Steel Toe Boots vs. Car - Random Machine Shop Experiments

We got some steel toe boots and wanted to see how strong they were. And then of course we cut them in half with the water jet.
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Steel Toe boots are required in a lot of job sites we wanted to but them to the test and see just how strong they are. We dropped a cinderblock, hit it with a hammer, ran over it with a car, smashed it in the hydraulic press and then of course we cut it in half with water. We then explained how the humvee could run over the foot and not damage it, we did that by cutting it in half and showing how it flexed.
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[@cforn]

Former paramedic here. People get toes amputated every year due to steel-toed boot failures. Part of the problem is that the cup does not rebound, so a temporary crushing force is not relieved when the weight is removed, so a momentary crush/cut that toes might survive, becomes a (relatively) long-term one. I've seen it more than once working on oil rigs. Messy. Just thought you'd like to know! ;)

[@kaidomaxima]

Steel toed boots are designed to amputate toes. Instead of a heavy object smashing and destroying toes, it amputates "hopefully" save the toes.

[@nigmode4091]

They busted this myth on Mythbusters

[@xenonram]

Steel toe boss most certainly do rebound. That rebound is part of their ASTM certification.

[@dayofmone]

@Whitaker's World Elasticity has its limits, if you overcome that an object stays deformed. If you put too much stress on them, like for example 2 tons of hydraulic force, they will fail. These shoes are protection, not immunity, and any protection can be overcome.

[@CarlosConsorcioCastellanoPerez]

My supervisor always told me steel toe boots are really only good for when a flange or piece of small diameter pipe falls on your toes it's not supposed to hold up against a crate or anything really heavy

[@DethWshBkr]

Many years ago, working in a machine shop, I was backing an electric pallet jack with some steel plates on it. I estimate it was about 1000 lb of plates. The pallet jack probably also weighed 1000 lb. So, lets just estimate a ton. I accidentally got stumbled up on the floor, and couldn't release the twisting handle, as it closed in on me. Ended up having the pallet jack's main wheels ride UP my steel toe boot (right foot), and try to climb up the laces to the top of the boot. Obviously it couldn't make that climb, so it just bounced up an down on my foot 4-5 times before I was able to finally get the movement stopped. The entire upper portion of my foot was sore for over a week, but my toes were fine. It did partially crush in the steel toe though. REGARDLESS, had I NOT had steel toe boots, I have ZERO doubt all 5 of my toes would have been completely crushed. I don't know if it would have required amputation or not, but having 1 ton of hard metal bouncing on your toes certainly would not have been good. If it is strong enough to collapse a steel toe, you would ABSOLUTELY have had toe amputations needed. So, even if the steel toe being caved in on your foot causes more damage, I guarantee you would have had more damage without the steel toe.

[@mahamadelfakir5385]

I tried this with my flip flops they really protected my toes only 6 out of 10 fell off

[@bossking1175]

melfakir elfakir I did to only my pp fell off to be tracer

[@donkyleone]

How was the other foot?

[@rmg6884]

Mine are better. I only lost _5._

[@xx_theredscarfspartan_xx7296]

Waht

[@harryjpretty]

Tf are flip flops

[@chunkztookyafood]

Imagine if they bring out the wrong boot and accidentally bring out the regular boot then the guy just has his foot smashed with a sledgehammer

[@ieatbatteries9998]

OWW MY FOOT!!! WHAT THE HELL I THOUGHT THEY WERE STEEL TOE!!!

[@SaltySeaCaptain]

You would know from the weight right away. Steel Toed's are much heavier.

[@chunkztookyafood]

@@SaltySeaCaptain wow. U must be fun at parties

[@cruize55]

@@chunkztookyafood bruh, he was just explaining something, you must be fun at parties man, really…😐

[@chunkztookyafood]

@@cruize55 no he must be fun at parties for explaining a joke

[@disillusions]

I've worked in a factory for about twenty years and have heard a few different stories about forklifts going over feet/toes with steel toed boots on. It basically becomes a life-altering experience involving severed toes or crushed bones in the foot. Although definitely better than not wearing steel toes - I wouldn't take the truck rolling over the boot as an example that steel toes can withstand any situation involving a vehicle rolling over them. Still a very interesting video that shows the benefits of wearing good quality protective boots, and it was pretty cool seeing a cutout view of one.

