The Steel Toecap Amputation Horror Story! | MythBusters | Season 4 Episode 3 | Full Episode
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- Adam and Jamie investigate whether steel-toed boots can be hazardous. The myth is supported by a 2002 case where a worker lost three toes due to his steel-toed boot.
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This is kind of like in WW1, when they started issuing steel helmets to the troops, a higher number of head wounds were reported
Initially the brass thought that the helmets were responsible until someone pointed out that without those helmets, the troops wouldn’t have been alive to report their head wounds
Same story as when we started uparmoring certain aircraft. People wanted to place the additional armor where the bullet holes were most common on returning aircraft, until someone pointed out that the aircraft that had been hit everywhere else were the ones that *weren't* returning
@@LavenderSystem69 survivors bias is a funny thing
That is a similar story to fitting extra armour to certain models of aircraft, With the B-17 they would come back absolutely cut to pieces and it was a clever engineer who mentioned the armour had to fitted where these planes that landed hadn't been torn up by flak and AA rounds, because the planes hit in those spots weren't getting home. My Grandmother who was in the WAAF at a training unit, she is 100 now and said that the B-17's that landed occasionally at her British OTU base where just so incredibly damaged, no other aircraft could take the damage of those things and make it home, the Americans would put a 24/7 guard on the plane until they pulled the wings and lorried it back to an American base. I think it was to protect the bombing computers they had, which didn't work in Europe anyway (Grandfather was in the Mosquitos Bomber Command DFC sq692 and told me the computers worked great above the deserts of America, but the hilly and overcast/foggy nights of Europe the computers couldn't cope so the Americans reverted to manual sight bombing like the British method, how my grandfather did it), but the yanks were even protecting the technology from the Allies.
@@kingcosworth2643very interesting! this is kinda mentioned in the new tv series from apple tv+ Masters of the Air
Survivorship bias
The bullets on the planes didn't blow up
I'll say this from personal experience for everyone. If it's heavy enough to flatten the steel toe cap, you were losing those toes anyways. Once they're crushed you'll probably have to have them amputated. Body builder at my local gym had a 45lbs weight crush his big toe, doctor said it may grow back together but after X-rays confirming the damage and waiting a week to see, not enough structure and it started decay. So wear the steel and keep your toes friends.
Hey! I'm not your friend, buddy! 😅 (couldn't help it...)
@@DarkGodSeti I'm not your buddy, guy!
@@mckrunchytoast2469 i‘m not your guy, pal!
@@erebostd I'm not your pal, brother!
Would you rather have your toes crushed or cut cleanly off? Was told that when starting to work at beam factory before.
I work for a boot company that specializes in work boots. This myth always comes in. I told a customer it's like jumping into a bathtub during a tornado it will protect you the best it can, but if the entire house is lifted, there's really nothing you can do. If something is heavy enough and coming with enough force to slice through a steel toe, you're losing those toes, no matter what.
You say that but if you just step back and look at the situation
The weight misses your foot
@@Alphoric
"Not get hit"
That's genius! Why has no one ever thought of that before? 🙄
yhea i worked in a machining shop and the amount of times steel toe boots have saved me from pain cant be counted on 10 sets of hands. the point of failure in those boots as long as they are good quality, will take a very high load, and at those loads you have no toes to save as they are mush without the steel toe. and with them you might be in inmense pain, but your toes can still be saved. at loads your toes still get crushed with steel toes you are lucky its only your toes and not possibly your life, had 4 kids in my school helping unload a manual laithe, laithe fell on the 4 and 3 lost their life and one lost his whole leg. those loads will smash your foot with steel toes.
@@Alphoric How would your toe get cut off your toe if the blow was so glancing that your foot gets missed? If it isn't direct enough to crush your toes safety boots would get ejected.
@@burlyraccoon5029I use redwings. I work in a core engine processing facility. I’ve had a 800lb cummins roll over on my foot and not able to get it off until other coworkers helped. Never once felt a single pain. Made me a believer. When I saw the motor tiliting in a small space I had no where to go and I thought I was gonna loose my whole foot but nope
The argument suggesting you should avoid wearing steel toe boots because the steel cap may shear your toes if something too heavy lands on your feet is akin to saying don't wear body armor in combat because if it gets hit you may get some broken ribs.
on top of that too. you can have internal bleeding from body armor as well..
medieval armor has that myth floating around. “a mace could crush your breastplate in and make it impossible to breathe,” a mace to the unprotected gut however you’re gonna no-sell like you’re Houdini.
@@hambone950Guess what bullets do to your internals?
@@oscaranderson5719 prolly and even tho breastplate armor or body armor would you rather "walk" around and cant really breath vs being totally fkd? rather "risk" wearing the safety devices vs not.
@@oscaranderson5719 Yeah a mace to the gut is kind of a game over lol. Although I have to say that the myth is a bit more silly considering the fact that a one-handed steel flanged mace most likely won't crush a decent quality breastplate in enough to limit your breathing substantially, it could make a pretty big dent but that's about it. A polehammer could probably crush it in enough to limit breathing quite a bit, but at that point your problem isn't breathing but rather the fact that most of your ribcage will probably shatter and without the breastplate you'd probably have a decent hole and ruptured organs.
Just my two cents of rambling about medieval stuff because I like it.
