Brad How goes the "Toe"
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See there, Brad. I bet your daughter would gladly allow you to send the picture updates to JW instead.
You know they make crush rated footwear without the weight of steel toes now.
You know they make crush rated footwear without the weight of steel toes now.
Rally
NC Minnesota
Speaking of nail less.
About 15 years ago, the family and a friend of ours all went camping/ fishing at a lake up by Marcell, Mn. We'd fished until about 2100 hrs the evening before and did well on Walleye. Nice pristine lake, rarely fished and nobody else on the lake but us.
My dad got up about 0530 hrs, and decided to go plug for bass by himself , because nobody else was up. We'd just beached his tri-hull boat the evening before and shut off the lights.
So dad wanted to remove the stern stem light, and reached around with his right hand on the stem and his left hand down by the receptacle. You know that little keyway that aligns the stem? Well, when dad pulled it out it took his left thumbnail all the way back to the top of his thumb, but didn't come off!! Just standing straight up!! All of the sudden everybody in camp was awake, and there was a blue haze over the lake, from the explatives he voiced when it happened!
He had to reel with his index and second finger the rest of the weekend, and of course we asked him to help fillet all the fish, with his one good hand. He wacked that thumb several times that weekend, just in camp. I offered to pull it off for him a couple times. About two days later he pulled it off with a pair of pliers. My step mother said there was another blue haze in the bathroom when he pulled it off also. LOL
About 15 years ago, the family and a friend of ours all went camping/ fishing at a lake up by Marcell, Mn. We'd fished until about 2100 hrs the evening before and did well on Walleye. Nice pristine lake, rarely fished and nobody else on the lake but us.
My dad got up about 0530 hrs, and decided to go plug for bass by himself , because nobody else was up. We'd just beached his tri-hull boat the evening before and shut off the lights.
So dad wanted to remove the stern stem light, and reached around with his right hand on the stem and his left hand down by the receptacle. You know that little keyway that aligns the stem? Well, when dad pulled it out it took his left thumbnail all the way back to the top of his thumb, but didn't come off!! Just standing straight up!! All of the sudden everybody in camp was awake, and there was a blue haze over the lake, from the explatives he voiced when it happened!
He had to reel with his index and second finger the rest of the weekend, and of course we asked him to help fillet all the fish, with his one good hand. He wacked that thumb several times that weekend, just in camp. I offered to pull it off for him a couple times. About two days later he pulled it off with a pair of pliers. My step mother said there was another blue haze in the bathroom when he pulled it off also. LOL
RBHarter
West Central AR
Sense the safety shoe thing came up ........
I've had 2 foot faults . The first was in a steel toe capped Red Wing . I had the steering wheel of a 4000# fork parked on it . Just a couple of bruises now some 16 yr later a little arthritis . I had about 3200# parked on that toe cap . Not bad , ANSI calls for minimum 1100# crush Red Wing does spot tests off the line , at that time , at 1400# .
The second was in the nonmetallic toe hiker boot . Had a loaded fork get up over my toe inside a shipping container . I'm guessing that one was real close to 3100# and at least 1700 after the pallet dropped . No failure there either . New pair of boots in both cases for safetys sake .
I paid what seemed like a lot of money for the fancy heat form insoles . It wasn't too much . I had those insoles for about 6 years in 2 pairs of boots . The last pair I got about 6 months before I left and been wearing them more or less every day because they're that comfortable .
The last nail I lost was a 3 point flag on a thumb nail with a nail gun and a 10d through a 1/2" plywood that missed the nailer block . I can't say for a blue haze but I can say it'll make you smile and a little light headed for a minute or 2 .
35 years ago I had a toenail get badly ingrown and had to have it cut out ....... Thanks but I'd rather not go that route ever again . Sounds like you're getting on the mend .
I've had 2 foot faults . The first was in a steel toe capped Red Wing . I had the steering wheel of a 4000# fork parked on it . Just a couple of bruises now some 16 yr later a little arthritis . I had about 3200# parked on that toe cap . Not bad , ANSI calls for minimum 1100# crush Red Wing does spot tests off the line , at that time , at 1400# .
The second was in the nonmetallic toe hiker boot . Had a loaded fork get up over my toe inside a shipping container . I'm guessing that one was real close to 3100# and at least 1700 after the pallet dropped . No failure there either . New pair of boots in both cases for safetys sake .
I paid what seemed like a lot of money for the fancy heat form insoles . It wasn't too much . I had those insoles for about 6 years in 2 pairs of boots . The last pair I got about 6 months before I left and been wearing them more or less every day because they're that comfortable .
The last nail I lost was a 3 point flag on a thumb nail with a nail gun and a 10d through a 1/2" plywood that missed the nailer block . I can't say for a blue haze but I can say it'll make you smile and a little light headed for a minute or 2 .
35 years ago I had a toenail get badly ingrown and had to have it cut out ....... Thanks but I'd rather not go that route ever again . Sounds like you're getting on the mend .
Bret4207
At the casting bench in the sky. RIP Bret.
I think I've told the story of the genius in the Corps that bet a standard flight line safety shoe would hold up to being run over by an A6 Intruder. Most people would have used just the shoe, minus the foot in it. Not this guy. Medical discharge 'cuz he didn't have any toes at all on that foot after that stunt!
Rick H
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Messing around in a college dorm my room mate hooked his pointer finger nail and pealed it about half way back....he took a pair of fingernail clippers to take off the offending piece of nail....he didn't notice that he had pulled the quick, that bundle of nerves that lies under the nail up with it. When he clipped the nail we saw the whites of his eyes roll up and he passed out....ended up needing stitches on his head for that.
I just waited mine out. From injury to nail loss was about 6 weeks. Lots of hot water soaking helped get it loose.
Mine was injured by the nail hitting the end of my shoe when jumping.
Did I mention that it no longer hurts? No nail to snag on anything, like putting on pants.
Mine was injured by the nail hitting the end of my shoe when jumping.
Did I mention that it no longer hurts? No nail to snag on anything, like putting on pants.
Think of fingernails but on the toes. As for toes, think of them as fingers on your foot. A foot is like a hand on your leg.
Keith, try to keep all of your remaining original equipment.
blackthorn
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Going down the side of a ravine 2 hunting seasons ago. Slipped and jammed my right foot straight-on into a big rock. Few minutes of pain and then OK. About 2 weeks later, noticed a black area at the base of the nail on the big toe. Never had pain with this injury, but it took more than a full year for that black area to work/grow its way to the end of my big toe.
Kevin Stenberg
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Ian ya beat me to that piece of trivia.
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Brad,
That chit on yer toe has some chit on its toe either that or, you got gangrene.
That chit on yer toe has some chit on its toe either that or, you got gangrene.
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