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Brush Trucks!!!
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Posted 11 months ago Hey guys was sitting here wondering what kind of brush truck are out there. In my county majority of the trucks are based on a old military Pick-up 4X4 with no power steering. two depts. my dept included have the GMC 4x2 with the side compartments let me know what ya'lls brush trucks are i'd love to see em and hear about em. |
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| Posted 11 months ago None. We respond an eng. to the call and wait till the fire burns to a road the we can drive to it...LOL |
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| Posted 11 months ago We have an old duece an a half, and a freightiliner water tender. That's about the standard for Nevada. Some GMCs and dodges, but they're mostly used as command vehicles. Then of course there's the ever present dozer. |
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| Posted 10 months ago deputy13 said: Its funny you brung that up a station here in my county took a brand new eng on its 2nd call out to a woodsfire well guess what they wanted to do they drove it down a creek line that was mud up to the knees it was trying to follow a brush truck |
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| Posted 10 months ago We have a Chevy dully 4X4 One Shot. One Kill. Ready to die but never will!!!!! R.I.P. Chesty |
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| Posted 10 months ago We have a Ford F-250 4x4 |
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| Posted 10 months ago We have a Ford F-350 with a flat bed back to it with a 300 gallon poly skid unit with a 18 horsepower pump. Then there is our GMC Topkick C-70 Truck that is our tender with a portable pump on the back of that we use for brushfires and water supply out in our rural coverage area. |
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| Posted 10 months ago 2007 F-550 4WD Power Stroke, 400 gallon poly, 25 gallon CAFS unit on 18hp (= 4000 gallons of foam at full mix), Odin pump. Sidewinder front bumper joystick nozzle, 2 whip lines, one reel on rear with new lightweight hose, Boxes on the sides with 2 SCBA's, tools, chainsaw, foam, etc. I forgot the others we have: 94 F-350 4WD 300 gallon tank mix foam 80 Chevy 4WD 300 gallon tank 87 GMC 6WD duece & a half, 1200 gallon tank, new CAFS unit Tanker is a Kenworth super 10, 3200 gallon tank with tri-dump, and pumping capabilities, 2 1500 gallon drop tanks. Jeff Draper
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| Posted 10 months ago FF193 said: We just got a similar truck to the F-350. I have not used it yet. I hope it will be a good addition to our fleet. It seems to be just what we need. The largest room is the room for self improvement |
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| Posted 10 months ago We have a F-350 Quad cab with a flat bed 4X4. Jak-Pack 250 gal skid with 18 hp Darley pump w/ foam. Side cabinets, Hitch mount platform for Blowers. We build it ourselves for half the price. Omnis Cedo Domus |
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| Posted 10 months ago sandy2502 said: The 94 F-350 I listed above, we built also. It is tough, and tough looking. It had a box bed on it, and we switched it to a flatbed, and added the unit and boxes, but the bed is shorter, so the rear end is almost at the back of the bed, kinda like a tractor pull truck, so it's sweet for 4 wheeling. Jeff Draper
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| Posted 10 months ago chase1 said: I saw a Jak-Pak slide in for a standard pick-up. It was 200 gal with the 18hp Darley. All poly with built in cabinets hanging over the pick-up bed sides. It was a totally unitized. Omnis Cedo Domus |
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| Posted 10 months ago we just use our engine, which amounts to a couple of indian tanks... |
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| Posted 10 months ago In my department i have three trucks and thats it so they have to be able to do just about everything including brush fires. We have a '76 kaiser " duece and a half", a 2007 4x4 f-750 with a twelve inch lift and we have an old chevy pickup with a tank in the bed. all the trucks have pictures on my profile if you care to see them |
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| Posted 10 months ago We have 4 Hummer brush trucks with 250 GPM pump, (2 2002 models and 2 1998 models), 2 2002 E-One Mini-pumpers with 250 GPM pump and a 1,200 gallon tanker. You can view pictures of the Hummer and E-0ne Mini-pumper in my photo album (Fort Rucker Fire & Emergency Services) |
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| Posted 10 months ago On my volunteer department we have a late model Ford F350 type 6 and one water tender. My career department has 4 brush trucks type 6's, 4 tenders, 4 ATVs, and a Cache trailer. Our brush trucks consist of one 90's model ford F350 regular cab, one 2002 F350 extended cab, and two F550 extended cabs, one 2005 and the other 2006. We'll be picking up a new F550 crew cab next year after our new $5 million station is built. Thank god for Oil and Gas. Anyway, we fight a ton of wildland fires and about 75% of our members are red card certified. |
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| Posted 8 months ago 2001 Ford F350 DRW 4x4. 250 gallons with a Hale HP200. Full pump-and-roll as long as you don't get stuck, but we have a winch for that. |