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Save your back and your fingers.

Opens steel or fiberglass hatch covers on covered hopper cars. Worker should be secured to fall protection cable while using Hatch Key™ Pry Bar. Hatch Key™ Pry Bar design now features a 4" wide load-spreading bracket (red) to avoid cracking the edge of a fiberglass hatch cover. Two models are available: Standard Duty and Heavy Duty.

Hatch Key™ Pry Bar - Heavy Duty for hard-to-open and frozen hatches
#4020-17  $245.00
In severe cold weather, it may take two workers with Hatch Key™ Pry Bars to distribute the force necessary to free the hatch cover.

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Hatch Key™ Pry Bar - Standard Duty
#4020-16  $198.00
For non-frozen easier-to-open hatch covers. Makes it very convenient to flip the hatch over without having to bend down and use your fingers. If your hatches are frozen use the Heavy Duty model (above).

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Workers should always be secured to fall protection cable while using either the Standard Duty or the Heavy Duty Hatch Key™ Lifting Lever.

Lift straight up while using the Hatch Key™ Lifting Lever.