| On job sites, sure. I was safety manager at my old firm, so when it came to steel-toed boots, despite their being insanely heavy, I always wore them. One of the guys I worked with, a weld inspector and structural technician, once nearly lost his toes when his foot got caught underneath a several-ton rolling bearing mechanism that they were using to test long-term floor durability in the lab. Only thing that saved his foot were his steel-toed boots... the leather of the whole shoe was chewed away and the steel toe was gnawed to heck, but his foot was pretty much okay.
Once you get used to 'em, they quit feeling so heavy. When I did site work, I would wear them every day and after a few weeks, I hardly noticed them anymore. And I promise... you can find cheaper men's steel-toed boots than you can women's...! |