DaRkWoLf

Between boots with safety toes and those without, which do you prefer and why?

7of7

It really depends upon what I am doing. For work, I prefer wearing a safety toe, I use the top of my toe to help with balance by hooking it on the frame behind me when working in the bilge of the plane, when I am on my knees..
For hunting, hiking, and otherwise, I prefer a non steel toe boot. The steel toes, get cold..

m700m

we had an accident at work last year, and a co-worker lost all of his toe's. the doc said he could have been better not to use the steel toe boot. now we can only use a boot with polymer/fiber reinforced toe.

Jorge_Banner

You might want to check out an episode of Mythbusters where they examine this very subject.

heliophobic1

I'm a big fan of the carbon-fiber reinforced type.

DaRkWoLf

Thanks for the replies all. Is there any word on how composite safety toes hold up vs. steel safety toes? My 5.11s are coming apart, and I'm not a big fan of my Lowas due to how the sole narrows down a slight bit and causes me some balance and traction problems; as such I'm looking to get a new pair of boots, most likely the Converse C8990s.

7of7,

To this, all of the pairs of boots I've used except for one have had steel safety toes. My feet sweat a lot and I end up getting cold from that factor, so I'm unsure how much worse the steel toe makes that. Have you had any experience with the composite safety toes?

Jorge,

Thanks for the Mythbusters link. Good stuff; I'm amazed I haven't actually seen that episode.

7of7

No experience with the composite ones.

m700m

i looked at that, yet i stand behind my post, as i "was" there. i am sure they did well to replicate this, but a would not bank my toe's on that. that is to say 1700 pounds to one foot can be messy.

DaRkWoLf

Thank you for your continued feedback.

With all due respect (and not referring to steel toe or not), I'd imagine to say that the resulting mess of 1700 pounds applied to my toes would make me wish they were amputated on incident. I'm unaware of any shoe that would allow ones phalanges to survive that.

m700m

good point, it certainly removed both boot front, and toe's.

Jorge_Banner

Neither would I. It could be "nice having met you, toes".

m700m

FWIW, our company doctor has mandated "composit" toe boots, yet i agree with your statement,"that nothing would have helped in this accidant.

cutter

I am unable to wear hardened toe boots of any kind. I have tried both the steel toes and the composite ones. I have foot problems when I wear them. Probably just a peculiarity to me.

m700m

a buddy at the co, down the road wears reinforced toe, and says they are more comfortable, yet less protection. i had never heard of these.

cutter

Thanks for the info. I have not heard of them either, but I bet I'll find out.

money30

It really depends upon what I am doing. For work, I prefer wearing a safety toe, I use the top of my toe to help with balance by hooking it on the frame behind me when working in the bilge of the plane, when I am on my knees..
For hunting, hiking, and otherwise, I prefer a non steel toe boot. The steel toes, get cold..
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Garand

I need the composite toe, due to the fact that on occasion during the year I am required to work with a mine detector and the composite toe does not interfere with the machine

money30

It really depends upon what I am doing. For work, I prefer wearing a safety toe, I use the top of my toe to help with balance by hooking it on the frame behind me when working in the bilge of the plane, when I am on my knees..
For hunting, hiking, and otherwise, I prefer a non steel toe boot. The steel toes, get cold..