Being in the leather business, we never see this end of the tannery process because all leathers are done when we receive them. So it’s fascinating to see the process

Another great video but it would have been great to have grant or someone from the tannery give a voice over with some explanation of what we were seeing.

Interesting process. Also interesting to note that every person in the video is wearing a NEW pair of Nicks boots!

It's fascinating that all the leather is blue from the chrome tanning before it's dyed

I don’t fully understand all of the steps that I’m seeing here, but it makes me want to go to a tannery and ask and learn to be honest

When I was a kid, I made my own moccasins, and other leather objects. I was a huge Tandy's customer. This video is very interesting, visually, but it really doesn't explain anything.

People wonder why these boots are around $450. Here’s another reason why. I’ll gladly pay the money for handmade quality American products.

My mother in law worked at SAS( SAN ANTONIO SHOES) FOR 40 Something years. And she can look at a pelt of leather and tell you how many right shoes and left shoes will come out...She was a cutter....and she is still alive and doesn't look 74..

Thanks for the video! These workmen seem sincere and totally immersed in their work! Wish them protection and good health!

I really appreciate you guys making these videos. Super informative and well made. I'm looking forward to buying a pair of your boots - hopefully sometime this year :)

A narration on what’s happening would’ve been nice!

Love to see new videos. One on how the tanker pros are made would be awesome!

Where's Mike Rowe to walk us through the place?

I’ve been around cow critters everyday for the last 55 years. Texas rancher. This still fascinates me. Excellent!

Very amazing and educational video of the many processes the leather have to go through to its final product.

Man this is so awesome. Rewatching this video again a year later and still amazed.

Great to see this stage of the process.

I’m a leather hobbyist I would loved to have seen little info titles with each process Like each time it goes through the rollers what is happening sciving glasing??

I’ve owned a couple of pairs of nicks. Great boots! This is cool to see how the leather is made

Very cool , looks like you could make a lot of boots with the amount of leather being prepped

I’d love to have just one of those hides! Such beautiful leather.

Fascinating! The changes it took in every process.

Thank you for a rare look inside your tannery.....very much appreciated I'm impressed !

This is going to sound crazy but the place at the end with all the finished hides has to smell amazing!

Imagine how many bunnies had to die for all those hides!

Amazing video 📹 👏

Loved the shot with the hanging Culver's bag :P ha. This is super neat. Didn't know leather production was so much about feeding it through rolly things in different orientations.

The amount of work before you can even start working on making a boot. ❤️

"Two Years Before the Mast" a must read ...the leather trade has been around for ever

You know it’s a good product when the companies employees are wearing a pair of Nick’s boots 👍🏼👍🏼👍🏼

I can’t wait for my wife and I to go out west this year, .we’re gonna go to this factory 🏭 and we are going to buy ourselves some boots!

So the 1964 leather is chrome tanned first? Interesting 💚

This is good stuff!

I'm sure I'm not the only one noticed that alot of if not all were wearing Nick's Boots. Might be a perk for working there. Very nice!

It all makes so much more sense to me now.

What process are the machines doing at :10 sec and :50 sec? Skiving machine?

Either voice over or some text would be helpful for us noobs who know not what we see. Really did enjoy it, though!

My next boots would be a Nicks. It just out of my price range right now.

Just amazing.

The next video will be the exact same one with captions or a narrator explaining exactly what is happening here. It was lovely visually, but I got nothing from it.

Nicks is just awwwwsome!

Oh Wow, now I know why my feet feel amazing in my Nicks boots.

It's funny how water ruins leather, but cattle can be outside in the rain and their skin is just fine.

Interesting video ,nice camera work!

This is hypnotizing!

some nice leather there, WOW

That is beautiful leather

Great video. Never knew so much went into leather prep.

I bet this place smells amazing

I saw the culvers bag and wondered where in Wisconsin this factory was lol

3:31 Wisconsin Culvers represent!

This is what aliens will be doing to our hides

Ive been watching tannery youtube for a while, and Im curious what makes this the worlds toughest leather. Can someone tell me like whats going on in the video, what the process is, or describe how the worlds toughest leather is tanned differently from the worlds weakest leather? Or is it just the cow? I bought a jacket that has really thick/heavy leather, and compared to most leather jackets, it is almost 2x as heavy, and it has a gorgeous brown texture with actual leather texture. Its so nice that its difficult to not rub with your hand, and I was curious how that happens when there are other leathers that look like a windbreaker with almost no substance.

What was the product that we first saw? It looked like chrome tanned leather due to the blue hue. Does anybody know? Thanks!

Good video hope of more 😁

Bahaha, Culvers bag spotted. Love it.

cool to see. a voiceover of more details would be cool too.

What do they do with the scraps and trimmings throughout the process?

How do these Boots NOT cost thousands of dollars per pair? The amount of effort and craftsmanship that is plied to the process is alarming.

Great video. I scrolled down a bit and the answer is popping out for me if its already been answered, but can someone ID the boots at 7:50, please. And what is the height? 6 inches? Thank you.

I saw the blue initial product and immediately thought chrome-tanned leather. Can’t tell if this is Horween or W&C but I do love the final product.

Was that British tan they were running that day? It looked like it at the end but in person and in camera they don’t look anything alike.

i always wonder what tanning co they use a Nicks boots

Is the power sliker necessary?

I love the fact that everyone is wearing Nick's boots. Lol 😆😁

When are the new colors coming out?

I wonder if there is a way to make a tan 1964 leather

I was looking for a more natural boot option and contacted you about your vegetable tanned boots. I was basically told they still smelled just like the chemically tanned ones. Maybe from all being in the same building or something. Anyway, I went with another option but was disappointed to not be able to try your boots as I loath them chemical "leather" smell.

