Gunner wrote:

On 23 Apr 2005 13:49:23 -0700, jim rozen
wrote:

In article , Gunner says...

My son and I were moving my hydraulic press. It was dark in that area
at night, we were in a hurry, and he missed removing one of the 1"
thick, 6x8" press plates which was sitting on the press. It slipped
off. Nailed me on the diagonal across the end of the foot. Busted 3
of the 5 toes. Fortunately, it didn't land on the right foot, else
it would have busted 3 of the 6 toes.

I guess it could have been worse, if it had landed on the instep
it could have done much worse damage. Ever considered steel-toed
flip-flops?

I was wearing my normal Redwing boots.

Just out of curiosity, what's kind of tooling does that smaller
Gorton mill take in the spindle - B&S or MT?

Jim

Neither...it takes Gorton collets. A rather interesting holder with a
triangular ass end. Similar to a 4C in size, but only going up to
1/2" in diameter.

Gunner

"At the core of liberalism is the spoiled child -
miserable, as all spoiled children are, unsatisfied,
demanding, ill-disciplined, despotic and useless.
Liberalism is a philosphy of sniveling brats." -- P.J. O'Rourke

I had (past tense) a pair of those foundry boots with the metacarpal
(?) plate. My wife found them and tossed them because they were so
ugly.

I don't know where to get a pair of them so now I'm doing something
that's really stupid: I'm wearing Reeboks in the shop.

Those old boots really saved me once. I had a Kurt Vise with the
rotary base sitting on a table. I needed to put the vise on the mill,
so I just sort of slid the vise off the table to carry it. The base
wasn't bolted to the vise so it just fell off and landed squarely on
top of my right foot with me still standing there holding the vise.
I'm sure that base must weigh well over 30 Lbs. When dropped from 3
feet it could have caused crippling damage. As it was it just ripped
the leather off the boot and I felt nothing.

They might be ugly and you might not want to be seen in public wearing
them but they sure are a good idea for a shop.

Gotta find another pair...