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Just talking to Roto Ray about it after I saw it on Brindlee's site
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I was told some of the BCFD influence on this rig included a lack of pre-piped waterway.
Taylor Goodman
Captain - Henrico County (VA) Division of Fire
Fire Chief - Huguenot VFD, Powhatan, VA
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Not to pick on this department, but I'll pick on this department. Does anybody ever lose their job when things like this happen? I'm not talking about a situation where a piece of equipment is a lemon and you get rid of it relatively quickly - that's defensible.
But this post and the one about Mount Horeb really got me thinking about how accountable (or not) these agencies are. Who takes the fall for wasting a bunch of $ on a rig that is dumped shortly after it was purchased?
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Both of those are volunteer departments, so I don't know how much control the governments have over them. As far as the price, 750,000 is actually a bit high for the truck because of the lack of water way, pump and tank. That is about 65,000-70,000 off a new unit to start with.
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Chief speaks the truth. No pump, no tank, and no waterway this truck is way over priced and will sit on Brindlee's site for awhile. I don't see why they don't get a waterway installed because when I looked into it on a used rig it was 10-12k to get done.
If you look at the specs' is states that it is a 3-foot out rigger spread fromm each side of the truck. That leads me to beleive that this is a medium duty aerial ladder (assuming 500# tip load max). So that is probably why they have a ladder pipe set up and not full waterway. Also too it has a hydrolic reel set up so I'm assuming they carried resuce tools on it as well.
Also too quite honestly, having a pre-piped waterway may not be the answer if 90% of your aerial useage is the ladder itself to gian access to roofs over a long distance or height. I don't know anything about the company that operated it nor the area so I can only assume. And quite honestly if you are going to need an elevated master stream at a prolonged incident, there is nothing wrong with the ladder pipe set up instead of pre-piped waterway. Obviously theire is advantages and disadvantages to both.
As for pumps on a truck, I'm a traditionalist, a ladder truck should be a ladder truck.
But the price for the engine hours and miles on it does seem high for the rig.
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Wasn't there reserve truck a pretty nice
Pierce?
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My immediate first thought on this rig was that it looks like the Charlie Brown Christmas Tree of Fire Engines. Poor thing.
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No, either and a spartan or duplex LTI and it was older