Dennis Arrived

[RescueHazmat]

Your right, but you can feel the air coming from the engine compartment through a 10cm x 10cm hole im not sure it should be happening. It would have been a engine of the same age just rebuilt.

So get a 12cm x 12cm (Just to make sure you cover the hole) piece of tin, and some liquid nails.. Problem Solved!

5 Calls in a day, NOT BAD, got to be some sort of record?

No where near !

[Jono]

So get a 12cm x 12cm (Just to make sure you cover the hole) piece of tin, and some liquid nails.. Problem Solved!

Tin? nope wouldnt work that well. I want to get some sqaure blcoks of foam cut and use them to fill the hole.

[Blue]

I was joking about the CO, sorry should have put smileys     

But it's still not exactly healthy. Though there are worse smells to fill the cabin with, like sweaty fire fighter, or morning breath on 3am call outs 

[Camo]

How has the Dennis been treating you at Seaford?  Adequate or is still being painful?

[Pixie]

IMO the dennis has treated us very well, it hasn't missed a beat...the three month trial period is almost up so we (as a brigade, not management) have to make the deciscion to keep it or not.

[CFS_Firey]

Does that mean its possible you'll want the 24P back?

[Pipster]

I'm glad it is working well for Seaford - hopefully it will continure to!

I was having a discussion recently with some "Dennis freaks " - very nice people who own some very old Dennis fire trucks, and have a fair bit of experience with trucks...and they offered a possible explanation as to why the SACFS Dennis had so many problems..

The Dennis appliance is designed for use in an exclusively urban environment in England.  Coming to Australia, and Mt Barker,(and this is not a criticism of Mt Barker CFS)  the appliance was perhaps driving around roads that were undulating, and hence the appliance was flexing more than it was designed to do, and hence, had many problems....

I can't say if this was the actual reason for the problems experienced at Mt Barker, but it was a theory put forward....

Pip

[24P]

Does that mean its possible you'll want the 24P back?

If they didnt keep the Dennis they'd probably get it back but i think its been earmarked for somewhere else.

[5271rescue]

send it to stirling they dont have a pumper,we should run a book on this....I think it will stay at SEAFORD....