Sunday, July 31, 2011

Canvas, Leather and Steel

Anybody wanna take a crack it what this work of hand-crafted, firefighting, industrial output is?


I found it while visiting some friends last week. I have seen a few similar to this, but I don't remember any with leather straps.

If you figure it out, drop me a comment.

Thanks for reading,
Schmoe

11 comments:

  1. It's an old lifenet. You were supposed to jump off a building into it.

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  2. You gotta do better than that Schmoe. It's a Life / safety net. The firefighters on the ground held it while trapped victims on upper floors would leap to their safety.

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  3. I'm going to guess (and sound like an idiot) that it is one of those circular "nets" that a trapped victim was supposed to jump into while the firefighters held it.
    Scott (fellow Captain in Missouri)

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  4. I'm going to go with it being an old rescue net.
    I seem to recall one hanging from the ceiling of the apparatus floor next to an old hand drawn hose cart in the central station of the little town I grew up in. It was about ten feet across and had hinges so it could fold in half.

    BGM

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  5. Cap,

    Looks like a lifenet. Thank God I never had to jump in one-or hold one.

    John

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  6. I'm guessing it's a trampoline?

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  7. Looks a little like a "Fireman's Hoop" for catching people who jump from buildings.

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  8. A most-uneducated guess-part of a "jump net"? The net that firefighters would deploy at the scene of a highrise fire?

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  9. Well done folks! I'm impressed. I would have hated to be the person who did the product testing on this thing! Even the old-timers I talked to hadn't ever used one of these.

    Thanks for commenting.

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