Lucky escape

glasshouse

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Location
lothians
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
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
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.
I bet that raised the heart rate
 

Jerry

Member
Mixed Farmer
Location
Devon
Yes so is a crushed foot.

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.
 

Mc115reed

Member
Livestock Farmer
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....
 

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