Helmets Best disposal for old helmet?

smunderdog

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Once a helmet has been retired because of either damage or being too old, is there any other use for them other than disposal? Any org that accepts them as a donation not to be used for head protection but for any other use?
 
Local EMS/fire department may like to have them for training. They can use and destroy them for practice simulations.
 
Yes I nail them to my garage time wall as trophies, I must be getting sentimental the older I get
 
T_C said:
Local EMS/fire department may like to have them for training.
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I think this is a good disposal method. Unless they are riders the EMS guys probably have no idea how to remove a helmet and maybe they never get any training- I don't know. I do know that when I had my motorcycle crash the EMS guys almost tore my ears off trying to remove my helmet. They were causing me so much pain that I had to stop them and take it off myself. Obviously some training would have benefited these guys. I would drill a large hole through the shell to make sure that it can never be used on the road again before dropping it off at the fire hall. Sounds like an honourable end for a trusted helmet.
 
You can actually send them back to the company that made them and they use them for testing. Not sure if they still do it or not, but I sent a Bell back after I went through a car windshield so they could see how it held up and what they might do to improve them.
 
I've taken two old ones and turned them into bird houses. A piece of then plywood trimmed to fit the bottom, a hole in the side, and long deck screw for a perch, eye hook on top, and good to go.

I remove the bottom and clean them out early each spring, and they're good to go for the new tenants.
 
duc916 said:
I've taken two old ones and turned them into bird houses. A piece of then plywood trimmed to fit the bottom, a hole in the side, and long deck screw for a perch, eye hook on top, and good to go.

I remove the bottom and clean them out early each spring, and they're good to go for the new tenants.
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Pics or I don't believe you. :)
 
Mellow said:
That's what I was gonna suggest lol, great for a hanging one.
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Or cut a hole in the top and mount a pot on the inside.

Something like this:

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...but a little more ornate.
 
Sure... CA legalizes weed and now we're all growing pot in our helmets...
:eek::crackup:rofl1::crackup:eek:
 
I asked my local FD/EMS if they could use my old helmets. They had no use for them. When they pick up somebody who was wearing a helmet that isn't conscious, they strap it intact to the body-board to keep the head immobile. The emergency room has saws to get the helmet off however they want to. YMMV.
Lotsa good memories in some of my old helmets, and like probably all of you, I hate to just send them to the landfill. Making them into bird houses sounds like a good plan, although conspicuous placement around the houseplace could be seen as macabre. :)
 
Like someone else here said, I think it is a good idea to at least ask the local first responders if they would like the old helmet for practice purposes!
After my crash and I was laying there on the ground my ears got a pretty good yanking before I managed to stop the guy and explain the proper way to slide a full face helmet off!
 
randalicious said:
When they pick up somebody who was wearing a helmet that isn't conscious, they strap it intact to the body-board to keep the head immobile. The emergency room has saws to get the helmet off however they want to.
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And this is how it should be. I know several people who put a P-Touch label on their helmet that states IN A CRASH DO NOT REMOVE HELMET, or something to that effect, in big letters. My sister is a nurse in L.A. CA. A guy was transported by EMS after a motorcycle crash. They brought him in with his helmet still on. He was conscious right up until the ER doctors cut his helmet off. He immediately lost consciousness and went in to all kinds of distress because the helmet was basically holding his head together. If that is going to happen to you it is better to have it happen in the hospital ER and not while you are lying on the road where they can't do anything about it.
 
Give to your local MSF provider, they use them in the classroom in various ways... pay forward!
 
If the local FIRE/EMS service doesn't want them maybe make a table lamp?
If not widlarize it to relieve stress, or just cut the strap off and chuck it.
 
I would probably try and put a cool paint scheme on it (maybe EVEL KNIEVEL'esque), mount an LED clock through the visor and put it on a table somewhere
 
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