#242825 - 03/09/12 08:37 PM
Re: What do you think of the trucker's friend (a tool)
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The curved blade is right off of an aircraft crash axe.  It looks like somebody took an extrication tool and added a bunch of features onto it to make it more usefull for day to day stuff. I'm no trucker, but I'd be real nervous about hacking away ice with a metal faced hammer or axe edge on my vehicle.
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#242833 - 03/09/12 10:28 PM
Re: What do you think of the trucker's friend (a tool)
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Noticed misspellings on the Crovel web page. If they can't get that right...
I want a pick/shovel, I'll take a wood handled Etool. I want an axe, I'll buy an axe. I find the all-in-one tools are often cheaply made, not a bargain, and won't do well half of what they advertise.
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#242835 - 03/09/12 10:34 PM
Re: What do you think of the trucker's friend (a tool)
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I'd like to see that in action. Usage of the crowbar seems highly dangerous.
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#242836 - 03/09/12 10:41 PM
Re: What do you think of the trucker's friend (a tool)
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To heavy for SAR> I would'nt pack it in. The shipping weight is 2.2 pounds. So, the tool is less than that. What weight would be acceptable in SAR for the tool(s) shown here?
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#242854 - 03/10/12 01:08 AM
Re: What do you think of the trucker's friend (a tool)
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It looks like the term "Truckers Friend" applys to a fire department truckman's tool. In larger , especially career, departments, apparatus and duties are divided into two primary catagories:
Engine companies: Responsible for operating a pump, humping hose and putting "the wet stuff on the red stuff".
Truck companies: Entry, search, rescue, ventilation and pulling ceilings and walls during the mop-up phase. "Truckees" are the main tool users and are equipped with various types of axes, pike poles, crow bars and other , more specialized hand and power tools, as well as ladders.
Both types of companies work as a team under direction of the incident commander.
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#242867 - 03/10/12 02:58 AM
Re: What do you think of the trucker's friend (a tool)
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It looks like the term "Truckers Friend" applys to a fire department truckman's tool. In larger , especially career, departments, apparatus and duties are divided into two primary catagories:
Engine companies: Responsible for operating a pump, humping hose and putting "the wet stuff on the red stuff".
Truck companies: Entry, search, rescue, ventilation and pulling ceilings and walls during the mop-up phase. "Truckees" are the main tool users and are equipped with various types of axes, pike poles, crow bars and other , more specialized hand and power tools, as well as ladders.
Both types of companies work as a team under direction of the incident commander. This makes a lot of sense actually. But the description on Amazon calls it "designed for professional truck drivers." I can see the sharp edge designed for extrication, but that doesn't square easily with the truck driver focus. So something is wrong somewhere.
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#242869 - 03/10/12 03:07 AM
Re: What do you think of the trucker's friend (a tool)
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I would agree that the tool is too heavy for wilderness or mountain SAR. For me, the most common need for cutting tools in that enterprise has been to clean up or clear out a helispot; that is why I often carried an Estwing hatchet (which also made a pretty good hammer,as well). The TF doesn't look like it would be very effective at that task. At a probable weight somewhere between a pound and a half, and two pounds, it just isn't worth carrying.
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