txdon
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I would have NEVER NEVER thought I would spend my first retirement vacation doing this!
Going back to school. Fire training school.
http://www.teex.com/teex.cfm?pageid=teexresc&area=teex&storyid=562&templateid=23
However, this was Class was different, it had tractors and was very interesting and informative. This class along with other Firefighting and Rescue classes are given once a year by the Emergency Service Training Institute Texas Engineering Extension Service at Texas A&M University in College Station, Texas. The class is 36 hours and last a week. About 2300 professional Firefighters (paid and volunteer) from all over Texas and beyond attended this week. The Ag-Rescue class is limited to 75 people and the class was full.
The tractor scenario we had was an older Farmall had turned over and was upside down on the side of a dam. The driver's leg under the rear wheel.
Using wood blocks (cribbing) we stabilized the tractor and lifted the rear tire by using a "cylinder lift" with air bags. See attachments below.
As you can tell by the last picture we learned all the places that farmers get hurt and trapped on their equipment. We also learned how to rescue a person from a grain storage bin.
So I guess you might be asking: "How was the wife entertained while I was having my tractor fun." Well, go to the last picture, see the smoke in the background, she was putting out a car fire in Firefighter Phase-One course.
Going back to school. Fire training school.
http://www.teex.com/teex.cfm?pageid=teexresc&area=teex&storyid=562&templateid=23
However, this was Class was different, it had tractors and was very interesting and informative. This class along with other Firefighting and Rescue classes are given once a year by the Emergency Service Training Institute Texas Engineering Extension Service at Texas A&M University in College Station, Texas. The class is 36 hours and last a week. About 2300 professional Firefighters (paid and volunteer) from all over Texas and beyond attended this week. The Ag-Rescue class is limited to 75 people and the class was full.
The tractor scenario we had was an older Farmall had turned over and was upside down on the side of a dam. The driver's leg under the rear wheel.
Using wood blocks (cribbing) we stabilized the tractor and lifted the rear tire by using a "cylinder lift" with air bags. See attachments below.
As you can tell by the last picture we learned all the places that farmers get hurt and trapped on their equipment. We also learned how to rescue a person from a grain storage bin.
So I guess you might be asking: "How was the wife entertained while I was having my tractor fun." Well, go to the last picture, see the smoke in the background, she was putting out a car fire in Firefighter Phase-One course.
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