All the gear bought in within the industry is that price due to quallity
just my thoughts are as followed:
REF: Trousers. if you are to buy trousers you want confort ,light longlasting,durable trousers .
eg.you buy stretch airs as andy said top quality but top end price made out of the best scholler material available BUT if you cant afford them then you get a LESS quality scholler material but still a very good trouser and go for the Hiflex and so on.
Just bear inmind that you wear these 8 hours a day 5 days a week or maybe 6or7 for 12 months of the year in hours = roughly 1920 HOURS...........
There is not much maintanance to do for trousers unlike your chipper so would you run your chipper for 1920 hours without changing the OIL , or even checking it ?
REF:BOOTS
Again same principle they get hammered on your feet all that time in the conditions we all work in so you get wot you pay for
ROPE:
Would you buy a chinese rope without a CE mark because its 50 quid cheaper than a good quality rope thats gone through a proper test and bears the famous CE MY ANSWER no.
so in my eyes everything has its price at the end of the day its all down to wot price we put on our LIVES,FEET,LEGS ETC....
Sorry if ive repeated myself or others but just had to get that off my chest...