Extrication (WAS Re: Upcoming County ESD-1 Courses

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In Da Old days (1981). The EMT courses in a region of 3-4-5 Counties

in NJ would schedule a common extrication weekend. Friday night

lecture and all day hands on the next two days. It was great.

Louis N. Molino, Sr. CET

FF/NREMT/FSI/EMSI

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LNMolino@...

> I remember the old leaf spring trick. You sharpen it with a grinder,

> then with a mallet you can skin the roof off a car just about as

> fast as with the hydraulic snippers. We also used air chisels. We

> didn't have a rescue truck, but one of our volunteers had a wrecker

> service with an air chisel and he would respond. Amazing what you

> can do with a come-along, air chisel, and sharpened leaf-spring.

>

> GG

>

> Re: Upcoming County ESD-1 Courses

>

> well, I learned how to skin cars with a K-Bar-T, pneumatic chisel,

> reciprocating saw, Porta-Power rams and wedges, Come-A-Longs and a

> neat little

> device made from an old truck leaf spring- the big powered hydraulic

> wedges and

> snippers were just coming into use.

>

> and I've seen several people badly damaged by unhappy cows....not

> including

> the bull riders and clowns at the rodeo.

>

> ck

>

>

> In a message dated 6/13/2010 09:30:58 Central Daylight Time,

> rob.davis@... writes:

>

> Skinning cars? Unhappy cows kicking people in the ED? Tis a strange

> world

> we live in!

>

> On Sunday, June 13, 2010 00:22, " Louis N. Molino, Sr. " _lnmolino@...

> _

> (mailto:lnmolino@...) > said:

>

> > We skin cars in many ways.

> >

> > I had a man who was kicked by a cow in a tender area In the ED while

> > on a clinal rotation. He was not happy. By the end of my 8 hours he

> > was in the OR. He was even less happy. No idea as to out ome.

>

>