[quote name='psjboyz' date='09 May 2010 - 09:57 PM' timestamp='1273455427' post='381004']
Liberty Fire Company, Spring City
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Info on this rig.
1975 Hendrickson 1871S/Pierce/LTI, canopy cab, 1250 GPM, 85 ft steel rear-mount ladder-tower. It was purchased used in 1990 from Northeast Fire Apparatus for $177,000. It was sent to LTI who took the ladder off and fabricated a new ladder turntable. During one of the first training sessions it was out on, the ladder was extended and got stuck. It had to be manually cranked down. In 11/98, while on a training exercise on the old Pennhurst State School and Hospital, the truck tipped over when the outrigger was deployed over an old steam viaduct which they did not know about. While the ladder was being extended, the culvert collapsed, and the trucked tipped over with the ladder coming to rest on a building. The ladder and rigger were damaged. Repaired and placed back into service prior to 6/1/99. Housed 9/30/2000. Taken OOS in 2006. Donated in 1/07 to the Western Center for Technical Studies which is located on Gratersford Road in Limerick Twp (Montgomery County). The Pottsgrove, Spring-Ford, and Upper Perkiomen school districts send students there. I guess they never took it because on 12/15/08 they either donated it or sold it to Queen City (Schuyler County, MO).
Liberty Fire Company, Spring City
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Info on this rig.
1975 Hendrickson 1871S/Pierce/LTI, canopy cab, 1250 GPM, 85 ft steel rear-mount ladder-tower. It was purchased used in 1990 from Northeast Fire Apparatus for $177,000. It was sent to LTI who took the ladder off and fabricated a new ladder turntable. During one of the first training sessions it was out on, the ladder was extended and got stuck. It had to be manually cranked down. In 11/98, while on a training exercise on the old Pennhurst State School and Hospital, the truck tipped over when the outrigger was deployed over an old steam viaduct which they did not know about. While the ladder was being extended, the culvert collapsed, and the trucked tipped over with the ladder coming to rest on a building. The ladder and rigger were damaged. Repaired and placed back into service prior to 6/1/99. Housed 9/30/2000. Taken OOS in 2006. Donated in 1/07 to the Western Center for Technical Studies which is located on Gratersford Road in Limerick Twp (Montgomery County). The Pottsgrove, Spring-Ford, and Upper Perkiomen school districts send students there. I guess they never took it because on 12/15/08 they either donated it or sold it to Queen City (Schuyler County, MO).
Bruce W. Anderson
Historian
Southeastern PA Region
Historian
Southeastern PA Region