[@nadapenny8592]

I bet your coworker had their entire foot up to the ankle run over (which is not their fault and usually out of their control). That would easily break the metatarsals which is an extremely common workplace injury and there are more and more work boots including metatarsal guards. They're ugly as hell and don't make you invincible, but they spread whatever crushing force out over a much larger area which makes the force needed to break your feet a lot higher. Basically turns crushed/mangled feet into fractured mets and maybe over compressed toes. Have had my steel toes run over by idiots driving aircraft towing tractors (once by being an idiot standing too close to aircraft towing tractors) a couple of rare times and have used them regularly to temporarily hold up to 2 ton service equipment in high winds while placing wheel chocks. Have never had a boot fail. Brand is Belleville.

[@ashsingh9339]

6:00 Jabba the Hutt.

[@NDRWCHNNL]

Hahahahaha

[@itheman6s766]

Cut a giant world map out of a sheet of metal.

[@Reverandfatdave]

No, they should cut a giant piece of metal out of a world map.

[@kevindamvorisbacon424]

That's possible and realistic because the earth is flat!

[@Blank_Immortal]

@@Reverandfatdave Time to find a metal world map, or invent alchemy.

[@Reverandfatdave]

@@Blank_Immortal that's the spirit.

[@AidanRamen]

@@kevindamvorisbacon424 lol

[@mysticalseapotato8303]

Well, here’s a story from my dad about how his life was saved by steel toe boots. They are standard issue in military. He was in Canon New Mexico and was working in a warehouse. He was the only one there at the time and he was off base going into the weekend, so no chance of people arriving incase something happened. This is New Mexico in the summer so the warehouse was cooler then outside. Well, as he walked through, he felt something against boot, so he looked down and saw a that a baby rattlesnake had just but his boot and tried to inject him with venom. Good thing it bit his toes and not somewhere else. He got spooked obviously, nearly dying like that. He had put a bucket on its head and cut it in half, leaving till the next week to clean up due to how they can still bite after they die. This was before my mom was pregnant with me, so, in a way, my life was seen thanks to steel toed boots. Come back next week to hear the story of how my pregnant mother was in a horrible car crash where the vehicle rolled several times and the police say no one should have lived through it. (Spoiler alert, she was pregnant with me.)

[@mysticalseapotato8303]

habibbi alikafe surprisingly, no one was injured. There were 2 pregnant women.

[@mysticalseapotato8303]

habibbi alikafe and no. I am not mentally handicapped in anyway.

[@habibbialikafe339]

@@mysticalseapotato8303 I was just messing bro. Glad to hear it

[@666xMajor]

And then everyone clapped

[@atomicsquid9836]

Psychiatrist: You exhibit classic signs of PTSD. We need to identify the cause. OSHA inspector: I watched the Waterjet Channel. Psychiatrist: Oh...

[@HH-kl8ed]

Atomic Squid lol

[@HH-kl8ed]

Atomic Squid Occupational Safety Hazards Administration right I think?

[@atomicsquid9836]

@@HH-kl8ed occupational safety and health administration.

[@KingParisBuckingham]

Yes,am watching these wackos from nyc,they're like suicidal or something...lol ( i can u derstand testing a cinderblock falling on your toes or lumver fslling, but not s breakpress

[@ieatbatteries9998]

That’s nothing compared to what we do LMAO Spent four hours today cleaning stuff with gasoline no safety measures btw

[@sogmalukem2745]

them boots looked like they still had a lot of life left in them.

[@Cudberto]

This guys for real should have 1M subscribers, I love their channel and the inside jokes of course. Keep up the good work! :)

[@electronicsNmore]

Hot dogs. LOL

[@thedeadk0rnman]

I have a pair of 30 dollar steel toed boots that I bought from Amazon about 3 years and just 2 weeks ago I had dropped a steel bar from arm height that measured 3 ft x 6 in x 1 in. And thankully they did save my hotdogs

[@chadoftoons]

Good! Praise the metal benders who made them then.

