What's up today (bullchiting) thread.

Not like able

 

Agree, hope hubby and everyone else get home to their families safe tonight!!

 

Oh boy. Honey do list..... So she's on vacation, and you're not.

 

Good tires.

 

Big fire, low turnout, and or hot as hell. We get called all the way across the county on a big fire. Especially 8n the summer. It's just so dam hot, not even one cylinder of air and folks are beat. Your basically wearing fireproof quilts in a room that's several hundred degrees. Then you come outside and it's 100 degrees, feels like AC but it's takes a bit to cool back down. If you have two teams or more that's a good bit of people that are needed to have several rotations. If your surrounding and drowning the structure you don't need as many people, especially if you can hang a hydrant and use a deck gun .

 

There is a bunch of different Cooper discover tires. I think every truck tire Cooper makes carries the Discoverer name. It's either like the AT, AT3, HT, STX etc.

I still have two of the AT2 on my Highlander. One had a broken belt or something and I ran over a bolt and the tire went flat instantly on the internet and broke the bead. That's when I had the flat a few weeks back. Due to the tires were pretty worn, the bad belt and now wear ring on the side where it rolled on the rim I just bought two new tires. I went with some random cheap Korean tires. I have had good luck out of no names. The seem to last just as long for me and cost less. Michellens seem to last a good while, but they also cost more than double. I'd rather have new tires twice as often and possibly get more miles out of those two sets vs one set of high dollar tires.

 

Yea we also get called for those. Most of the county doesn't have hydrants either. But we're WAY better than class 10. But we still have to run water shuttles. .y station just last year got a brand new 3000 gallon tanker. We also have a 2000 gallon tanker. We have a substation in our district that houses the smaller one.

The big one is a Mack Granite series tandem chassis. Same truck that you see as concrete or dump trucks. It's like a Cadillac of trucks. We had it custom built to our specs. It's a gold bulldog truck.
Got it from a FEMA grant

 

Brown thing in the green is a white tail.. dogs barking, radio on, just put down a sander.

 

Pretty heavy truck for 3000 gallons. Single axle 32000 pound chassis everywhere around here hold that on the road everyday.

 

Sling is one of the few that I've not tried. Is it blanking for local news?

 

According to the commercials, you should invite the neighbors over . Seems the way to go, but I don't sling.....

 

Sounds like single isolated structure and a surround and drown scenario. If they're that far out and fully involved when initial attack gets there, no choice but to call for extra engines to make sure it doesn't spread to the wildland. Doubt anyone even donned SCBA's , just set a perimeter and hosed it down after a while.
Water conservation is critical if you're only relying on the tanks the engines are carrying.