BREAKMAKER FIRE RAKE/HOE HANDTOOL
The Breakmaker hand tool is a heavy duty but lightweight bush debris rake combined with a sharpened hoe blade. It is commonly known throughout Australia’s bush fire brigades as a “McLeod Tool”.
Manufactured in Western Australia from heat treated plate with hardened blade, galvanised and fitted with a straight grain timber handle, this combination fire control handtool has proven itself to be more than adequate to enable fire crews to establish fast “Bare Earth” control line breaks during most prevention and suppression bush fire activities.
Avaiable in 6 and 4 prong otions.
PIKE HEAD AXE RESCUE HANDTOOL
The pike head axe is a heavy-duty combination axe head with pointed pike spear commonly known as “ships axe”, where traditionally, the axe head is used to sever cable and the pike end is used for penetration of locked steel shipboard bulkhead doors to gain rescue entry or emergency egress.
Manufactured in Western Australia, both large and small pike head axes are cast in high-grade steel with a linished blade edge and fitted with a straight grain timber handle. These combination hand tools have been designed as very adaptable, rugged use emergency rescue tools which are essential to standby rescue trailers, aerial rescue fixed wing aircraft and helicopters, marine fire and rescue as well as fire crews.
PULASKI AXE/MATTOCK HANDTOOL
The Pulaski is a combination axe and mattock handtool which although not well known to fire crews in Australia, is standard equipment for most U.S. forest fire fighting agencies and conforms to a U.S. forest service national standard specification.
Manufactured in Western Australia from high grade cast steel with linished blade edges and fitted with a straight grain timber handle, this combination handtool has proven a very adaptable rugged use item of bush fire control equipment or off road 4wd vehicle tool for chopping, trenching or grubbing.
SLIP-ON LIFT FRAMES
Have been designed and manufactured to provide a safe operation to lift a Slip-On style fire control unit off a vehicle tray and accordingly, when required, provide safe lowering of the fire unit back onto the vehicle tray. The Slip-On Lift Frame 2-way winch with stainless cable lifting trapeze helps prevent manual handling accidents to fingers, hands and most importantly reduce the likelihood of back injuries.
Using the hand operated winch raises the fire unit clear of the vehicle tray allowing the unloaded vehicle to be driven away from the lift frame additionally a lift frame can be fitted with a fibreglass manufactured overhead storage tank with suitable capacity to contain the slip-on tank water supply.
SLIP-ON TYPE FIRE CONTROL UNITS MUST ONLY BE LIFTED EMPTY. They are not in any way designed and manufactured to be lifted whilst the tank is full, because the lift point of balance is related to the volume of water within the tank.
