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Yes we are in Colorado. Here are a few specs on the unit:
Water: 600 gals, Pump: 20 gpm @ 275 psi, Tank to Pump: 20 gpm, Foam: 25 gal,
Hose, 2 1/2" - 50 ft, 1" - 100 ft (forestry preconnect)
Added by Jim Strates on 31 October 2005.
Water: 600 gals, Pump: 20 gpm @ 275 psi, Tank to Pump: 20 gpm, Foam: 25 gal,
Hose, 2 1/2" - 50 ft, 1" - 100 ft (forestry preconnect)
Added by Jim Strates on 31 October 2005.
is this unit still used
Added by Fire Boy on 20 May 2008.
Added by Fire Boy on 20 May 2008.
Yes it is. The sister truck is at our other station.
Added by Jim on 20 May 2008.
Added by Jim on 20 May 2008.
AKA 'Bush Truck'.
Great rig - esp., for those readers tired of 'Euro-Toasters'.
Custom-Built on the US Army 'Deuce-and-a-Half' (2.5 ton) 6x6 chassis. All the guards and bars are for charging through dense forest, on minimal roads/tracks; to prevent windshields, lights, mirrors, exhaust stack, etc from getting beaten in/swept off, by trees and low tree-branchs.....
A local VFD had a Pumper/Tanker that was an ex-Canada Dept of Transport Airport Crash Truck, built on the same 6x6 chassis. They loved it - for 'go-anywhere' ability, winter and summer.
The 'Forestry Hose' has a single fabric jacket, and no rubber liner; the idea is it swells, seals tight with the water and stays damp - so if it is stretched over 'hot spots', it does not burn through.
My VFD learned about this the hard way - wrote off a couple of lengths of conventional hose - chasing after a grass fire in a junk-yard, that had gotten into the woods.
Great truck - thought out for its job.
Regards,from Canada,
Pat_R-B
Added by Pat Rivers-Bowerman on 03 August 2009.
Great rig - esp., for those readers tired of 'Euro-Toasters'.
Custom-Built on the US Army 'Deuce-and-a-Half' (2.5 ton) 6x6 chassis. All the guards and bars are for charging through dense forest, on minimal roads/tracks; to prevent windshields, lights, mirrors, exhaust stack, etc from getting beaten in/swept off, by trees and low tree-branchs.....
A local VFD had a Pumper/Tanker that was an ex-Canada Dept of Transport Airport Crash Truck, built on the same 6x6 chassis. They loved it - for 'go-anywhere' ability, winter and summer.
The 'Forestry Hose' has a single fabric jacket, and no rubber liner; the idea is it swells, seals tight with the water and stays damp - so if it is stretched over 'hot spots', it does not burn through.
My VFD learned about this the hard way - wrote off a couple of lengths of conventional hose - chasing after a grass fire in a junk-yard, that had gotten into the woods.
Great truck - thought out for its job.
Regards,from Canada,
Pat_R-B
Added by Pat Rivers-Bowerman on 03 August 2009.
More than a thousand ex-US Army GMC 2.5 ton 6X6 trucks which were left in Europe were converted to brush (and occasionally structural) fire pumpers after WWII. Although they were used in many countries, including the Netherlands, Belgium, Switzerland and Portugal, the vast majority saw service in France - where many were still in service into the 1970s. Because the conversions were carried out by numerous small local firms, there were considerable variations in specifications ad designs.
The commonest had a 3000 litre tank, an open crew bench to accommodate a total crew of five, and a portable pump around 800 to 1000 LPM, plumbed into the tank, with a 19mm hosereel and outlets for 32 mm unlined hoses. Bodywork was usually rather basic, but a few were complete rebuilds with crew cabs, lockers and ladder gantries, and some had a front mounted crankshaft PTO powered pump, replacing the standard winch. A few can be seen on this site in the GMC section.
Added by Rob Johnson on 08 October 2023.
The commonest had a 3000 litre tank, an open crew bench to accommodate a total crew of five, and a portable pump around 800 to 1000 LPM, plumbed into the tank, with a 19mm hosereel and outlets for 32 mm unlined hoses. Bodywork was usually rather basic, but a few were complete rebuilds with crew cabs, lockers and ladder gantries, and some had a front mounted crankshaft PTO powered pump, replacing the standard winch. A few can be seen on this site in the GMC section.
Added by Rob Johnson on 08 October 2023.
To see three quite different examples of these, look at
picture 15698
picture 18440 and
picture 19298
on this site.
Added by Rob Johnson on 16 October 2023.
picture 15698
picture 18440 and
picture 19298
on this site.
Added by Rob Johnson on 16 October 2023.
GMC
Added by Marcel Sloover on 27 October 2005.