Sore foot.

I dropped a 6 cyl crankshaft "(flywheel end) on my toes last night,..man that hurts!..I had to sit down,....i thought i was gonna pass out!
It took almost an hour for the pain to subside somewhat before i could go back to the job at hand,..installing the crank.
I never looked at the damage to the toes till i went to bed.
Nothing broken or cut as far as i can tell but 2 of the middle toes are as blue as a smurf and more than a little tender.
Luckily he crank was not hurt
And no i did not have steel toed boots on, just rubber winter boots.

I dropped a chunk of firewood on my big toe in boots like that
around Christmas 2005, in summer 2007 I finally went to the
doctor and he said I had the most ingrown toenail he had seen. It is
pain free since he clipped the nail sides, but it never returned to its
original shape entirely. I hope you'll be feeling better soon.
Zach

I was splitting firewood one evening under light from a single bulb hung outside my shop.

A piece of firewood was frozen to the ground so I took a swing at it with a sledge hammer. I missed the piece of wood and hit myself in the left ankle. Man, that hurt! I just knew I'd busted it all to hell.

I hobbled into my shop and sat down on a sawhorse. My wife was off somewhere and I was trying to figure out how I could hobble to the garage, get into my pickup, and drive myself to the ER. As I sat there, I began to wiggle my ankle and it seemed to work OK. I decided nothing was broken, and when the pain subsided, I went back to splitting wood.

I think what saved my ankle was my boots had heavy insulation where the sledge hit, but I had a "goose egg" on the side of my ankle for a month.

Mashed toes sure do hurt. I hope you did not injure yourself too bad. I have drop a few things like that myself. I do not like wearing steel toed shoes as they are colder to wear in the winter.

I used to get my toes mashed when walking between the milk cows at my Grand Fathers place to unhook the stations. The old cows would step sideways and step on your foot sometimes. They would usually only get your little toe too it seemed like. LOL

Hope things heal up quickly for you. When I was at Vo-Tech a couple of guys and I were working on an engine and were going to put the crank in. We had it sitting slant on top of the engine block (block was in an engine stand). The other two guys had their back turned but I noticed the crank was rolling off of the block. I grabbed it with both arms as a craddle and was kind of "forced" to sit lol. That might have been a spendy drop. Glad you didn't have steel toed shoes or you might have lost some toes.

Rubber winter boots! Ouch, iv dropped firewood on my toes
wearing them, and have been steped on by a horse a few
times over the years with rubber boots on. Never feels good.
Put ice in your foot today.

I worked with a guy that dropped a 4 inch diameter shaft about 10 foot long on his foot. The foot healed fine, but looked pretty bad at the time.

It certainly is painful, I shattered the large toe/joint when I was younger, then broke it again about 3 years later while on vacation in Mexico. Doc said you'll have arthritis in that toe when you get old, well its been 28 years now and I cannot recall which toe it was LOL ! I guess that is a good thing, but he was right about arthritis, just the wrong place, both ankles, particularly the left one right now.

The medical professionals don't seem to do much for toe injuries, but you may want to look into it, and the care of this injury, ones feet are delicate and the pond effect can happen, causing other problems, while the doctor may or may not be limited in what can be done, you would benefit from having it looked at.

Like Jay, I've had horses step on my feet before, there is nothing like a big ole fat mare with a sagging belly stepping on your foot ! Last time that happened, it eventually turned into a really miserable affair for me, and while there may have been one other incident that possibly contributed, it ended up evolving into a form of a ganglion cyst, that turned into a mass about the size of a 3/8" fuel line that spanned the top of my foot from the left to the right. It was well entrenched somewhere below on each end. The top of ones foot is a complicated component, and when you get something like this tangled into the nerves, tendons and whatever else, for me, it just about drove me nuts. I could not be on my feet very long, my whole leg was screwed up with pain and discomfort, darned health insurance plan delayed resolution for 6 months. It was then discovered that varicose veins were also playing a role in that leg, 2 surgeries and years of recovery for my leg to feel normal again. The doctor/surgeon did a fantastic job, as there was a concern this mass would come back, it has not, he got it out from the roots, cleaned the ankle joint of degenerated bone matter, and said all of it was from arthritis, even the mass ! Now I am humbled by arthritis in the left ankle, can't win LOL !

The composite safety toe is fine in cold weather, a brisk walk will warm up my feet for most if not all of the day if I keep busy. I just find that using care to avoid dropping anything on my feet is reinforced by the above, extremely important as it just can't happen again, so I am very careful and have even considered expensive boots with metatarsal guards as well.

I know how you feel. Back in the mid 70s when I was hauling canned milk,I was unloading and dropped a full can on my foot off the top deck. I thought I would pass out before I finished unloading and got the empties loaded back up. I went right to the emergency room from there. They had to drill a hole in the nail on my big toe to relieve the pressure. That was worse than any toothache I ever had.

I have a hard time with the sides and corner of the large toe nail, I don't know what it is, but there's always something sharp there, and you can tell you need to deal with it, and what a pain it is to reach. Just recently, felt that coming on, trimmed it til it bled, got a slight infection, took care of that, and there was still something in there, off the main part of the nail, I think it curve in as it was trimmed clear but something was till poking into flesh. So... wait til just after a shower when it soft, and I end up having to peel up part of the nail, work it to cut or sever the piece, and though that was sore where I may have broken through the skin, peeling ones nails back is such fun, but the relief was immediate, soaked it in hydrogen hydrogen peroxide, healed up fine, but this can be a perpetual thing in either toe on both sides. No one ever said that getting old requires peeling your toe nails back and that they make it harder to reach just to do that the more you age LOL !

