then stitched down into the mid-weld the midsole I was going to say the the welp and the sole, but I think There's no wealth. I think there's just a midsole Which may be leatherboard rather than leather from the looks of the edge of it and then the The rubber sole just gets glued on to it It's fairly Solid working boot style condition, you know nothing fancy, but it's a good solid boot There's a Jim Green logo, which is not as well impressed as on my African rangers And overall a nice shape I'm sure that's going to be comfortable around the foot So now time for a bit of a try on Okay, so proof of the pudding, let's try them on. They're actually looking really nice Very nice leather, but you know, it's made for abuse. I think that went on really easily These are true to size for me. They're UK seven and a half Size which is my UK brannock size That was easy putting them on with the two pull tabs the fit is nice It's roomy. So there's absolutely no snugness there It's a structured toe and Quite roomy different from my African rangers from Jim Green, which I think if you've seen the video You see me say that I like the top of the toe box I was very conscious off on the top of my toe because it's it's quite a flatter last I think on that or made a bit flatter in the crazy horse leather these Seem to fit quite well They're comfortable underfoot The leather feels tough I Can feel a little heel slip. I think mainly because Two things I think one is I'm wearing dress socks having just come back from work And not wearing any particularly rugged boots. So Thicker socks would fit better in here I think but the other thing is I can feel already that the sole is Quite Quite stiff and that's going to need breaking in where the ball of my foot breaks But as you can see these fit well I have no hot spots and They feel pretty good. Okay, so Let's take a bit of time to go through Jim Green the stopman boot and my initial impressions So Jim Green is a South African bootmaking company three generations old They're based in Peter Maritzburg in the Quazzula Natale region of South Africa they make a series of tough work boot hiking boot Basically bush bashing related boots this is their Chelsea model called the stopman and It's designed as an all-round boot for everyday challenges It's really built for Casual comfortable wear that you might also want to wear say on a farm Or even just some basic Yard work at home It's it's it's easily capable of being worn casually going to the pub Just going out for walks and so on There's a combination of different materials here, which I might just go through quite quickly so It's made of a brown Leather I'm not sure where what the tannery is, but I'm pretty sure it's a local tannery Quite in South Africa because Jim Green tends to use local product Local labor trying to keep the economy Going for them and their employees It's made of two layers of leather 2.2 millimeters for green leather lined with a calf leather. That's 1.6 millimeters thick so overall Nearly four millimeters of leather between you and the outside The toe is structured as you can see it's quite a wide last and and quite differently from my experience of the African Rangers it doesn't sort of You know, I'm not I'm not constantly aware of that of pressure on the toe Because of the toe puff in this case. I I feel it's a little bit wider and higher The toe puff there is thermoplastic. That's like a salastic basically a Fabric that's infused with Plastics that you can warm up many and mold it and then it stiffens into shape The heel stiffener is also thermoplastic, but it's it's not particularly stiff So it's not uncomfortable The shape of the boot is quite straight up and down, but I expect that to break in and then gradually you know Form a little bum here and then straight up the Achilles tendon They do use a steel shank in this commando sole. It's a proprietary commando sole with a Jim Green label on it But similar in design to Vibram with these lugs going out and the star like lugs on the inside quite grippy I've taken it out for a walk this afternoon Just to feel the comfort and what it's like to to wander around in it. It's fairly heavy It's not Nicks or white, but it is it is it's reasonably heavy. I Was saying there is a steel shank Under this this section here between the insole board and the midsole and That steel shank provides you with extra support and stability in the arch there The insole board or or basically I think that might be also called the midsole and I think it's made of leather board is That's the part in between the uppers and the rubber lug sole you can you can see that there You can see this is this is the flanged out uppers. There's the leather board and then there's the sole The flanged out uppers will give you a clue as to the construction method It's a stitch on construction method 360 degrees so what happens is the uppers are lasted and then they're flanged out the midsole slash insole is attached with a stitch going all the way around Through the flange uppers into the midsole and then the rubber lug sole is glued on You can see The stitch Cord or thread that goes through to stitch the uppers to the to the midsole insole is Actually quite thick. It's 2.2 millimeters. It's double stitch. So there's actually a double stitch and it's braided So there you are that finishes the unboxing and my initial impressions a Really sturdy boot. I think I'm going to be enjoying taking this out for some Long walks and hikes and maybe use them around the yard for a bit of a work boot They they certainly feel sturdy enough. They fit me. Well and I think it was Under 1800 ran which is under 200 Australian dollars Plus postage isn't bad for a nice little work boot like this. It is Stitch down construction. So it's different from Aussie work boots which tend to be TPU units that are molded onto the Uppers and not necessarily re-soleable. These will be re-soleable So let's carry on and I'll bring you a long-term review in about three months time It's November 22. I'll come back in February 23 and tell you how I got on with these gym green boots