Hose Dryer or Hose Tower- How Do You Dry Your Hose?

Here in Chicagoland I've noticed some F.D's hang their hose in traditional hose towers, while still others use hose dryers. My F.D. uses a hose dryer. I was just curious what other F.D's both in the U.S. and overseas are using.

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Permalink Reply by Joe Stoltz on August 19, 2008 at 10:01pm

Hah - we use a hose dryer, I think it was made by Circul-aire. It was donated to our department some time in the 1970s. To the best of my knowledge, it has never been plugged in; we just load the hose in loose donut rolls and let them dry out. Saves a lot of energy that way!

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Permalink Reply by Brian Dumser on August 19, 2008 at 10:17pm

Sounds like the one at my station, Joe!

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Permalink Reply by anne potter on August 20, 2008 at 6:07am

Well being from the big city of Oxbow and having no money we have resorted to the old fashin way of tieing it on the local kids back and making them stand in the sun until dry... we hang it and replace.. it with dry on the truck...

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Permalink Reply by Joe Stoltz on August 20, 2008 at 7:01am

Well, at least you have kids there... here we drape our forestry hose over the fence to dry it out in between grass/brush fires.

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Permalink Reply by T.J. on August 20, 2008 at 8:20am

Drying rack for use Brian:)

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Permalink Reply by Brian Dumser on August 20, 2008 at 2:47pm

You have a fence...? LOL

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Permalink Reply by Firedog on August 20, 2008 at 3:27pm

We used to have hose towers but they are in the history books and being used for peoples deer blinds.We do not wash hose anymore yipeeeeeeeeeeeeeee

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Permalink Reply by Chuck Walker on August 20, 2008 at 3:47pm

we use a 2006 Seagrave engine . it usually dries on the way to the next call.

use to have an old commercial hose dryer but i didn't see a real big benefit in it.

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Permalink Reply by Oldman on August 20, 2008 at 4:13pm

Out here in "Hooterville", we use the bay floor as a hose rack. when its 90 degrees in the bays, it doesn't take long for it to dry.

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Permalink Reply by LT Lake on August 20, 2008 at 4:36pm

We lay ours out on the floor in the hall between the trucks. Most of the time we have enough hose we just grab the dry stuff off the storage rack to reload the truck and leave the wet stuff on the floor to dry. When its dry it gets rolled and place on the storage rack. The in floor heat realy helps the hose dry quick in the winter.

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Permalink Reply by Beans on August 21, 2008 at 2:57pm

we also drape our hose to dry it. lemme tell ya though...come flyin in the station for a call at 2 a.m. and forget to hit the lights ...POW! ...you wont soon forget those lights FIRST again...LOL...youch