EDC footwear reccomendation please

[Steve]

I'm a boatbuilder, wooden boats, which entails lifting many sheets of plywood - this dictates that I wear steel toecaps at work ( they've saved my toes a few times ), and of course I put on the same comfy boots for working around the smallholding and shopping too.

I used to wear quality hiking boots all the time, now I realise that a decent pair of steelies equipped with Sorbothane insoles and worn daily are nearly as good - your feet get used to them and if you ever needed to kick the crap out of someone they are there.