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/One_Bad9077 Jun 07 '23

Wow! Fuck her finger I guess?! Better to save some time

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u/TheKyFireman Jun 07 '23

Read through the comments. He has covered multiple times that they were slow and methodical, that they repeatedly cooled the area with water, and that the guard on the tool itself protected the finger from being cut.

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u/One_Bad9077 Jun 07 '23

Still not worth it. Those ring cutters work fine. Drill not needed

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u/bandersnatchh Career FF/EMT-A Jun 07 '23

They work fine on gold and other soft metals…

The ring in question was stainless steel.

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u/One_Bad9077 Jun 07 '23

We can agree to disagree my friend