Looking for a new "key to the city".....wrecking tools.

[Echo2]

Been looking at these...

http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/31v05xlOf5L.jpg

Or this....has hydrant wrench....but for the coin could go for hooligan tool...

http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/31XGzgxWc3L.jpg

anyone ever used either?....any suggestions?

I generally keep a sledge hammer and a wrecking bar in the vehicle....I did have a battering ram in there but it was too much weight vs benefit.....and the officer that saw it gave me $50 for it....:). (I've made many of them.....going to make a replacement and have it Linex coated.)

[hunter63]

I just carry a Wonder bar....mostly used when shopping crib side treasures...But kinda like this one.

http://www.acehardware.com/product/index.jsp?productId=1289933&cagpspn=pla

Not just a burglar tool,.... but a tear your house down tool......

[Echo2]

Good Lord....not to break in.....just a good all around wrecking tool/ rescue tool.

"Keys to the City" was what we called them in my FF1 class.....cause they'd get you in anywhere.

[BENESSE]

8597 I find that this opens more doors.

[crashdive123]

8597 I find that this opens more doors.

I'll leave the door open for you. Bring a second stack and you don't have to wipe your feet.

[BENESSE]

I'll leave the door open for you. Bring a second stack and you don't have to wipe your feet.

Case in point!

Lesson 1 in city survival.

[rebel]

I carry an axe. It's multi purpose. It'll chop through light gage sheet metal, open doors and make firewood. Firemen carry an axe for entry and commercial aircraft carry a crash axe.

[Echo2]

This is interesting...

http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/51gEBu3A3YL._AA1000_.jpg

[Echo2]

titanium.....16"....

http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/318%2B0C4NE6L.jpg

[Echo2]

http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/31vIx-vWX4L._SL500_AA300_.jpg

[hunter63]

Wrap in in paracord and it's "tactical".....Kinda wicked looking...I like it!

[pete lynch]

That last one (#10) I'm thinking Dungeons and Dragons......
I have a hatchet and a 12" Stanley pry-bar in truck.
At work I have same pry=bar and a 36" Gorilla Bar (http://www.northerntool.com/shop/tools/product_200344787_200344787).

[Delta 5168]

Pretttttttty! Nice tools, all. Ever since I was a volunteer firefighter I've been carrying an axe, crow bar, pipe wrench (hydrants), hydraulic jack and come-along in my truck. I feel "neckid" without them! Hope I'm on Benesse's Christmas list!
P. S. Everybody ought to carry something with a point on it to break car windows for rescue. I carry a spring loaded nail set. I'm thinking hot-car or submerged car rescue. In a real pinch use a rock to the corner of the window. A rope is a no-brainer, too.

[Fort fireman]

I know this is an old thread but I have one of these. I got it for work but we have better stuff on the trucks so it stays in my truck tool box most of the time.

http://www.allhandsfire.com/O-TOOL-KIT?gclid=CNe3j8fTysICFcdj7AodHFkAtQ

It Is good for pulling lock cylinders and going through locks. It also comes with a shove knife.

[natertot]

A lot of these tools seem a bit overboard. I shouldn't say this out of fear criminals may find it, but an overwhelmingly majority of residential doors can be forced open with a stout kick or a forcible shove. Steel doors with steel frames are troublesome. Any ol' prybar will pop open any window and you can crawl in that way though. For autos, breaking the glass is the best way. A pointed metal object works great for this. I keep an old spark plug in my center console for this. Just grip it in your fist and smash the pointy end of the spark plug into the glass, especially towards the top corner near the post and you're in..... or out.

[Rick]

Truth be told, many can be opened by turning the handle. According to the FBI nearly 40% of burglaries occur through an unlocked door or window when the resident is away and 28% when the resident is there*. Keep those doors locked!

http://www.bjs.gov/content/pub/pdf/vdhb.pdf

*Table 7

[natertot]

Rick, you bring up a pretty valid point. I am looking at this thread through the eyes of someone trying to escape a danger or someone trying to gain entry to save someone from danger. As far as the criminal element goes, I believe those stats. Criminals overall, regardless of crime, like an easy opportunity. Why make the noise of breaking a door down when three houses down you can walk right it? Why smash a car window when that Jeep over yonder has a soft top? Why kidnap the lady in the park walking with two other people when the lady out on the trail is jogging alone with earphones in?

Not trying to sidetrack the thread, but make yourself a hard target.

As for the original intent of the thread, keep a basic crowbar/prybar around. The likelihood that something else will be required is small at best.

[hunter63]

.....Try the knob, first.......

[Rick]

Got ya. I only sited those stats because I can see some guy huffin' and puffin' trying to save his family by prying open a locked door for shelter only to have his kid turn the door handle for entry.

[hunter63]

"Honest Officer.....I just carry this stuff around in case of SHTF.....What?...You don't know nothing about no SHTF ....?... You know Ship Hits The Fan?...Yeah, I case I have to break in....ahhh, .....I mean take shelter...aaah....and don't have a key?.....

"Hey, what do you mean by "Take the position......?"

I just tell them that my topper latch sticks sometimes and I need to give it a "pry and pull" to get it open....got the marks to prove it.

[natertot]

Got ya. I only sited those stats because I can see some guy huffin' and puffin' trying to save his family by prying open a locked door for shelter only to have his kid turn the door handle for entry.

I actually had that happen once, kinda. I got a call that a lady needed her car unlocked cause she locked her keys in it. A few minutes later I arrived to do the unlock. She had been at her car for nearly 20 minutes then I showed up, tried the rear door, and it opened right up. Her jaw dropped!

[hunter63]

Pulled into Alpine Valley well know outdoor concert place for Rock groups.....really early, trying to score some Eric Clapton tickets......
Alpine Valley is where Stevie Ray Vaughn was killed in a place crash in 1990
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Death_of_Stevie_Ray_Vaughan

Was about 6 am....guy was fumbling with car his keys....must have still been there from the night before......finally got the door open. reached into the clove box, and got out a pair of glasses.....then realized that the top was down....it was a convertible.....but the windows were up......

[Batch]

We were camping in the Daniel Boone forest in Kentucky and I locked my keys in the truck. I tried for a while to unlock the door and couldn't. I was thinking about how expensive it probably was going to be to have a locksmith take care of it up there in the mountains.

Then, my buddy unscrewed the antennae from his Toyota and slid it down and mashed the unlock button.

I grabbed the keys and swore they were going to stay in my back pack till it was time to go home. As I slipped the keys in a back pack pocket. I noticed the key fob that in my back pack that I could have just pushed a button if I had remembered it was there.

[Fort fireman]

.....Try the knob, first.......

Try before you pry....
Forcible entry 101.

[Fort fireman]

It's even funnier when you see 2 ladder guys trying to force a door and then an engine puke reaches between them and opens the unlocked door. :) that usually results in a " training day". Lol