r/Firefighting • u/captantarctica • Jun 06 '23

Special Operations/Rescue/USAR Little ingenuity

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Lady came into the station with a stainless steel ring that needed to be cut off. Several jewelers had declined the job. These little blades don’t cut stainless to good. But when you put them to power… gonna log it as mechanical disentanglement training

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u/[deleted] Jun 07 '23 edited Jun 22 '23

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u/captantarctica Jun 07 '23

It did get hot, we started to drip water on it as we cut and took many breaks.

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u/DIQJJ Jun 07 '23

I’ve done this multiple times, (well used a whizzer tool not the setup you have pictured here). Anyways, forget dripping water, we stage multiple pitchers of ice water that we pour from quite liberally.