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Hand Tools Flashcards

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Hand Tool Classification

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(5)
Striking
Prying
Cutting
Specialized
Multi-purpose
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Battering Ram

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  • Forcible entry, penetrate floors, wall openings for hoselines, rescue work
  • 2 firefighter use
  • Forward bar hand protect—do not use as handle
  • Forked end for breaching walls
  • Blunt end for forcing doors
  • Heavy duty prying
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Sledge Hammer

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aka “double jack”
• 10 & 12 lbs
• Break: concrete, tile, walls, floors, metal bending

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Crow Bar

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  • 4 feet long
  • 10 lbs
  • Prying: doors, floors, equipment
  • Can move a railroad car with proper application (bevel down)
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Hayward Bar

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  • General use prying (notch used for leverage)
  • Lock breaking
  • Window forcing
  • Lifting shutters and overhead doors
  • Ventilation aide
  • Door prying
  • Generally replaced with the Haligan
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Bolt Cutters

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• 2 sizes
o #1—24”, 5lbs, medium steel up to 3/8”
o #3—36:, 13lbs, medium steel up to 9/16”
• Never used to cut electrical wires
• Can cut: iron bars, cables, cyclone fences, padlocks

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Cable Cutters

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  • Carried on some apparatus
  • Chain ratchet and beak cutters
  • Never used to cut electrical wires
  • Can cut soft metals like: aluminum and copper
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Chisels

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  • Various types carried on TFD apparatus, most have hand chisels in tool boxes
  • Heavy Rescue 4, carries impact chisel
  • Eye protection shall always be worn
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Gas Plugs

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• 2 styles
o Removable hand/expansion plug
o Attached non-removable handle/expansion plug
• Seals standard size gas lines
• Full turnouts and SCBA required while placing plugs
• (Wet area to prevent sparks)

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Hydrant & Spanner Wrenches

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  • Adjustable up to 1¾”
  • 20” long and 5lbs
  • Handle adjusts size (smaller=clockwise, larger=counter-clockwise)
  • Spanners for tightening or breaking hose couplings 1-6”
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Sprinkler Head Stops

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•	Allows stopping flow without shutting down sprinkler system
•	3 types: 
o	Wedge for frame type heads
o	Tongs (head shut-off) fits different type heads
o	Tapered for flush type sprinkler heads
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Wheel Chocks

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• Metal or Plastic (no wood chocks)
• Used in pairs, front and back of tire
o Engine—rear Engineer side
o Ladder—front Engineer side

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Water Main Valve “T” Wrench

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  • Made to TFD and Water Dept standards
  • 5’ long, ¾” diameter, square socket, 30” T handle
  • Carried on Ladder/Tenders
  • Engines and Ladders/Tenders carry a residential “T”
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Life Belt

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  • Extended work on ladders
  • Nylon, Steel pompier hook and buckles, and sewn nylon straps
  • Buckle bottom strap first to prevent overlooking it
  • Snap onto rung with gate down
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Pick Headed Axe

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  • Multi-purpose tool
  • Used for: forcible entry, search and rescue, ventilation, opening concealed spaces, sounding to find rafters or studs, breaking glass: temperedpick; ordinaryflat side of head)
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Parts of a Pick Headed Axe

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  • Parts: Axis of handle (90*), pick, blade, shoulder, heel, belly, helve, doe foot
  • Parts: Heel cut, eye, wedges (metal and wood)
  • Metal wedge is put in with the grain or perpendicular to the axe head/wooden wedge (E&P)
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Pick Headed Axe Safety

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  • Watch for overhead obstructions
  • Never swing overhead like a lumberjack
  • Always have eye protection
  • Keep sharp to prevent slippage
  • No loose handles
  • Scabbards provided on ladder trucks
  • Never carried on shoulder
  • Keep hands higher than the axe head when breaking glass
18
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Carrying Pick Headed Axe

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How to carry an unsheathed axe:

• When walking, keep close to body, blade down, cover pick w/ one hand & place other hand on shoulder

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PIck Headed Axe Maintenance

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  • Maintenance
  • File to sharpen—toward eye
  • Spray with WD-40 to prevent rust
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Hay Hook

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  • On most apparatus
  • Moving and carrying baled materials, crates, cases, cushioned furniture, auto seats & other soft
  • Protect tip when stored
21
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Pike Pole

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  • Mostly used for checking for fires in ceiling
  • Varying lengths
  • Wood or fiberglass
  • Carry hook forward and down
  • Do not carry over shoulder
  • Push, pull materials or objects
  • Open dry wall ceilings or walls
  • Pull metal coverings
  • Sounding tool for ventilation activities
  • Open windows
  • Improvise slides for salvage and litters
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Shovels

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  • Round point, square and scoop shovels
  • Water removal and other liquids
  • Most often used at automotive accidents
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Rubbish Hook

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  • Roof operations for ventilation, overhaul, sounding, pulling roofing materials, pushing in ceilings, moving debris, ladders carry them
  • Used often to test stability of rafters
  • Most engines carry these
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General Maintenance

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  • Keep metal surfaces burr free
  • Edges sharpened
  • Wooden handles maintained with Linseed Oil
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Haligan Tool

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  • General forcible entry tool
  • Effective on wood & steel entry doors, interior doors, security doors & bars, swinging glass doors, all window types, dead bolt locks, breaking glass
  • Most popular with flat head axe

• Auto extrication uses
• Used in conjunction with K-tool for removal of dead bolt cylinders
• Construction:
-one piece cast steel,
-3’ long
- 2 ends: Adz end w/ spike & forked end

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Flat Head Axe

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  • Cutting and striking tool

* Weights 6 or 8 pounds w/ either wood or fiberglass handle

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Utility Shutoff Bag

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  • Includes: bolt cutters, claw hammer, large flathead screwdriver, 2 pairs of channel-locks, 2 crescent wrenches, pipe wrench, hack-saw, 2 ½” spanner wrench
  • Carried on ladders
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The Irons

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(Flat head axe and Halligan)
• Most common tools used for forcible entry
• Usually paired together with strap
• Very effective and will force entry into most doors and windows

29
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Mininimum Entry Tools for House Fire

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  • PPE, including SCBA
  • Communications
  • Hose line
  • Irons
  • Lighting
  • TIC (Thermal Imaging Camera)
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K-Tool

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  • Used to remove smaller dead bolt cylinders
  • Called K-tool due to shape of cutting edge of tool
  • Used in conjunction with Halligan and Flat Head Axe
  • Addition Key Tools to unlock cylinder
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Tool Box & Slim-Jim Kit

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  • Found on all fire apparatus
  • Contains various automotive tools
  • Slim-Jim used for non-emergency vehicle lock-outs (if emergent, just break window)

TFD (39 decks)

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