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  4. Posted · Edited by 38ff

    More great info. No need for pump and roll. Lookng at International 3 man cab. Dual rear axle for braking, as we have a very hilly district. Jake brake goes on all our apparatus, and will on this. The 2 crosslays will make it into an engine into a pinch. We will specifiy all the baffling possible.

    A long time ago, I returning from a drill in a rural part of Vermont, and we came across a car fire, but the tanker I was in did not have a stitch of hose on it. We sat there and watched it burn until the engine came a minute or 2 later. It's a crappy feeling being on a "fire truck" and watching a fire burn because you dont have hose.....

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    All,

    Does anyone have any advice on spec’ing out a tanker? We are in the WAY WAY early stages of looking at specing one, and will be visiting depts to see what they have that works and maybe doesn’t work as the planned it. We are looking at a commercial cab, tandem axle, Hale QMax-XS pump, side and rear dumps, square tanker Perhaps 2500-3000 gallons. Equipment to be carried portable pond, suction, a few hundred feet of LDH, 2 crosslays, portable pump, etc.

    We don’t need a 6 man cab for a engine/pumper type of deal. This tanker would be for use out of the water district, as a “rolls right behind the first due engine for calls out of the water district” type of response to buy more time.

    All thoughts appreciated.

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    I know all about how much it costs in terms of time and money to restore old trucks. I do it as a hobby. Thats exactly my point. It would cost litterally MILLIONS to restore them all. They sit there unmoved for quite some time. Seals dry out, batteries die, rubber cracks and dryrots, metal rusts, and chrome pits. I just dont see how they will get the attention they deserve. I have gone to the Muster for a few years now, and 95% of the trucks are in the same exact spot they were parked when they arrived. Even the couple of mechanics that I talked to that work there think the situation is hopeless...

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    I like the mule, but my wife loves it. She calls it hers.

    As for the Jeep, the exhuast system was giving me some problems, but I have that figured out. A combination of "shade tree mechanic" fixes over the past 70 years and some not quite right parts gave me fits for a few days, but we worked thru it.

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    It was bought for an Industrial Fire Brigade by Western Electric in Winston Salen NC in 1954, where it served until 1989, then went to a Boy Scout Camp fror a few years, then to 2 private individuals, then I bought it. Strangely enough, it was never lettered/stickered/goldleafed ever in it's life.

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