"Nicknames" for your apparatus???

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Permalink Reply by Bill Brierton on July 28, 2009 at 3:46pm

Oh yeah I forgot to add the truck of my former company was called "Big As a Whale, Slow as a Snail."

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Permalink Reply by james w. hunter on July 28, 2009 at 4:18pm

1956 ford pumper parade truck called the Gray Ghost, 1998 ford pumper called the farm tractor because only has top speed of 62 mph.

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Permalink Reply by Sarah on July 28, 2009 at 5:53pm

our qrs truck was numbered 51 like from emergency.... and our neighboring dept has a pumper they call the wet dream

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Permalink Reply by Matt on August 1, 2009 at 12:27am

Really the only one of our trucks which has a nickname is our brush truck, it's a 1984/86? Dodge which has several...quirks. We call it Clank, mostly because of the wide variety of odd noises it makes.

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Permalink Reply by GelorupRookie on August 1, 2009 at 12:07pm

Western Australian Forestry Fire Trucks

Heavy Duty

Cab Chassis: 5 tonne truck always 4WD generally single cab
Water Capacity: 2700 litres
Pump: Hatz 2L41C motor coupled to Gaam Mk 300 pump. 1100l/min @ 7 bar. Gaam hand primer
Water Delivery: 1 x 70m x 19mm hose reel, 1 x 30m x 19mm hose reel, 2 x 38mm monitors and 3 x 38mm outlets
Foam system: Robwen bladder system
Body: Steel and aluminium. Frame hot dip galvanised steel. 7 lockers in total


Gang Truck

Cab Chassis: 5 tonne truck always 4WD generally dual cab
Water Capacity: 2700 litres
Pump: Honda GX 340 coupled to Gaam Mk 125 . 225l/min @ 8 bar . Gaam hand primer
Water Delivery: 1 x 30m x 19mm hose reel, 1 x 50x 19mm hose reel 2 x monitors and 1 x 38mm outlet
Foam system: None
Body: Steel and aluminium. Frame hot dip galvanised steel. 8 lockers including one transverse locker

Snorkel

I have no specs on this and no website or pics but its like a Z boom that rises to tree top hight and is remotely used to put out large tress that we cant get with the Heavy Duty. Its a slip on unit that we put on our tip truck. It also carries 3700lts of water, and its a dog to drive LOL....


LINK TO WEBSITE OF MANUFACTURER AND PHOTOS

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Permalink Reply by LVVFD622 on September 19, 2009 at 9:54am

Our Ladder 6 just received a nickname this morning after an MVC. Her name is now Big Bertha.

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Permalink Reply by Chris W. ERCVFD on September 19, 2009 at 11:29am

All of our tankers have nicknames, at sta.5 we have "BIG HANK".

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Permalink Reply by Reg Mathis on October 6, 2009 at 12:48am

I call our engine "Dusty", as she so rarely gets to go outside...

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Permalink Reply by David lord on November 10, 2009 at 10:11am

Our 77 3/4 ton chevy brush truck is now as the Brush Hog we also have a lime green turd which is and 78 ford 800 pumper the rest of our trucks arte tanker 42 and rescue 40

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Permalink Reply by Eric Johnson on November 10, 2009 at 11:08am

We have a air supply van that is a 1988 bread van. We ended up nicknaming it Tastee 1.

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