Hose beds/loads

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To better explain the hosebed design it went like this.



We wanted a hosebed and attack lines that you didn't need to climb up to reach, were easily adaptable for various situations, and didn't tie up the pump panel area. Our specs called for the hosebed floor not to exceed 60" from the ground and be no deeper than 8' from front to tailboard (so when shoulder loaded the hose did not hang more than 4' in front and behind the FF's shoulder). After looking at the drawing again, the bed is 85" deep (front to back), 61" from the ground.



The bumper wells were modeled after Seagrave rugs (ken land and similar). Two main points. One was for the raised angled lip for easy hose deployment, the second was to keep the front approach angle clear, pictured below.

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The hose load concept goes like this. If you pull any attack line, the nest equal size and flow handline can be pulled at or greater then the length of the original. All the rear loads have the top 150' packed as a shoulder load.



Here's an example. We pull the 150 bumper line. We need a second line on the fire floor to back it up, the 150 of 1 3/4" from the rear 250 preconnect can be pulled and broken. need to go to the floor above? Take what you need; preconnected or estimate and stretch what ya need. Need a bigger line? Pull the 2" with the 1 1/8" slug tip it will flow 240 GPM at 400'. Works for the limited crew we have. need more? pull the 2 1/2" with the 1 1/8 and 1 1/4" tips for 250 or 320 GPM. All the rear lines can be easily pulled at 150' or up to 400' because each bed has a total of 400' of hose.



Last attack line is 100' of 2 1/2" to a Mercury Monitor with 1 3/8" tip (500GPM)

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