all of our members who drive brush trucks in the woods have taken the Forest Fire widland engine (brush truck) class, it also teaches winch operations using multiple snatch blocks, indirect pulls, etc, also alot of us on the dept are part timers for New Jersety Forest Fire, and some guys have military experience with the duece, a couple even on the A3.
we may add bars from the fender bars to the limb risers at the top of the cab, but this truck is not our primary truck for running down fires, we have a 85 dodge with a full brush cage for that. pushing trees with a duece to get to a 1/2 acre fire leaves a huge footprint that does not go well with landowners, county park people or the public who owns or uses the land. The days of knocking down every tree to get to a fire is long gone, the collateral damage when that happens puts Forest fire and local fire companies in a bad light.
our truck has taken on another job, flood evacualtions and rescue. you can see the damage the cage took when we blew the tire and glanced off a telephone pole. the cage saved the truck, we already got the parts and fixed everything but the cage. i see alot of these a3 tires with cracks in them. as said before i just spent 1800 dollars getting two brand new tires
Duane
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