Winter Park Tiller

[PJD642]

Seriously impressive how maneuverable this thing is...and am I wrong, or are those mini Vision LED bars on the cab?

 

[pdk9]

Yup, vision SLRs. Someone posted the WPFD TDA a few weeks ago. We have one because we have many narrow streets in my district, so the only way have a aerial access is via TDA; it is amazing how something that big can come close to turning on a dime.


PS notice the same background music used in feniex promo vids

 

[August Arborists]

That thing is seriously bad azz! Love the SLRs and Roto-Ray, but all those rigs could use some green lighting in there.

 

[JazzDad]

With the light installed on the front, would this rig be called a Roto-tiller? :bonk:

 

[Eric1249]

Beautiful truck. I would love to try driving one of those.

 

[Carlos SpicyWeiner]

that really is impressive

 

[pdk9]

That thing is seriously bad azz! Love the SLRs and Roto-Ray, but all those rigs could use some green lighting in there.

Why would they want green? The vast, vast majority of fire departments in the US don't use green as a warning light on fire dept apparatus. In Florida, specifically, Green is only used for IC command beacon or (in conjunction with amber) for private security.

 

[lafd55]

And the only Fire Departments that have green are mostly because of tradition, for example Chicago.

 

[Acarlisle]

That is one big beautiful truck.

 

[Skip Goulet]

With the light installed on the front, would this rig be called a Roto-tiller? :bonk:

Typically Texas! I've never seen a RotoRay spin that fassssssst! Nice truck!

 

[August Arborists]

Why would they want green? The vast, vast majority of fire departments in the US don't use green as a warning light on fire dept apparatus. In Florida, specifically, Green is only used for IC command beacon or (in conjunction with amber) for private security.

I was born in Chicago, just miss the green on rigs. Most suburban depts. had some green as well, I'm just a nostalgic type of guy, I suppose.

 

[Snibsey]

What a ridiculous piece of "design".


A European manufacturer could supply a turntable ladder appliance in a package a fraction the size of that behemoth: particularly for a low-rise, residential town like Winter Park.

 

[lafd55]

What a ridiculous piece of "design".

A European manufacturer could supply a turntable ladder appliance in a package a fraction the size of that behemoth: particularly for a low-rise, residential town like Winter Park.

Welcome to the US, deal with it.

 

[nerdly_dood]

What a ridiculous piece of "design".

A European manufacturer could supply a turntable ladder appliance in a package a fraction the size of that behemoth: particularly for a low-rise, residential town like Winter Park.

If it's any comfort, these are pretty rare. Smaller fire departments usually don't have an articulated truck like this, and a lot of departments only have one.

 

[charlie82]

What a ridiculous piece of "design".

A European manufacturer could supply a turntable ladder appliance in a package a fraction the size of that behemoth: particularly for a low-rise, residential town like Winter Park.

Please show me a european ladder truck with that much compartment space. All I could find was this. Even our smaller ladder trucks have more space.

 

[PJD642]

What a ridiculous piece of "design".

A European manufacturer could supply a turntable ladder appliance in a package a fraction the size of that behemoth: particularly for a low-rise, residential town like Winter Park.

And there's a REASON most Euro trucks (and cars, for that matter) are designed to be smaller...look at some of those response videos from over there, especially in the older parts of London and the other big cities throughout Europe. Roads that were plenty wide enough for donkey carts 300 years ago NEED smaller trucks. We generally don't have that problem over here.

 

[Firefly Berlin]

Jep, I remember the first time riding down US1 to Key West some guys on the Stations I was visiting warned me of the small streets down there, and I always thought: "What small streets?"


But seriously, I don't think you can compare US to european units, strategies, etc.


I'd honestly love to have a rig like that in my station. But obviously it wouldn't even be able to reach my station.

 

[Skip Goulet]

Why would they want green? The vast, vast majority of fire departments in the US don't use green as a warning light on fire dept apparatus. In Florida, specifically, Green is only used for IC command beacon or (in conjunction with amber) for private security.

Ditto in Texas. Green is for command vehicles only! I mention on another thread that DPS was giving some volunteers static about running blue in conjunction with existing red, claiming that blue was reserved for law enforcement. It's not, and the chief of the dept involved contacted DPS Austin and got it in writing that they could run blue as an auxiliary color. That worked out o.k.

 

[Skip Goulet]

I was born in Chicago, just miss the green on rigs. Most suburban depts. had some green as well, I'm just a nostalgic type of guy, I suppose.

In 1977 my small ambulance service bought a '67 hightop Olds ambulance from a dealer in Arlington, TX. It had come from Lyons, Ill., and had a green tunnel light over the cab on the driver's side. That wouldn't work here in Texas, so we replaced the green with a big red sealed-beam.

 

[August Arborists]

In 1977 my small ambulance service bought a '67 hightop Olds ambulance from a dealer in Arlington, TX. It had come from Lyons, Ill., and had a green tunnel light over the cab on the driver's side. That wouldn't work here in Texas, so we replaced the green with a big red sealed-beam.

Yeah, green here in WY is I.C., but I bet that Olds looked good with that green tunnel. Usually it was on the right (passenger) side of the rigs if I remember correctly. Lyons could've been marching the their own drummer though, it's the Southwest suburbs, who knows what they're up to.

 

[FSEP]

What a ridiculous piece of "design".

A European manufacturer could supply a turntable ladder appliance in a package a fraction the size of that behemoth: particularly for a low-rise, residential town like Winter Park.

My 110' foot, 8 man cab, fully functioning ladder truck would disagree with you on it's design and would respectfully request that you pound sand.


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