Hammering on a Shoe on the Last
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Question
In Tractate Keilim, there is a dispute about whether a shoe on the last receives impurity or not. According to the opinion that it does not receive impurity, if one removes the shoe from the last on Shabbat, would one be liable for hammering, since the work is completed and it receives impurity.
Answer
Hello Rabbi
This indeed depends on this dispute.
See sources.
Source
Baar HaGolah - Sources on Shulchan Aruch Orach Chaim, Siman 308, Sif 14
Shabbat (141b) and according to the Rabbis. One Baraita teaches that one may remove a shoe from the last, and another teaches that one may not remove it, it is not difficult, this is Rabbi Eliezer and this is the Rabbis, as the Mishnah teaches, a shoe on the last Rabbi Eliezer declares pure (meaning it is not a vessel, and on Shabbat it is also forbidden to move it. Rashi) and the Sages declare it impure: