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Yeah, the bounce is scary. Def. a steel toed boots kind of job.
A, reasonably sharp, maul usually doesn't bounce, as long as it hits square... but, if the angle is off and the head rotates instead of chops, it can give your arm a bit of a yank.
I had to do it the old fashioned way until I graduated college. :x Now, I'm old and lazy (and it's also Florida weather, so wood is more of a cooking ingredient than a source of heat) so I just borrow a hydraulic splitter for an afternoon once a year.
Way ahead of you here: I have no toes 🙂
Actually I would wear steel toed boots if I could, but I can't because the edge of the steel cup quickly starts digging into my funny bits: the front of all my full-size shoes very quickly collapses when I start wearing them and the crease it creates - or the steel thing in safety shoes - becomes unpleasant, if not painful.
So I wear plain old boots. But I do have a large axe gash in front of one of them, and I'm sure glad there was nothing underneath to go spend hours at the ER for.
I can't tell if you were kidding about the not having toes thing
Not kidding 🙂
If you're okay with sharing, what happened?
I lost them to a congenital disease. It's very boring. My only claim to fame is that, unlike most people who get their feet shortened, it wasn't diabetes 🙂
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Bit off-topic (?) but Is it true that keeping your balance becomes harder without the big toe?
Everybody's circumstances are different.
I think that particular piece of medical wisdom comes from the fact that most people who lose toes - big or small - get there because of diabetes, meaning they're sedentary, often overweight, and have diminished feeling in their feet.
I didn't have that problem: my feet were - mechanically anyway - fully functional, and I'm quite active. so I had little trouble adapting to no toes. After two month, life was mostly back to normal.
I do have a few balance issues - mostly leaning forward in certain situations: if I'm not careful, I will plant my face. And the weirdest side effect for me is that my feet are less stable left to right: it feels like walking on a log lengthwise all the time. That was totally unexpected.
All this talk about not having toes is veering into territory far too interesting for dullmensclub. Might have to report this thread for violating rule #5 if this continues to be interesting. /s
Dude... If you think lost toes are interesting, you should visit the diabetes wing in any hospital: it's so depressingly common the Dull Men's Club should have a dedicated section just for that 🙂