Military Equipment

Is your department modifing military equipment to use as fire equipment? And what kind of modifications did you do to them? We have three 2 1/2 tons and a 5000 gallon fuel tanker.
The 2 1/2 ton all have 1000 gallon Plas-Mac polyproplene tanks (www.firetrucktanks.com) sorry shamless plug, with hpx200 hale pumps racks on front with tw0 1"booster lines for wildland fires and a 1" booster reel and 1 1/2 preconnect on back . The tanker has the hpx 200 pump on it and is set up to fill trucks or can be used to for fighting fires.

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Permalink Reply by Wes Anders on August 23, 2008 at 8:32pm
sounds really nice would love to see it. Does it have a 24 volt electrical system or is it 12 volt?
Permalink Reply by Bill Muehsam on August 23, 2008 at 8:51pm
I'll see if I can post a photo. 24 volt system
Permalink Reply by Wes Anders on September 23, 2008 at 8:21am
I went to Haskell Texas and they had track transport vehicles with tanks and pumps on them they look like they could go anywhere.
Permalink Reply by Butch McCurdy on September 23, 2008 at 10:11am
I kike what yall did with those trucks! We took an old tanker a bed off of a log truck and an ld army generator and made a light truck/suport truck.
Permalink Reply by Michael Harkey on September 24, 2008 at 7:49pm
If anyone has questions about repairing or just general info about operating military vehicles, I might be able to help. I have been working on them full time for the ARNG for 17 years. I supersive 2 ARNG maintenance shops and can still find info for most of the trucks out there.
Permalink Reply by daniel smith on September 24, 2008 at 8:59pm
I wish we had a few 6x6's! They are great for off road. Good angles of approach and departure. You don't say the kind of terrain you use them on. But with the tall tanks I would be nervous about taking any big side hills. If I could make a suggestion you might want to have your department look into new tires. I wouldn't trust those byas plys as they are probably old. I am not sure when the army stopped using them. I work for the army as a fire fighter and have used a 5 ton 6x6 in some bad sand. It slugged through it like it wasnt even there.
Permalink Reply by Wes Anders on September 25, 2008 at 8:28pm
They will cover just about any terrian we have some pretty rough ground but our tanks are baffled into small compartments you dont feel the water ever move I work for the company that builds the tanks. Weve been running these 2 1/2 tons for about 9 years and I dont think weve stuck one yet. Weve pulled the other trucks out several times with them though.
Permalink Reply by Bill Muehsam on October 16, 2008 at 8:52pm
Here are the pics I promised of Brush 76. We've made some additions since my last post. Added to the rig were the following:
2-200ft dead lays of 1" Wildland hose (both sides for a total of 400ft of Wildland off either side)
250 ft of 2 1/2 supply line
10 gallons of Foam
Floating Waterous Pump
The Drivers side compartments contain 3 sets of Wildland PPE, "Indina Tanks", and the Engineers Compartment (Nozzles and Hose appliances)
THe Captains Side Compartment contains Rehab supplies, Shovels, Pulaski Axes, Brush Rakes, and Rope.
We added a rear step that is hinged to allow access to the bed area of the rig.

Permalink Reply by Wes Anders on October 16, 2008 at 9:05pm
That is one nice truck I bet you have a lot of time in it looks great!
Permalink Reply by Mike on November 24, 2008 at 6:27am
I was on a department that uses a 2 1/2 ton. Only ever had one problem. A modification was never made to the intermediate rear axle which resulted in a rollover accident. During the rollover the tank sheared the bolts mounting it to the bed and came close to crushing one of the firefighters. Of course this was years ago in a rural department, NO department ANYWHERE would still have firefighters riding in an open area of the apparatus, would they? ;)
Permalink Reply by Eric on November 24, 2008 at 7:02am
I don't know how much this comment can help with this discussion, but I do know that one of my neighboring departments has purchased and modified a humvee as a brush truck. I honestly could not give you details as to what they have or have not modified, but I figured I'd throw this in here to show one more department that has old military equipment in their bays.

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