What is this?
 

Was walking thru the carpeted living room bare-foot this am and felt a sharp sting in my heel. The carpet is fairly new and in excellent shape...low nap.

I pulled this thing out of my heel...the shorter end is as sharp as a small nail. I was not picking my feet up good while walking and it enabled the thing to slide right under the skin of my heel.

I googled carpet tacks and didn't see any that looked like this one. But if it's not...what is it?



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Looks like a deformed staple.

^^^
The longer end has a smooth gradual bend and that end is slightly flattened out...and not sharp.

I'd take another pic of that end but after I rinsed the blood and took a pic....I tossed it into the garbage.

I cannot help you with the staple but reminds me when I was in LA in a hotel room. The room had the old style shag rug and I walked across the room with socks on my feet. I got a sharp pain in one foot and noticed that I had stepped on a wasp. Ouch. Inside I wear slippers all the time now.

That’s a broken pad staple. Them things are sharp!

This. ***

Talk about sharp. The tack strips they put around the perimeter of the room, are like super sharp razor blades

I think it fell off your bed.

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I've never had any carpet laying experience....are you sayin the pad below the carpet?
And if so...I wonder how it got on top of the carpet?

And yes, it's as sharp as a pin on the short end.

^^^ Looks relaxing....:)


I have one of these that I used for back pain.

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I recommend something stronger for you.

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Ouch!

It's called a hog ring. The hook on one end has fallen off and that's why it's dropped out of the bottom of the couch or chair.

I agree with Bill. (edit) To be safe, I'd suggest going in for a tetanus booster.

I've used hog rings for renewing the seats in my 911 with new leather.....they aren't sharp like this was. Hog rings are pre-bent...this thing is straight with one bend.

I had one two years ago before they did back surgery. I'm good to go. :)

Carpet tack

That's what Bugsinrugs said....a carpet pad staple.

That makes the most sense because of how sharp it was....I have no idea how a pad staple could end up being on top of the carpet.

I don't know but it sure looks like a dime to me 😁

It also looks exactly like a takedown lever spring for any Glock pistol. They don't just fall out, though. Takes some work.

2002 Denver....I keep it handy for scratch-offs. :D

Have never owned a pistol...so it wasn't from me.
The neighbors might have thought I got shot....I said a bad word real loud.:)

Looks like a flattened out hog ring to me. How it got that way no one will ever know.

Here is a pic of hog rings that I have left-over from the SC seat.
They are not sharp at all and I can bend them by my fingers. The tack that I stepped on would be impossible to bend by hand.

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my limited experience with hog rings is that they are fairly substantial and usually have a round cross section.

I agree with most of the others that it's a staple. And the following "The carpet is fairly new" statement would support having a staple from the installation of said, "fairly new" carpet laying around.

fairly new to me is a few years...lol

I could bend the hog rings with my thumbs, but I would need the pliers to close them up.
The staple I slid into my heel was not bendable and very pointy and sharp on the shorter end.

Turtles hunt game with those.

^^^
They're always up to something....

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They come sharp and blunt, pre-bent with 2 acute angles and one easy angle and simply 2 bends at the ends.

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There is no one style of ring.

^^^
They all have to be bendable to close the connection.

This staple, or whatever it is, was stronger and not bendable.

And very pointy at one end.

Alright then, let's call it a drive hook and be done.

^^^ I searched drive hooks and the closest I could find was this.....

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Similar....but I'm still leaning toward a 'carpet pad tack'.

BTW...my heel is feeling much better today. :D






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The more I think about it, even though I've never done it, when trying to pin the pad at the closest point to the baseboard.....hold the pin/tack by the long flattened end and hammer it in without crushing your fingers..:)
(or not even hold it....just poke it into the pad and give it a whack with the hammer)

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There must be some carpet layers on here that can verify this.:)

That's a ⅜" Duofast staple we use to install carpet padding wooden subfloors with a hammer tacker stapler. That staple is not broken, one leg is bent straight probably from someone yanking out old pad. I've been banging those in for 53 years and have pulled hundreds out of my shoes, tires and body

^^^ Thanks for your expertise....I knew someone here would be sure of it.

The thing def was sharp...I was walking slowly and it slid right into my heel.

I am in the deformed Pad Staple thought line.

And, yes they are sharp. Found out how sharp many years ago rolling up carpet before the new carpet was installed. Opened a ring finger from the tip to the first joint. Many sutures , no rugby for a few weeks and the scar reminds me not to try and save a few $ when I can afford to let the pros do it.

see post #2 :)

I was thinking you meant a regular wire staple.....which is prob what this actually is called.
The thing that puzzled me, is how strong/rigid the thing is. It's like a small super sharp nail.

"I'm sorry. Not specific enough."

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^^^
Reminds me of this.....Cliff was my favorite on this show.:)

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Drive hook:

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