[@TheOne-ec9ku]

Reading this at 1 am and HOTDOGS hahahahahha

[@apexdisease6030]

That's like a thousand pounds, dang

[@thedeadk0rnman]

@@apexdisease6030 not to sure about the math there brotha, regular ol blackened mild steel at that size is about 80-90 lbs? Ofc not enough to smash my toes but it absorbed all the shock and I felt nothing fortunelty

[@MondoMurderface]

Should watch the mythbuster's episode on steel toes. You guys never would have done this.

[@megaflea2k]

About to go bed. Gets water jet chan notification, Bed can wait

[@TheToxicSlushie]

Strange, I have missed the past 13 videos, haven't seen you in my recommended. Hit the bell this time, not missing anymore content, Keep it up guys!

[@Benzy670]

I can’t trust steel toe boots. I’ve always been paranoid about getting my toes trapped in the crushed cup, or cut off completely. This video didn’t help lol.

[@torpedohippo8493]

That's why theres no metal on the bottom, so you can't get "trapped" in the cup

[@jackabm69]

Torpedo Hippo they can still get cut off or flattened with the steel

[@torpedohippo8493]

@@jackabm69 you don't say?

[@S81NT]

Justin that’s actually the point of steel toe

[@trentcluff1009]

The purpose of steel toes is no to protect your foot, it I mean to keep them from getting crushed BY cutting them clean off. You camt repair crushes toes, you can repair cut off toes.

[@alexanderivory-brown118]

Mitch licking his toes was literally too much lol. I love you guys though!

[@beckiewelch357]

I cringed so much, poor toes

[@MohdDanish-bn2wf]

My mind thought that metal gonna bend and scoop his toe like ice cream

[@shitvicx]

Lol

[@onelove8593]

Those boots looked so good, these dudes are cringy themselves btw

[@microwave4928]

Yeah these guys maybe aren’t the smartest but they’ve got the spirit

[@microwave4928]

@@MohdDanish-bn2wf Yes I’ve seen that happen to a farrier before A horse stomps down and the metal chops off the toes

[@james-r]

8:24 “it’s toe-tally pulverised in there, somewhere...”

[@shockwaves59]

I think this video was toe-tally informative! XD

[@ryanwinder3433]

There's a water jet in my boot!

[@leroy92TX]

They poisoned the water jet

[@bananatorpedo275]

*_OH NOEEES_*

[@bbdsmith88]

You're my favorite water jet.

[@righteousvw]

This is super relevant. Thank you for posting this!!!!!!

[@CleanWhiteEvoX]

Definitely surprised you did not test the boot strength in the beginning with the lick test...😂 Good content gents!! Keep it up!!

[@DerptekofGoochland]

"5 toes...They taste like they work" Got a chuckle out of me

[@MLGMEDIC]

I love your guys’s videos!! You guys are like the new Mythbusters!

[@ReviveMeAlive]

this was a very interesting shop test

[@ErikOosterwal]

Great video. I was curious just how much pressure the steel toes could take. Recently I found out that in the Netherlands they approve wooden shoes for any place where steal toes are required. Maybe you could get some wooden shoes and run the same tests on them.

[@big_al1526]

I was most interested in the water jet! I didn't even know it existed! Very cool.

[@MH-nr5rv]

Always makes my day when you guys post!

[@nikkolaus]

He's just trying to get an injury to get outta work and get paid for it.(I'm kidding, calm down!)

[@doubleedgelawncare7535]

😂🤣

[@nf4866]

This was so unbelievably stupid... I love this channel.

[@Cyclone-od7ih]

"pull your pants over your boot ya dork"😂 too many people I went to high school with needed to hear that

[@lewismillward2202]

Would love to see you guys to a whats inside again, like a black box water jet opening or like other weird items we dont get to see inside

[@joshuaheadey9670]

Gelling in early with the comment. Loving the vid so far. Just saw a Viking with a war hammer do that's cool.

[@nolongeractive1730]

You guys make slacking off look fun

[@StupidRobotFightingLeague]

Anthony's beard is art.

[@karicowo]

I dropped some heavy Fire Equipment on my feet and those Steel toed shoes saved my stubby hotdogs

[@Patspwnage]

Wow these are strong!