I love that Grant is immortalized through this show
I only found out he passed by your comment just now. Thank you & R.i.l to him
He was my favorite I didn’t know he died I’m sad now
him and Jessi
@@mcpudd1540 omg I just Google her. This has turned into a sad day
the whole Mythbuster crew will be immortalized by this show :)
Glad to see MythBusters popping up here on CZcams. Not only can a new generation experience a program that showed us that science is for everyone, it serves as an excellent way to immortalize and memorialize Grant.
Rest in Peace, Grant, and thank you for everything.
Wait what? He died?! When did this happen! I practically grew up on Mythbusters! (Before Grant Torry and Kerri were even part of the show) but still… I remember the first episode when they became part of the show
@@ThisMeansMyPS3sOut Grant passed in July 2020 from a brain aneurysm. :/
😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂 fool
@@whendarknessfalls6969wtf?
@@whendarknessfalls6969What is your problem?
Rest in peace, Grant. Mythbusters is the reason why I am so into science. Thank you for making my childhood amazing!
Jessi too
Damn didn't even know Grand passed away😢
Didn't know Grant passed?
Just looked it up. He passed 4 years ago. First I've heard. May he RIP
I was working in a shingle mill in the early 2000's on the deck that hauls the logs into the mill from the water. There's a set of 10,000lb steel plates on hydraulics that hold the logs in a specific position and keep it in place while the saw at the front pulls rounds off. Long story short, the hydraulic exploded, plate came down on the steel toe at an angle and flattened out on my big toe. It wasn't an amputation, but look at your thumb and picture this; split the nail in half, twist it sideways, and remove all the flesh from around the bone with only the skin along the bottom holding things on.
A few weeks of extremely good pain killers, and zero feeling left in that toe now, but its still there. Anyone who says "don't bother wearing steel toe boots" can go back to the office.
If something is heavy enough to crush the steel in the boots, there is NO WAY your toes will survive regardless.
The only problem is that steel toe keeps them crushed. I think I'd rather go with some synthetic polymer or something. Something that provides the strength but will bounce back once the weight is off. So something like a forklift running over your foot you actually might be better off without steel toe. I'm not anti-steel toe. Just saying there's probably a better material.
@@shadowprince4482 it would be cool to use like an Oblek type material, only hard on impact.
@@nosaj2286 That's actually not a bad idea! Really anything that can shield an impact and then flex back or even break after a certain amount of force. The thought of something smashing my steel toe boot and then it staying that way as doctors hours later try to get my foot out sounds horrifying.
Actually not fully correct - there are special shoes that will literally chop off your toes to save your foot. I'm not sure what they are called but they are only used in rare circumstances
yeah the version of this myth I heard was that if something heavy enough hit your steely it was designed to cut your toes clean off because it is easier to reattach clean cut toes than it is to deal with a bunch of mangled toes.
I love that the full UK versions are being uploaded not the shorter cutdown US versions. The US versions were about 8 minutes shorter to allow more advertising time in each episode.
Yeah it's crazy isn't it in America a 60 min program is actually around 41-42 minutes. That's terrible I know they have to use advertising but that's obscene
@@Pr3stag3 I'm old, and I remember when Cable first started becoming popular. The biggest selling point that they were telling people why they should get Cable was "No Commercials".
Just like a drug pusher. The first one is free.
Just makes me sad Grant is gone though :/ dude was a legend
@@GermanSausagesAreTheWurstthat's why Tivo was so big in the 00s haha, being able to fast forward. Which became standard with DVR, then we ditched ads entirely with streaming.
I haven't seen ads in like 10 years, adblock and CZcams Vanced haha
Free Hulu? Cheap and ad free Netflix? They got us again. Guess i'm old too
I've also heard this as a warning against wearing steel toes as motorcycle boots.
I've always figured if you crash with enough force for the steel to sever your toes, the damage would probably be even worse if you weren't wearing them.
Also motorcycle boots are expensive and steel boots are provided by my workplace 🤷♂️
The alternative is your toes (or entire foot) being cheese grated off by pavement...
I heard it about motorcycle boots as well. You don't have to crash for a truck to go over your foot in traffic, which apparently would drive your toe cap into the tarmac and slice off your toes. A steel cap would probably be enough to protect you if it's "only" a car.
This happened to my cousin while on his motorcycle back in 2016. Woman didnt see him in and ran him over and tried to drive off but people saw the incident and stopped her from driving off. His head and feet went under the tires but the doctor said his helmet and steel toe boots protected his head and toes. He was unconscious for 1 week, woke up and stayed hospitalized for another week and fully recovered.
It's not the steel toe that's a problem, it's the laces getting caught. It's not really a problem if you tie your boots properly and wear decent fitting pants over them
@@manofthehour91 shaft drive so all good there! It did worry my a little on my last bike but it wasn't really close enough to the chain.
I remember the first time I saw this episode. I heard the Steel toe myth and my first thought was "Okay... anything that is heavy enough to deform the toe cap is going to be heavy enough to crush your toes. So... yeah maybe your toes would still be connected... until the doctors have to amputate their crushed, mangled remains to suture your foot so you won't bleed to death.
