Thread: Hot Foot-AAAA,Dud

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I have sneakers that I work in the shop with.They are kind of holy and looks like something someone who would be homeless would own.Comfort zone that is hard to rate.

I was welding together a bench grinder stand.Wide heavy base,heavy wall 2 x 2 square tube,and a smaller thick top.I had it on my welding table so the top and bottom shielded me from slag while I was seated on a stool because I had on my cut-offs.

Now I know,I know,how many more things can I do wrong.Smell something funny.Yepper-a million to one shot,the hole in my left sneaker by my big toe was starting on fire..So now I am doing a dance that hands down would win on the TV show Dancing By the Stars.

Got it out in short order and still felt something warm inside the sneaker.Pulled off the sneaker to find the sock by my big toe had started to turn black,but wasn't on fire.Cool

Why post this whole thing??.Moral of this story is just like in racing,"it is much better to be lucky than good".Also thought I might want to share my silly old self welding with what I was wearing.Yepper kids,don't try this at home.

How did you get my sneakers???

Pat's got a couple of shirts for welding

Because it's so hot here in Florida I usually work in my shop in shorts and sneakers. Sparks and hot metal have found their way into some very uncomfortable places and I am still wearing burns on top of both feet from using the plasma cutter. After Pat's injuries from welding I guess we should all learn a lesson though.

Don

Yep,
Dan was welding something a while ago and one of the sparks shot down my shoe-TALK ABOUT A HOT FOOT!
Don Jr.

My wife has a pile of good Tee shirts for me to wear out and a pile of HOLLY ones cause I burn them up welding. Now, I have a green welding jacket, but its just to hot. I too wear sneekers and have made many trips to the dogs water dish hahaha

It's the "it wont happen to me syndrome". A very good friend of mine was building a pipe fence (with out gloves) and had a piece of slag fall and stick to his wedding ring on his finger. He could not do anything. It burned him to the bone! I know I have done stupid stuff! One day the parachute may not open!

welding over my head on a hot day so only had coveralls and and workboots on a piece of slag went down my front and hit my belly button dead on and stayed there. coudnt get the coverall off fast enough to dig it out, just walked over to the water hose stuffed down and put out the fire,it wasnt pretty .

Well I did find a round brown round spot on the bottom of my big toe.On the thick skin part and it doesn't hurt or anything.Got me thinking if that cotton sock had really caught fire how much worse it could have been.

Yepper-I don't even have a first aid kit in the shop.I do need to get one.