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General Discussion => Country Fire Service => Topic started by: Darius on April 09, 2007, 08:59:01 AM
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PS If anyone wants to check the info about their brigade on the Promo website at www.fire-brigade.asn.au and update anything, no matter how minor, please do!!
I am particularly keen to capture data about brigade trailers & what they carry. <end shameless promotion> :mrgreen:
bridgewater have a trailer, never seen/heard of it used though.
(will see what I can find out for you)
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BBQ and a big esky Pip :lol:
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Bridgewater's trailer I'm told was mainly used when they had a team in the competitions. It just sits in Car 2 bay now, but who knows it is still in good condition and may find a use one day.
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Bridgewater's trailer I'm told was mainly used when they had a team in the competitions. It just sits in Car 2 bay now, but who knows it is still in good condition and may find a use one day.
yes nothing in it apart from some wooden dividers and some junk piled on top.
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Maybe we should transfer these last few posts to a new thread called `CFS trailers`?
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I have seen Meadows and Virginia CFS pump trailer. Or are you more interested in utility trailers.
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I am looking to record all CFS vehicles (past & present) - including trailers.
It doesn't matter what they carry / what they are used for - I just want to know!!
The reason is two fold.
One is so I can accurately record what resources brigades have available - so I am seeking trailer make, registration number, and what is carried on the trailer.
The other reason is I am working on a history project - looking at any vehicle that CFS / EFS have ever had......so I am looking for the current AND previous trailers (and any other vehicles).
Again, I am looking for make / model of vehicle, year of manufacture of chassis, fuel type, builder of the appliance, callsign (and many of vehicles had more than 1), drive type, fuel type, amount of water carried, type of pump / pump motor, pump capacity, pump fuel, water capacity, date arrived at brigade (month & year if possible - although even a year is helpful!) and if the appliance wasn't a new one, what brigade it came from, and where it went to, once it left the brigade.
I am also seeking photos of any of these vehicles!!
So far, I am up to around 3600 vehicles, but I know I am missing many appliances, particularly trailers, and appliances belonging to brigades that are no longer in existence.
If anyone wants to check the appliances I have listed for a particular brigade, let me know, and I'll send you what I have.
I hope that all this data will be up on the web for everyone to look at...
Pip
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tanunda has a port a loo that they had at there old stn for the crew to use the callsing for it is bog 1 :lol:
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That would have been rego YAO180, but now changed to TQP103 (when the whole of Region 2 swapped to Government Plates... which makes life more interestting trying to capture all the new plates)
Is it still at Tanunda - now that they have moved to a new station, which presumably has it's own loos.......?!
Pip
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yer it's at tanunda still it's behind the stn now
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Call sign could be: "Tanunda No2 or P" :-D
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Onkaparinga group now have Oakbank/Balhannah Trailer, up at Woodside station with a Floating Collar Dam.
and a honking great monitor on it too.
Do bridgewater carry their floatable pump on that trailer? Im pretty sure when i saw it last it had a few lengths of hard suction line it too.
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and a honking great monitor on it too.
Thats the PUMP trailer. the new one is the DAM Trailer hehe.
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Onkaparinga group now have Oakbank/Balhannah Trailer, up at Woodside station with a Floating Collar Dam.
and a honking great monitor on it too.
Do bridgewater carry their floatable pump on that trailer? Im pretty sure when i saw it last it had a few lengths of hard suction line it too.
No, the flotopump is in the rear drivers side locker on 24
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i think i saw an old trailer sitting behind yankalilla's station as well.
while still on this subject, what does everyone have in their respective trailers?
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Compton stores their 24 in their trailer,
but luckily we have been told there is a new shed on the way
Fingers crossed this actually happens...
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We (Seaford) have a pump trailer, it's ok I supose for cadets to use but otherwise in all honestly it's useless and never gets used.
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Sturt Group have a trailer used mostly by the cadets for Competitions training.... has also been used for carting other stuff around, but it is setup properly for the dry hose drill...
Never been used operationally.
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Stirling have a trailer used for bottle collections (for recycling).
East Torrens group have a catering trailer with built in BBQ - a great idea IMO...
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Well actually i think the east Torrens trailer is privately owned but frequently used by the group.
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Stirling have a trailer used for bottle collections (for recycling).
East Torrens group have a catering trailer with built in BBQ - a great idea IMO...
That's news to me..and I'm in the Group!!
TTG have a BBQ trailer.....
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Stirling have a trailer used for bottle collections (for recycling).
East Torrens group have a catering trailer with built in BBQ - a great idea IMO...
That's news to me..and I'm in the Group!!
TTG have a BBQ trailer.....
Maybe that's the one I'm thinking of... Who did the catering at Exercise Edge last year?
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Ardrossan did have a trailer set up for BA recrompression not sure if they still do??
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AFAIK Ardrossans trailer is a Regional compressor trailer to service the Yorke Peninsula
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Southern Yorke Group have a trailer for a portable dam plus a strike team trailer. Strike team trailer is towed behind a command car, thus keeping crews personal belongings safe and off of appliances.