[@Emily-lc8wr]

“For science...” lol😂😂😂

[@brittoneastman9012]

This seems like a dangerous one haha. I've heard of people's toes being cut off when their foot was backed over by a tractor before!

[@oscarnach505]

Love you guys

[@duckdoesskatesk8849]

is it just me or the concrete block breaking was sooo satisfiying

[@ajkoebcke7662]

“They taste like they work “ 🤣

[@Jameskenomis3]

This is blue collar gold.

[@kieranodea771]

Part of the idea is that your toes will be cut off some what cleanly by the cup folding in. As opposed to a jagged mangled cut, problem is when a medium load hits the boot and its not enough to cut it off and just traps the foot under the crushed metal.

[@fietsband08]

“Pull your pants over your boot, you dork!!”

[@calebsorrells839]

Somebody was BUMPING the music in the other room around the end. I dig it

[@ComradePhoenix]

3:00 Actually, most cars don't exert that much more ground pressure than a person, so even without wearing steel toe boots, you'd probably be ok if a tire rolled over your foot (this actually happened to me once, I wouldn't recommend it, because it is like somebody steps on your foot with all their weight, but there's no lasting pain or damage for me).

[@Cammi_Rosalie]

I worked at a full-service car wash for a time. The type that the drivers get out of their vehicles and can watch their car being washed along a hallway with a glass wall. The cars are left in neutral and are basically pushed down a guide rail by what looks like skateboard wheels that roll up behind the tire. I have had my feet under the tire several times. The trucks with taller tires and more sidewall are not too bad. more like you describe. But when the city guys came in with those goofy-ass "rapper-rims" with not much more than a belt of tread on them.. Those fu--ers hurt. They don't have any "give" to them. I'd rather have my foot under a jacked up, 4-wheel drive Chevy with big mudders, than a little Mercedes or a Beamer with those stupid rapper-rims and rubber-band tires.

[@aintvice]

Holy smokes!! My guy looks like straight up Gimli from ‘Lord of the Rings’ 🤣

[@Thingsthatgopew22]

Joking about kid getting arm stuck in metal sheat bender. Sticks arms and fingers in same machine while it's running.

[@johntt5269]

Its called a press break... jus sayin

[@honetherat]

what a legend

[@stephenives6138]

😂🤣😂you guy are great thank for the good laugh As long as he hits to that side 🤣😂🤣😂

[@paularcher3237]

Fun fact: the military removed steel toe boots because is something big ran over the toe, it would fold in and the toes could fall off.

[@kaylaspeener1961]

all I need steel toe boots for is my horses stepping on me and they usually step right off so I don’t think my toes will ever get crushed

[@hrithikgeorge4751]

You should have put a steak in the boot. It’s classic... Steak n’ the Boot.

[@kyleburrows5716]

Bruuuuhhhhhh😂

[@seanmentoya9019]

Hrithik George waste of food

[@spacebar2759]

@@seanmentoya9019 we live in a first world country we can waste as much food as we want

[@seanmentoya9019]

klary lary But still do u wanna waste a juicy delicious steak

[@monhi64]

@@spacebar2759wow bro nice dark humor. Very nice

[@Sscuffedd]

I love this

[@davesstuff1599]

I am so shocked that he would actually wear the boot and let it get hammered on!

[@dankflank3047]

If you aint' smashin toes you aint' one of the bros!

[@danielcrane3353]

“They all taste like they work”

[@abelriquelmevalencia]

Awesone and durable boots :)

[@floater81floats37]

Ran over mine with a fire truck recently and was surprised to see it did crush the steel down. Not completely but definitely would have a bad injury had my toes been inside.

[@user-fp6wv1ug4g]

Steel toe weren't meant to protect, but to make a clean cut to be able to reattach the toes

[@RamadaArtist]

"This is what's holding your foot together" "You let the doctors pull your shoe off so they can piece it all back together" Speaking as someone who fell off the top of an extension ladder while wearing a pair of combat boots: can confirm.

[@MrBluewafflee]

that half conderblock was like the time a co worker tossed down a cement roof tile i saw a nail chciken out to catched and had to ripp off my toenail. 5 days off

[@balkamp8888]

So many hands in a running hydraulic break....