This story is 100% true. I gave my old steel toe Dr. Martens to my best friend when I moved to another country. We saw each other again 9 years later. He had lost a little toe. He said my boots saved 4 toes at the cost of 1 toe. A hydraulic door had closed on his foot in a warehouse accident. The steel cap bit all the way through the sole. If it hadn’t been for those boots I gave him, he’d be missing all of his toes.
That's toe-tally amazing
I recently toured a UPS air facility and the loaders explained that they don’t wear steel toed shoes because they can become jammed under the “Unit load device” or pallet which ride on a rail in the plane. This can lead to the person getting stuck for hours while rescuers attempt to free them from the situation with no circulation to their toes. Apparently they had an incident where this occurred and the guy lost his toes because they were severed for too long. Being that it was a first hand account I believe it’s not a myth when it comes to pinching hazards with rails but it would definitely be beneficial to have the steel toe if you are only at risk of dropping heavy stuff on your feet.
@@hunterhourany1612 here's the thing though, he wasn't keeping those toes regardless if he was there for that long
@@ABurntMuffin The main danger of the steel toe shoe in that situation is blood clots. When you are stuck for that long though there is a chance that a blood clot forms where the circulation it cut off. If that occurs it can cause a stroke or heart attack when you are freed from under the pallet and kill you. Loosing the toes is the least of your concerns in that situation because you might not even live long enough to need them.
@@ABurntMuffinHe wouldn't have been trapped there if not for the boot, so yeah actually he would.
I had a 200kg drill rod drop from over my head and speared me in my steel cap boot.
My foot was damaged and I later had a toe amputated due to the blood supply being cuttoff.
The steel cap saved my foot. If I was not wearing them the front of my foot would have been guilitened off.
I walk normally and have scars, but greatful for the protection.
Wear your steel cap boots!
*Quentin Tarantino wants to know your location*
steel cap boots don't exist
@@somdusazerate Toe caps are what you call the protective metal. steel cap boots = steel toe boots. Hope this helps
@@loadings3819 you probably think the moon is real too, right?
Its bait@@loadings3819
Rip Grant. Live on forever through mythbusters.
Rip Grant. That quick release with the zip ties and the pvc. Genius. We miss you man.!
I remember seeing that and then immediately trying it at home as a kid in high school. Worked great!
@@ZigealFaust It says "a Japanese 'myth' takes off in bottle rocket blast off" it's in the closed captioning too
@@ZigealFaust thats not what it said lol
@@ZigealFaustthat’s not what it says at all.
@@ZigealFaust brain damaged
As a machinist steel toes are a must, it's just understood that if the workpiece is heavy enough to crush the steel toe enough to cut your toes off your foot is already a pancake
I somehow read this as "as a masochist" at first 😅
@@michaeledmunds7056 😂
You’re right. Most of the people that avoid steel toes because of this myth aren’t smart enough to realize that last part, about how you’d be losing your toes anyway.
21 years later and I still love the show. RIP Grant, you were a treasure.
I worked as a SMAW welder for ship construction. Usually the steel sheets are around 10-15mm thick. They can be bent, but they're also heavy especially if it's a single sheet. I can't tell you the amount of times My steeltoe boots have not only saved me from molten metal, but also the amount of times that the steel sheet accidentally fell on top of my toes when working below the hull. The leather steeltoe boots are fking majestic. I'm blessed to only have walked off with minor bruises so far, otherwise it would've been way worse.
I expected a small snippet, and got a full freaking episode! This thing should be preserved in national archives!
Banijay, the right holder to Mythbusters, is uploading the whole series in original 1080p quality... Even the very first episodes are available in 1080. That was not easy to find a few years back
@@xl000 where are the first episodes available? Season 4 is currently the earliest on this channel
I've heard the myth about steel toe boots amputating toes.
It sounds silly to me.
Yes, it probably could happen, but the force required to do that would mean that without the shoe, your foot would have been wrecked anyway.
So might as well wear the boots to stop any lesser force.
Which has indeed at some point saved my toes.
It's about misuse of the word...... certain jobs don't allow steel caps because it complicates the situation,some require steel caps to a certain rating.
It's more about what it takes to get to the foot through squished steel without doing more damage and the constant pressure until it's removed from the steel.
@@jacobishii6121 You got crystal clear regulations for safety at the job. You can say "United States of Europe" is nonsense, but for safety it is GREAT that everybody who should have protective shoes actually GETS these shoes. And in most factories you need them.
What about carbon/composite toe shoes?
I work with a kid and he refuses to wear steel toes on the job (even with the threat of termination)
He says, and I quote, "they don't make me look good".
That's basically what they come away with; yes, the steel toes can hurt your foot. But in every case, you're better off with them than without them.
"It went right for the camera man" Ohh ok good...so nobody was hurt.
Mythbusters taught me you didn't need an extensive education nor a genius mind to engage in science. I have worked in many technical fields since, had immense success, and I owe it all to these guys. God keep your soul, Grant... You were loved!
MythBusters was one of the best Television shows ever. Thank you for re uploading these
As well as junkyard wars... I think that was the name
@@codyr7050junkyard wars needs a reboot. Just don't make it PC and add a bunch of token characters with stupid back stories.
My grandfather was an ironworker and gave me a new pair of logging boots when I got a job paving roads during summers when I was in college, they had the full steel toe and protected me when a 10 ton trailer cut loose and rolled over my foot.
