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For Volunteers, Do your engineers work on the apparatus?
When I started 30 years ago our engineers did minor maintenance on our engines. Now the guy we have favorite words are, "get it towed to the dealer" I understand things have changed since then but are there engineers that still change the oil and stuff?
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Permalink Reply by Billy Dale Smith on
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Reg, everything counts. Did you record it in the maintenance report?
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Permalink Reply by Reg Mathis on
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Hey Billy,
The bulb replacement, yes. Bleeding the air tank is part of the weekly truck check so it's recorded on the checkoff sheet.
TCSS
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Permalink Reply by Marvin Hawk on
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We are fortunate enough to have several mechanical geniuses amongst our department to balance out those of us who think that a box wrench is what you bring the monkey wrench home from the hardware store in. They are also honest enough to admit when they are over their heads and it's time to take it elsewhere.
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Permalink Reply by Barry on
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We have decided not do much more than windshield washer fluid and light bulbs because of the liability factor.
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Permalink Reply by Zeke Harman on
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In our vollie department you can usually see about all of us either under the truck or on top of it when it comes mant. time now major problems yeah we will send it off to the shop but as far as small stuff we do it our selves. And we have a diesel mechanic on the department.
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Permalink Reply by Jack/dt on
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Would it be correct to assume that the apparatus are "owned" by the department? Do the departments that perform (or allow) in-house maintenance need to have certified mechanics and are covered by their liability insurance?
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Permalink Reply by afd29 on
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in our department the only work we do on our apparatus is small fixes. any major work is done by our town shop or a local large truck shop
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Way too go Reg, we gotta stay on top of it.
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Permalink Reply by Harold Richard Hair on
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no but we do have a heavy deisel mechanic that is a vol at our station that does it.
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Permalink Reply by George Pineo on
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we do as much as we can in house. We have a couple of heavy duty mech's part of our dept this helps alot. We only send out for warrenty work and tire and brake ( liability issue)
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Permalink Reply by Ted Mead on
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small equipment maintenance such as trash pumps, portable generators, hydraulic pumps, "minor" vehicular electric and mechanical work.
our equipment (Trucks and main generator) is under maintenance contracts for major and cyclic pms so a lot of what we do with these is detailed visual inspections and reporting of abnormalities we find.
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