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#47573 - 09/18/05 06:12 AM Re: Extrication tools??
trooper0366 Offline
Journeyman

Registered: 06/21/03
Posts: 59
Loc: Missouri
You have to get the timing right. Otherwise you land in front of the truck and become a greasy spot.
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#47574 - 09/18/05 05:35 PM Re: Extrication tools??
Arney Offline
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Registered: 09/15/05
Posts: 2485
Loc: California
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You have to get the timing right. Otherwise you land in front of the truck and become a greasy spot.


Yup, timing. That's why, in that UPS TV commercial, the girl checks her watch before blindly falling backwards off the building and onto the top of the passing UPS truck--right on schedule. Oh, wait...I think I hear the UPS truck coming down the street. Gotta go, I have a roof to catch! <img src="/images/graemlins/smile.gif" alt="" />

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#47575 - 09/19/05 05:01 PM Re: Extrication tools??
JimJr Offline
Member

Registered: 05/03/05
Posts: 133
Loc: Central Mississippi
If you land behind, you become a speedbump. <img src="/images/graemlins/shocked.gif" alt="" />

Jim

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#47576 - 10/01/05 11:11 PM Re: Extrication tools??
Anonymous
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Well, I did some research on the Biel tool and found there was a bit more room in the trunk of my car, so I added it.
Appears to be a VERY solid device. The idea of the extended handle being used to help in a prying situation made it a "must have" for me.

A few years back at an accident scene on the 405, the FD's pry bar was too thick to get into a door seam, so I pulled a 30" crow bar from the trunk of my car and it did the job. It then took me about 10 minutes to convince a fireman that it was mine and did not belong to the FD. I guess I should put my name on the Biel tool and Haligan bar.

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#47577 - 10/27/05 05:52 PM Re: Extrication tools??
philip Offline
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Registered: 09/19/05
Posts: 639
Loc: San Francisco Bay Area
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If you break plate glass use the tool at the top of the glass with the handle above the head, otherwise the glass shards will slide down the handle and give you a nasty laceration(s) on the fingures and hand/arm.

I'm trying to imagine doing this. The top of my window is over my head, and it's a non-opening plate glass with some sun-blocking film. I have a Biehl tool, so I hit the window at the top, but I hold the tool so that the handle is above the head? I'm not sure I'm going to be able to get a good enough swing to break through. Am I confused on the directions?

I assume I hit at the top of the window to minimize the cascade of broken glass? And I just keep working my way down till the glass is gone all the way down, while minimizing the amount that falls on me?

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#47578 - 10/27/05 06:44 PM Re: Extrication tools??
Susan Offline
Geezer

Registered: 01/21/04
Posts: 5163
Loc: W. WA
"It then took me about 10 minutes to convince a fireman that it was mine and did not belong to the FD."

After my friend's husband died, she had a quart of bright pink paint mixed up. Then she dipped the handles of all the tools in it.

Does any man who borrows a tool think it's his? Noooooo....! <img src="/images/graemlins/smirk.gif" alt="" />

Sue

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#47579 - 10/29/05 04:28 AM Re: Extrication tools??
Anonymous
Unregistered


Uh, thanks.
But I will pass on that one.........

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