An irresponsible party trick my coworker does is to have someone run over his foot while wearing his steel toes.
@@pipebombpete.6861 Calculated risk and it's on him if he calculated poorly.
wait... 10 tons? I'm pretty sure that's waaaay too heavy for even a steel-braced shoe to stop, surely. was this during some form of work? if so, was there an incident report filed?
@@_NekOztaking badly calculated risks as an adult is usually what we refer to as irresponsible
No offense but your foot would have been more than likely fine without them as well because of distributed weight and the amount of time under it. People have their feet run over all the time with minimal damage and the size wouldn't much matter.
I broke my ankle during high school (gym coach decided we were to play soccer on the hardfloor inside court). At the hospital after surgery I shared a room with a guy that had gotten his toes chopped off by the toe cap. Apparently he'd gotten an industrial sack of metal over his foot weighing at least a ton... They managed to repair the foot, and of course had it not been for the cap his foot would have been mincemeat.
I can still remember him waking up in the middle of the night screaming from the pain and the rapid click-click-click-click-click of his morphine self-dispenser. Morphine maxed out and he kept screaming until the nurses came in and injected something locally into the foot with a giant needle.
Safe to say I didn't feel much self-pity for my own accident.
Having full episodes on CZcams brings back a part of my childhood and I’m so grateful
Kari: "Ooh, that's really stiff. This might be a two-hander."
Everyone: Pause
Just saw that part and had to rewind it😂 I love it when they sneak things like this!
"Simultaneous release is one of our hugest problems..."
"pause" is for when a guy says something that could be interpreted as gay. What she said is a "that's what she said" or a "nice"😊
8:11 Adam is a two-hander as well.
@@johnjason1472 pause
I think I commented for some video earlier, but it's AWESOME that we can see these Mythbusters episodes here. Thank you ❤
0:30
Seconded! I've been bingeing mythbusters so much on youtube, and going to share with my daughters as soon as they are old enough.
Third! This is awesome! Been missing this!
I know right. And the fact that this video was uploaded 2 days ago and it already had over 300K views is incredible considering this episode came out almost 20 years ago. Maybe it’s introducing some newer fans to the Mythbusters that may have not grown up on it like and other people my age have.
And they’re the UK versions which are much better!
This brings me back to my childhood. Might be odd to say that this is already nostalgic, but when I was 11yrs old I would leave the tv on with my eyes slightly open so I could watch MythBusters! pretending to be asleep but staying awake long enough to catch the show at 10pm :) MythBusters greatly fed my engineering & science curiosity, and I'm forever grateful to everyone who worked on making it
I miss this show so bad it was my childhood man RIP grant an thanks Mythbusters for all the great episodes 🙏
I used to watch this on tv after I came back from school when I was like 14/15 years old. And it was my favorite thing to watch, it still is honestly. And my favorite MythBusters was Tori and Grant. And when I learned that Grant is not with us anymore I felt really sad. Thank you Grant and all MythBusters for making my childhood tv time more fun, teaching, memorable and productive.
Rest in peace Grant.
that pfp scaring me bro
I was very sad to
Find out grant had left us way too soon r.i.p.
without accepting(trusting) christ as saviour, no peace :/
@@MG-hg1sq are you OK?
@@Wulfrik671 ye , why ?
Its a complete myth that I'm getting substantial work done ever since you guys started uploading full episodes.
Love,
Love,
Love this.
Isn’t it crazy how a bunch of the cast passed :( but they’re forever remembered in these films!
I’m so glad they’re finally giving us the full episodes because I only had 2 seasons of dvd’s been waiting a long time to watch yall again since discovery sucks now lol
Finally these episodes are showing up in full on CZcams! I haven’t been able to watch Mythbusters for years because it hasn’t been available in my region.
RIP Grant and Jessi. Two super badass people gone way too soon, thanks for being a part of my childhood ❤🫶
I’ve personally, unwittingly tested out steel toe boots and can verify that they will save your toes. I worked as a mechanic for almost 20 years. I won’t explain the entire scenario, but my foot got run over by a truck. Easily 1000lbs across the end of my shoe. The shoe, and my foot were basically unscathed, aside from some scuffing to the leather on the shoe. I’d have undoubtedly been injured if not for the steel toe shoes. Yes, there will of course be a point where the steel cap will fail and your toes will be injured, as we see in the episode and testing here, but until that failure point, the steel toe shoes will have protected you from injury where the regular shoes wouldn’t. Severe crushing injuries often result in amputation, so I seriously doubt that there is any scenario where a steel toe shoe would cause amputation while the standard shoe wouldn’t.
When I was a kid I had a mustang run my foot over. Somehow it didn't break. The tire kind of conformed around my foot it felt like. It grabbed my foot and then let go.
I honestly swear by steel toe boots. My foot wouldn't be intact after having a dock plate collapse on top of it if the steel toe cap hadn't prevented that weight from landing on my foot proper...
once had a pallet jack drop 2 feet directly onto my foot. Had a big bruise on the top of my foot where it wasn't covered by the steel, but probably would have been a hell of a lot worse if I wasn't wearing steel toes.
