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Your Biggest Tanker?
So my department has a 4500 gallon tri-axle monster of a tanker that we have given the nickname "the whale." I want to know if anyone has anything bigger. I dont know how to upload a photo from a differant computer but if you check out my page there is a pix of it somewhere. You will notice it (the big white truck) LOL
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Permalink Reply by Dustin J. Millis on
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She sure is pretty!!!
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I just noticed that I never put up a pix of the 4500 gallon beast I was talking about.
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Permalink Reply by Brad Anderson on
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Who made your vacuum tanker? The one my depatment has is made by Southern Fire now a part of E-one. That looks like a great truck. The only problem is keeping the tank looking nice and shiny new.
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Permalink Reply by Oldman on
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Engine and Accessory INC. Miami FL. Yeah, the tank is a pain in the division C, but we are looking to have it clear coated. Until then, good old fashioned polish and a buffer.
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Exactly!!! lol. It's nice to have all that water if we need it, the problem is just making sure we can get it there. Luckily, we have a few engineers that can drive just about everything with wheels and some things without lol.
There are sometimes though when we know that we will be driving through some small subdivisons, gravel roads, etc and we end up just taking our small tanker
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Permalink Reply by derrick pry on
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we have a "real tanker". 6000 gallon tractor trailer, 2000 GPM pump. The tractor is a 1986 Mack with a Mack motor and 5 speed direct transmission. Trailer is around a 1970 Progress. refurbished by 4 guys in 1993 which added the 2000 GPM pump to replace a 750 gpm pump and painted
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Permalink Reply by art bowles on
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my dept has 2, 2000 gal tanker which serves our purpose. check out some of the depts in south jersey. a lot of them have 8000 gal tractor trailer tankers
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Permalink Reply by Rob Miner on
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Due to local road weight restrictions, and baffling requirements, large tenders (around here tankers have wings) are disappearing. We purchased our newest unit in 2003, 3000 gal tank with 500gpm pump and a 1000 gpm rear dump, we can dump and run extremely fast. We also had tank fitted with a storz direct fill connection so that when we fill from hydrants we can fill in about 3 minutes (really fast!), it's all about dumping, filling and getting back ASAP safely, the quicker the tender is on it's way back, the less the driver feels the need to speed. Here's a picture of us training with Mount Vernon Fire, they are a non drafting municipality, so on mutual aids we supply engine and tender for drafting operations.
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Permalink Reply by Monte Fletcher on
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we have 2 5000 gal tankers and a 3000 gal tanker
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Permalink Reply by James Johnson on
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there is a company in my county that has a 5000 gallon tanker tri axle. the is a 8000 gallon tanker in one of the northren countys
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Permalink Reply by John Sees on
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I have seen some bigger than 4500 in the New Jersey.
If you go to the discussion "How do you fill your tanker?" (square 5 at the bottom of "Apparatus & Vehicle Discussions")
At the end of that discussion I have a telly of tankers and their sizes, you might want to take a look at that discussion.
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