Thread: Extrication Video

Sir Marmaducus recently attended a series of vehicle extrication classes I taught here in SC. They took a bunch of pictures and he decided to play with his video production software and make a video. He had it posted in our private forum for awhile and I thought it was too good not to share. Thanks Marmaducus .
Enjoy.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qoghQECQkhY

Nice vid. One thing I learned is make sure you have your face shield down when your using the jaws. Some times they snap off and or make things snap off and it hurst less when they/it hits your shield and not your face LOL.

Right you are about the face shield. When I am in close proximity to a cut- especially when cutting hinges, I always put the shield down. But when I am teaching and it is noisy, I sometimes leave it up cause it muffles my voice and I cant project it over the noise of the tools and the scene. Joe

YOU"LL PUT YOUR EYE OUT!!!....that's what I heard!!!

LOL....."ONE KNEE, ONE KNEE..."

OK- Marm's calling me out!
I have to admit (proudly that is) that I am really hard on the guys when it comes to safety. There are pleanty of stories to go around about this.
I find there are many ways to make a point when teaching. Sometimes you go for the dramatic:
"[size=18px]BOOM[/size], YOU GUYS DROP WHERE YOU STAND- YOU'RE BADLY BURNED AND UNCONSCIOUS. THE REST OF YOU NEED TO COME BACK HERE, DRAG THE INJURED AWAY, TREAT THEM,AND CONTINUE THE RESCUE- MINUS THE 6 PEOPLE THAT ARE NOW EITHER INJURED OR HELPING THE INJURED!" ...they forgot a major step in safeing the car prior to cutting on it.
Sometimes you rely on humor and peer pressure to make them remember things. Some students have a bad habit of always going down on both knees or getting all the way on the ground around unstable vehicles. You never do this around unstable vehicles, and you should try not to do this at all. You have to be able to get on your feet and relocate instantly if there is a problem.
So how did I prove the point? For those troublesome few that did not respond to gentle verbal correction, stronger correction, and the occasional firing (go sit over there, you got squashed by the truck), I started to make them a little paranoid. "SOME OF YOU HAVE NOT GOTTEN THE POINT THAT I DON'T WANT YOU ON BOTH KNEES NEXT TO THESE VEHICLES. WHEN YOU DO THAT YOU CANT GET AWAY QUICKLY. THE NEXT ONE I SEE DO THIS WILL GET A SPECIAL SURPRISE. I WILL CONSIDER IT AN INVITATION TO COME OVER AND EMBARASS YOU."
I tried several things, but the magic bullet turned out to be HUMPING. It seems that none of these manly firefighters liked having some half-crazed (alright maybe fully crazed) rescue instructor suddenly climb on his back like some large stray rottweiller and start pumping away while chanting, "OOOOOO I LOVE IT WHEN THEY GET ON THEIR KNEES!"
It worked, it was done safely and gently, and we remained fully clothed throughout. Plus, they started ratting each other out to me---Hey, there is another one Joe!
End result, I saw more guys pop back up to one knee from their initial full kneeling position and much less lazy kneelers as they looked around like a guilty 4 year old to see if "Dad" noticed.
Is this kneeling rule an absolute? No. Is there a time to kneel during rescues? Yes. Should one get in the habit of kneeling on the ground and sitting on one's heels while placing cribbing under a vehicle while it is unstable. Absolutely not! They now are intimately accquainted (and I guess I really mean intimately :lol: ) with the proper decision tree when it comes to safely positioning themselves while working on wrecked cars.

By the way- great pictures. I like the technique you used for rolling the dash with the spreaders. Making that purchase point big enough to get the tips inside can be a bear, but when you don't have a ram or your ram isnt long enough, it works wonders.

Joe

cool vid and pics...long as you guys dont destroy camaro's classic muscle cars sittin in a low humidty junkyard its all good with me. Minute i see ya cuttin up a camaro/chevelle/nova/trans am, etc. is when im gonna have to come have a talk with ya'll.

Dave

Right flame- the inside guy's job is the one that sux. All work and no play!

THE POWERS that be have decided that the early versions of the kids' show Sesame Street are too racy for kids of today.

The earliest episodes, bought you by the number 2 and the letter E, were installed onto DVD last week. But horror of horrors Mr Cooper, it is rated adults only.

According to the publisher, early â??Sesame Streetâ?? episodes are intended for grown-ups, and may not suit the needs of todayâ??s preschool child.â?�

Having grown up on never-ending episodes of Sesame Street, one has to wonder what it was that was so terrible that we saw, that kids of today can't cope with.

In those days it was ok to for Cookie monster's eating disorder to go untreated, for Sally to take a stranger's hand and go to his home, for Oscar the Grouch to be denied prozac, and for blokes living together, Ernie and Bert, to engage in domestic violence.

But Executive producer Carol-Lynn Parente told the New York Times that the main reason for the censorship was nothing to do with anything we could come up with.

It was to do with a famous scene, often repeated, called Alistair Cookie and the parody â??Monsterpiece Theater.â?� Alistair Cookie, played by Cookie Monster, had a pipe which he later ate.

Modern producers felt that modelled the wrong behaviour. It encouraged smoking and eating pipes. Initially they re-shot the scenes and later it was dropped.

Another reason was that when Snuffleupagus first appeared, he was invisble to all but Big Bird. But later producers decided it was a little creepy to have the giant canary wandering around claiming he was not hallucinating all the time.

http://www.theinquirer.net/gb/inquir...-street-adults

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