It’s completely true. I worked as a welder for years. A heavy steel I-beam that a coworker was grinding to the correct bevel, broke free from its hoist and came right down on one of his steel toed boot. The steel toe cap in his boot, crushed flat right around and onto his toes. He screamed like I’ve never heard a man ever do before. We tried to remove his boot, thinking that his toes were completely severed, but there were toes still attached. A call to 911 and the police and ambulance showed up. Upon explaining what happened, the cop got a look of horror on his face and winced. Fast forward, micro surgeon was able to reattach his big toe. Supposedly, your big toe is super important in regards to keeping your balance and enabling you to walk. By pure luck the end of the I-beam missed the big toe directly. The other 4 toes were crushed beyond repair. A full 14 months of physical therapy rehab before he returned to work. New company policy forbids wearing steel toe boots. It was decided better to have your toes crushed than crushed with a flattened steel cap onto them.
In Australia I worked for the railway they issued full uniforms including boots....the strange thing is they gave us standard boots no steel toe....they reckon its best to crush your toes then cut of your toes off with steel cap boots...yeah I'm not sure.
they reckon wrong. as is usual in Oz.
So first they crush the toes and then they cut off the toes 😂
The official mythbuster channel uploads a video taken from the BBC. So we get the full 50 minutes episode. Well thank you very much
This is not the official channel. And is BBC as they let that copyright expire. They renewed the us ones
I don't think this is right...the ones they showed on BBC2 were reruns that were shortened to 30mins.
The ones we got originally in the UK were the 50min episodes, but they had an English guy doing the commentary and were on Sky-TV rather than BBC (also maybe Channel4)
Previous comments are missing the point that these are 50 minute episodes when US tv shows broadcast in the US are 40 minutes long. Love the longer versions.
Man mythbusters was such an amazing show. As a kid and teen I watched the heck out of these and I’m glad they’re here for younger generations to see as well.
I'm so happy to not just see this getting put onto CZcams for free, but that there is still so much love for this show.
A few years ago, I was mowing my lawn, and a slip on a small hill in wet grass saw my left foot go under the mower. Though not steel toed in their literal sense, i was wearing a composit saftey sneaker. The blade ripped the safety toe off my sneaker, but stoped the blade before the other side of it came around. My foot was bruised and sore for some time, but thank God no cuts or amputations. I decided not to go to the ER, so i don't know if any bones were broken, but one of the knuckles in my big toe does not bend.
Jeez, so lucky! I guess safety shoes really are a good idea. I had a friend in middle school whose dad was missing half a toe because of a similar accident.
@@nom_chompsky Vegetable gardens are better, anyway. 😈
@@stephaniedesmond8329 im starting to come around to the "till the land, then just throw a ton bunch of different grains and beans around in no particular order"
@@highviewbarbell Right? It feeds the local wildlife and it feeds you! Not to mention saving on effort.
@@stephaniedesmond8329 Vegetable gardens help you live a long and healthy life.
MythBusters. Should make a time machine. I go back to 2007. Enjoy it all over again.
Agree
@@borntoclimb7116 or, you two guys can watch it again, on youtube!
My grandfather wishes he could go back in time too. For different reasons though....
This episode is from even further back according to Wikipedia… 2005 season. Very close to 20 years ago
There's so many reasons I'd like to go back to 2007.
I owned a safety footwear company for 35 years. We had four mobile units and three stores. That myth appeared in the 80's when the government applied safety regulation for workers. There was resistance to change and some complained about risking amputation. I said to my customers that if something heavy enough falls on a protective toe cap to cut your toes, well it's a surgeon who will finish the job. I was made aware of one incidence where insurance refused to pay for a broken toe because they maintained the city worker didn't wear his supplied safety boots. The big lawn mower the guy was using in a park hit his foot, cut the front of the boot that flew off and left him with a broken toe. In my report I confirmed that he was wearing safety boots and that if he had not done so the front of his foot would have been chopped off. Every home owner who mows their grass should wear safety toed shoes, not flip flops or sneakers. Think of your kid who could end up handicapped for life.
YOU FORGOT ABOUT PINCH POINTS.
This just happened at the warehouse I started working at. A guy was stepping off an electric pallet jack and it crushed the length of his foot, against the shelf supports. Folded the shoe up and the steel cap chomped down and severed all his toes.
Imagine what his toes would’ve looked like without it😂😂
@@Just.A.T-Rex probably like a candy cane and not bitten off.
Yes, I am sure the employee would have simply walked away if they were wearing sneakers or loafers.
@@jasonfullerton7763 no one cares why you think tho jackass.
Did they get reattached?
This brings back such good memories
Watching these old mythbusters episodes reminds me of a better time. Before everything got all weird and messed up
The myth is that the world was ever not weird and messed up friend.
@@Gibson343088 its all a matter of degrees -- not black and white or absolutes. And its WAY more messed up now than when Mythbusters was on. Clearly. Anyone who thinks it isnt, their opinion would mean nothing to me. It would be like them saying the sky is yellow on a clear blue day.
@@Gibson343088 I don't need you or anyone else to try and tell me "the world was never not weird or messed up". I'm speaking from my own experience and the memories I have from years ago. Who are you to invalidate someone's memories or tell somebody their experiences didn't happen?
@@olbricky6824 Experience is not absolute. Your personal knowledge isn't global truth. The world has slays been messed up, you were just asleep. Assassinations and Holocausts don't happen in a picturesque perfect world.
