Ridecamp: Re: [RC] Boots and Sneakers

> <<<I never wear steel-toed boots around horses.  If they step on your foot
> just  right, the steel toe will collapse.  Owweee!>>>
> 
> I always thought the same thing, but my husband (Director of Safety for a
> manufacturing company) told me that they are designed to take things like
> your foot being run over by a fork lift and other heavy stuff, and those
> weigh much more than a horse does.

Ooooh, I just don't want to be the one person it doesn't work for.

With my luck, I'd be the person with their foot in their own personal human
trap waiting for the jaws of life to get my severed, broken toes out of my
boot.

I know leather and nylon spring back!  I'm staying the hell away from steel
toed shoes.


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