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Re: CFS Trailers
« Reply #24 on: Today at 10:35:14 PM »
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AFAIK Ardrossans trailer is a Regional compressor trailer to service the Yorke Peninsula
the things u learn was with them for like 5 yrs counting cadet time and never new it was regional....does explain why it was popular :-P lol
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region five have a BBQ trailer
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i believe burnside have a BA compressor trailer, I just dont think they can get it out of their station
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region five have a BBQ trailer
Is that a new addition or have they had it for a while?
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A picture of Burnside BA Compressor in its hidey hole back in 2004.
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Hmm, what a top idea, get a trailer that allows us to fill cylinders at a job, next to all the smoke that BA is supposed to protect us from :-P :-D
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Nah Blue it's So Burnside can stay at sustained HAZMAT jobs :-D :-D
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sorry i forgot to add that dalkeith has a BA trailer to the best of my knowledge too, but they can get theirs out of their station!
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the new BBQ trailer was revamped as the old one was way to HOt when you had to light it...The new one is great to use BBq at rear and drinks box at the front....
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Nah Blue it's So Burnside can stay at sustained HAZMAT jobs :-D :-D
Er, ok...then replace the word 'smoke' with 'hiddeously toxic substance requiring the use of extra PPE' .....??? :?
Yes please, I'd like some air with my monochloroethylene diphalate, ta :lol:
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is that big word just one you came up with at 3am blue??
Next you will try and tell us that its chemical formula is something along the lines of
C2H3Cl
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Nah Blue it's So Burnside can stay at sustained HAZMAT jobs :-D :-D
Er, ok...then replace the word 'smoke' with 'hiddeously toxic substance requiring the use of extra PPE' .....??? :?
Yes please, I'd like some air with my monochloroethylene diphalate, ta :lol:
Don't the two white cylinders lying down in the trailer have fresh compressed air free from any monochloroethylene diphalate contamination? (Ignoring the obvious "they wouldn't do that responses" :P)
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Ah, thanks CFS_Firey for injecting some logic and useful information into the discussion :-D - so the only air used to refill cylinders is in the banks on the trailer, and said banks are not topped up during the job. Is that right?
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One would hope the trailer was upwind and well away from the incident anyway. :wink:
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You need 3 phase power to run the compressor to fill the banks, which isnt usually available on the fire ground.
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Kalangadoo has a quick fill pump trailer although we havent gotten around to changing the radio inside the control box as were undecided as to wether were gonna have a UHF or VHF radio
Before anyone asks what has a radio got to do with a pump being worked i'll explain.... when the Kalangadoo CFS pump trailer was designed the main aim was to provide brigades with a pump that could be placed at any static water supply during a major rural fire so they had somewhere to fill up
Thats where the idea of having a pump trailer that could be activated keying in a special code using the truck VHF radio microphone which then would be recieved by the pump trailer receiver if keyed in properly would turn on the pump automatically
In the event of mopping up during night time the pump trailer was also added with a green beacon and flood lights so if brigades were to fill up in the dark they would know the location of the pump trailer/water supply cause once the pump trailer is activated the green beacon and spot lights would turn on along with the pump :-)
Why do i know about this you ask :-D well because my father was the brains behind this brigade project :wink:
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the doo trailer pump is a good set up..........
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Thats it blinky our trailer was made to be seen and heard :-D
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One would hope the trailer was upwind and well away from the incident anyway. :wink:
Do CFS stations & thus potential staging areas to a larger scale incident, have 3 phase power to possibly use the facility ?
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One would hope the trailer was upwind and well away from the incident anyway. :wink:
Do CFS stations & thus potential staging areas to a larger scale incident, have 3 phase power to possibly use the facility ?
I'd say it depends on the station - many of the old sirens (and possibly the new ones too) run on 3-phase power, so those stations have 3 phase power... (although they might not have sockets...)
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I believe there is at least one Group around who has the BA Compressor, and a trailer with a generator capable of running the Compressor......
Pip
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One would hope the trailer was upwind and well away from the incident anyway. :wink:
Do CFS stations & thus potential staging areas to a larger scale incident, have 3 phase power to possibly use the facility ?
I'd say it depends on the station - many of the old sirens (and possibly the new ones too) run on 3-phase power, so those stations have 3 phase power... (although they might not have sockets...)
hehe wouldnt want to rock up to a station askin youve got three phase power cos uve got a fire siren :evil: "no sorry...its a single phase siren :P"
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i believe that Heysen group has a BA trailer that is often used by strath group to fill cylinders during jobs an no it doesn't go to the job it is taken to strath base and run there.
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Yankalilla CFS and the Southern Fleurieu Group has a 3 Phase generator in a Trailer (Ex Moomba) 6 Cyl Diesel Engine run's the gen set. Purchased prior to 1999-2000 NYE excitement. It can probably run half of the town as well as the all the Station!
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Sturt Group have a trailer used mostly by the cadets for Competitions training.... has also been used for carting other stuff around, but it is setup properly for the dry hose drill...
Never been used operationally.
Pip
Region Seve... I mean, Sturt Group also have a pump trailer stored up at Cherry Gdns. A Godiva pump with a VW donk. Has been used in anger, most recently I think at the airstrip to augment the fixed pumps for Mt Bold fire bombing ops. (don't quote me on that). They also used to have a trailer behind a Landy Defender for the air support setup. Might be a few other air support trailers left around the place. IIRC there's a photo of one in "Tried by Fire".
HTH