Minnesota Apparatus

[e11ramfireman]

This truck looks like a disaster in the making in regards to weight and also a pump that is oversized for the chassis. Can an F550 do it all?

I would agree weight is likely an issue, seeing more and more rigs like this, my belief is that if you go 4 door you have to eliminate the compartment before rear axle to shorten the wheel base and keep the ability to keep it under its gvw.  If you want that big a body plus the pump then it should be 2 door, can't have your cake and eat it too when your talking that small of a chassis.  As for the pump, i'm still skeptical but Darley is doing them w/ a 1500 gpm split shaft single stage pump and talking with the representatives at the Firehouse expo where they had one on display they claimed to have put it through all types of testing and trials, and they did it when it was in the upper 90's, humid and did it for prolonged time period, and claimed it worked very well w/o breaking a sweat.