And my son still loved me
The fact that a 2 litter bottle is 30% stronger than a water cooler tank shocked me more than anything else.
I think it’s because a soda bottle holds carbonated soda and this has to withstand pressure while a water cooler tank just holds water.
@@MyNameIsNotPa The bigger something is the more force it has to contain (as there is more surface area for the pressure to exert it's effect), which means you need thicker walls to reach same pressures without a failure. A smaller container will always be able to contain more pressure if it's made of the same material and has the same wall thickness than the bigger container.
One crew is testing safety equipment.(steel toe boots).....
The other crew starts out with no safety goggles, hard hats or shielding AND positions their faces right next to the pressurized bottles. They add goggles soon after, then get further away while launching. After almost getting hit in the head by a falling 5gal jug, they wear hard hats/ bump caps. I Think they learned MORE about safety than Adam and Jamie did on this episode.
One thing about getting your toes amputated by the steel toed boot is, at least you still have the toes preserved in the toe of the boot. Could, possibly be reattached, depending on the amount of damage to the surrounding structure(s)(?).
We were taught by management at United that steel toe boots were supposed to do that to save your toes. Supposedly they can be easily re attached.
Yeah, in the shipyards we were told that steel toes weren't used because they'd be useless anyway.
@@Pagliacci_Rexprobably didn't want to pay for the boots.😂
@@Pagliacci_RexTo be fair maybe they have a point. Idk how well even steel toe would help with that much weight that quick. Although to be fair one can't deny people's desire to be cheapskates.
Ive heard that line of reasoning vs composite toes
I haven't watched satellite TV in over 8 years so its very *very* nice to see full episodes of Mythbusters on CZcams.
Grant, you be missed. Yesterday is history, tomorrow is a mystery and today is a gift, that is why it's called the present. Thoughts and prayers go to you and your family! You will now live forever!
Steel toe boots crimped off one or two of my grandfather's toes. However, as I understood the story, he was working on a gantry crane when a ladle of steel unexpectedly ran over his toes. I think many tons of weight and shoes sandwiched between steel on steel wheels on tracks, shoes probably didn't matter.
If he didn’t have them the foot likely wouldve been sliced right off
The one thing that I always wished about the steel cap myth was that they tested non safety steel toes, like on doc martins and other punk/metal boots. cause i feel like they could shear or at least trap toes underneath.
When I started work, I was an apprentice mechanic. A couple of years in, one of the newer guys managed to let a four poster lift, with a car on it, down onto his foot. He had steel toecaps, but the lift caught it in such a way that it rocked backwards and broke all his toes. I remember they had to wrap his foot in a plastic seat cover to get him to hospital. So yes, that can definitely happen.
I grew up working construction running heavy equipment we are actually not allowed to use steel toe shoes, they want you to buy the new style which is just a rubber toe support because of this.
It's nice to watch old episodes. The loss of Grant is still palpable.
When I was about 19 I ran over my left foot with a pallet jack with steel wheels and 1400 pounds on it. Rubber boots. My big toe was flatter than a pancake.
Put some maple syrup on that bad boy
@@CommentFromnah dude that’s a crepe
Bro I was pulling a produce pallet and did the same thing. We were all going in a line when there was a sudden stop. I was but a wee lad I threw my weight into it but to no avail, the weight of the potatoes and bananas was unbearable. It went right up onto my foot stayed for like half a second then rolled off. My shoe was immediately full of blood. Lost many toenails and my big toe has never Been the same but luckily I kept all of them XD pro tip just swing the handle into a hard turn as far as it will go the wheels will turn sideways and act like a brake, just move because the sudden stop will sometimes topple the load and crush you to death if your under it.
Here in Germany - that toe-cut myth is completely unknown.
In hazardous working environments - safety shoes are mandatory - and that's a good thing.
Without them - you have to look elsewhere for a job.
Very German comment A+
It’s over played here as well. I own a safety boot store and I’ve only heard this myth back in the 70s; nowadays most people know the benefits far far far outweigh this risk. If it can destroy the safety tor your toes were goners anyhow
@@Just.A.T-RexA few years ago, I worked at a German Amazon warehouse.
To counter theft - we had to exit through a metal detector. Therefore, we weren't issued shoes with real steel toes - but ones made from a plastic material. Good enough for most stuff you can drop on your feet - with one major exception.
To keep our forklifts and pallet carriers going, their batteries had to be changed. As they were of the old lead/acid type -they were heavy as hell. I guess 200kg/400lbs - if not more.
To change them they had to be pushed on rollers to slide out into the charging fixture. It was hard to get them going - and to stop them. If you didn't pay enough attention it was possible to slide them out the wrong end - and tip them over.
Guess what happened one day. A co-worker had his feet crushed as that flimsy safety toe collapsed under the weight of that heavy battery.
Interestingly - nothing was changed about it afterwards.
The logical solution would have been some heavy one-size-fits-all over-boots to wear only for battery change which are kept permanently at the forklift garage.
Why they didn't buy some is beyond me.
@@Just.A.T-RexFor working safety, we have a proprietery system here in Germany.
It's a mandatory safety insurance called Berufsgenossenschaft. You have to have one to run a business of any kind legally. It's a kind of insurance.
