How impressive?
What size spanner did he manage to get it trapped in? I'm only going to be impressed if it was eye wateringly small, or something at the other end of the spectrum, like the spanner I use on the car water pump.
An Australian man whose penis somehow became lodged in a ring spanner earlier this week was freed in the traditional manner - by a fire crew bearing an angle grinder. According to this local report, "firies" were called to a hospital in the New South Wales city of Tweed Heads on Monday to perform what for them is apparently …
Whichever - that is not a steel pipe or something else which is easy to cut. That is forged steel or even worse - some high tech alloy.
I admire the steady hand of whoever cut it as this would have taken (depending on the quality of the spanner) anything north of half an hour.
Spanners are drop-forged then case-hardened, that is they are hard on the outside and tough on the inside - else they would deform when used or shatter if dropped.
Instead of cutting it off, they could heat the spanner, then rapidly quench it and then twat it with a large hammer, thus shattering the spanner and liberating the man's tool... oh, wait... well, I guess he wouldn't do it again!
Not for me thanks ... have you seen the size of spanner crabs?
may just about beat out the 13 steel rings. I highly doubt that the rings were heavy-duty drop-forged tool steel. Spanners are made out of stern stuff: think about how easily they round off bolt heads, and how little damage they take in exchange. Add to that, the weight of one dangling off the danglies, and this is a truly cringe-worth experience.
But it serves as a reminder (for those that need it) to keep your tool away from the tools.
Odd really, as over here a box spanner is a completely different beast to a ring spanner.
Hopefully that should clarify things.
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You need the medics on hand in case the man with the angle grinder starts to giggle.
Clearly people should be required to pass a test before being allowed to use anything but open ended spanners. That, or ring spanners sold to the general public should have some kind of safety release.
When I was a teenager a friend's dad (a doctor) told us how, in his student days, a Nigerian sailor had come to St Thomas' Hospital with his todger trapped in a short length of gas pipe. He'd left it too long and the part poking out of the pipe was gangrenous. Only amputation would save his life. When he came round and was told what had happened, he was "very angry" apparently. It's still there, pipe and all, in a jar in a collection, apparently.
Going off tails from an airframe technician I'm acquainted with, if you want to break a spanner just use liquid nitrogen, then hit/throw on floor.
Extra points were awarded for having the balls to get a new one acquisitioned from the quartermaster and handing back a handful of metal chunks to explain what happened to the last one.
Mmm ... I was thinking along similar lines ...
1. Carefully apply liquid nitrogen as needed.
2. Hit sharply with appropriate precision calibrator - 1 lb model with claw should be suitably frightening.
3. Sweep up shattered bits into bin.
4. Send recovered ring spanner off for decontamination.
Simples.
And once again, Firemen in the rest of the world are hardcore compared to American Firemen (which is saying something, since Green Berets think firefighters are badasses,) but the medical professionals are pants-on-head retarded.
Leftpondian doctors solve this problem by draining the fluid hydraulicly trapping the appendage in the offending object.