Have you ever had hot slag burn down inside your boot?

[burnieman]

I did while I was on a 6 ft ladder burning out a cross member on a sea container. By the time I got on the ground and got my boot off the slag was melted into the top of my foot. hurt like crazy. It hurt even more when i dug it out! I did a lot of stupid stuff when I was a kid.

 

[Reyer Farms]

Yep scars on booth feet! Had to swap socks so it wouldn't rub to finish the day. Hot, hot, hot...

 

[grsthegreat]

just be glad it didnt find its way to the old butt crack

 

[Shield Arc]

I can't say I've ever had that happen.
On my second or third job I had to cut apart an angle iron tower and lower it in place, and re weld it. I had to lean back in a safety belt about 60-feet in the air. For some reason the only way I could make one cut with the O&A torch was to let the sparks fly over my left shoulder. One big piece of metal just laid on the cut. I took the torch and pushed it out. Darn thing landed inside my collar, burnt my neck, went to grab it, but it fell to my belt line. Started burning my belly, made a very big mistake of sucking my belly in, take a wild guess where it landed?! Took months to heal!:laughing:

 

[Reyer Farms]

I can't say I've ever had that happen.
On my second or third job I had to cut apart an angle iron tower and lower it in place, and re weld it. I had to lean back in a safety belt about 60-feet in the air. For some reason the only way I could make one cut with the O&A torch was to let the sparks fly over my left shoulder. One big piece of metal just laid on the cut. I took the torch and pushed it out. Darn thing landed inside my collar, burnt my neck, went to grab it, but it fell to my belt line. Started burning my belly, made a very big mistake of sucking my belly in, take a wild guess where it landed?! Took months to heal!:laughing:

That officially stinks!!!! Glad the belt made it through the ordeal!

 

[Shield Arc]

That officially stinks!!!! Glad the belt made it through the ordeal!

I would like to have a video of that from the ground. I bet I was dancing a jig, while standing on a 4"x4" piece of angle iron.:laughing:

 

[Ted Summey]

After that story the piece of slag that landed on top of my cap and proceeded to burn its way through to my scalp doesn't sound nearly so painful. Never had any in my boot.

Did see a welding student lay the electrode clamp on the floor then stand up to do something else for just a moment then squat on the hot electrode. He stood back up rather quickly and learned a valuable lesson. He also was an object lesson for his classmates.

 

[Shield Arc]

When I was in welding school, during the O&A welding part. It was a big deal to heat 3 or 4-inches of the welding rod, and burn holes in your neighbor's coveralls while he was welding. One day a guy was just about to stick the hot rod into the other guy's coveralls, but the teacher walked into the room. The guy was watching the teacher instead of what he was doing. The red hot rod went right into the guy's rib cage. Talk about screaming! Almost ended up in a fist fight!

 

[Reyer Farms]

Yeah that's not real funny. I believe ole boy would had to tote good one, after that!

 

[wroughtn_harv]

We wear steel toed boots for good reason. We also don't wear boots with seams around the toes, also for good reason.

I've had slag get in my ears, my pants, even had both pant legs on fire at the same one time. I was filling is a huge hole using welding rod as filler with an old buzz box, tigging with only the t. Both pant legs caught on fire and the weld was right at my belt buckle, one boot knocking down the fire on the other leg and then swapped feet/leg. It worked.

The worst thing I believe is having a piece land in your ear with a puddle going and not stopping. There is the snap and crackle sound of ear wax cooking and then the pain, followed by the smell of burning flesh, from your ear into your nose without leaving the skull. But then you don't want to scream like a girl or dance like one at the sight of a spider either.