[TheForge] No idea too hare-brained

[Ries Niemi]

I quit on boots a good twenty years ago. 
life is too short to have my feet hurt, and I am the boss of me, so nobody can tell me what to wear.
I have a pair of low top redwings with steel toes, I wear them a week or two a year when I am on somebody else's job site where steel toes are required.
In my shop, i have been wearing polyurethane birkenstock clogs for close to 25 years now. Never hurt my foot, never burnt myself, and my feet dont hurt after standing on concrete all day.
Works for me, probably wouldnt work for everybody.
I am pretty careful, I run all kinds of industrial machinery, forging, welding, machining, and so on. I just dont drop anything heavier than a hundred pounds or so on my foot, and I am fine. 

ries


On Jul 22, 2013, at 2:21 PM, Charles wrote:

> If you had to cut the steel toe away, then in all likely hood your toes would have been jelly and candidates for amputation without them.   This comes up in industry periodically and every study I have seen off quality boots is that in all cases you are better with them then without.    If needed I suppose I would rework the toe, but I have a Landis K Stitcher, a 900lbs machine for stitching soles to a goodyear style welt.  
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> I quit on steel toes the first time i had to cut my bloody toes free of the collapsed steel cap to take the boot off.
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