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[Cidertom]

I have been promoted to Assistant Fire Chief and Training Officer for our Volunteer Fire District. Been doing the emergency thing since 1985.

One of my goals is making a tractor rescue prop. We go out a couple of times a year on some sort of tractor incident. A dedicated rescue prop will help train to make the incident smoother/ better outcome.

I wish we would never need one... ever again.

TEW

 

[tommu56]

Cidertom

ove the 9 or 10 Calls I've been on
2 were with people pinned under them
one in pto
one hand in combine
The rest were fires.

cribbing and jacking the rollovers were the most challenging.
Maybe 4 steel drums end to end for engine/trans and 2 on a pipe like axle and rear tires at its ends and set both things up in a tee on its side light weight but just as hard as a tractor to crib and jack.

tom

 

[RobS]

Congrats Tom, that's great.

How 'bout a graveyard tractor for the prop? There is a tractor boneyard near us and I would think a fire burned tractor wouldn't have much salvage on it, especially after sitting a while. Maybe they'd donate?

 

[Cidertom]

I will get a donated tractor. We are just developing the training facility now. Part of our setup will be a side hill rollover. I will have two very large concrete anchors that will have safety cables that we can keep taut as it is lifted.

New training facility is first.

 

[JB4310]

I would think lifting and propping would be the main thing, then some type of way to back off bound up drive trains like pto shafts, maybe a large light weight aluminum pipe wrench to turn shafts?

JB.

 

[Treemonkey1000]

Congrats on the promotion. I did the Volunteer Fire department a long time ago. Most of the volunteers now have been replaced by full timers unfortunately. Once you get your prop tractor do you have the air bag lifting devices? Or even jaws of life can lift things if positioned correctly.
Be safe out there.

 

[Rara Avis]

I have been promoted to Assistant Fire Chief and Training Officer for our Volunteer Fire District. Been doing the emergency thing since 1985.

One of my goals is making a tractor rescue prop. We go out a couple of times a year on some sort of tractor incident. A dedicated rescue prop will help train to make the incident smoother/ better outcome.

I wish we would never need one... ever again.

TEW

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[firemanpat2910]

Lift an inch, CRIB an inch. Best advise I ever got from one of our insructors. When lifting any odd shaped, strange angle, something dont look right type of situation dont wait till you are 4 inches up to put cribbing in. Re stack, replace with bigger cribbing as required but crib as you go.

Congrats on becoming AC. Been one myself for a few years now.

 

[Iplayfarmer]

Before you get too far into this project...contact the experts...
National FARMEDIC Training Program - Home

They've changed the name. It used to be Farm Accident Response Training. No kidding! My station still has the book with the Logo and everything. We go through it annually in early spring before the farm activity really starts. The trainer, whoever it may be that year, always get teased relentlessly for the Acronym.

The best advice I've remembered is that the Jaws are not very helpful on a farm accident. The stuff that tractors and machinery are made of is just heavier and harder to cut. If we cut someone out of a farm machine it's with a sawzall.

We've also done a lot to stress safety on farm scenes. There are so many other hazards that responders just don't have to think about on a traffic accident. Fertilizers and farm chemicals, stored energy in hydraulics, heavy machines, etc. You just have to get in a different mindset on a farm scene.