Lucky escape

[Hilly]

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....

ouch, same with safety belts, i rolled a car once if i had belt on would have been dead didnt and walked away but belts save more so make sense.

 

[Woolgatherer]

Years ago I walked past a tractor that had the loader up in the air. It crashed down so close the draught ruffled my hair. I don't know what happened, there was no one in it and it had been stood there for a couple of hours. I don't mind admitting I very nearly wet myself and I've never walked under one since, it gives me the creeps when I see anyone else do it.

 

[DeeGee]

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....

I doubt that there would have been much left of the poor blokes toes to save anyway if he hadn't been wearing steel toe caps?

 

[glasshouse]

Even my civi going out boots have steel toes.

Thats for the kelso nightlife!

 

[glasshouse]

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....

whats a test rig?
if the steel toecap got squashed onto your toes it would hurt.

 

[Jackov Altraids]

I was stupid enough to trap my foot in the PUH. It was a very good job I wasn't wearing steel toe caps. Very glad you were though.

 

[davieh3350]

I was just about to cross the road and go into killiecrankie village hall one night, when the land lords car started rolling down the road as I past it, so I stuck my foot under the front wheel and stopped it.
It must've been a crappy wet night as I'd just worn a pair of newish steel toe capped boots.

 

[Hampton]

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.

Reminds me of Oakley sunglasses boasting their lenses are bullet proof. Fairly useless if the whole lens gets pushed into your eye/head anyway

 

[glasshouse]

I was stupid enough to trap my foot in the PUH. It was a very good job I wasn't wearing steel toe caps. Very glad you were though.

Did it click in?

 

[Jackov Altraids]

Did it click in?

Yep.
For some strange reason I was wearing very soft, thin soled, winkle picker type shoes but still stupidly just yanked my foot out but was very lucky to not need to lift the hitch to get it out again.
Hobbled for weeks and several years later, one small toe is still double the size of the other.

 

[glasshouse]

I was just about to cross the road and go into killiecrankie village hall one night, when the land lords car started rolling down the road as I past it, so I stuck my foot under the front wheel and stopped it.
It must've been a crappy wet night as I'd just worn a pair of newish steel toe capped boots.

Did you get any brownie pts? or did you release the brake?

 

[glasshouse]

Yep.
For some strange reason I was wearing very soft, thin soled, winkle picker type shoes but still stupidly just yanked my foot out but was very lucky to not need to lift the hitch to get it out again.
Hobbled for weeks and several years later, one small toe is still double the size of the other.

strange work atire for devon?

 

[Formatted]

Fill in the accident book and wait for a visit!

Put a near-miss report in your book but you don't have to report an incident like this under RIDDOR, so don't expect a visit

 

[glasshouse]

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 ?

whats loler?

 

[Formatted]

whats loler?

The Lifting Operations Lifting Equipment Regulations 1998 (LOLER) was an ammendment to the Health and Safety at Work at 1974. Part of it is an annual test you should get done on your lifting equipment (its every 6 months if you're using it to lift people). It is probably a requirement for your insurance.

 

[X344chap]

Mythbusters Ep42 - The myth that steel toe capped boots can amputate toes was well and truly busted.

 

[glasshouse]

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The Lifting Operations Lifting Equipment Regulations 1998 (LOLER) was an ammendment to the Health and Safety at Work at 1974. Part of it is an annual test you should get done on your lifting equipment (its every 6 months if you're using it to lift people). It is probably a requirement for your insurance.

The only time i use it to lift people is when i lift up the children when we go cleaning chimneys.

 

[Flasheart]

In typical farming fashion this turns into a debate about boots, not about getting the bloody loader fixed!

 

[glasshouse]

In typical farming fashion this turns into a debate about boots, not about getting the bloody loader fixed!

Thats on the to do list

 

[v8willy]

Even my civi going out boots have steel toes.

Same here, bit of an arse at airport security tho.

Thats on the to do list

Get it done while it's still fresh in the mind.