[quote name='firemark' date='10 March 2010 - 10:33 PM' timestamp='1268280821' post='369388']
While at a technical rescue competition held at the Minneapolis FD's academy I was able to check a few of these older rigs out that were kept there. These were always interesting being tillered areials pulled by 4 door, commercial tractors. I don't have much info on them except they're on the Ford L series chassis for the tractors and Pirsch for the trailers and aerial. I'm going to take a guess and say late 70's or very early 80's. Some of the equipment details are a guess as to where it might have been carried since these rigs were out of service and pretty well stripped of most tools and the door patch is not authentic. Credits to Mayer22, Ladder13, JFong, KDWMAEMT, RIEMT, Engine5161, and myself.
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Beautiful job with that rig, I miss them. I had always wanted to do MPLS fleet but I can never work up the nerve to do it for fear of now doing them justice.
While at a technical rescue competition held at the Minneapolis FD's academy I was able to check a few of these older rigs out that were kept there. These were always interesting being tillered areials pulled by 4 door, commercial tractors. I don't have much info on them except they're on the Ford L series chassis for the tractors and Pirsch for the trailers and aerial. I'm going to take a guess and say late 70's or very early 80's. Some of the equipment details are a guess as to where it might have been carried since these rigs were out of service and pretty well stripped of most tools and the door patch is not authentic. Credits to Mayer22, Ladder13, JFong, KDWMAEMT, RIEMT, Engine5161, and myself.
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Beautiful job with that rig, I miss them. I had always wanted to do MPLS fleet but I can never work up the nerve to do it for fear of now doing them justice.
[quote name='usonian' timestamp='1296877893' post='423827']
My immediate first thought on this rig was that it looks like the Charlie Brown Christmas Tree of Fire Engines. Poor thing.
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My immediate first thought on this rig was that it looks like the Charlie Brown Christmas Tree of Fire Engines. Poor thing.
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