How do you fill your tanker?

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Permalink Reply by Cory Deaton on June 17, 2009 at 2:42pm

We have a 2000 gallon tanker that we fill up with either a 4" or 2.5" line off a hydrant. In the rural areas depending on if we have a pond or lake around we have a floating pump that we can stick in the water and use that to fill the tank its a 2.5" line. For other rural areas we just go to a near by town and fill of there hydrants.

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Permalink Reply by Thomas A. Barrett on June 17, 2009 at 3:53pm

We fill our Tenders or Tankers for you East Coasties, at Hydrants, Stand Pipes or Drafting from Rivers, Lakes, and other Water Sources.. Our Tender is 3,500 Gallons.. WE use 4"LDH or 2 1/2" Hose from Hydrants or 2 1/2" Suction to draft with..

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Permalink Reply by Luke Summers on June 18, 2009 at 4:16am

For the most part from Hydrants, if were at the station its from the hydrant Just outside of our bay doors, However in the winter we fill inside from our 3 inch standpipe system in our bays to avoid turning the city street into an ice skating rink. We will fill from stock tanks, rivers or ponds as the needed.

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Permalink Reply by james w. hunter on June 18, 2009 at 3:14pm

We run a 1800 gal and a 2000 gal tanker. If a draft site from a pond or river is used, we fill from a pumper with 2-two and a half inch hoses, the same goes from a portable pump or hydrant. We do a lot of swimming pool fills in summer, so we try to keep village water from hydrants in trucks at all times.

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Permalink Reply by Ken Mercer on June 18, 2009 at 3:35pm

WE USE A 3 INCH LINE FROM A HYDRANT OR ANY OTHER WATER SOURCE OUR TANKER IS A 4500 GALLON TANK WITH A 800 GPM PUMP

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Permalink Reply by Chief Dino on June 19, 2009 at 5:39pm

We have 2 1/2 in hydrants that come off our rural water supply main, so we mainly fill directly from those, takes about 8-10 minutes to fill the 1800 gal tankers we have. we have a couple of dry hydrants, but are rarely used and the river we could draft off of in a pinch. But for a structure fire, we'd run all three of our tankers (2-1800 & 1- 3000) and then shuttle all three to the hydrant and back.

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Permalink Reply by Captain Busy on June 19, 2009 at 6:02pm

Just for the record (Hello Ben Waller... : ), Tankers are filled at airports... Tenders are filled at hydrants, static water supplies (drafting) or by other engines shuttling water.

This is a tanker...

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Permalink Reply by Ben Waller on June 20, 2009 at 4:33am

Mike, that's only true for people who mistakenly believe that FEMA is correct when they set the tail to wagging the dog. :-)

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Permalink Reply by John Sees on June 21, 2009 at 6:53pm

Hey, Cap. The picture of the big red truck is a tanker, the picture of the flying thing is called a plane. Look up tanker in a dictionary it will state that a tanker is a truck, boat or plane used to transport a liquid, this is where the west coast or FEMA got tanker, but why not call air tanker. Look up tender in a dictionary it will state that it is the railroad car pulled behind a railroad steam engine used to carry coal and water. The truck that I drive to shuttle water to fires is not pulled by a steam engine and also meets the term in the dictorary for a tanker. My fire company was organized in 1796, I do believe that there is not a fire company on the west coast that is older than that. So why is that the west coast thinks that the rest of the nation has to use their terms, we were fighting fires first. If you want to use the term tanker for your planes so be it, but I will just call for an air drop and for shuttling water I'll call for tankers.

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Permalink Reply by Trainer on June 20, 2009 at 6:44am

Wonder why the rest of us had to rename our tankers because of the west coast:)

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Permalink Reply by Paul J. Storke, Jr. on June 21, 2009 at 6:59pm

We have two tankers the Western Star is 4000gal and the Mack 3500gal and we have a water supply engine the Autocar with a 1750gpm pump but it actually does 2000gpm and we use that with two 6'' hard sleves and one 4'' supply line to fill our tankers in about 2 min each without useing their pumps

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Permalink Reply by John Sees on July 2, 2009 at 12:29am

An Autocar, I have not seen or heard of them in a long time. Good pictures. Thanks for the reply.

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