[quote name='firebuff55407' post='70238' date='Jan 23 2007, 18:00 ']Here's a photo from Duane's Collection that I don't believe Duane took. It is of DCFD Truck r operating a 1955 Pirsch 100-foot TDA, Pirsch #2213, a reserve piece in 1973 with shop #S-344.
- Unknown photographer from the Duane Troxel Collection.[/quote]
Steve - and Duane - thanks for the great photo. I believe the image is Truck 5's assigned apparatus. It came back to T5 as a reserve around 1979. I did eighteen months at T5 and drove it (if not S-344, then one identical). The lieutenant had a good ear for engine rpm's and could shift that rig without using the clutch, a lesson he imparted to me while drilling on double-clutching. The apparatus had bolted fenders, and no jacks - you HAD to take a jackknife to throw the aerial.
Kevin
- Unknown photographer from the Duane Troxel Collection.[/quote]
Steve - and Duane - thanks for the great photo. I believe the image is Truck 5's assigned apparatus. It came back to T5 as a reserve around 1979. I did eighteen months at T5 and drove it (if not S-344, then one identical). The lieutenant had a good ear for engine rpm's and could shift that rig without using the clutch, a lesson he imparted to me while drilling on double-clutching. The apparatus had bolted fenders, and no jacks - you HAD to take a jackknife to throw the aerial.
Kevin
Kevin Byrne