[quote name='firescooby' timestamp='1355428854' post='505362']
We've got 10-15 2008's...NOT happy.
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I have to ask...and its not being satirical....but is anyone really happy with their new rigs? I read where the FDNY union head (I think) said Seagraves were "jalopies"....if you look on the DCFD and the Richmond thread their pierces are called shop queens.....hearing different complaints about KME but places like LA County continue to but them in droves...The fellas in Mass. where the building collapsed onto their KME (and it stayed up) were likely pretty happy it had almost twice the tensile strength of an aluminum ladder....A story on firehouse showed a Sutphen's cable snapped and injured 4 people on one of their platforms....Up north they had an RK bucket tip when extended.......Boston has gone from (recent modern history) E\-One to Pierce to Eone and now to KME.....Toronto apparently has had multiple cracks in the H frame outriggers on their smeals......Crimson? havent heard a lot.....
I know all the electronic sensors are mandatory but I miss the old days -give me an old girl that went up and came down in sleet and snow and if it faltered you taped stuff together with bandaids and duct tape and dammit it worked...I know this may be a hornet's nest...So I ask- no matter who you buy from, do you just "inherit" a different set of problems?
We've got 10-15 2008's...NOT happy.
[/quote]
I have to ask...and its not being satirical....but is anyone really happy with their new rigs? I read where the FDNY union head (I think) said Seagraves were "jalopies"....if you look on the DCFD and the Richmond thread their pierces are called shop queens.....hearing different complaints about KME but places like LA County continue to but them in droves...The fellas in Mass. where the building collapsed onto their KME (and it stayed up) were likely pretty happy it had almost twice the tensile strength of an aluminum ladder....A story on firehouse showed a Sutphen's cable snapped and injured 4 people on one of their platforms....Up north they had an RK bucket tip when extended.......Boston has gone from (recent modern history) E\-One to Pierce to Eone and now to KME.....Toronto apparently has had multiple cracks in the H frame outriggers on their smeals......Crimson? havent heard a lot.....
I know all the electronic sensors are mandatory but I miss the old days -give me an old girl that went up and came down in sleet and snow and if it faltered you taped stuff together with bandaids and duct tape and dammit it worked...I know this may be a hornet's nest...So I ask- no matter who you buy from, do you just "inherit" a different set of problems?
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