Extrication Tools- Who uses what?

At Dickson County Tn Rescue squad we use Res-q-tek and Hurst. All in all we have 4 full sets of tools. 1 Res-q-tek , 3 Hurst.

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Permalink Reply by Terry Lambert on October 21, 2007 at 2:33pm

One department I run with uses Hurst, and the other one I run with uses TNT. Both are good, but the TNT seems to be alittle lighter, and easier to handle.

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Permalink Reply by firefighter444 on October 21, 2007 at 6:23pm

my departement uses hurst tools we have 3 sets of them

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Permalink Reply by Chris Pearson 141 on October 21, 2007 at 6:45pm

Im my dept. we have to Rescues one has Hurst tools the other has lukas. The lukas are lighter but the hurst IMO are much better

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Permalink Reply by Joey on October 21, 2007 at 7:19pm

We are using a, spreader , jaws. a combo tool , and a ram all hydrolic.. all hurst. Were really well equipt. But our small town tends to go to other communities to respond in crisis sitiations.

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Permalink Reply by Spanner 122 on October 22, 2007 at 8:37am

We use Holmatro tools on all our Rescue Pumps and Heavy Rescues. Easy to use and easy to interchange on big calls when they are all the same. Great tools, although we have broken the tips on the cutters the odd time cutting nader bolts.

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Permalink Reply by Butch McCurdy on October 22, 2007 at 11:18am

We have AMKUS and we are verry happy with them.

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Permalink Reply by Jeff on October 22, 2007 at 12:54pm

We use Holmatro and have been very pleased. They are generally lightweight but durable.

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Permalink Reply by Scott on October 22, 2007 at 4:18pm

One department I run with used TNT sometimes it seems like they have no power to get through what you need to get through. The other deparment has all Holmatro and we have never had a problem with them

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Permalink Reply by Joe Stoltz on October 22, 2007 at 8:20pm

We used Amkus for about 10 years, then this year we bought a TNT set. It's a little lighter than the Amkus. FYI, we tried all of the tools on the market on an old school bus and found that Amkus was the only cutter that would NOT cut the reinforced side pillars. Not to slam Amkus, that's just what we found.

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Permalink Reply by Sarah on October 22, 2007 at 10:18pm

Our Dept. and the neighbouring dept that we run mutual aid for mvcs with both have Holmatro (cutters, spreaders and ram). We've (I think or it might have been the other dept) broken one set of cutter blades, but I think that was just from misuse.. we also have zmags and some not so often used manual spreaders and air bags for lifting (don't think we've had a call where we've needed them yet)..