The Social Network & Community JUST for Firefighters
TANKER REFILL
How do you refill your tankers? Do you use hydrants, dry hydrants and fill yourself, or are you filled by an engine at a statis source?
Replies to This Discussion
-
Permalink Reply by Jon Strong on
-
We have a fill tower that we built it's on a trailor, this hooks to a hydrant has about a 25 foot 6" pipe on a swivel which then hooks to the hydrant with 2 - 2 1/2" hose, then the truck drives under the pipe and fills from the top. Very handy I can take a pic of it and send it to you if you like. You can also use this to hook to an engine and draft from a pond.
-
Permalink Reply by Robert Owens on
-
It depends on the situation.....there is no one way to refill the tanker during or after an incident.....Ive seen them all and they all have there pros and cons.
-
Permalink Reply by Todd on
-
The vast majority of the time we fill from a hydrant. We are lucky here in that we already have a great water system in a large portion of our county, and the local water authority is expanding it every chance they get. Some areas still require setting up a draft point, but they are getting to be fewer every year.
-
Permalink Reply by paul michael komandt on
-
We do exactly the same, and we also did away with the portable pumps. We break them out every now and again for burndowns for a water supply
-
Permalink Reply by Trainer on
-
No Brian I don’t but it is interesting from time to time, problem is you have to stand on top and hold the hose in the tank to keep it from coming out, not all that safe. We want to put a cam-lock on it but that would limit this to our trucks. In all the years I’ve been on, never seen the valve cranked all the way open, the hose sticks about 2ft into the tank and then you open the valve till the guy holding it says that is enough, all he can hold, it’s a hard cranking gate valve so by the time the guy says enough it’s time to start shutting it down. No fast open and closed here as water hammer would do some serious damage, we like the quick fill and can be humorous at times in that the holder, gear close by and anyone within 15ft will get a bath as the tank gets full.
-
Permalink Reply by sully on
-
we use the dry hydrants . my fire department we cover an 82 squre mile area so we have only surtain areas of are district that has hydrants. so we fill up when ever there one around. we have 2 tankers. one is a 2001 ameraican lafrance which is a pumper tanker, it has a 2,000 gallon tank and has 2,000 gpm pump and we also have a 86 tanker that hold 2,500 of water.
-
Permalink Reply by John E.Bosler on
-
We have 5 tankers on our dept. each unit has 2000 gal 1 is a pumper-tanker and the other 4 have 300 gpm portable pumps on them. We fill from hydrants almost always. Like everybody out there, we will set up and do what it takes when we need to.
-
Permalink Reply by Thomas Stahl on
-
We use hydrants if available. We have overhead water lines with a drop at the station. Yesterday for pump training we drafted from a pond.
-
-
Could you send me a photo. thomasstahl@tds.net
-
Permalink Reply by WhiteLightning on
-
Our standard setup is to put a 5" gate valve on the steamer port and a 2 1/2" gate valve on the 2 1/2" port and never have to close the hydrant till we are done. It frees up an engine and man power.
-
-
We fill our tankers with a water supply vehicle that is capable of filing over 2000 gpm. We have 5in fills on the back of our trucks reduced down to 4in cam locks so it easier to connect to. Most of our tankers are 2200 gal with side dumps.
-
Permalink Reply by Paul Montpetit on
-
at a fire we fill by engines at a draft site...if we are lucky we might be within reach of a hydrant...or we draft from a river, pond, pool or a dry hydrant...Paul
- ‹ Previous
- 1
- 2
- 3
- Next ›
© 2024 Created by Firefighter Nation WebChief.
Powered by
