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 Kvacik on August 21, 2008 at 3:55pm

When we get done with a fire we load it wet. but we also use synthetic jacket hose. If there is any old cotton jacket hose then it gets put in the hose tower but all of that stuff has been out of service for years now.

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Permalink Reply by Ed on August 21, 2008 at 4:10pm

Hose tower. Of course our station was built in like 1900.. Its from our top story (bunk room) to our basement. Works FANTASTIC..

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Permalink Reply by Tony P on August 22, 2008 at 7:02am

Well, here's one overseas view.

Firstly, when we get home from a job we replace all the used hoses with fresh ones from the storeroom. Trucks available quickly. We mainly use woven synthetic jacket hose which is hung in the tower to dry (only washed if it's really dirty - drought). Power winch so nice and easy. We have some fully extruded hose, which is simply rolled and put back in the truck racks. A few Stations have drying rooms for hose, most that don't have a tower use racks outside the building. Leaving hose spread out over the floor of the engine bay? No, wouldn't be allowed - bad trip hazard.

A hose tower can have multiple uses. Apart from dryiing the hose you can hire out the top for someones radio transmission or mobile phone antenna. Good money to be made from this.