Shop Time w/T.W. Friends

Oh...they make a fire starter?

HOLY CRAP! IT'S WADAR!

I can't believe they let you shoot that at an indoor range!

 

Morning everyone!

late start this am just couldn’t drag my arse out of bed!

 

I spent a while yesterday researching a new tesa Hite gage for work.
They are just leaving it up to me to pick one.
Funny how the people who don’t use it and don’t know how to use one have input

 

Good morning Shane and crew

 

@RustyGreen check this out, 1975 with a gas engine. It's for sale on marketplace for $5K....15,xxx miles

 

Those fire service fellows keep a nice truck.

International Cargo Star chassis, built between 1970-86.

The Cargo Star was a replacement for the not so commonly seen Load Star cab over as seen below with the far more common Load Star conventional. These were the first models in the International line in the medium duty field.

 

When I was in the F.D. in my early years we had two of them, one was gas and one was diesel. I'm not sure which one was slower

 

While the IH engines weren't famous for speed or fuel economy, they were legendary for longevity.
The gas engines weight 25-30% more (about 250 pounds) than a Chev 350.
Even the thermostat housing on an IH engine is cast iron.

 

My dad had a 1970's IH with a dump bed kinda like this one, it had the 345 in it.

 

Boss man came in this morning wearing a mask, said he don't know how long he'll be here cause he's already wore out

 

Growing up the town had American LaFrance fire trucks similar to the one below. They were incredibly loud, you could hear them take off from the station all over town.

Back then the fire fighters had a Plectron radio at home for the call out but portable radios were very expensive and therefore rare. The more experienced fellows could estimate how long the truck would take to arrive just by the engine sound.

 

We had a siren with a generator at the old station growing up, could hear it for miles. They did away with it 20+ years ago.

Cole and I were hunting last week in a rural town 15 minutes from home, we heard the exact same siren. Cole ask me what it was so I told him. Few minutes later we heard the firetruck sirens. Times have changed where we live.

 

You always heard the station siren first, then shortly after the truck would roar away down the main street.

They still use station sirens in town around here.

 

Think I'm going to tape a Ukrainian flag to the spindle when I face it..

 

I can agree enough said!!

 

Cyka blyat, Russkiy alyuminiy!

(That's a phrase I never thought I'd say)

 

I started following you so I can watch

 

Sup

 

lol! getting it set up now. gotta find a color printer in the shop!