Favorite Apparatus Manufactures

Just wanted to hear from some people who there favorite apparatus manufactures are !

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Permalink Reply by Coach on August 5, 2007 at 10:00pm

I personally like the E-Ones. Lifeline makes a heck of a good bus. That said, my kid thinks I am so old (not!) that my first fire truck was a water wagon pulled by a team of budwesier horses!!

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Permalink Reply by Justin Birchfield on August 5, 2007 at 11:18pm

Seagrave all the way, but Pierce is good too. Now an E-one on the other hand you might as well take it to a recycling bin & get your money back off of it for all it is is an aluminum beer can on wheels! Now other wise I would have to say the older LaFrances not the ones they make today, or even Hahn, Boyer, Peter Pirsch, Maxim, Howe, Stutz. Now some of the rigs I just mentioned some of the people on here have never even heard of!

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Permalink Reply by Jim Dyson on August 6, 2007 at 12:09am

sparton chassis and smeal body doing very well for us

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Permalink Reply by Lt2406 on August 6, 2007 at 1:07am

Anything except American Lafrance. Our trucks were more than 1 year and yes I said "year" late, and they have more mileage going back and forth to the repair shop than they have running calls. Nuts , bolts, and screws are always falling out or have to be tightened, and we are on our 4th multi-plex, and only 3 years old now!

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Permalink Reply by Dennis Bergman on August 6, 2007 at 1:40pm

Pierce

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Permalink Reply by Kevin King on August 6, 2007 at 2:23pm

Pierce, ALF. Ease of operation, convienence of controls.

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Permalink Reply by Chris Johnson on August 6, 2007 at 3:01pm

E-one all the way

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Permalink Reply by Henry Pannell on August 6, 2007 at 5:08pm

We have a 82 Mack engine with a manual transmission and let me just say theres nothing quite like it, but since mack is out of the engine making business its Pierce all the way.