[@xenonram]

And yet, they were all uninjured! Funny how that works, huh? Good thing every shop doesn't need to be a two-handed activation type of shop.

[@caseyryan1]

These guys are *professionals*

[@nickboo3300]

The Jamaican Thunder Rohan Davey “professionals”

[@balkamp8888]

@@xenonram have seen hands crushed in person... I understand they're safe, still makes me cringe a bit

[@nf4866]

I knew a guy who accidentally shot someone with a gun he swore was not loaded. I'm no machine expert, don't even know what a hydraulic break is (though I have a pretty good guess), but there are some things you should just avoid doing.

[@infl]

Considering that is a machine designed for bending metal, it bent that metal pretty good

[@tsm_toby7921]

No one can stop the toe collector so give me them toes boiii!!!

[@jtrbugtv1892]

That’s some powerful water.

[@alexhill4816]

it smells similar to parmegeano but for real foot cheese you need to get italian fontina, its the same bacteria, when it was hot- as served made me heave a little, it didnt stay on the menu too long, love u guys

[@TaekTara]

Try stepping on Lego with those steel toe boots. Bet they will break.

[@flycory]

lol, I will totally be using this real world advice next time I save a child’s arm from a brake!

[@gasaxe6056]

In Canada ironworkers, roofers and carpet layers exempt from the work safe steel toe saftey code. Not sure about OSHA.

[@eppyiefrapp812]

Brave af

[@ItzFlame1]

2:12 it didn’t even touch his boot lmao

[@Boki_D-dt9fi]

* completely obliterates boot * " i dont think its doing much"

[@BubbaSLAC]

You guys could make a jig so that you could use that just like a normal press. That way you'd have 2 flat surfaces

[@IcelandicGoblin]

Osha Approved.

[@dxntblxnk4984]

When I saw the hammer I was like he's gonna be okay then I saw Anthony with the sledgehammer

[@kimohilldale8400]

It looks like some New York hot dog water LOL

[@wellzy9819]

They kinda look good tho...They looked very vintage.

[@blackerblue8337]

No toes were harm during the making of this video

[@physkogamer7139]

I will never not wear steel toe boots. Back in highschool auto shop i used to get in trouble with the teacher because when we had to roll around the cars in the lot I would stop them with my foot all the time.

[@trulyinfamous]

I've heard that getting plastic toed boots instead of steel because if the steel bends in, that toe is stuck and you're screwed. With platic, it just breaks.

[@TheOneJokeWonder]

I was half expecting to see someone lose some toes. That's the thing with steel caps... They're great at protecting your toes until you take it too far and it's the steel caps that are doing the damage.

[@tacoguy9959]

I’ve been hoping for someone to do a test about steal toe boots

[@Joshua79C]

Mythbusters beat them to it first

[@151pyroblaze]

I remember when a tractor went over my foot lol. And the time a pitch fork missed the steel and was resting on my foot every time I moved my foot pitch fork poked my foot lol

[@embareassment]

Those boots had plenty of life in them still

[@jamesbennett959]

i wish you tested the strength of the boot with his foot under heavy equipment

[@danmernyak4987]

“Pull your pants over your boot ya dork” lol

[@cypressgold]

Nice 70s chevy.

[@InputResult01]

I have steel toe boots from 2018 And now,it's still usable for my self defense

[@JoshStanley]

Stranglehold by Ted Nugent was playing in the background lol

[@bigpimpen045]

Pretty crazy because a guy at my work just broke his foot from a pallet sitting on his foot just above the steel toe 😬

[@me391985]

Metatarsal safety boots next!!!

[@noahchandler9596]

Yes this I a great video

[@jaylenarvizu6093]

Deaquan gimme Dem toes XD

[@dakotapicou]

i can say after my experience on valentines day that steel toes also do not protect you from 1300 pounds of metal falling on your foot. all five dislocated mid foot funny enough they were the same boots as yours!

[@mryeet6465]

They are Daequan proof 😂

[@justincapps7424]

Wait a second ur telling me u can cut a whole shoe in half with water

[@mealex303]

Video In one word... smussage! LoL