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Drafting From Rivers and Creeks. Tips, Techniques
Do your departments have any special tools or techniques that you use from drafting from moving water sources such as rivers or creeks?
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Permalink Reply by M.J. 6821 on
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Darley had a pump similar to this called the dolphin it worked ok as long as you didnt have much of a rise or the water was very calm.
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We have a setup that works for us but like most departments you always try to find something more efficient and I figured this was a good way to find out what other people use so we can try them out to see if they would work for us or if what we are doing now is the best we can do for now.
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Permalink Reply by Fabulous Heather Days of Summer on
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well that is all that really matters
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click back onto the text that you just posted - the text box will open back up
after your changes, click save again
but work quickly... and save repeatedly if you need to...
since it really only gives you about 13 1/2 minutes... if you stretch it to the last minute when you go to re-save it ... it won't save your new work
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ROTFLMAO
flame stickers... ooo la la
you're mommy must think you are a pretty special boy
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Permalink Reply by Mike Schlags (Captain Busy) Retd on
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What's REALLY funny about these FlotoPump's that most folks don't think about is that they are no different in many ways than a jet ski... Just ask the fire department who received one of these, started it up along a lake shoreline (sans any tether or connected hose) and guess what? the damn thing took off and travelled across the lake, beaching on a sandbar island (still running) in the middle of the lake... Lot's of campers and fellow firefighters got a laugh out of that one.
CBz
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Permalink Reply by Andrew Salinger on
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Around us we have alot of shallow streams and swamp land as well as large dams and tanks. When it comes to swamps and shallow water dig a hole in the mud so that your suction hose is further under the water and more water will flow into the lower point making it easier to draught. When sucking out of flowing water point the end of the suction line into the flow so that water is forced up the line making it easier on the pump to pull the water up. We also tie a rope around the end so that we can hold the line in the right spot if we need to. What sort of equipment do you have? Do you need to prime the line via hand pump or do you have a automatic priming system?
I think these are what some one was describing earlyer.
I have never used them before but i do know of stations sending people back to search dams for 1 that they lost during a fire so they must be pretty good.
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Permalink Reply by Brad MacMillan on
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The basketball is a great idea Paul! I think a bunch of us are going to take that one back to our departments.
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Another solution to this Vic is take some coniferous boughs and wrap them around the strainer and secure with electrical tape or duct tape, this will help to take the mud and silt out of it. We do that ALL the time with our forestry pumps and the foot valves (strainers for the suction). We can pump out of about 6-8 inches of water like that. If you're finding that it's still not enough, then have a small canvas pail and stick your strainer in there and fill it with the boughs. That oughta work for you or find something similar!
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