Mercedes Fire Truck Anyone????

[PinballCharlie]

Has anyone ever seen a Mercedes Fire Truck?? What kind of Blue light is that on top??


This is about 15 minutes from my house...


Mercedes Fire Truck

 

[Captain4164]

Thats a Unimog, we had one when I worked for BLM, had a little dozer blade on the front, Those things will go ANYWHERE

 

[7d9_z28]

Unimogs are EXTREMELY common and versatile over the Atlantic. They seem to use them for everything from fire trucks to lawn mowers

 

[Captain4164]

Yeah, and I hope they are more reliable over there than they were here, we couldnt go on a fire or off district without a mechanic on the road headin to us. Thing was ALWAYS breakin down. The most common thing was hydraulic failure.


We spent one winter replacing ALL the hydraulic hoses, everything on it was hydraulic, and it always failed. So we replaced everything thinking it was going to fix it. Never did. We used to piss off CALTRANS. We would be driving down the freeway, and the dozer blade, bout the size of a pick up truck snow plow, would just drop, and we would move over to the traffic lane lines and snap those little reflective dots off and watch em go flyin across the desert. lol then get back to the station and call the local CALTRANS and go, hey its us from BLM again, from mile marker xx to mile marker xx, snapped all the reflectors off again. lol I think they were part of the reason we got a new engine, they called our chief and said they were gonna start charging us. So until the new engine showed up, we had the blade chained up so it wouldnt fall. Kinda delayed us a little on fire attack if we were gonna use the blade, but oh well.

 

[MARSMAN]

The light looks like it was orginal equipment when this bad boy was over with our friends in Europe, so maybe a Bostch or Whelen or a Hella.

 

[kitesurfer1404]

That might be a Bosch/Eisemann RKLE 130


http://www.blaulichtmuseum.de/Kennleuchten/Bosch/RKLE130_cr_bl_1.jpg


Bosch Eisemann Rundumleuchten auf www.tulpenlakritz.de


More Unimogs here: Einsatzfahrzeuge mit dem Tag unimog - BOS-Fahrzeuge - Einsatzfahrzeuge und Wachen weltweit


And a similar one as above: Einsatzfahrzeug: Florian xxx xx/xx-xx (a.D.) - BOS-Fahrzeuge - Einsatzfahrzeuge und Wachen weltweit

 

[OSP959(R)]

Yeah, and I hope they are more reliable over there than they were here, we couldnt go on a fire or off district without a mechanic on the road headin to us. Thing was ALWAYS breakin down. The most common thing was hydraulic failure.

I'm surprised by this. I always thought the Mogs were suppose to be very rugged dependable vehicles.

 

[Captain4164]

I'm surprised by this. I always thought the Mogs were suppose to be very rugged dependable vehicles.

When I worked for BLM we had 5 or 6 of them, and every one of them was a pile of junk. Had to order parts from Europe, mechanics had to have special training. BLM regretted having them. They were cool, when they worked there was nothing like them, go anywhere, very versatile, but not very reliable. Especially for a piece of fire equipment. Ive heard the later models are vast improvements over the older stuff.

 

[JazzDad]

Re: "... to lawn mowers"


Do they tend to put ruts in the yard?

 

[theroofable]

Re: "... to lawn mowers"

Do they tend to put ruts in the yard?

Hahaha. I hope you are kidding about that.

 

[kitesurfer1404]

Oh, they tend to. But we just put rails in the backyard here in Europe and then...

 

[Captain4164]

Re: "... to lawn mowers"

Do they tend to put ruts in the yard?

Actually they are like Humvees, they have tire pressure monitor systems, and the tires can be inflated or deflated from the cab with the flip of a switch. We used that all the time as our response area had sand dunes, and we would sometimes hafta go in and pull trucks or stuck people out or for atv accidents in the dunes. So i would imagine they could air em down and not leave marks on the grass, dunno