The Halligan Bar – By: Rob Fisher

It can be used safely and completely. A few hours after "engineering and error"

Place - Let's say that their favorite colors are white and gold - there is "confrontation"

Understand why it is the best tool for many firefighters (firefighters) and they have to go to their engines

Or take it off - take it out, grasp it, specify it and use it. Please do not put it. Bring it

My favorite hand tool is the halligan bar. It is a versatile device, and I think many people agree. Longer things start to become clumsy, it is difficult to use in narrow places, and short things can not provide the same leverage, so my preference is 30 to 36 inch bar. If properly configured, the halligan is a powerful and powerful tool. This is three different parts of the halligan, and those angles make it very versatile

With forcible input hurghumber, flat ax is a set of fire fighters called "hard core" or "marriage". The combination of this cookware and striking tool is mainly used to enter a locked building to allow firefighters to conduct search and rescue activities and extinguish the fire. There are also technologies that can be used to access only with a flat ax. The reliability is not so high as to use a hard core, but in some cases it may be necessary, and in some cases it may be faster.

If you get the track task "hardcore", you are responsible for carrying the Harrigan tool and flat ax / hammer / split hammer to the scene. Normally, there are many discussions about the task itself, but there is not much debate about all the wonderful things that Harrigan can do. Let's change this. In my department, whether it is an engine truck or a heavy relief, all company officers have hurigans on each rig. In the last 14 years, Harrigan packed my SCBA belt or wrench belt, or I used my right hand in every fire I have done. Like a carpenter and his hammer, I'm used to the senses and abilities of this versatile tool.

Under the tape, I etched my company number to identify the real owner when confused. Do not think that this is important. Hurigan was recently sold on eBay, but not just Gurigan. This halligan disappeared from FDNY's Ladder Co. 58 on Ground Zero on September 11th. Captain Joe Principio, in the eBay photo, noticed that the fork of the tool was found by spot welding "58". And it eventually led to a tool to give it a legal owner. Not all hurigans have an emotional value of 58 tracks, but what is ours and our tools to help us maintain this way?