You can work without any safety whatsoever - but then this insurance will be so stupendously expensive it won't be worth running the business in the first place.
To make it affordable you have to work along their guidelines. If a serious accident happens they send their investigators. Did it happen because their rules have been violated - they make you pay - literally.
If you issue your workers with safety shoes - it's mandatory for them to wear them. If they don't - that's a reason to get fired - in the extreme case.
Generally speaking - it's a good system - albeit it has it's drawbacks, too.
For bigger companies - it works well. For small businesses - it can be tough in the beginning as it obviously costs money from day 1.
It's great to have these episodes available! Long live the Mythbusters !
I'm so psyched to see Mythbusters is on CZcams! This was one of my all-time favourite shows on TV.
Even without cutting. The toes are destroyed with these weights.
And it would have been so much worse without the steel.
Had an motorcycle-accident 20 yrs ago and my foot got caught right between my engineblock and the car that hit me. 20 years later I'm still glad I wore my motocross boots that day (and everyday since then when riding). Boots weren't steel capped but some hard plastic. It did get deformed a bit but thanks to them the only permanent damage is a little inflexibility in my right big toe. Probably would have lost half of my foot if I'd worn sneakers
If youd worn regular shoes, you'd probably just not have a foot tbh 😅
Man, this show is a core memory. Kari was my first redhead crush and Andrew Yang really made me wanna pursue engineering.
Psa always fill your pressure vessels completely with water before pressure testing them in any way, whether fail testing or leak testing. Water is essentially incompressible so you get a tiny pop instead of big boom. Plus you get to pressure much faster. Watching them fail test a five gallon bottle with air was horrifying lol.
"How come you don't wear steel-toed boots, Jamie?"
"I generally try not to drop things on my feet."
😂😂😂😂
(Props to Jamie putting that much trust into others)
Just found my first full episode of myth busters ❤❤❤❤ without googling it, and watching it in parts and pieces
Free mythbusters on CZcams...thank you! Man this takes me back
Great episode, also 15:10 - 15:40 is one of my personal favourite moments in all of Mythbusters!
Def a two hander😏
33:11 well... that's probably the best time to say "I'd hit that" while being able to pass it off as a joke 😅
"I'd smash it" was my first thought when she said that.
I can attest first-hand to the safety of steel toe boots. Before I became a full grip, I worked in one of the Hollywood warehouses. While unloading a flat bed truck, the lift gate was lowered on my foot and I didn't notice until I tried to move my foot and it wouldn't move
My dad had the steel of his boot trapped and it was crushing his toes. The ground was wet from rain he slipped and slid into the gears of something at the mill the steel from the boot was stuck and dragging him in and his foot was stuck in the boot by the bent steel he pulled out his knife and cut through the boot and his toes right behind the steel and drug himself to the latter to climb down and find a coworker to take him to the hospital his boss found him half a mile away from where he was injured and took him and another worker was able to shut off the machine and get his toes to the hospital. He had the toes reattached but there isn’t very much meat in them it’s mostly just skin and bones.
The best part of this episode is the one minute starting 12 minutes and 25 seconds into the show.
Hah, I didn't even read your username and went to go check the timestamp out and thought, "Huh, I bet they're a fan of US Water Rockets." How right I was. I just didn't expect how right I'd be from that guess until I went past your comment again.
1 minute @ 12:25
I had a telehandlers forks with load on squash my foot into hard-core and it bent the steel toe cap into my foot and I had to get the boot cut off. Surprisingly it Didn't break any bones but it was black and blue and swollen alot. Kinda lucky I guess 🤷♂️
I'm guessing you recovered, if so how long did it take for the foot to heal?
@@bronyfanhelluvafan6728 , yeah it was a few year ago now, couldn't wear a shoe for a few weeks but all in all I reckon about 12 weeks, it still aches now when it's cold. Funny thing is a few days before that I got hit in the head with a bucket on a 360 digger and knocked down a hill 🤦♂️ just had a headache from that one 🤣
@@nubie1100 Well it's good to know your foots ok. Though I hope you didn't get a concussion from your head injury?
@@bronyfanhelluvafan6728 no I was fine. It hit me in the side of the head with a hard hat on, the hard hat didn't do much like because if you get hit on the side it's just as good as a bucket on your head. I was on the disposal team for foot and mouth so I was more worried about the mud and blood when i was falling down the hill 🤣
I was a live dummy that experienced this in real steel toe experiment. In 04, I was unfortunate and had an estimated 1,600 lbs steel rectangular plate fall from about 3 feet and it landed with the corner on my foot. I had wolverine steel toe boots on. The plate seemed to of hit on the edge of the steel toe and slid into my foot. Well, the plate went through the boot, my foot and the the sole chipping the concrete. I was " lucky " enough not to lose any toes but the y were crushed to where I have NO joints except the very last ones that attach to the foot. My foot was split in two about two inches into the metatarsal area. Good news, I can still walk with little notice of serious injury! Thank you Jesus!
Back in my military days (CDN) the prohibition of using steel toes was well understood. All our boots had composite toes, not steel. The reason for the prohibition of the steel toe was not that they would amputate the toes during the accident, but would crush around them and prevent removal of the boot in the field by medics, often necessitating surgical amputation later. The Kevlar toes were also massively stronger, and much warmer in cold weather conditions. Steel would often cause frost bite, which might also require surgical amputation. As somebody who still uses hardened boots (toes and shanks), I avoid steel as they really do get colder as your foot cannot warm it enough due to the high levels of heat transfer of steel vs composite.
