Lucky escape

[Princess Pooper]

Do you wear a hard hat all day aswell?

Many things more likely to run over / tread on / fall on your feet than on your head, unless you work lying down stop.Metal toe caps have saved me from severe bruising or a broken toe or crushed toe nail on many occasions over the last 30 years (wish they would protect against a cow treading on the bone ridge on top of the foot though - ouch!)

 

[Willie adie]

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.

If you had seen what I had seen.
On the braes o killiecrankie oh.

 

[burr elm]

Do you wear a hard hat all day aswell?

Only if using a chainsaw.

 

[burr elm]

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.

They are good but not that good.

 

[S J H]

Many things more likely to run over / tread on / fall on your feet than on your head, unless you work lying down stop.Metal toe caps have saved me from severe bruising or a broken toe or crushed toe nail on many occasions over the last 30 years (wish they would protect against a cow treading on the bone ridge on top of the foot though - ouch!)

Cows seem to step on the ridge as you say so no help there. Steel toes are far too heavy for me. I'd only wear leather boots for work though.

 

[RagnarHairybreeks]

Apropos of nothing; In a rush (I was late) to pick the little fella up from primary school yesterday I managed to slam the point on the bottom of the car door into my own ankle yesterday - wow that hurt and wow I felt stupid.

 

[TheTallGuy]

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

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

I have a pair of composite safety boots - never a problem with airport security & far less likely to sever the toes in a crush situation as there's no hard edge to them.