Good evening Jim, Shawn, Rick, Shaun, and everyone..

Ended up being a busy day..

Hope you had a great day

 

also illegal now to blow smoke out your diesels tail pipe...

working on it.. got the driver side 98% back together... just need to put the glow stick harness on... oil dip stick tube... fuel lines... and fix the stripped out threaded hole for the valve cover bolt... passenger side still needs to go back in.. then i can put the ac box back together and re-attach everything there...

 

Good nite folks............11:40 pm here id Alaska.......Bed time....

 

Well Neil You know exactly what I am talking about, let the new guy's handle those, you just grab the **** and run in, do the fun part. Than let the probies clean up and overhaul. After I hurt my back No more inside work for me! So they have a full time driver for the first due engine, rescue, or the ladder. Whatever is needed I will bring, even if I'm second due and have to pump a hydrant. We use Humat valves, drop 2 3 inch lines, then tie into the humat with the front suction and pump the 2 3"ers. If it's big we call Maxi Water, an older Hann we have, Large diameter discharge and over 2,000 feet of 5 inch. Only 1 time in 20 years in the fire company I dropped the whole bed, during a warehouse fire in Asbury Park, we got called in mutual aid, for the ladder to cover the B side of the building, anytime our ladder goes we bring our own water source, at that time I was the engineer on 78 maxi water, backed up 10 blocks to the fire, drop the manifold, they took the stinger off her, and I went to find a hydrant no one else was taking water from, All 2,000 feet plus a couple pony rolls to reach, front suction, and 2 3" off the side of the hydrant. Even with that friction loss my luck held true, just happen to find the only hydrant in the area that put out more than 2,000 GPM, was on a 36" main. Pumped everything she had, should have had a higher compound gauge reading but after the bulk of the fire was out I had a fire police member watch the truck, I wanted a close up, Found out they split the 5" off the manifold with a Y and feed our truck and Asbury's truck, took 2 3" off the manifold and feed a Wanammassa engine to a portable monitor, and the last 2 3" were used on a Wayside Engine to feed 2 2" hand lines. All the other engine's took the closest hydrants which were all on the same source a 6" main. A 70 year old man with a grapefruit for a prostate could give a better stream. And Asbury is a full time paid department. No common sense, ya no one likes to clean up and pack all that hose but we could have lost the whole block, you know buildings right next to each other. Insane. Have a good day Neil, keep them boots out of the fire.

 

Happy 4th Friday Vermont, Jim, Shawn, Rick, Neil, Don, Pat, anyone strung up from the scaffolding at the church. Like the OSHA people. Hope it's coming out good Shawn, Lord knows you got your heart and soul into it!!!! The windows are going OK? Haven't heard much on that end. They can be the tricky things. Hope everyone has a great weekend, if it started today good for you, if not your stuck like me, delivering rock. with traffic up the whasu, everyone running down the shore. Don't blame them it is going to be a nice weekend.

 

Morning Varmints...and...wanabees!!! Happy Weekend Eve!!!

 

Good afternoon Vermont Dave Ken and FTE land. Hope you're having a sunny fantastic Friday. Trying to get the place cleaned up some. Not the funnest way to spend a day off

 

Good afternoon Jim, Shawn, Ken, David, and everyone

Hope your Friday is going good..

Looks like Jim Slept late this morning....

 

Howdy Vermont.

 

Good evening Don. Nope didn't sleep in just was busy

 

Good evening Shaun

 

Sitting out by the fire. Probably do smores in a few minutes

 

Howdy Jim. That sounds good.

 

Are you having the mosquitoes on the side???LOL

 

Mosquitoes don't sound good.