rollover semi on a car- w rescue

very cool, this semi rolled on a cer and the LA FD has a tator and they lifted it off the car-very cool!!

Air bag rotator class in Indiana

this is Howie "scooby" Eagan, he was the main air bag instructor. the class Was devided into two days and he was the instructor for the first day- air bag / rescue day. The class was held by Davis Towing in Rushville Indiana.  


We were honered to have Fred noble, one of the origional creators of the air bag, as an instructor.

the new air bag. These air bags, compressor, valve bank ect are the newest set to come into this country. Not only that, but they are the very first of its new design. They have done away with the crappy design where you twist / couple the hoses together, these slide on and lock together with the easy latches- 100 times better than the old design- it sucked. And these new bags have 1 inch hoses and fittings on the whole system, the old systems only offered � inch, this means these will fill the bags 70% faster (or so I am told)- the best part of these new bags, that have never been used before the class, and we took them home with us, We (Lin-Mar) has the newest, best and only set of these type of airbags in the country!!!! Cool!!!

I almost forgot, the new air valve bank, can be adjusted in height so no more squatting! And the valve gages have been set at an angle for easier reading.

the "Tator"



Mr. Nobel got first class tratment!

the proper way to set airbags under a trailer













































we got to play firemen. this was cool!

This was well worth it, we were given the opportunity to see what the FD has to do. These tools are very cool, and they get very heavy fast, but man, they are powerful!

they showed us how to use matjacks to lift the trailer to set in starters and then the main bags. 

how to use mat jacks to fix a load shift



lifting a car with mat jacks

Day 2- the rotator class

this is Curt Sharp from Merls Towing in MI. he did the rotator portion of the class with.....

Jeff Martin from diamond out of Brampton Ontarion Canada. they are both Wreckmaster 6/7's both top 10 wreckmasters and several other credentials to their names. these guys are the best. they know their stuff.



i couldn't decide which picture was better

One of the casualties we will play with today



Now, for the entire 2 day class, just next door, there was a mini-rodeo- female rodeo! I snuck over and took a few shots. The whole class there was shooting, cheering, and announcing in the background.

Rollover tanker, we lifted the wheels and set airbags under the tires. The point was to roll the tanker the wrong way to get the main lifting bags under the tank itself.

These blue bags are the new catch bags. They have been used in Europe for years and they have finally made it over here. the MatJack people said they are working on some design changes for the new bags b4 they offer them to the towing community. These bags are actually from Europe. They are very expensive and that is one thing Matjack its trying to change with the new design. They worked great, except the one bag that wasn�t in the right place but it still slowed the tanker from slamming down. These are very cool!!!

Rollover dry box, we did an end roll on the whole unit- very cool

The Class

 

 

The instructors