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Made in collaboration with EOD Robotics, this Breacher Bar Set from CountyComm is the result of extensive research and input from bomb technicians, SWAT operators, and patrol officers who regularly need to crack things open. Ideal for opening crates, windows, and punching through metal objects, the Breacher Bar Set comes with a small and large pry bar for different scenarios Read More
So... who the fuck is this for?
Any cop or firefighter knows that a breaching sledge or halligan/sledge combo is how you enter someplace you weren't supposed to be.
This honestly looks like the world's shittiest combination of a cold chisel and miniature crowbar. MAYBE this would be useful for getting between two pieces of wood to break a nail or screw when you REALLY didn't want to mark up the wood any more than necessary? I could MAYBE see this as useful in furniture repair, but I have my doubts. Whenever I need a thin pry tool, I just get out the old giant flat head screwdriver I found at a thrift store for $0.25 and thinned out with a file.
I just can't see a job, even in the field as a medic, where I could use this tool instead of my multitool or knife. I mean, maybe if I locked the keys in my ambulance. But then the mechanic would probably have some words for me about why I snapped the door latch.
(I've absolutely locked my keys in the truck before. Was only saved because the truck was so shitty and old that the "lock" button didn't lock all the doors)
HoneybadgersI am sure there are a lot of cheap doors and windows in the world that you could eventually open with this thing, just as I am sure that each and every one of them would be easier to open with a crowbar. I'm not what you'd call an entry specialist but I figure the reason these have been sitting around for years is that they were a solution to a problem that other, more specialized tools have already solved. Someone wanted to sell these to cops and bomb techs and -- well, everyone from Drop to Amazon has been flogging them over the last seven years, so I'm guessing the cops and bomb techs didn't buy too many of 'em.
I've got a few flat pry bars. The Wonder Bar from Stanley of course and various other ones. I just didn't like their weight and how much space they took up due to their curved profile. Which one(s) do you like?
TonySI'm a paramedic, so when I need to do various tasks... I bring the heavy manual gear. "The irons" of a flat head axe and halligan are great. Honestly, you could do a LOT with a set of irons. They mate together, you get a nice heavy breaching axe (one without a pick - I'm not climbing on buildings, so I don't need that piece) that you can set up for splitting or chopping, and you can use the axe like a sledge.
But for 90% of the "pry/chisel" stuff that I do, a small gooseneck pry bar does a lot of work around the house, and if I really need to BEAT on something I have an old massive stanley flat head screwdriver that I found for $1.99 with a split handle at an antique store. Cracked the handle off it and occasionally touch up the edge (occasionally as in... I've done it once in five years?) and I've literally hammered that bastard through four inches of asphalt with a five pount sledge and then pried the chunks out when I needed to put a mailbox in through some nasty old road paving on my property (my old pickaxe's handle decided to give up on the first swing)
I would never go with a pure flat bar for prying, TBH. They have a habit of snapping when they reach their limit instead of flexing and letting you know, like a curved profile bar does. And you can never get good leverage to pull nails or separate two objects glued or nailed together. Flat stock gooseneck pry bars are amazing.
This is the one I use for most light/medium work. It's pretty flat so I can hammer it into pretty deep grooves, but still has a gentle curve so it kind of levers just a bit as you hammer. $6.99.
https://www.amazon.com/Crescent-FB7-7-Inch-Flat-Pry/dp/B008NM6X9E/ref=sr_1_4?dchild=1&keywords=mini+crowbar&qid=1613468268&sr=8-4
Most of my hammer and wrecking tools are old antiques repurposed for the job. I don't really have the urge to buy these kinds of things as fun toys. I buy other pointless crap like fountain pens :)
The one tool I will HUGELY endorse is the cold steel trail boss axe. $50 for a 27 inch woodsman general duty axe with a gorgeous hickory handle, that bastard has taken and kept a mean edge. Head is made in Taiwan, but Taiwan is honestly where some of the very best knives and blades are coming out of these days (Spyderco's taichung plant in Taiwan is widely considered to be one of the best knife factories on earth)
As a medic, out on the race track (where I do the majority of my heavy rescue and extrication) we use a monster old hydraulic combi tool that just laughs at stuff the new battery powered stuff can't handle, and a sawzall. The Sawzall is really the MVP of heavy rescue and demo.
My favorite tool of destruction though is a windshield saw. You swing it like a pick into a corner of the windshield, flip it, and with one single hard pull you just sawed through a foot of glass like BUTTER. It lights up the inner five-year-old in me every single time I get to use it.
Let's be honest, the only thing 99.8% of you guys will be opening with these in hand is your instagram or tiktok to post pics of your breacher bars, LOL.
Made in collaboration with Moh Chi Nashitt Robotics, this Breacher Bar Set from HFT is the result of extensive research and input from tomb technicians, Sweat Shop prisoners, MALL ninjas, and parole officers who regularly need to crack things open. Ideal for opening cardboard crates, car windows, and punching through soft metal objects (tin foil wrapping, soda cans), the Breacher Bar Set comes with a small and large pry bar for different scenarios and different sized hands. Get yours today for $4.99 before tax.
Nor am I. On the other hand, if EOD holds a supply schedule, they can sell through it to any state, local or muni government that fills out a couple forms, so could be a lotta things.
14themoneyHonestly anyone whos ever had the misfortune of trying to fit one of these in their toolbags knows there might be room for one of these breacher bars instead... though protip sliding the $5 special through the toolbag loop(s) alongside the belt itself is okay as long as you dont have to dodge the millwork... Then again, saving a vanity and/or the painters time should cover the cost of this set anyway. If you know you know.
Robot: Danger, Will Robinson, you're going to hell.
WR: It would be a good change after being lost in space.
Robot: All this breaching has left my parts dry. I'm off to the Robotic Breacher Bar for an Olive Oyl . See ya, around, kid.