What facility is this? And who supplies the in-the-blue hides?

I from indonesia, amazing video good job👏👏👏

Does Nicks still have the goofy owner that walked around eating garlic cloves all day? (I worked there in the late 90's)

some explanation on what they are doing would be nice. cool to see but no clue what the machines are doing.

Our daughter ( then 16 ) came home about ten years ago and declared she wasn't going to be a party to the murder of animals - in fact anything with a face, including fish. She started emptying her room of all animal-derived products, leather jackets, belts, shoes, gloves, pants - everything, and boxing it all up for me to take to the dump, she went apeshit when we suggested giving it to homeless people, saying it was perpetuating the holocaust. We let her just go for it. Then she refused to eat at the table because the meat smell from our meals was the smell of murder and death - she made herself some salad with foam earplugs stuffed in her nose and ate outside. After dinner, she came to the family room ( still with the fluro green plugs in her nose ) and stood with her arms folded and told us she wasn't going to live in a house that has the smell of death in it, lounge suite is leather, everybody has leather shoes, jackets, wallets, belts, gloves etc. it all had to go. She said the smell of death was tantamount to child abuse. We all looked at each other, with a stunned WTF ! look. The wife said, "Fair enough, go for a long walk and we'll discuss what to do. " We all had a quick discussion, went into the garage, got our family camping tent and set it up in the backyard, camp bed, portapotty, sleeping bag, extension cord, portable tv, little caravan fridge, camping table and folding chairs, set up the camp stove on my old drill press bench, pots and pans, tinned baked beans, tinned vegetables and fresh potatoes and vegetables. I set up a portable camping shower frame with a showerhead and curtain. We ( the wife and two sons ) set it all up inside half an hour. Daughter came home, stood at the door, with the green plugs up her nose, arms folded, all high and mighty and said, " Well ? " Wife took her by the arm, led her down the driveway to the back, pointed to the tent, outdoor stove, opened the tent flap and pointed to the suitcases full of all her clothes, tv, portapotty, shower and said, " Your new vegan home - enjoy. Oh, and you'll now have to bus it or bike it everywhere because the cars have leather seats, and you'll need to get a job to buy all new sporting gear 'cause your roller skates, rollerblade boots and softball stuff is all leather and we're boxing that all up as well and dumping it like you wanted. '' The next day we were having steaks - cooked inside, but we ate on the back deck, daughter called the cops on 911 and said she was being abused by the smell of cooked meat ! Cops and a social worker came to the house, checked out her new accommodation, while we were sitting there eating our meals. They came over to talk to us, with our daughter standing behind them - arms folded, smirking with the green plugs in her nose. The social worker had a look through our home, the daughters room and said that this matter would need to be investigated, turned to our daughter and said to pack some clothes, she was going to have to go to a shelter until the investigation was completed, then a court hearing - could take a week or two or three. She came home with the social worker the next day, balling her eyes out, begging to come home, after having got ONE overnight taste of shelter life. She spent ten days living outside, cooking her own meals, sleeping and showering outside. We could hear her crying herself to sleep. Eventually, she found out her bedroom window was 'mysteriously' left unlocked and would sneak in and sleep under her bed and get up before she thought anyone would notice. She came good in the end. But whenever she even looked like acting up, her mother would just point to a photo of the tent set up in the backyard - my wife had taken a photo of the tent, had it blown up, mounted and hung one in every room in the house, including the boys, as a reminder that she will not take any shit - she's looked at me and pointed to the photo in our bedroom (yeah, our bedroom) a couple of times, but I'm a quick study. Leather, how it's made ? Oh yeah, good video, thanks.

An exceptional product needs to master the quality of the materials... It's increasingly rare to see this attention to details.

Would have been much better if there had been descriptive captioning of the various stages...

How many times is this sheet rolled!

Wish your videos had some overlayed explanations or discussions

My son wears size 22. We've been looking for boots they will fit him for years. Nobody we've contacted is even willing to try. Could you guys make him something like that? We are very serious. Thanks for any response.

A narrative of what’s happening would have made this much more interesting.

Pretty cool only 90 miles away from me

Is that a 6" Overlander or?

Thicker than 1mm is a different story, but up to 1mm thickness I would bet that kangaroo is the toughest. You reckon I'd lose that bet?

Меня бы туда, на пару часиков!!!

It’s like if Willy Wonka went more of the Percival C. McLeach sort of approach.

Where is this factory?

Where can a person residing in the US order some of these boots

Why do people post these "how it's made" videos without any narration?

Boy it'd be nice to have some captions or something explaining what's going on in the video. Lots of really interesting stuff, but no clue what it all is. Not asking to learn the secrets, just some background.

Is that tannery in the USA?

Need to explain what is being done.

They left out the actual cows. Thank you for your service. 🐂

Need some commentary of what they're doing

So,the vegatable tanned leather the seller refers to in my local shop,starts as a chrome tanned hide before it gets a second ''tannine'' treatment to look like vegtan but with chrome tanned properties...i wish those shoe salesman took some more time to investigate more in what they sell, instaid of making assumptions about there goods.

Do you guys sell the leather by itself?

Where do the pieces come from and why aren’t they bigger? 😅

WTF! I can clearly see that there are some processing going on. But what..? What's significant to a higher quality leather? Next video; describe process and highlight differences, please...

It would be nice if the video were narrated so that those of us who are completely ignorant about leather making could have a bit of a clue what's going on and why.

Thanks for explaining what all those machines did. I actually fell asleep watching this.

This factory situated in usa

Very nice… made in USA!