Thank you so much for driving her out. I own a 1971 SeaGrave Engine with 8V-71 5 speed transmission. Im restoring it. Do parade and public event, let kids get in drivers seat😊. I filled the Air pack compartment with different size and types of Fire Extinguisher. Its my baby.
What a ridiculous looking truck. I spent 90% of my fire career on snorkels. A 1969 model and a 1991 snorkel. And neither had the boom overhanging more than 4 feet passed the cab. So this proves the most intelligent team was on vacation the day this was made. Top speed is what like 40mph? Taking turns at one mph LOL
Well... this isn't a snorkel it's an aero chief and I sure as hell wasn't alive when this thing was specified out by a paid Department originally before it ended up at this fire department when this video was taken... also TYFYS....
Yea you would have thought the designers and engineers at American La France would have come to you before they put a drew a single line the drafting table.😅 I didn’t say the truck was the best, I know it wasn’t that’s the reason a number of major cities never had any or if they did they never purchased another. I said it was beautiful, American LaFrance trucks, engines etc were great looking trucks. I worked engines and rescues and the one ladder truck a mid mount ladder
I never really understood those trucks. Honestly I don't even know what that truck is used for, as it doesn't appear to have a ladder on it, but nevermind that. Right now all I'm worried about is WHERE'S THE ROOF ON THAT DAMN THING?????????????
Well they were used for different purposes especially since they can do a little bit more than your standard stick ladder and they were the first Tower platforms to work from and is things from the 1970s open cabs for the thing back then
@@fireemsfilms It just always confused me how they can build a truck with no top. Especially on rainy days where the crew and equipment are needlessly rained on just getting to an incident that probably didn't need water in the first place. But like I said i have no clue what that thing on top is or what it does. I never seen anything like it on any fire truck in my area. I mean yes i have seen "open cabs" like that before, but none of them had THAT thing on it. They weren't even ladder trucks. So when I see one of these "open cabs" during a parade I'm left wanting to slap the $#!+ out of whoever thought that design was a good idea. The seats getting wet, the crew, the paperwork, the control panel(s). I mean sure it could be a cool design in the summertime, but these guys work all year. Rain, shine, snow, hail... these guys get it all without having even reached the scene yet. What the #3!!??
Well this was built way back in the late sixties this was considered state of the art back then and it's called knowing your streets and knowing your truck
