Lucky escape

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glasshouse

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Location

lothians

• Sep 19, 2017

• #1

My left foot got trapped under the toe tip bucket this morning as i was fiddling with the hoses.
The manitou creeps down, and suddenly i couldnt move my foot, i had steel toecaps fortunately.
I managed to get my foot out of the boot and hopped to the cab and lifted the boom before it crushed my boot.

 

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Never Forgotten

Honorary Member

• Sep 19, 2017

• #2

Lucky escape indeed.
My Manitou has many faults, but creeping is not one of them.
As a matter of interest, would creeping hydraulics be covered by a Loler test ?

 

glensman

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Livestock Farmer

Location

North Antrim

• Sep 19, 2017

• #3

glasshouse said:

My left foot got trapped under the toe tip bucket this morning as i was fiddling with the hoses.
The manitou creeps down, and suddenly i couldnt move my foot, i had steel toecaps fortunately.
I managed to get my foot out of the boot and hopped to the cab and lifted the boom before it crushed my boot.

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I bet that raised the heart rate

 

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Purli R

Member

• Sep 19, 2017

• #4

Got to be a moral to this story

 

Barleycorn

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BASE UK Member

Location

Hampshire

• Sep 19, 2017

• #5

Fill in the accident book and wait for a visit!

 

Hilly

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Location

Scottish Borders.

• Sep 19, 2017

• #6

Dangerous sh!t this farming stuff.

 

burr elm

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Location

Bedfordshire

• Sep 19, 2017

• #7

Hilly said:

Dangerous sh!t this farming stuff.

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And I wonder how many do not wear safety boots.

 

S J H

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Livestock Farmer

Location

Bedfordshire

• Sep 19, 2017

• #8

burr elm said:

And I wonder how many do not wear safety boots.

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I don't I find them too uncomfortable.

 

Northeastfarmer

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Location

Cleveland

• Sep 19, 2017

• #9

I bet you found a kit Kat in your pants afterwards

 

burr elm

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Location

Bedfordshire

• Sep 19, 2017

• #10

S J H said:

I don't I find them too uncomfortable.

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Yes so is a crushed foot.

 

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Weasel

Member

Location

in the hills

• Sep 19, 2017

• #11

Northeastfarmer said:

I bet you found a kit Kat in your pants afterwards

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More like a melted Mars bar!

 

ARW

Member

Location

Yorkshire

• Sep 19, 2017

• #12

I think you would feel it in time if you were wearing non safety boots depending on how quick it's dropping.

 

S J H

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Livestock Farmer

Location

Bedfordshire

• Sep 19, 2017

• #13

burr elm said:

Yes so is a crushed foot.

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Do you wear a hard hat all day aswell?

 

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glasshouse

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Location

lothians

• Sep 19, 2017

• #14

Northeastfarmer said:

I bet you found a kit Kat in your pants afterwards

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Just a small raisin

 

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glasshouse

Member

Location

lothians

• Sep 19, 2017

• #15

I didnt feel any real pressure on my foot initially i just couldnt move it. Lucky they were slip on boots.
Idont know what load a steel toecap can take?

 

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glasshouse

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Location

lothians

• Sep 19, 2017

• #16

glensman said:

I bet that raised the heart rate

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A little bit yes

 

Jerry

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Mixed Farmer

Location

Devon

• Sep 19, 2017

• #17

burr elm said:

Yes so is a crushed foot.

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Funny enough, actually it was not funny but bloody painful, I dropped a significant weight on my foot about 12 years ago. Draw bar of trailer slipped of the clevis draw bar and landed on my foot. Trailer had about 8t of hay on it at the time.

I was wearing soft boots.

Doc in A&E reckoned if I had been wearing steel toe caps it would have sliced my toes of. As it was I broke a few bones and limped for about s month.

 

multi power

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Location

pembrokeshire

• Sep 19, 2017

• #18

S J H said:

I don't I find them too uncomfortable.

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I agree, I also avoid putting myself under anything that can fall

 

Hilly

Member

Location

Scottish Borders.

• Sep 19, 2017

• #19

Even my civi going out boots have steel toes.

 

Mc115reed

Member

Livestock Farmer

• Sep 19, 2017

• #20

See it's a catch 22 steel toe caps save your foot in some situations... but others are your worse enemy..... know a guy who dropped a test rig 500kg weight on his foot and it chopped all his toes off with the steel toe....