A hose truck with the track steer on a trailer and a 3 way bucket/ hose reel attachment would be a nice support package. Drop a 12" line right out the back, after dropping the skidsteer trailer on site, to the nearest lake or river. The skid steer can berm and clear a firebreak if needed and your portable hydrant truck can get the supply hose flowing. Awesome.
@watchthe1369 Жыл бұрын
A portable Big Water capacity hydrant? You are small enough to drop a couple hydraulic siphons in a pond to supply the main stream on a pumper, The hydraulic motor on the PTO can run an air compressor, generator or the water pump too. I like it.
@centralscrutinizer36633 жыл бұрын
I see this as a rural rig ONLY. Any urban or suburban municipality that has enough going on to justify buying a drafting super pumper like this also needs a dedicated heavy rescue truck, staffed as such, that's flexible to respond and not gonna be tied up on a 6 hour or more major fire pump job. Not some hybrid half-assed combination rig made for two separate disciplines that have absolutely nothing to do with each other. And if they need a super pumper, they're gonna buy one, like other cities and towns have, and it's going to be a special-call rig, and not running it's ass off trying to do a job it's not equipped to do. I see this as maybe a rig for a rural town that has major water supply problems and also needs some amount of rescue capability but can't afford a separate rescue rig. When are we gonna stand up and tell these manufacturers what WE want and stop letting them tell us what they think we need. These guys aren't firefighters, and they don't know shit.
@superbuff861 Жыл бұрын
The concept of a super pumper is typically for industrial applications. I.e.: refineries, ports, industrial complexes, and the like. Though of course there are some applications for city-use depending. I will say though, Chris Ferrara (former CEO of Ferrara Fire Apparatus -prior to the REV merge) is in fact a volunteer firefighter.