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Chicago Fire Department - firephoto - 11-06-2012
6-7-5
Chicago Fire Department - Guest - 01-11-2013
Squad 1A
Chicago Fire Department - Guest - 01-11-2013
Engine 98
Chicago Fire Department - Guest - 01-11-2013
Command Unit
Chicago Fire Department - Guest - 01-11-2013
Engine 13
Chicago Fire Department - Guest - 01-11-2013
Batt 1
Chicago Fire Department - Guest - 01-11-2013
Squad 1A
Chicago Fire Department - Guest - 01-11-2013
Ladder 3
Chicago Fire Department - Guest - 01-11-2013
Ladder 6
Chicago Fire Department - Guest - 02-24-2013
Quote:old beat up spare seagrave
Is the amount of cancer on that not-so-old Seagrave atypical or is that usually how CFD apparatus end up? Like any big city, I realize that a rig will be well-worn as it enters reserve status but that truck appears to be really eaten up.
Chicago Fire Department - Guest - 02-24-2013
Ronnie, most of those old Seagrave aerials look like that, mainly due to the use, and climate, lots of road salt used in Chicago.
Chicago Fire Department - Guest - 02-24-2013
Quote:Ronnie, most of those old Seagrave aerials look like that, mainly due to the use, and climate, lots of road salt used in Chicago.
Now that I am thinking about it, those Seagrave trucks are around the 20-year mark. I didn't realize, until I started thinking about it, that they were that old. They just looked "especially" beaten up as compared to some of the other Chicago rigs of the same vintage (or older).
Chicago Fire Department - Guest - 02-25-2013
the Seagraves are 1995's and very tired..It has a steel body as opposed to the E\-One towers that are aluminum they are beat too...just not rusted out
Chicago Fire Department - Guest - 02-25-2013
Quote:the Seagraves are 1995's and very tired..It has a steel body as opposed to the E-One towers that are aluminum they are beat too...just not rusted out
Steel body + Chicago FD run volume = rusted and beaten
Aluminum body + Chicago FD run volume = not as rusted but beaten nonetheless
Chicago Fire Department - jquest6368 - 02-25-2013
FDNY Seagraves from the 1990's and early 2000's have the exact same problem...the shops have become masters at cutting out bad cab sections and replacing them with diamond plate patches!
Chicago Fire Department - Guest - 02-25-2013
got some shots of 688 from last summer's air show..just got to processing them now.....
Chicago Fire Department - Guest - 02-25-2013
other side
Chicago Fire Department - Guest - 02-25-2013
rough seas
Chicago Fire Department - Guest - 02-25-2013
rear view
Chicago Fire Department - Guest - 02-25-2013
with the jet ski