david1332
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So I've done some research on what's happening with me and can't find anything to help me out.
So here's the situation.
Whenever I'm using my gaffs doing removals and chunking down spars and such, I will get an incredible bruise and bump on my ankle bones. For some reason when I gaff into the tree, the shank will at times slam into my ankle bone, and we all know how that feels.
I've done multiple things to try and mitigate the situation, I bought higher boots with a pretty prominent heel, and even a totally new pair of spikes.
I'm 100% certain I'm not wearing them wrong and that they are in fact adjusted to the right height. I've tried wrapping the lower strap around the shank and that makes it worse.
I'm not slamming my spikes into the tree either, and always make sure my gaffs are sharp.
Can anyone make any recommendations?
Do they make spikes that have a bend around the ankle bone so this doesn't happen?
Or so I just need to buy a pair of geckos and hope they work? Lol
So here's the situation.
Whenever I'm using my gaffs doing removals and chunking down spars and such, I will get an incredible bruise and bump on my ankle bones. For some reason when I gaff into the tree, the shank will at times slam into my ankle bone, and we all know how that feels.
I've done multiple things to try and mitigate the situation, I bought higher boots with a pretty prominent heel, and even a totally new pair of spikes.
I'm 100% certain I'm not wearing them wrong and that they are in fact adjusted to the right height. I've tried wrapping the lower strap around the shank and that makes it worse.
I'm not slamming my spikes into the tree either, and always make sure my gaffs are sharp.
Can anyone make any recommendations?
Do they make spikes that have a bend around the ankle bone so this doesn't happen?
Or so I just need to buy a pair of geckos and hope they work? Lol