Hose beds/loads

[Truckman]

[quote name='ppfd' post='187618' date='Feb 8 2008, 22:30 ']John,

So if you all needed a 2.5 hand line, did you snag the sections out of the supply bed?[/quote]





Well after you had laid out the supply line, then you could pull what ever additional 2-1/2" line off you needed and put a nozzle on it and take it in. If you were going to use the wye, then the driver or some one would pull enough line off to be near the front door or where you were going to make an entrance and the other members would attached the wye after laying it out. Hopefully before the pump operator down the street loaded that 1-1/2 line. The first photo of the AmLaFrance had double 2-1/2" discharges on the rear. Sometime after this photo was taken, any rigs that had this set up was ordered to make up at least one preconnected 2-1/2" lay to either or both rear discharges. I was a Lt at the 21's and had the twin to Wagon 1 as an triple combination pumper and if memory serves me correctly we had one 2-1/2" preconnect and the other discharge had a connection set up for a foam eductor. I will see if I have a photo of that ride and post it later.



Wagonman, I am glad I could make you feel younger and take you back a few years like we

"old" guys had to operate.