r/Firefighting hose toucher Feb 24 '25

Ask A Firefighter So I did a thing

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Anyone ever seen this before?

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u/ProfessorPatrick_ Feb 24 '25

I don’t mess with cutters on hinges now. Once they start giving me shit I’m on the spreaders just rip them out

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u/lostinthefog4now Feb 25 '25

Throughout my career , I was taught not to cut the hinge or the Nader bolt. Use the jaws to rip hinge out of the sheet metal was what we were taught. And this was before the E-tools came out.