r/Firefighting • u/Swegist • 6d ago
General Discussion What do y’all call this ?
What do y’all call this tool
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u/choppedyota Prays fer Jobs. 6d ago
Spud bar.
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u/burningboarder 5d ago
This is the term I learned early on. I just looked it up and it seems like the term "Spud" is one of the earliest for a bar like this which is interesting since, at least in this thread, it's not as common as it used to be. Etymology is cool.
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u/disturbed286 FF/P 5d ago
I've always called/heard it called a spud bar too. I've never once used it for anything.
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u/meleemaker 5d ago
We had em on the ARFF trucks. I used it specifically once to behead a rattlesnake that got into the station
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u/themakerofthings4 1d ago
Technically it's a pinch bar, although it could be mistaken for a spud bar because they're similar. Spud bars are longer, have a wider head, and have a round cap/pommel/whatever on the opposing end.
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u/Upper-Gift-3598 6d ago
Pinch bar
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u/FCFD_161 5d ago
This one. I believe they were used to pinch rail cars along. Massive lever at the end means a person can insert between the wheel and track and move the car and few inches for help coupling / decoupling on a switch yard.
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u/Upper-Gift-3598 5d ago
Exactly!! I’ve even used one in that exact way on the rear dual while 5 other guys were pushing on the front bumper to get the broken engine back into the app bay….
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u/bdrft45 5d ago
Tanker bar
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u/fish1552 FF/EMT who thankfully doesn't have to do medical 5d ago
19Ks know this. :)
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u/throwingutah 6d ago
Nothing, because I have no idea what that is.
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u/Candyland_83 6d ago
I called it a lot of bad words the last time I opened the compartment door and it fell on me.
“Items in the overhead bins may have shifted during flight”
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u/malice427 5d ago
So question, did someone forget to latch them down with that stretchy latch thing or did that stretchy latch thing just give up (I have no idea what the actual term for that securing device is)
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u/Candyland_83 5d ago
The stretchy latch thing gave up. Then I rearranged all the stuff so they wouldn’t fall out anymore—then my favorite guy on the next shift opened the same door and a strut fell on him. I booby-trapped him accidentally.
It’s a reserve unit so we won’t have to suffer much longer with it.
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u/Amateur_Menace13 5d ago
My dad called it a Johnson bar but I usually refer to it as a pry bar
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u/ellamenopee 5d ago
Holy shit I can’t believe I had to scroll this far down to find this. Didn’t realize it was that niche to call it a Johnson bar.
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u/AK611750 6d ago
Pince de carrier
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u/Skullrawk Montreal ff 5d ago
Exactement
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u/AK611750 5d ago
C’est drôle parceque si on se fie à ce post ils s’entendent pas sur le nom en anglais, mais en français ça a un nom vraiment précis 😅
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u/joneptune FF/Medic 5d ago
J'ai appris aujourd'hui. Merci beaucoup pour votre point de vue, mes amis.
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u/SouthBendCitizen 6d ago
Pinch point pry bar
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u/Wolfxskull 5d ago
This is the correct name for the tool. A lot of people call it a pry bar or breaker bar but if you were to search a product name this would be it.
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u/Nice_Assignment7158 5d ago
The bar thats mounted on the running boards for some inexplicable reason that hasn't been used since I've joined and probably won't get used
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u/Imaginary-Anybody542 5d ago
Pry bar, keep two on the bumper of the aerials and in 17 years I’ve seen them used once
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u/GiveElaRifleShields 5d ago
That's my mom's dilly
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u/P3arsona Volunteer FF 5d ago
I called it a pry bar during my engine familiarization test and I failed because apparently it’s also called a braker bar
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u/joneptune FF/Medic 5d ago
I learned it as the "pry bar" at my 1st FD and it's a "51 in pinch bar" at the new department.
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u/fyxxer32 5d ago
On the FD we called it a pry bar.On the railroad in one of my previous lives we called it a lining bar because with several guys you could move the rail when you were repairing it. Also it was used in a track jack.
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u/CarobLoud1851 5d ago
Pinch bar, pry bar, spud. I've heard different names. In industrial manufacturing it was called a pinch bar. We had 5' & 6' versions. There's a 4' bar on our Ladder Truck. Huge amount of leverage!
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u/chuckfinley79 27 looooooooooooooong years 5d ago
Me personally: spud bar or that giant heavy ass pry bar
Engine check sheet just calls it a pry bar.
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u/Dr_CleanBones 5d ago
It is half of a very large chop stick.
Either that or a very long rectal thermometer.
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u/MuscularShlong 5d ago
Thats a spud bar. Never seen it on a fire truck. Have used it to break up concrete and rocks while digging.
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u/TheFrontButtons 5d ago
Pry Bar in the fire service but it's a Bradley bar for the small one and Tanker Bar for the real one.
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u/Successful-Growth827 5d ago
Pinch pry bar. What to use it for? Don't know. Only ever used them to pry the grates up at the station to clean the drains. Never actually used them on a call.
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u/CauseBrave4388 5d ago
Called get a new job if you don’t know what that is.
I’m 100% joking, it’s called a pry bar here. Obviously many things you can use it for but the most utilization I’ve gotten out of that thing was during those long incidents where you are opening up walls. Great for pulling down lath and plaster walls.
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u/Alphab8a 5d ago
It's a pry bar lol... pinch bar...crow bar... spud bar .. I've heard it called multiple names.
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u/RobertTheSpruce UK Fire - CM 5d ago
Looks like a big pokey bar to me. Some would say the best kind of bar.
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u/mmadej87 5d ago
Kinda glad this topic got brought up, I have a LT that calls it a toothpick and is convinced that’s a common name for it.
Anybody else heard it called that?
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u/RowdyCanadian Canadian Firefighter 6d ago
A pry bar?