Fire trucks

[Athlon64~SPARTA~]

Well good old Athlon was sent buy my employer to Supthen fire appratus to do some hands on training for 3 days a week or so ago and got to tour the mfgering facility and look at how the trucks are built.

 

Here is their repair facility with a new 100ft tower in it being readyed for delevery

Edited June 16, 2013 by Athlon64~SPARTA~

[Athlon64~SPARTA~]

Here is a what is called a rear tiller type fire truck, these are not to popular anymore

 

Heres is some cabs that are allready built

Edited June 16, 2013 by Athlon64~SPARTA~

[Athlon64~SPARTA~]

Here is the structior of a cab insides

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Here is a new Cummins engine sitting around waiting to go in to a fire truck

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Heres a new hale fire pump, this one will do 1750 gpm

 

 

 

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This is a pump module, ready to be set on a truck

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This is a pump module looking at the pipeing, and valve lenkeges, all stainless pipeing due to the use of foam on this one

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Here is a new pumper on the line being assembled

[Athlon64~SPARTA~]

And just so happends that here is one on the assembly line for us the city i work at

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And out back is some front axles laying around

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And some rear axles as well

[Athlon64~SPARTA~]

Then we went over to the tower falicity and saw how the towers are built
Here is one done ready to go on a truck

Edited June 16, 2013 by Athlon64~SPARTA~

[NCO]

Athlon,

 

Very cool! We took delivery of 6 Spartan/Thibault Engines last year, with more in the queue for 2013. You can see them on this website (look for unit numbers starting in "12"):

https://halifax.ca/fire/fleet/index.html

[IDAN]

Nice photos bud, cool stuff

[BrerRabbit~SPARTA~]

There's an older fire engine for sale near me. Ill swing by later today and get a pic and post it. Fire fighting equipment is always cool as hell.

 

Anyone watch EMERGENCY! when they were kids?

 

[Athlon64~SPARTA~]

Spartan builds a good truck, i worked on some older ones. Even 2 of the prototype crash trucks that were stationed at cape canavrill {NASA)

 

Our fleet is, or was the biggest fleet of Supthens in the U.S, West palm beach is now the biggest, only beat us out buy a couple of trucks

 

If you ask me there not any better then a E-ONE.

Edited June 18, 2013 by Athlon64~SPARTA~

[Durka-Durka~SPARTA~]

That's really cool. I'm gonna show this to the wife, she'll enjoy it.

[Athlon64~SPARTA~]

More frome the tower facility

Sections of tower bult

A tower base section

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A tower ready to install

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This one is a 75ft truck just about all the way completed

The pump panel area all lite up

[Elvis~SPARTA~]

Anyone watch EMERGENCY! when they were kids?

 

I've driven the engine. The engine was owned by MCA, who shipped it to Yosemite National Park after the Jack Webb series, where it was the engine in Yosemite Valley operate by the concession.

 

http://www.emergencyfans.com/things/engine_51/e51yosemite.htm

 

I've also helped Mrs. Jack Webb out of a jam, stopped Bo Duke driving the General Lee, and Ann-Margaret driving a Harley blowing through a stop sign by Ronald Reagan's old ranch that Bob Hope sold to him, but I like to drop names.

[Athlon64~SPARTA~]

Old fire trucks never die, they just keep getting uglyer and uglyer as time goes on

Edited June 26, 2013 by Athlon64~SPARTA~

[Athlon64~SPARTA~]

Cool, that's a old Ward Lafrance, the county I once worked at had a Ward Lafrance tower truck with a LTI ladder tower on it with a 8v 71 Detroit diesel with a Allison ht 750 trans and a hale pump if I remember right. OLd truck, probley in south America now.