RDFD1

Our fire department conversion to a brush truck is almost completed. We respond to a lot of wildland fires and this is the weapon of choice.

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emr

good choice and good choice of rubber too, more stable with duels. she is a good looker for sure.....

fasttruck

Remember:

1. 1200 gallons of water weighs 10,00 pounds. You are up to the off road capacity of the truck before hose, tools, tanks, and pump are added.

2. Those 600 gallon military liquid storage tanks are not baffled. I understand the most common fire apparatus accident is tanker roll-over.

3. Slow is good. Proficient operators are required to handle the manual transmkision and not roll the gtruck over off the road.

RDFD1

These tanks are baffled and by losing the original bed we lowered the center of gravity 11 inches. I will not know the weight difference until we re-weigh it at the co-op next door. The first one we built was a M35A2, and learned from the mistakes. We also have a duece with super singles waiting in the wings. It will only have one 600 gal. tank to keep it light. I am an avid off-roader ( 2 jeeps, a willys and a powerwagon ) so we have off road and winch technique training. We understand that these trucks are not speed demons and drive them accordingly.

poppop

I just fought a fire on my property yesterday with my Duece and 1200 gallon tank. I went through some very rough terotory with no problems but I was driving and taking it real slow and picking my path. Yes, I know the duece is overloaded with a 1200 gallon tank. The trucks primary job is to furnish water to the farm sprayers. I removed the tank from my 1964 f600 single axle truck when I retired it so feel much better with it on the duece. I have owned this tank since 1975 and it has only been rolled once, and I was not driving, my Dad was and he took a corner way to fast.

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Brooklet Ga. 30415

kfdk14

Awesome truck the 5 tons are a big improvement over the a2 for firefighting. My dept has 2, 1 with 600 and 1 with 1200 gal. and an a3 with a 600 on it.

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tamangel

here's a M932 with a 2200 gallon tank on it..

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kstate90

We have three 5tons with 1200 gallons of water on them. We had a welding shop build us baffled stainless steel tanks. Two of our trucks were tractors and one was a dump truck. We had the welding shop build the beds and tanks. With a full load of water and equipment they are just under the offroad weight. They aren't meant to get their first. We have newton dumps on them and each one of them carries a 1500 dump tank. They are dual purpose trucks tanker/brush truck. We run a hale 200 pump on ours and they have sidewinder nozzles on the front. Your trucks look good. The will go alot of places and pickup won't go.

Engine5

Very nice looking truck you have there

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coyote1

Nice looking truck