1st Gen Lunchtable Thread - General Discussion

Carbon toe > steel toe

 

No real opinion, not heavy enough to matter

 

Steel toe boots just seem to bulge out much more; the lighter weight of the carbon fiber toe is just the cherry on top.

 

Looks like it. Can’t go wrong with Lowa if you can get over the price.

This ^^^

Steel toes have always made my feet fucking cold in the winter, but carbon doesn’t, despite the same benefits in terms of protection.

 

Maybe next time I need new work shoes
https://www.bootbarn.com/twisted-x-...4t00YmlS8ziQ9W3Zt5Ckxt9Efm65aHnBoCHIMQAvD_BwE

 

Those look good

 

I’ve liked mine, needa get some boots for muddy days and the some muck boots for winter though.

Only wear those when I go out to the field, Hey Dudes around the office

 

Got lucky at the local little store and found two 80 series hot wheels. One is a manufacturing defect, has no plastic windows. I think I'll paint one red to match mine haha.

 

Sell it on EBay

 

https://youtu.be/U_HthCCRF2U

 

Take it from someone who regularly deals with heavy equipment. Composite toes are WAY better than steel.

When something heavier than the rated protection falls on your foot, neither one will actually save your toes. However the composite will crush and only flatten your toes while the steel will buckle in and severe the toes clean off.

Doctors can rebuild your feet much easier when the toes are still attached vs trying to reattach toes that have been cut clean off.





Had a coworker drop a 72" bucket blade on his foot at the Bobcat shop I worked at years ago, he wore steel toes and had ALL of them cut off his foot when the shoe failed. Doctors were only able to save and reattach his big toe

 

Both will just result in toe mush if the object is heavy enough.

 

You use your pinky toe for balance alot more than you might think

 

That's fair. I only have that one real world experience with steel toes failing and it removed his toes first, then crushed them

 

An old hockey teammate of mine cut off his thumb with an ax as a kid and surgeons removed his big toe to sew on in it's place. Thought that was pretty wild, apparently it's common if you lose a thumb

 

oooof

watching people at public campgrounds always has me nervous for stuff like that lol

 

I had an ax split a log and go between my big toe and the one next to it a couple years ago. I don’t know for sure how my foot got that close to it.

alcohol may have been involved

 

I've seen Ben do similar with his fingers stone sober. Except he didn't miss

 

That is wild, whole new meaning to the word "tums"