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How Many Uses Can You Come Up With?
It's Sunday and I was just sitting at work and I started thinking about an anchor point that I was taught with webbing. Not having tied it in a while I went out and made sure I remembered how to get it done. Lucky for me my memory is still intact.
The other guys came over and we had a short lesson for it's uses and showed them how to tie it too. This led into a morning of going over some very simple, but effective, ways to use the webbing that we carry.
Everyone has their own ideas about why they carry a certain length of webbing or rope. But, don't limit yourself to the harnesses and escape systems that utilize webbing. The pieces I keep are for a multitude of "basic" practices that assist me, when needed, in actual firefighting.
We can use them for controlling doors, advancing a large line, searching off of a line and more. I would like you to all share your webbing stories. What lengths do you carry? Why? And are there any special tricks you have picked up from some experienced guy in the house?
Take care and remember our troops and their families this Memorial Day.
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Permalink Reply by Marc Hansen on
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Guess I'll start.... I carry a 20' piece, works well from residential buildings for pulling up tools and etc, can be used for ff rescue if needed, securing doors (vehicle and building) and just about anything else. Its also colored green while the webbing on our rescue is red and yellow
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Permalink Reply by Greenman on
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I keep a coupe of 6' pieces tied in loops with water knots in my cargo pocket. I use them to move LDH by tying a quick "Lark's Head knot" around the hose and using the webbing for handles, which also works well to tie-off a hose to a ladder, or support 2 1/2" for long periods when in the Defense.
They can also be used to drag a person by slipping one of the Victim's arms through one webbing loop, the other through the other loop and crossing them behind the person's shoulders, them sing them to drag.
I tried a long piece of webbing and found it just got tangled too much for my taste.
Greenman
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Permalink Reply by lutan1 on
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But, don't limit yourself to the harnesses and escape systems that utilize webbing.
A few out-of-the-box suggestions:
- Restraining hitchhikers, felons or anyone else I don't like
- A short piece can be tied in a Bruce Lee or martial arts style head band
- Restraining the kids when they won't do as they're told and keep running away (such as cleaning they're bedroom)
- Tie a piece around the ankles of someone who owes you money and dangle them over the handrail or parapet of a multistorey building
- A sex aid (tieing up) in the bedroom (or any other room in the house!)
- A whip (for either discipline or as a sex aid)
- Dragging large road kill home to cook for dinner
- Tieing up the roll of carpet that the mother-in-law's body has been wrapped into (easier for dragging and disposing)
- Use it as a gag on the noisy kids (or wife!)
Not sure if I'm on the same track as perhaps you were thinking though????
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Permalink Reply by Moose on
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LMAO!!
For a second there I thought you were spying on me and using my journal entries!! Great stuff. lol
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Permalink Reply by Fabulous Heather Days of Summer on
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Lutan... have you been in my house again... with our tools ???
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tying up my mother-out-law carpet roll...
what did you think I meant? ;-)
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what did you think I meant? ;-)
What did I think or what was I hoping for???? ;-)
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come on didn't you notice I said
OUR tools... ?
LOL ;-)
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well... ya know... we all need to be held back a little when the power and torque increases... every now and again...
and to improve safety...
if ya know what I mean ;-)
on scene... and during training... MANeuvers... of course...
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lol - did you just call Lutan old?
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Then you better start using "Sir" when speaking to him... and salute or genuflect...
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