Hybrid Shoulder Load

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Permalink Reply by Eng10Squad on June 17, 2009 at 9:28am

Why don't you have your maintenance person install a couple of dividers in the hose bed? Otherwise the load looks good to me for what you have to deal with.

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Permalink Reply by Eric Bock on June 17, 2009 at 8:34pm

We did buy dividers but did not install them because they made it look like a cheap fix,

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Permalink Reply by Ben Waller on August 2, 2009 at 9:40am

Cheap fixes are the best kind. How the lay looks isn't really important - what's important is how the load deploys.

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Permalink Reply by Tony P on August 2, 2009 at 8:57pm

Agreed. Can you get the hose out in the way you need it? That's what matters, not the look of it.

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Permalink Reply by FETC on August 2, 2009 at 8:40am

Can I ask why your truck was spec'd with such a wide speedlay area. It appears that it would allow 2.5 to be packed in two stacks, but a 3-stack speedlay???

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Permalink Reply by Shareef Abdu Nur on November 9, 2009 at 3:14pm

Every hose on every one of our companies is flat loaded(speedlays, supply lines, trashlines, etc..). We do it this way for ease of operation and consistency. Some Engine Bosses like the loops(dog ears) every 50 ft so their guys can slide their arm in, reach back and grab another loop with the other hand and go. but you have to use what works for your department and then train on it. Trial and error is the best way to find out what works best for your department.

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Permalink Reply by Paul Dudan on November 18, 2009 at 9:39am

I couldn't view the pics, but this sounds similar to the situation we recently faced. We have double wide speedlays with 200 feet of 1"3/4.It use to be all flat lay but deployment was a bitch.If not deployed properly it would snag and get hung up...and if pulled properly it still yanked the load off of the firefighter because it flaked from the bottom. The new lay still uses 200 feet but is much easier to pull and use.The first 100 feet is loaded flat stacked on one side of the tray with the female connected on the bottom. The next 100 feet is flat loaded in reverse with the nozzle/male end on the bottom ant the ends are connected on top.Deployment is firefighter has 100 feet on shoulder and 100 to pull off the truck.

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