1958 F.W.D.

I always use 80/20 ground beef and add a tube of Bob Evans sage sausage.

Yes. Smoke inhalation in your sleep is the merciful way to go. Doesn't take away from the pain of losing your friend though.

I have never smoked meat before but the more I see it being done the more intrigued I become. I just put a 10lb pork shoulder in a crock pot of barbecue sauce and spices at 11pm for tomorrow afternoon's dinner. Gonna shred it into pulled pork. Have a few buddies coming over after the firetruck show.

https://www.flickr.com/photos/triborough/7868646304/ Link to our 2007 Spartan/Toyne which has the front bumper line as well. Hose is stored in a "trough" recessed into the bumper and secured with two seat belt-like straps. You can see the discharge on the right with the gated wye.

1. Hose will be accordian loaded onto the top of the bumper and held in place with straps. 2. In my opinion having used both full-size and mini-pumpers- they are a complete and total waste of time and money. The chassis are usually under-rated for the amount of hose and equipment that you usually wind up throwing onto a mini. I would rather spend my money on the full size pumper that is guaranteed to have the horsepower and torque to turn the pump, have all of the ladders, hose and equipment that I will need not only for that pesky car fire, but also the house or commercial building fires. And when operating on a limited-access/high speed highway, given the number of hits of emergency vehicles that occur, I want the luxury of a full-size pumper protecting me when I am operating in front of it.

Bumper will have a car fire/trash/dumpster fire line on it (100 feet of inch and three quarter) Will have a 2.5" line plumbed all the way to the front bumper, with a gated wye on the end at the bumper- we could run two inch and three quarters or a single 2.5" line if we wanted to. I don't ever remember running a deuce and a half on the one we have now, but we figure, "we're paying for the plumbed line, go big or go home."

UPDATE: Final everything is in the end stages. Our crew flies down Tuesday to do the final acceptance inspection on Weds. Due to work and family obligations I will not be able to go- this is the first new truck I have been involved with in a long time that I have not been one of the final inspectors of. Note the Cow Piss tank. Even though emergency vehicles received an exemption from pollution laws, the engine builders all refuse to accommodate- costs them more money to re-tool the production line for a fraction of the industry so unfortunately- we're stuck with cow piss. All photos courtesy of Ferrara Fire Apparatus.

My heartfelt condolences to you and the families. Sucks to have survived Vietnam, live a good life only to die in a fire. Makes me want to scream,

http://dailydispatch.com/StateNews/OR/2015/July/10/Coos.County.Norway.mobile.home.fire.claims.two.aspx

Paul I'll put the word out on my FB, have a lot of firefighting friends all over the place.

I have never found pictures of pedestrians more titilating. ( see what I did there??? LMAO!!!)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8gciFoEbOA8

$5000 for no title and in the condition it's in???? Someone needs to put down the bottle and step away

I did not receive an invite, but I did take Vlad there when he was here 2 years ago, right after Macungie.....(at the invitation of their Chief Mechanic/Caretaker who happens to be a member on here, forgive me I cannot remember your screen name or real name....???) and if you have the opportunity you MUST see the Mahan Collection!!!

UPDATE 7/15/2015: Out of the paint shop!!!! Striping and decals being applied (gold leaf applied after delivery.) Interior fit-out of compartment shelves and brackets in progress. Final inspection tentatively scheduled for 7/22. Note the rhino-liner'd front bumper. HatCity note your chevrons on the rear.

Excellent trip report!

Aluminum frame

Huh? Because one flammable liquid or gas is less flammable than the other? I'd love to talk to the liberal hippy dumbass college prick who thought that one up and find out what his reasoning was.....And then have a discussion about chemistry and flammable liquids/gases and combustibles..............

Looks like Sal's Gal has been ridden hard and put away wet.

This is why NHRA Drag Racing will be a sport long before NASCRAP could ever be. Stole this and put it on my fazebook.

Yeah. Speaking of the EPA, I just got back from the local mower shop, I hadda buy a new fuel line for my Homelite trimmer because the fucking ethanol ate the old line. Same thing that happened to the diaphragm in the fuel pump of the Waukesha.

And our last stop was McPherson's Ridge and the area surrounding the Lutheran Seminary. There were many many people out since it was a gorgeous Sunday morning, with a lot of traffic, plus we were yammering to get home. As many of you know, this is the area where the Rebs came into town via the Chambersburg Pike (modern day US 30) on the morning of July 1 and ran into what they assumed were local Militiamen, instead they wound up tangling with elements of Buford's Cavalry and later in the day Reynold's 1st and 11th Corps. It should be noted that dumbass me forgot to pack the camera- so each and every one of these were taken with my cell phone, hence one of the other reasons I didn't take very many pictures. For you out-of-towners, the battle at Gettysburg on July 1-2-3 of 1863 was the boodiest battle ever fought on North American soil. There were over 50,000 casualties between fatally woundeds, mortally woundeds, woundeds, or MIA's. It was a humbling experience to visit these hallowed grounds. If anyone ever wishes to visit Gettysburg, I cannot recommend the book "The Maps of Gettysburg" (by Gilbert Gottfried) enough. Buy it, read it and then carry it with you on the battlefield as you do the NPS's self-guided driving tour- here's a link http://www.nps.gov/gett/planyourvisit/upload/GETT%20brochure.pdf I would allow at least three full days to do Gettysburg, between the driving tour of the battlefields and the various museums in town. That's all I got. Thank's for playing along, and have a pleasant day!

