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Just buy you a new leather and move on.Stay Safe and Well Out There....
Always remembering 9-11-2001 and 343+ BrothersComment
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Ask santa, the wife, mommy, daddy or start picking up cans for recycle. I could raise the money in less than a month by picking up old soda and beverage cans for recycle.Originally posted by stevetc99 View PostStay Safe and Well Out There....
Always remembering 9-11-2001 and 343+ BrothersComment
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CaptOldTimer...thats pretty good ***** there, I don't care who you are that was funny!Comment
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Lol I did ask mommy but she said she only has $100 but I could pay some of the difference.Originally posted by CaptOldTimer View PostComment
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It was!! I almost spewed tea on the keyboard and screen.Originally posted by 164thDelta View Post
Hey we recyle at home. All the aluminum cans go in a bin and we bag them up. When I have a pickup full, serveal months worth, we take them into recylce and end up with maybe 150.00 or more depending how many garbage bags I have.Comment
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Boston FD recruits just went through their flashover simulator training ( I was working support for the Mass Fire Academy's firefighter 1-2 certification at their training facility on Moon Island)... they are issued N5A's.. and didn't damage them. They had aluminized covers for their lids... The Massachusetts Fire Academy issues "tactical tupperware" lids with aluminized covers for their flashover simulator.Originally posted by FIREguy2011 View Postlong standind debate:
OLD SATLY FIREMAN:
leather 4ever!!!!!
Newbie Firefighter (notice polical correctness):
composite!
Think about it this way (I Dont use a leather {yea buff go ahead and throw an insult at me
} so correct me if I'm wrong)
Flashover chamber:
Composite still in working condition
Leather damaged
Price:
Composite about half price
Leather 1 for the price of 2 composites
Weight:
composite lighter
leather heavier
do you really want to spend $500 BUCKS and ruin it in a training flashover? or do you want to be running around the fireground with a bowling ball on your head?
Just my thoughts.
Wear tactical tupperware in a flashover simulator without the aluminized cover.. I guarantee it will be trashed. Just working in the burn building at the Academy I have already been through 3 tactical tupperware lids; and I haven;t been in any temperatures even approaching the heat of a flashover simulator... and on the job I have been through three department issue tactical tupperware lid... my leathers are just fine, thank you... as a matter of fact, I will be giving my son my N6A when he graduates from the MFA's call/volunteer program in March"The education of a firefighter and the continued education of a firefighter is what makes "real" firefighters. Continuous skill development is the core of progressive firefighting. We learn by doing and doing it again and again, both on the training ground and the fireground."
Lt. Ray McCormack, FDNYComment
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Being as he is a junior, a "training" helmet is probably just fine for him. I am sure if he were an actual firefighter they wouldn't make him buy his own helmet.
OP- if you want a leather, buy one. Save your money and ask everyone at Christmas and birthday time for cash. And keep a plastic helmet around for training burns.Career Firefighter
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Say WHAT? How'd you get that ol' boy to send you a welfare check? Hehe T.C.Originally posted by slackjawedyokel View PostComment
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ya but will you be wearing that cover in non-training fires?Originally posted by DeputyChiefGonzo View Post
probably not b/c you want to show your leather pride. Why spend money on something you know that will get destroyed in uncontrolled enviroments? Composites don't need those covers.Benton Fire District Four
Ladder One
First Due!
Caddo Parish Fire District 1
Career Firefighter/Paramedic
When things get rough, just say:
Acabo de perder cinco minutos de su vida.Comment
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but it's above my paygrade, so it's whatever.Benton Fire District Four
Ladder One
First Due!
Caddo Parish Fire District 1
Career Firefighter/Paramedic
When things get rough, just say:
Acabo de perder cinco minutos de su vida.Comment
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Consider yourself corrected then. We got a brand new, state of the art burn building at Dalton Fire Department. WE decided to do some training in it raight after we got it and, suffice to say, we got it a little TOO hot in there (this lead to training for training with the burn building, haha). Anyway, it never really reached flashover conditions, but it did get hot enough that it ruined a couple of 1010"s, bad enough that they had to be taken out of service. The plastic bubbled, the rubber trim melted, and the helmet was severly discolored. As for the weight issue, I've had both on my head, and honestly, I can't tell one iota of weight difference between a 1010 and a N6A. If anything, the N6A fit better.Originally posted by FIREguy2011 View Postlong standind debate:
OLD SATLY FIREMAN:
leather 4ever!!!!!
Newbie Firefighter (notice polical correctness):
composite!
Think about it this way (I Dont use a leather {yea buff go ahead and throw an insult at me } so correct me if I'm wrong)
Flashover chamber:
Composite still in working conditionLeather damaged
Weight:
composite lighter
leather heavierLast edited by firefightinirish217; 12-16-2010, 03:20 PM.Comment
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hmm...aren't they stopping production though?Benton Fire District Four
Ladder One
First Due!
Caddo Parish Fire District 1
Career Firefighter/Paramedic
When things get rough, just say:
Acabo de perder cinco minutos de su vida.Comment
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