Hydraulic rescue tools
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The cutter is a pair of hydraulically powered shears that is designed to cut through metal. It is often called the jaws of life, owing to the shape and configuration of its blades. Sometimes specified as to their capacity to cut a solid circular steel bar, these aremonly used to cut through a vehicle's structure in an extraction operation. Cutter blades are replaceable, and blade development progresses as vehicle technology progresses in order to be able to cope with the




