Final trip report: When last we parted ways on this thread I was speaking of our adventures on a moist Saturday. By 2 or 3pm the rain had subsided, however it was still quite overcast and just "ugly." The humidity was quite high but it wasn't very hot out so it wasn't all that bad. We ended the Ranger Battlefield Hike around 6pm, and headed back to camp. We jumped in the pool to cool down, and then went back to our site and made dinner- bacon cheese burgers and corn roasted over the camp fire. I wrapped the corn (husks and all) with tinfoil 3 or 4 wraps (yes Hatcity, enough for a new hat for you) and placed them on a fine seasoned pine plank old skids that I got from buddy and cut up for firewood because I'm too cheap to go buy sawn firewood I built up other fine pine planks around the wrapped husks of corn and rotated them every few minutes. It worked beautifully- the finished product only required a slight dusting of salt and pepper. No butter required!! I got a couple of fresh 80/20 ground beef burgers from the Giant (no frozen patties for us...) and we had some bacon leftover from breakfast, and fresh kaiser rolls. MMMMM good eatin! Sunday Morning the weather was quite lovely. We woke up early, struck camp, packed up and jumped in the shower. We checked out of the campground and headed back over to the battlefield to finish up our driving tour. We visited the three other important locations (The Peach Orchard, The "Angle" and The Lutheran Seminary) we wanted to check out, plus smaller "not as important" places. We drove around and visited these locations until about 1:00pm and then hammered down for Home. The "Copse of Trees" as seen from behind the Union Line. When Pickett's Divisions received their orders to advance on the Union center, they were told to head for this thicket of trees which could be seen from the Confederate Lines on Seminary Ridge. The fields/location generally known as "The Angle." These are the fields and location across which Pickett's Divisions advanced to their destiny- which we all know became the bloodiest skirmish of the bloodiest battle on North American Soil. This photo taken from the area that later became known as "The High Water Mark" as Pickett's Charge was thought to be the beginning of the end of the Confederacy. This monument for the 72nd Pennsylvania Infantry is located just to the right of the Copse of Trees. The Philadelphia Fire Zouaves (members of the Philadelphia Fire Department) were part of the 72nd Pa. Infantry. At first I had thought "wow the Philly Guys had a good piece of Pickett's boys....... But was later corrected in that the 72nd Pa. was behind the lines in reserve. This monument was supposed to be placed at their reserve location, but groups of 72nd Veterans sued for some reason and it was placed on the lines. Nevertheless, several groups of Pa. Infantry Regiments were indeed involved in the repel of Pickett's Charge. This is the Pennsylvania Monument. It's huge. There is a set of spiral stairs inside so that you can climb up to the observation deck. The bronze panels around the base have the names of each and every member of every Pa. Unit (infantry/Artillery/Cavalry....Etc...) The view from the observation deck looking south down the Union Line towards the Round Tops. Important landmarks Union re-enactors performing some demonstrations Our next stop was the Peach Orchard. Didn't take many pictures. In the area however, we did find the monument of the Second Fire Zoauves of the VFDNY (Volunteer Fire Dept of the City of New York.) They were part of the 4th Regiment of Dan Sickle's Excelsior Brigade (2nd Division/3rd Corps.) For those of you unfamiliar with Dan Sickles, he was a politician with family wealth, that bought his way up the ranks into his position with his wealth and political influence. He never had any formal military training nor ever attended any military schools. His original position was towards the southern end of the union lines in the area of the Round Tops, but he decided he didn't like it. So without permission and without advance notice, and certainly against orders, he advanced his brigade 1/2 to 3/4 of a mile forward to the area of the Peach Orchard- not only leaving a huge gap in the Union line which Longstreet tried to exploit, but they were also handed their asses at the Peach Orchard. Sickles was an arrogant bastard- he was the first person known to have used the Insanity Defense when he murdered the lover of his wife (the son of Francis Scott Key.) He lost his leg at Gettysburg, which ended his Military career (many union officers were thankful for this) but he managed to smoke screen everyone and somehow got a Medal of Honor for his actions. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Daniel_Sickles Anyways, enough about Sickles. Here are some pics of the Second Fire Zoauves monument. And here's a pic of a hydrant at the Sherfy House, the Fire Zoauves are in the background.

She and I have an agreement- I don't make her go to truck shows, firetruck shows, etc.....and she doesn't make me go shopping or other girly shit with her......It's an agreement that works out quite well. I would prefer not to test it's success thus far or else I might find myself in a mall a week later losing 6 hours of my life as she looks at clothing. **EDIT: She does like to go to the Family Picnic at Macungie for the music and family atmosphere, and will make an *occasional* appearance at the show itself if her work schedule allows and she is in the area (she's a visiting nurse and does do visits out that way) but thats usually just to stop by and say Hi and have lunch. She does not walk around the show...

I proposed the idea of the Keystone Tractor Museum to SWMBO and she laughed hysterically. I don't know if that's good or bad?