Posted by donjr on January 29, 2012 at 09:16:39 from (72.85.43.79):
In Reply to: Fire truck posted by Paul Janke on January 28, 2012 at 16:41:03:
Having been a volunteer for 48 years, or longer if you count all the time I spent at the firehouse with my Dad, I've seen the entire gamut with truck engines. The newest engine we had when I went in was a'59 Dodge with a 318, and two older cornbinders. One was a '51 with a 6. It wouldn't get out of it's own way with a 500 gallon booster tank on it. They even put straight pipes on it, which went back to a muffler because it was so loud you couldn't hear the radio. The older one was a 1000 gal tanker that would go through snow like it was plowing it. She wasn't real fast, but did go. We later got a '66 Dodge with 400+ (413?) cubes which would run like a scalded dog. The next one we got was another cornbinder that got the nickname of 'Chicken Little', because in the first two years of service never made it to a major fire without breaking down. Since then, every one has been a Detroit or Cummins. But those old gassers did the job somehow. They only had 500 or 750 gpm pumps, but were quite dependable and easy to maintain. The latest monster is a 1000 gallon quint rescue on a 10 wheel chassis with a 1500 gpm pump. It has more bells and whistles than a carnival carousel,and is so dam complicated there is almost always something broken on it. There is electric this and electronic that. There are cameras for backing, and buzzers to tell if any door is open. It's so big, it has trouble making turns and can't get back in rough lanes. If it wasn't for 9-11, I don't think we'd have it, but there was a gummint grant that paid for a lot of it. It cost over $800,000, and closer to $950,00 with all the buttons and ribbons.
Guess I am getting old. I can remember the arguements over whether a Dodge or IH, engine or tanker, and splitting hairs over the $30,000 price tag. What happened to the 'good old days'?
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