[quote name='gnarldtoad' post='59089' date='Dec 16 2006, 13:06 ']Can someone answer me this. On the Ranger/E-one rigs why did they carry hose on top of the cabs. This seems very impractical place to put it. It maybe just me but very strange and I have never been able to come up with a reasonable explanation for it.
Gnarldtoad.[/quote]
I can't explain why CFD did it, but I can tell you why we did it at a department where I used to volunteer.
Hard suction hose is required by ISO and the Mississppi Dept. of Insurance's own Rating Bureau. We purchased a used Pierce pumper that did not have brackets or a practical place to store the hose so we installed brackets to hold 2 hard suction hoses on top of the cab, much like the 3 shown in Backdraft.
They rode up there for 5 or 6 years without ever being used except for maybe training until it was sold to another department.
Hard suction hoses are almost always stored high on apparatus. Being on top of the cab did not really make them that much more impractical than putting them anywhere else.
Gnarldtoad.[/quote]
I can't explain why CFD did it, but I can tell you why we did it at a department where I used to volunteer.
Hard suction hose is required by ISO and the Mississppi Dept. of Insurance's own Rating Bureau. We purchased a used Pierce pumper that did not have brackets or a practical place to store the hose so we installed brackets to hold 2 hard suction hoses on top of the cab, much like the 3 shown in Backdraft.
They rode up there for 5 or 6 years without ever being used except for maybe training until it was sold to another department.
Hard suction hoses are almost always stored high on apparatus. Being on top of the cab did not really make them that much more impractical than putting them anywhere else.
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