Made by Milwaukee Tools.FINALLY, somebody is making a pair of 10" vise-grips with a tensioning-screw that makes it easier for firefighters to cut off a pad-lock. Firefighters for years have been buying a small eye-bolt to replace the tensioning-screw so they can throw a carabiner attached to a rope or piece of webbing on the eye-bolt when their partner is cutting a padlock off of a gate or door with the K12.Unfortunately most of the short eye-bolts you find in hardware stores are a coarse thread and most of the brands of vise-grips are a fine thread, so matching them without running around to 5 stores can be a pain.Milwaukee is now making these easy-adjustment tensioners, and it makes SO MUCH sense....I'm surprised nobody did it years ago. They're easier to adjust because you can VISUALIZE just how far the tensioner has been rotated.So for forcible entry, you're doing double-duty with one pair of locking pliers: You can spin out Adams-Rite cylinders with the jaws the same as any other pair, AND you've got a good "Hold-It" tool for cutting off padlocks too, at a reasonable price.Great addition to the ol' FE Bag. Just added a pair to mine!
