Antique Fire Equipment

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Permalink Reply by Dale on January 24, 2009 at 9:21am

Here is the picture even though its not a clear one of the hose cart.

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Permalink Reply by Pete on January 24, 2009 at 10:15am

Hi Dale,

I just read your posting. The town you mentioned Ballston Spa, is our county seat for Saratoga County, NY.

One of our neighboring dept.s within the past year just finished restoring their 1937 Sanford Fire Truck. My understanding what they did was to find a local body shop, willing to do the work with the understanding that the monies needed would have to come from Pancake Breakfasts, Spaghetti dinners, Boot Drives etc. The process took a bit longer that way, but it was the only way they could do it without depleteing their dept.s budget.

Not quite sure where Edwards NY is, but from your profile I'm guessing your up along the St. Lawrence Seaway - if this is the case, you might be able to cash in on the the summer tourism traffic. Holding pancake breakfasts on a Sunday morning in the summer months, might be an ideal way to promote your cause and get the $ dollars for getting the truck restored.

Let's exchange email addresses, so I can give you some more info. on a Dept. that does just this.

Pete, Charlton Fire

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Permalink Reply by Nathan Richardson on March 18, 2009 at 6:48pm

just to let you know we sold our blitz buggy 10 years ago and the person who has it takes it to parades and it still pumps water.

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Permalink Reply by Dale on March 18, 2009 at 9:28pm

Nathan what chassis was this on? 1 Ton or a ton and half? Ford or Dodge?

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Permalink Reply by Tom Wheland on November 1, 2009 at 6:49pm

Try talking with the museum in Hudson.

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Permalink Reply by Dale on November 1, 2009 at 9:13pm

Tom we tried that but they told us we would have to refurbish it ourselves and there's no way we can afford to do this.

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Permalink Reply by Joshua Schultz on November 1, 2009 at 10:28pm

We have a 66 FWD Pumper that we was in service until ~2002. We put it out of service, and it went into storage, where the usual rust and other issues related to storing it occur. We looked into restoring it, spending roughly 20K to do so. Sandblasting, repainting/re-lettering, some fabrication to fix some of the compartments and whatnot, a few small engine issues were attended to.

Maintaining and restoring these fire apparatus are vital, especially when there are few around. Showing off our truck has brought forth some other folks who have also had FWD's, and have given me countless stories about the graveyard they now have disappeared to, an unfortunately, a mostly unnecessary ending for some of these fine pieces of equipment.

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Permalink Reply by Dale on November 2, 2009 at 8:00am

Josh,

I know what your saying. But when your budget is only 57,500 and half of that goes to fuel and heat there is no why we can sick that kind of money into it. Believe me this truck is one of two left and to have this put into a museum would have been nice but I guess it will sit in our pole barn and never be enjoyed by anyone but us.

Dale

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Permalink Reply by Joshua Schultz on November 2, 2009 at 4:09pm

Didn't realize your budget was that small, then yeah, you either have to just store it or find some sort of benefactor/museam to take on the task, really unfortunate - best of luck with that though!

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