Comments on: Episode 42: Steel Toe-Cap Amputation, Bottle Rocket Blast-off

By: Will

Will — Thu, 04 Mar 2010 00:01:24 +0000

I agree with the steel toe thing. Its always safer with em.

But they tested bottle rockets individually going straight up. The dummy was at an angle. At an angle, the water would not gather at the nozzle, and not propel the bottle because the air would flow freely out. You would need to put the bottles straight up or add more water. Also, the position of the dummy would change the results.

So….. Get to revisiting.

By: Alana

Alana — Tue, 23 Feb 2010 23:40:53 +0000

I LOVE THIS EPISODE!

By: Brian

Brian — Tue, 23 Feb 2010 08:20:45 +0000

I was recently injured at work wearing steel toed boots when a vehicle lift that goes into the ground failed and came down on my foot with a car on it and the steel toe of the boot curled and traped my toes when my foot got sucked into the ground by the falling lift

By: Gordon

Gordon — Wed, 03 Feb 2010 10:40:11 +0000

In the bottle rocket scenes at the dock, there is a ufo visible ib=n the sky in the background.

By: pw

pw — Fri, 22 Jan 2010 23:07:12 +0000

In my youth, back in the mid Pleistocene, I was employed by the railways as a shunter. We were of course issued with steel caps, and rightly so. However, we wryly figured that if push came to shove and we were run over by 1700tonnes of lumbering rolling stuck and locomotives, the only bit left worth saving would be the well protected toes…

By: K

Tue, 19 Jan 2010 03:56:40 +0000

Try this with 100 PSI in the bottles. It will launch any dummy the distance you want.

By: K

Thu, 05 Nov 2009 03:34:16 +0000

I work with horses and the “most common version” of the myth I know is that if a horse stepped on your foot while wearing steel toed boots, it would crush your foot and it would be stuck inside the boot. – I was glad to see this episode because I’m sick of hearing that I shouldn’t wear steel toe boots around horses.

By: julie

julie — Sat, 17 Oct 2009 07:56:36 +0000

i was ran over bye a forklift back in april of 2009. The steel in my boot started to come out the side of my boot. I could of lost my toes or part of my foot.But as of today 10/17/09 I still have my foot and toes.I don’t have the feeling in all of my foot or toes but the sec.. surgery is coming up soon. And I thank the people that invented steel toed boots

By: Jason

Jason — Sat, 26 Sep 2009 23:06:25 +0000

I recently watched this one on a re-run and was disappointed that what (to me) was the most common version of the myth… That a loaded forklift with solid rubber tires on a concrete warehouse floor running over your foot would indeed amputate if wearing steel toed shoes… it struck me as funny since in the episode there was a forklift sitting in the background, I thought for sure they would try that test, and mabey simulate in in an outdoor setting as well (ie a yardlift with soft tires in gravel or mud)_

By: Mim

Mim — Wed, 25 Mar 2009 15:01:33 +0000

Is there any way I can view Episode 42 on steel toed work boots??