Thank you @Mythbusterstvshow for keeping the access to all episodes of the program for free here on youtube !
It makes me nostalgic and brings me back to my Highschool years.
Thank you for being for knowledge instead of for profit !
"I dont wear a seatbelt cause I think it will decapitate me if I get in a crash"
I wouldn't say that's the same thing, if anything it would be I don't wear seatbelt because I think it will crush my ribs.
@@sacr3 I'd rather deal with a few broken ribs than my skull on the windshield.
@lemons1559 well of course, lol, that's not the point of my comment, the point is that his analogy doesn't work.
@@sacr3 Fair enuf
Man this really shows how good mythbusters was, 4 days and 1.1mil no problem.
I've worked at a warehouse that stores and processes all manner of Heavy, Angular and Sharp objects(servers, APCs, A1 plotters etc), 'workshoes' such as Steel- or kevlar was required... I've heard the myth that it could sheer your toes off clean, and given the implication of a clean wound versus a visceral mess, I was happy and content.
Now, after seeing this, I'm counting six years of lucky stars and and surprisingly uncomfortable with all this.
"That's really stiff. It must be a two hander". I agree Carrie, I agree.
Tory Beletchi?
I am absolutely loving all these full episodes. Thanks for posting!
I had the pleasure of seeing Grant speak at a nearby university and got to meet him afterwards. He was the best of us. May he rest in peace.
KEEP EM COMING!
"Thats really stiff, might be a 2 hander" - not the first time she's used that sentence
And at the end, complaining about simultaneous release...
Binge watching myth busters on tv back in 2007 during school summer breaks was some of the best years of my life.
imagine having you bones preserved for future uses, and find out they ended up on an episode of MythBusters
you just watch it and suddenly: "oh hey! thats MY bones! :D"
I worked in a factory in the 90s where one of our mechanics decided to go against standard practice and move a machine part suspended on a rolling engine stand by himself. A chain broke and when the part landed it did fold down the steel toe and it did cut all 5 toes off. To be fair, if he hadn't had the steel insert though, it would have turned his bones to powder anyway.
I once had my foot pinned by the bucket of a front end loader. I didnt even realize until i went to move away and was stuck. My reaction was to wave at the operate, smack the bucket and give the motion to raise it.
It wasn't until later that I fully comprehended that my foot would have been absolutely crushed without those boots on. Instead I had scuffed leather.
In my neck of the woods, the myth was that older firefighter boots would do this. The reasoning was that if your toes were crushed under debris, you'd die from the smoke, but if it cut off your toes, you could take off your boot and run away.
Edit: all of my toes are steel, don't @ me
I work with a guy who had a forklift’s solid steer tire back over his foot. The steel toe slightly dug into the top off his foot, but no damage was done. He was able to replace his boots and that was the end of it.
If not for that steel toe, the top of his foot and toes would have been completely flattened and destroyed forever. Had he not been wearing steel toes that day, he would have a clubbed foot right now.
Any potential injuries that could result from a steel toe would almost certainly result in far worse injuries without. I cannot think of any situation that could happen where a person would be better off without the steel toes than with. If you do know of any circumstances where that would be the case though, I would sincerely be interested to know about it.
Another thing people may not consider is these days steel capped boots also have puncture proof undersides. I remember stepping on a board full of nails on a site and being confused why my foot felt heavy. The boot had saved me from a nasty puncture wound to the foot. Wear your PPE boys, it's worth it to protect yourself from nasty life long injuries.
I worked in a furniture mill. Steel toes optional, leather required. Either we dropped a board, a seat, a chair - Leather boots adequate or a pallet weighing several tons - steel toes would crush and not rebound, difficult to remove boot with collapsed steel without doing further damage to toes. Not much in between. [we sold as ready to assemble, so boxes were solid, not ready to use furniture]
I was once told that the steel toe was intended to actually provide a clean cut to the toes to allow them to be sewn back on if needed or possible. What an interesting episode!.
Holy cow! I grew up on Mythbusters. Im so glad its being preserved and passed on!
I was in the US Navy from 1979 to 1991. While on my 2nd ship the USS Tarawa LHA-1 I was walking out across the Helo Hanger and I yelled it a person I didn't know to NOT walk so close to the side of the forklift as they were moving things around. Told him if the forklift was to turn quickly it's rear tires would run him over. No more the 10 seconds latter I heard him screaming and saw the forklift had done exactly what I said would happen and ran his foot over crushing the Steel Toe in the boot. The back edge of the steel flared outwards right threw the sides of the boot while the front held some form making the whole steel toe tilt backwards cutting his toes clean off. So YES if crushed at the right angle they can and will sever the persons toes off. This was learned from REAL Life experience seeing it done myself. Normally the steel toes are good for most impact protections but when crushed they can have different outcomes.
I got my foot wedged between the drive wheel of a 2000 pound electric pallet jack and a concrete curb. My foot was pretty sore, had to take the rest of the day off. If i wasn't wearing steel toe boots, my foot would have been crushed for sure.