1958 F.W.D.

Going back to the great "R-Model as my Daily Driver" Thread of 2015.....Ken got disgusted with guys who were talking down to the guy- he was of the mindset "its his money, let him do what he wants to." Now, when I say THIS, I mean ZERO disrespect.....Ken is not what we say "Computer Savvy." He was not able to recognize that the turd who posted that thread was a troll looking to kick a few internet hornet's nests. I think had he known what was going on, he would have gone along for the ride like the rest of us. Who knows. If I get a few minutes maybe I will give him a call later today or this weekend and let him know his fan club misses him. I think maybe Carl talks him occasionally...????

Ben.....I forgot to tell Dad......The electronic high-idle switch works off that Barber-Coleman Electronic Pressure Governor. If you guys remove that or disconnect it, you will lose the electronic high idle. You could probably still rig up a manual one using an old-school vernier throttle.

There's that Waterous dual 3.5" to 5" pantleg discharge......I have had a SHITLOAD of water moving through that discharge before.

Turning a firetruck into a toter........where have I heard that before.......??????

Drew: Driver ONE (ENGINE DOGHOUSE) Officer TWO THREE FOUR FIVE SIX (facing towards the rear) (flip seat SEVEN) EIGHT NINE (flip seat TEN) (facing forward)

The new puller will probably not even notice that trailer behind it. And as I mentioned to your pop- we HAVE to park the FWD, the Hahn and that all next to each other at Macungie!!!

Does slpwlkr know you are infreng....infringi.....Moving in on his territory?

No joke- This truck was always locally referred to as "The Yardumian Family Station Wagon" due to the number of parades me and my old man would take it to.

1989 Duplex Vanguard 10-man split-tilt style cab 6V92TA Silver Series DD/Jake Brake Allison HT740D 5-speed 18,000 Rockwell steer 27,000 Rockwell drive Meritor disc brakes all the way around Insta-Chains Body by Quality Mfg, Talladega Al. (dissolved when purchased by the Spartan family of Fire Body Manufacturers) Waterous 1500 2-stage pump, with the Waterous two-valve "Pant-Leg" LDH discharge 500 Gallon fiberglass water tank

Because Unions are darlings of the Communists errrr ahhhh I mean Liberals. And the News is controlled by the Liberals.

Not necessarily. Many rigs in and around the Chicago area have green lights that do not pertain to command post status.

I inspected a building about 4 years ago- 50x75....R19 on the walls, R38 in the ceiling. In-Slab solar-powered radiant heat. Guy heats his building for free, other than having to have paid for the equipment. For extended periods of not enough sun, he has a waste-oil fueled boiler, which can also heat hot potable water for the slopsink.

As a building inspector, I have administrated many permits for these buildings. And each and every person that builds one wishes that they had gone with in-slab radiant floor heat. Hint Hint.

Very nice and very similar to mine. Looks to be the same engine, too- the 140GZ Thunder Pumpkin (554 CID.) Thanks for sharing!

If you have the Mack numbers......Have you or Patrick called Barry at Watts Mack? Barry may even see this. Shoop said he did.....and I like Shoop.....But when it comes to mechanical schtuff.....He's kinda out in left field. I'd feel better if you or me called Watts, and Gunite....And Mack......and everyone else.....LOL

I would like to have had a UniMog to play in this snow.....

Hey looky here.....These appeared in the US Mail today, sent by a former member of the Company who was on the Committee that spec'd the Hahn!!!

Oh and before anyone asks: No I did not bring out the F.W.D. although I was REALLY tempted. For several reasons- there is no defroster and the wipers are horrible (although it does get hot inside the cab but it takes a LONG time on a very cold day) plus the wife's van was in the garage- to get the FWD out, you have to smash the wheel as hard to the left as you can when the middle of the hood clears the overhead door because of the width of the alleyway- and there's no room to do that when the van is in the garage....NO was not gonna pull the van out and risk bottoming out on some snow, then I'd really be up shits creek without a paddle.....As it was I got the pickup stuck once and it took a buddy with a plow and chain to get her out.....And finally the batteries are flat- I did jump it and ran her for a half hour at one point while I was clearing the sidewalks one of the 67 times I did it......Just didnt wanna risk losing power alltogether.

Here are a few more misc pics, some taken during and some after the storm. Main Street in Hellertown (Pa. 412) The alleyway behind the house, after Public Works ran the big wheel loader down it. It's a good thing the snow didn't get any higher. Medium and Large fooling around Pic out my second floor window looking down into the neighborhood. Another shot taken during the height of the storm, sometime between 1pm and 5pm on Saturday. Again, the pic does not do justice, you had to be there to experience it. That's my house behind the stop sign, the two story with attic, black shutters and the closed porch on the front. Southbound Pa 309 between Quakertown and Perkasie. Taken over at the shopping center where I had NoClueJoe park when he came to freeload a meal I mean break bread with me and the family. This guy must live around here or have a friend or something, I hear the truck has been there since early Saturday AM. I've seen trucks buried worse but he's gonna have a time getting out.

Well as many of you know, we had a bit of a snowstorm here at the BMT Truckstop in Hellertown Pa. Officially, 32" (thats .8 of a meter to you metric folks) was recorded at the Lehigh Valley Airport about 12 miles away but I think we may have had more. There were many drifts 6-8 feet high throughout town. Started around 7pm on Friday 1/23 and continued to about 1 or 2am on Sunday 1/24. We woke up 7am on Saturday to a foot on the ground already and around 1pm saturday, all hell broke loose and it snowed its ass off to the rate of 4' an hour with heavy wind gusts of 40mph. The news people said that had it been a rain storm it would have been one of those real heavy rains that we get in the summertime. This was indeed the worse storm we ever got in my lifetime. We were prepared though. The wifemobile was backed into the garage next to the FWD, the pickup in front of the garage, and the blowers and gen set all fueled up and checked out, ready to go. The wife bugged me to put in the transfer switch to the boiler too so that we could run the heat off the generator if we lost power- and since they were saying "heavy wet snow" in the same sentence as "40mph winds" I thought that was a good idea and stopped at Lowes on the way home from work on Friday and got that all rigged up- made a transfer switch with a 20a 3-way light switch and a 50' 12/2 extension cord- cut off the end and hard wired it in- so that if power dumped, all I have to do is turn off the breaker in the panel, flip the switch and then run the extension cord outside and plug her in. But of course we never lost power- not that I am bitching. But enough of my mindless ramblings, here are some sights from "SnowZilla 2016" Small and I during the height of the storm when 4" was coming down. My neighbor Sherry's car is under there somewhere. The next few are of a plow train that Public Works was running up and down the main streets. This is also Saturday during the height of the storm. The pictures just dont do justice to show how hard it was snowing. By the time it was done and over with, there were drifts up to 8' high all over town. I had four and a half feet on my deck, which is 5 feet off the ground and I was worried about it collapsing, so I had SWMBO help me carry the small blower through the kitchen to the deck door and thats how I cleared off the 12x30 deck.

Paul we already saw that, wrong ones. Those are 5-hole. We need 6-hole. Yes the one pictured has 6 but read the item description.

I have been trying to find Mister Shoop his parts on here for a while but they seem to be elusive......

Do you work on old Hahn firetrucks?

Everyone says I'm no good at a lot but there is something that I seem to be rather exceptional at......

Please. Thats not a plow. Give me some time and a little later tonight I will give you an F.W.D., Oshkosh and Walter Education.......lol