You have 'Magnetic Foot Syndrome'.Anything heavy and
metallic is attracted imediately and directly to
your toes.....I too suffer that afliction from time
to time. LOL! I'm glad nothing was broken(includeing
the crank . Steve

Is that how you came up with your Handle " goose" from the goose egg? Lol

Naw. It's a Marine Corps nickname. Comes from my last name.

As every mechanic seems to do on occasion, I hit my thumb with a hammer. Well, ya, that hurt like the dickens. But, about a week later I hit the same thumb. I just ran around the shop, not hollering, just running as I could not stand still. OHHHH that hurt. Another time I was lowering the steering, shift mechanism and fuel tank down on a 66 series IH tractor and got my finger caught under it. Could not reach the cherry picker pump to raise it but managed to get a hold of a bar or screwdriver and get my finger out. Working alone. It opened up pretty good so drove to the Dr. No Dr. in town that day, drove to neighboring town. He deadened finger a little and sewed through the finger nail to stitch it together. Talk about seeing stars when he went through that finger nail. They were flying all over but I didn't quite pass out.

I'am glad i ain't alone .
Thanks for the concern guys.
The foot feels alright, a little numb but other than that i can walk on it OK.
Bout 30 years ago i dropped a big 50 pound alternator with a 12" pulley on it ,Afraid of breaking the cast pulley on the concrete i tried to catch it with my wooden shoes i was used to wearing at that time back in Holland. I caught it with the pulley edge right on the nose of the shoe, but it didn't stop there, it split the shoe and continued down to split my big toe as well...MAYOR PAIN!!!
I had a herd of dairy cows at that time and could not afford to take time off, i hobbled around for weeks on a shoe on one foot and just a pair of thick socks on the other when milking the cows and doing the chores.
The nail came off and after the toe healed up the new nail grew all crooked and thick. I never seen the doctor for that either, nor did i went to ER when a couple years later i jumped down from a dump truck box right on a 2x8 with a 6" nail sticking out. The nail went right trough my foot and out trough the top of my boot,...and then i fell over.. taking the board with me in the process..M-A-Y-O-R PAIN!!!! again.
I kicked the board nail and all off with my other foot and.. passed out for a spell.
When i came to I did not dare to take my boot off right there and I went right back to work.
When i came home that night and looked at it there was hardly any blood so i figured it'll heal by itself,..not worth seeing a doctor for :wink:

Knew a fellow that was still working for a seed company in SC in his mid 80's. Was in the warehouse one day and went back to his office. Secretary came in and saw blood running out from under his desk.
His foot had been run over by a forklift and he was very diabetic and did not even feel it. Talked to him at a Clemson field day and he was doing fine when he told me the story.
Richard in NW SC

Friend of mine was helping this Lady and dropped
something heavy on his foot. While hopping around
the Lady says "I thought You had steel toes". He
said "no meat and bone like every one else"
Ron

I thought for sure when I read the title that you were going to say one of them funny loo-kin' cows you got had stepped on your foot! Made a big ouchie anyway! I took the 8N engine apart recently (to rebuild) and just about knocked the flywheel off on my foot. It came flying off finally after a number of "persuasive hits with a dead blow hammer. Just about got me. :evil: I went to snatch up the oil pan and that thing weighed about a hundred pounds and just about threw the old back out. :?

I broke a bone in my big toe once. Doc told that they can not splint a toe; told me that I just have to live with it until it heals. Hobbled around for a month or more with that - but that was over 60 years ago.

It is not unusual to hear comments about how steel toes will crush your toes and then they have to cut the boot and toe off your foot. I wonder how often this really happens. I expect that it is something like one steel toe crushed for every 10,000 toes saved, but people still will go for the really long odds. A friend who would not wear steel toe boots would not wear a seat belt either because for him going into water upside down was a lot more likely than a 15 MPH or higher front end crash.

hope you are ok now.

had to comment on that alternator thing. lol
ain't it funny how normal people dodge out of the way,
but we sometimes do our best to put a bodypart between that concrete floor and that falling big $ part!
I'll heal, that part won't.

Remember, extreme pain event triggers our fight or flight self-preservation instinct (why most pace in a circle)
I go the other way...do my best hulk hogan most muscular pose with the accompanying primal roar.....whew, that was a good one.
benefits,
pain goes away quicker
you don't get mad and break/throw stuff
your neighbors/co-workers give you a wide berth

(quoted from post at 08:57:06 01/05/15) hope you are ok now.

[b:505f04bbb6]had to comment on that alternator thing. lol
ain't it funny how [u:505f04bbb6]normal people[/u:505f04bbb6] dodge out of the way,
but we sometimes do our best to put a bodypart between that concrete floor and that falling big $ part![/b:505f04bbb6]
I'll heal, that part won't.

Remember, extreme pain event triggers our fight or flight self-preservation instinct (why most pace in a circle)
I go the other way...do my best hulk hogan most muscular pose with the accompanying primal roar.....whew, that was a good one.
benefits,
pain goes away quicker
you don't get mad and break/throw stuff
your neighbors/co-workers give you a wide berth

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I wore wooden shoes all day every day for the better part of my first 30 years.Wooden shoes are normally pretty sturdy,..it should've taken the hit on the nose without flying apart like it did.
Chit happens.


Hey!!,....are you saying i ain't normal!!!! :shock: