I'm missing the arguement, and I've seen another question like this... but the steel toe issue has 2 scenario's right?... Let me label them out, the 2nd is the one that no one talks about?Note to anyone - how are your catapillar boots, your wolverines, and then your cheap walmart/sears brands?1. Steel toe on, toes get cut off because of something falling on them. OUCH!.. Reattach perhaps?2. This one is what I question. No steel toe, large object falls on toes. SMASH... Pudding in your shoes.Wouldn't it be safer to say you'de be better off with a steel toe?
You're talking worst case scenarios here man. The steel toe isn't for parking tractors on, it's to keep you going when everything less than catastrophic occurs. It's like safety goggles protecting a person's eyes. They work great, but only to a point...
Go to Discovery channel and look up Mythbusters episode on steel toed boots. It will surprise you what they can take, even with dropped items. They could get some damage, but never a severance.
I wear Timberland Pro Series steel toe boots they are the best I have ever owned, I have tried Caterpiller Wal-Mart Brands both fell apart. One thing I do is when I get a pair of steel toe boots is have my wife run over the toe with her buick. The cat Wal-Mart Brands both bent cut the top of my foot, The timberland stayed intact I have been wearing them for over a year now, they have not fallen apart I have had a korklift run them over still holding great.
I have been wearing Brahma brand steel toe work boots for the past 10 years (no, not the same pair for 1o years.. Each pair last me 2-4 years). They have ANSI class 75 steel toes. I work with cars, engines, tools all day long.. In the last 10 years I have had a transmission fall on my foot from about 2 feet high.. A bare cast iron engine block (153 lbs) break the bolts holding it to an engine stand and land on both of my feet. A camaro back over my foot with it's left rear wheel. Non of those things even dented the steel toe.. Just cut the leather covering the steel. No harm at all was done to my toes/feet. With out the steel toe boots, I know my toes/feet would have been broken.. 10 years so far, and from my results I plan on wearing steel toe boots for atleast another 30 years.
