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Post by northernfarmer on Nov 21, 2020 10:43:16 GMT -6
Best part about the FD is lights and sirens! So was I under the false illusion all this time that it was the hot young naked blondes on the first floor that were afraid to jump out the window and were waiting for the big strong fireman to rescue them ? |
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Post by cptusa on Nov 21, 2020 11:45:35 GMT -6
Why do you think we run lights and sirens? Rarely save anything but the chicks dig it!
Never quite hot blonds though, we always seem to get the 250 plus club.
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Post by northernfarmer on Nov 21, 2020 12:47:15 GMT -6
Movies/TV vs reality, although I can see that as a good recruiting method. I put a video in the jokes section yesterday which gives examples of what I suspect you actually deal with.
Anvil, how high does that ladder reach if lets say one wanted to reach up to the top of a tree to cut it from the top down. That would require a harness and be attached to the ladder but imagine attachment points are rigged up on ladder trucks as even a lot of man lifts don't go high enough to do that type of work.
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Post by anvil on Nov 21, 2020 19:33:30 GMT -6
It's a 100' ladder...
Has a hand rail type cage all the way up.. one could attach a harness anywhere as you go up.....
Nobody around here has the balls to go up the thing at full extension... it's kinda scary high at 100'
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Post by Beerwiser on Nov 21, 2020 19:47:56 GMT -6
Hell, I would still be up there at 100' just not with the 250 pound woman 😂
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Post by northernfarmer on Nov 21, 2020 20:16:36 GMT -6
Hell, I would still be up there at 100' just not with the 250 pound woman 😂 I believe there is a movie called "Tipping Point", I know nothing about the movie but can envision a big lady crawling out of her apartment window onto the ladder truck and .... pretty easy to picture the end to that movie without a lot of guess work  |
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Post by radar on Nov 23, 2020 7:39:18 GMT -6
Might be a good portable stand for good for deer hunting
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Post by SWMan on Nov 23, 2020 20:12:41 GMT -6
Oh man looking at those pictures I has a bad flashback to the grain truck I learned on, man that thing was tired! Yours looks nice though.   |
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Post by anvil on Nov 26, 2020 0:54:31 GMT -6
Yep 4000 miles on the clock. The long drive home was a absolute delight for a rig of this calibre... It's not a pumper either so I cant imagine is has a ton of hours. Allegedly It came from grand prairie Alberta... That town in the era of this truck, didnt have much for tall buildings. |
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Post by cptusa on Nov 26, 2020 8:18:32 GMT -6
No pump on it at all? I assumed most ladders had their own pumps so not to tie up a pumper. Only been around one once so that's a pretty broad assumption.
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Post by anvil on Dec 8, 2020 0:58:02 GMT -6
Nope, she's pump-less.
Has a hell of a hyd pump on it though for operating the ladder, I'll probably retain that system and put a couple remotes on it... because, why not, sometimes you need hydraulics to like, run the log splitter...
Hoping to get a start on the build later this winter.
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Post by anvil on Mar 5, 2021 1:14:14 GMT -6
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Post by slipclutch on Mar 5, 2021 5:52:41 GMT -6
Looks awesome! Going to make a nice service truck. Oh and No bubblegum welding. Nice!
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Post by anvil on Mar 5, 2021 11:10:52 GMT -6
Thank you s.c. I enjoy welding and take pride in a nice bead... I know it's not a stack of dimes but for a vertical weld it's a good stack of random change |
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Post by anvil on Mar 7, 2021 23:31:32 GMT -6
Starting to get it set up. Got a tool box and a trip to princess auto got random things, ammo boxes for bolt bins.. magnetic things, rags, power inverter... Boring stuff really... I'm gonna get hutterites to build a tidy tank built to fit the space that is leftover from the ladder removal, hopefullyabout 250 gal... and I'm putting a fuel gauge in it... it's always such a mystery how much fuel is in any tidy tank...   |
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