Old FDNY rigs with new homes

[Guest]

is it a fire dept or private

[dwetherholdjr]

[quote name='FDNYTRUCKS.com' timestamp='1317957906' post='459401']

Nesconset, NY

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Is that rig from Nesconset NY still in service?

[e290l103]

dont you remember seeing it at KME in the death lot?

[Guest]

[quote name='FDNYTRUCKS.com' timestamp='1317955557' post='459361']

South Brownsville, PA one of the most interesting places I have ever been to.

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Why is that?

[e290l103]

nothing to do with the firehouse or the fire company. just the town. went off Rt.40 down to the firehouse down the main street in town. nothing. no people. no open businesses. nothing. and all the buildings were intact, banks, stores.... its like everyone left one day and that was it. just like an urban ghost town.

[Guest]

[quote name='Toneslider12' timestamp='1326268960' post='470812']

Richmond VFC on Staten Island had ex-E240 parked outside.



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Actually the former Engine 242

[smketrfdny]

Anyone know the status of the Ono/Lanconia CF?

[Frank B]

Holmes PA 1971 Seagrave ladder

x FDNY 116

Purchased in 1983 it was sold to Strafford VA in 1994

[Guest]

[quote name='smketrfdny' timestamp='1355707346' post='505512']

Anyone know the status of the Ono/Lanconia CF?

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Long gone, the Laconia guys HATED that rig, leaked like a sieve and it was a crap shoot if it was gonna start or not every call.

[smketrfdny]

[quote name='Tommy McQuade' timestamp='1356665735' post='506259']

Long gone, the Laconia guys HATED that rig, leaked like a sieve and it was a crap shoot if it was gonna start or not every call.

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Was wondering why a city would buy a rig that old and used.



But it did still look good. <img src='http://www.firepics.net/groupboards/public/style_emoticons/<#EMO_DIR#>/smile.png' class='bbc_emoticon' alt='' />



Thanks for the heads up.



Stay safe, Brothers.

[ShoreFire]

[quote name='smketrfdny' timestamp='1356667649' post='506263']

Was wondering why a city would buy a rig that old and used.



But it did still look good. <img src='http://www.firepics.net/groupboards/public/style_emoticons/<#EMO_DIR#>/smile.png' class='bbc_emoticon' alt='' />



Thanks for the heads up.



Stay safe, Brothers.

[/quote]

Not all former FDNY rigs were beat, I was a member of a Dept that purchased one of the '81 La France's, it'd done it's time on the City Island station an had very little pump time. It ended up being a very strong running engine with very little issues.

[Guest]

There was a abbey in upstate that bought one rig that I thought was just used for funerals... It had to have low miles and no pump time. I think that was an 80's La France too

[Marc]

[quote name='FFPM571' timestamp='1356712310' post='506272']

There was a abbey in upstate that bought one rig that I thought was just used for funerals... It had to have low miles and no pump time. I think that was an 80's La France too

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According to Peter Aloisi's book "Fire Apparatus Fighting Fires"...........St. Joseph's Abbey in Spencer, Mass. had a former FDNY Mack CF engine from the 70's that was only used at FDNY Chauffer Training School...............Martinelli can fill you in on the exact year of the rig.

[tntway]

1972......



http://www.firenews.org/mass/s/FDSJAE1.JPG



http://www.firenews.org/mass/s/SpencerAbbeyE1.jpg

[BFD190]

Awesome looking piece..

[e290l103]

and it will be mine someday...

[tntway]

i certainly hope it ends up at a good home!!!

[Guest]

[quote name='smketrfdny' timestamp='1356667649' post='506263']

Was wondering why a city would buy a rig that old and used.



But it did still look good. <img src='http://www.firepics.net/groupboards/public/style_emoticons/<#EMO_DIR#>/smile.png' class='bbc_emoticon' alt='' />



Thanks for the heads up.



Stay safe, Brothers.

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Laconia needed a replacement truck like yesterday when they got the former FDNY Mack, and rather than allow the Fd enough money to buy a new truck like a demo the city mismanager at the time directed the Chief to buy a used truck. The Mack "sounded" like a good deal at the time they bought it, but once it was in the city, the truth came out. Like ShoreFire said, not all former FDNY rigs are beat to hell, but like anything it's a crap-shoot when you cut corners and buy used. There are several former FDNY Mack Aerialscopes and a couple of Seagrave ladders still in service in the Granite State, and I think at least one or two pumps in the area as well

[jlg1875]

[quote name='Crossbronxxpress' timestamp='1356801960' post='506391']

According to Peter Aloisi's book "Fire Apparatus Fighting Fires"...........St. Joseph's Abbey in Spencer, Mass. had a former FDNY Mack CF engine from the 70's that was only used at FDNY Chauffer Training School...............Martinelli can fill you in on the exact year of the rig.

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Does anyone know if the Abbey still operates this rig? I vaguely remember seeing it for the first time in a very old issue of FAJ, probably back in the 80s.

[Guest]

does anybody know the MT number for the Phillipsburg tower?