Past Mistakes ... broken toe!

[Davidadew]

May be this is a salutary warning, although I guess that most of you already do this

... but look after your toes, they break and fracture easily and think they take a long time to mend and are quite painful in process!

I accidentally dropped a nice piece of ash on my foot 10 days ago. Problem is that it weighed I think about 15kg and I just had boots on, no steel toes, result, a fractured or broken toe. The corner fell on just my big toe, so that is the only toe that is damaged.

I now have steel capped boots - wellies in fact, £18 from Axminster and hitting them with a hammer on toe and the hammer bounces off. (Didn't have feet in them at time!!).

But this assumes that I'll be able to go into workshop for a while, after a few days of calm it is playing up again.

 

[matt]

I have steel toe caps and steel sole inserts. I've had experiences that make me feel much happier with this type of protection.

 

[Richard Findley]

Hi David,

I always wear steel toe cap boots, more because they are comfy, inexpensive and keep the shavings off of my socks than for anything else. I always find that things I drop hit my foot just behind the toecap on the bridge of my foot though!! :roll: :roll:

Hoping for a speedy recovery for you!

Richard

 

[pren]

I always find that things I drop hit my foot just behind the toecap on the bridge of my foot though!! :roll: :roll:

.. either that or the side of the foot, behind the little toe!

The thing to watch out for is when you nip into the workshop not wearing the usual ST boots and forget that you're not wearing them!

Kicking the big, heavy rock that acts as a doorstop out of the way bloody hurts in trainers! :evil: :lol:

 

[shipbadger]

The thing to watch out for is when you nip into the workshop not wearing the usual ST boots and forget that you're not wearing them!

Been there, done that and now am permanently missing a toe nail! Spent the morning of the day Andy married Fergie welding angle iron together for a fruit cage. Popped into the workshop in the afternoon in my 'soft' shoes just to get something and dislodged the posts which came crashing down onto my foot. The rest as they say is history. I think my toe problems actually lasted longer than the marriage!!!

Tony Comber

 

[disco_monkey79]

Fruit cage??

 

[chill]

sandals for me ...teaches you to be aware :lol:

 

[bodgermatic]

Fruit cage??

Stops your raspberries running away
It's a cage built around soft fruits to stop birds, squirrels etc getting at them.

 

[Dibs-h]

I have steel toe caps and steel sole inserts. I've had experiences that make me feel much happier with this type of protection.

Can't be too careful! I have one pair for outside stuff (mud\oil\etc.) and another for inside stuff.

 

[dexter]

In my previous life as a cop we were issued steel toecap safety boots but for years I chose to wear the much more comfortable Hi-tec Magnums. One day we were to police a demonstration in the centre of Manchester and for some inexplicable reason I got my safety boots out of their box (never been worn) and put them on. During the demo there was a surge in the crowd which spooked a police horse next to me. Now I don't know how much one of them pippers weigh but this one stood straight on my right foot and wasn't for moving despite my futile attempts to push it away!
When it eventually moved I could see that the leather upper had been ripped right down to the steel toecap but my tootsies were intact. I never wore anything but safety boots after that.

Dex

 

[woodbloke]

I like flip-flops in the summer in the 'shop :shock: - Rob

 

[eoinsgaff]

I went to the Rosewood Studio in Canada for a weeks course a few summers ago and on the first day I appeared with a pair of flip flops. I was politely asked to bring full shoes for the rest of the course for insurance reasons and I duely acknowledged my mistake.

Later, on the first day, I managed to knock a No. 4 Lie Nielsen - bronze by the way - off the bench. I used my foot to break the fall. The plane was fine. Eoin was limping for the rest of the week but said nothing to Ron as i didn't want to make a deal of it.

When I was getting my foot xrayed after a sports injury, months later, it was revealed that I had actually broken a few toes.

I'd still prefer to wear flipflops/crocs/sandals at work though.

Eoin

 

[wizer]

My condolences. As everyone knows around here, I'm a little accident prone About 6yrs ago my parents bought me a MagiMix food processor for xmas. On boxing day my Wife had gone out with her friends and I was having a fun evening unboxing my new food processor. As I yanked at one of the items to remove it from the box one of the small cutters jumped out of the box and before I could jump out of the way, it landed, blade side down, on the joint between my toe and foot! It was that sharp that the blade lodged itself in the bone and when I tugged it out, for a brief moment before the blood erupted, I could see wedge that it had removed from the bone! :shock: Needless to say I don't cook barefooted any more! :lol:

 

[woodbloke]

As everyone knows around here, I'm a little accident prone

...just don't mention routers :wink: :shock: - Rob

 

[chill]

and i wear peep-toed wellies in the winter :lol:

 

[cutting42]

Have some loosely laced £15 Dickies boots (Here) sitting by the door into the workshop so I can just slip on or off as I go in and out. Saves trouble from SWMBO getting the house dirty and always have steelies on me tootsies.

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