Private contract fire equipment

[Aaronw]

Wheeled Skidgine operated by Outback Wildfire of Prineville, Oregon.

 

50 gpm aux pump, 850 gallon tank.

 

Skidgines are (generally) retired tracked or wheeled logging skidders with a pump and tank replacing the logging equipment. They have excellent mobility getting into places more traditional fire apparatus can't reach. They are primarily found in the Pacific Northwest but are becoming more common in other heavily forested parts of the Western US.