[quote name='Ladder 68' post='157034' date='Oct 19 2007, 14:06 ']This is what the Seagrave/3D 100' aerials looked like after being rehabbed. This is former Ladder 68. This aerial actually rusted from the inside out and was removed and the rig was run as a "Stick Wagon" for a number of months. It too was replaced by a '97 E\-One aerial.
Kenny, is this one that the museum got donated to them?
Credit to photographer.[/quote]
Larry,
Yes, that is the one the museum has, right down to the swapped windows putting the Shop Number on the wrong side of the cab. However, it is very rusty compared to the other one. I am pushing to save it for restoring since it has more history than L32 and the fact I spent a few years at 68's.
As far as running the trucks as stick wagons I have a humous story regarding that. While assigned to station 39 in northeast Houston I was working a Debit Day at station 32 when we were dispatched to a man stuck in a tree. We found while a worker was cutting the top off a pine tree his arm became tangled in rope when the top broke loose breaking his arm and pinning him to the tree aprox. 35 feet above the ground.
The Captain called for a ladder truck to reach the man. I few minutes later Ladder 45 rounds the corner with no aerial. The aerial on their '82 Seagrave had rusted out and had been removed for repairs. Needless to say, the Captain had to call for a second truck specifying one with an aerial.
When I get a chance I will post the HFD apparatus has.
Kenny
Kenny, is this one that the museum got donated to them?
Credit to photographer.[/quote]
Larry,
Yes, that is the one the museum has, right down to the swapped windows putting the Shop Number on the wrong side of the cab. However, it is very rusty compared to the other one. I am pushing to save it for restoring since it has more history than L32 and the fact I spent a few years at 68's.
As far as running the trucks as stick wagons I have a humous story regarding that. While assigned to station 39 in northeast Houston I was working a Debit Day at station 32 when we were dispatched to a man stuck in a tree. We found while a worker was cutting the top off a pine tree his arm became tangled in rope when the top broke loose breaking his arm and pinning him to the tree aprox. 35 feet above the ground.
The Captain called for a ladder truck to reach the man. I few minutes later Ladder 45 rounds the corner with no aerial. The aerial on their '82 Seagrave had rusted out and had been removed for repairs. Needless to say, the Captain had to call for a second truck specifying one with an aerial.
When I get a chance I will post the HFD apparatus has.
Kenny
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