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Congrats. Two more dogs for the vet to take care of!

Looks like Loudon County, Virginia.

I would be surprised if they do not the way everyone was talking when we there last year. Doug Maney?

Great link. Thanks. Back when I was riding with the Boston lads in the late sixties I always called the surviving L models "fender flappers" because most of them had the front fenders barely hanging on. Boston is not known for how well they care for their apparatus to say the least.

Here is a picture of a neat old L Model, ex Boston E-26 that I took this past week end in the Boston Sparks Museum. It is a picture of a picture, so the detail is not that great, but you gotta love those shop made front fenders! Probably taken sometime in the early sventies or late sixties.

What size is the hose? I have a PN for an IH hose that is 5/8" and has a 90 degree bend.

There is a really good shot of this rig arriving at the Chelsea conflagration in the early seventies in the NFPA film about the fire.

Blessed are those who run in circles for they shall be known as wheels. Retirement: No one knows or cares if I get out of bed, show up for anything, or finish what I start. What could be better?

I used to ride with Battalion 18 out of Engine 45's quarters, 925 E. Tremont Ave. in the late seventies and early eighties. Always a good ride with lots going on. One of the comments the Chief made to me really stuck as we looked out over a couple hundred blocks of burned out six story apartment buildings; "We didn't burn these out a building at a time, we burned them down a room at a time." He was the same BC who made the now famous radio report of having fire coming from 25 windows, after he counts them out one at a time, of a six story building "with no fire trucks on the scene." during the hay day of the Bronx in the seventies. We always parked in the lot at the fire house and never had a problem with vandalism or theft. Of course we were driving a 73 Ford Torino station wagon; too ugly and beat even for the Bronx regulars to go for. I cross the CBE pretty regularly and to me the biggest danger is the road itself. It will shake anything loose off in a NY second and god help you if you have bad tires or wheels.

There were a ton of those IH's around back in the day. Mostly Cummins power if I remember correctly. There are a couple of really sharp restorations around now.

I also liked the Humat valves providing you have enough pressure in your water system to overcome the friction loss inherent in the design. It allows one engine to operate alone with a reliable water supply providing you have the staffing to leave a member at the hydrant. (or the driver is a hustler and makes the run back to the hydrant after getting things going) Even if you don't use them in your day to day operations they are a valuable asset whe you are forced to operate alone for an extended time period during events like thunderstorms and tornadoes when you run out of engines.

Nothing wrong with 3 1/2" hose. Unless you have water supply issues the smaller supply hose is much less of a PIA on the fireground. You can drive over it and move it when you need to. Try that with LDH.

What makes them even more dangerous is most places cut openings between the compartments so the water will flow from all of them at once. At least they had enough sense to remove all of the warning devices. I hope that means they never drive it in a response mode. Probably about 2000 gallons which means it is 6 tons heavier with water than fuel.

Fill the filters with clean fuel. Than you can get it to start by spraying oil based WD-40 into the air intake until it picks up the fuel. Do not use ether.

I saw the lads jumping into the net from the firehouse roof when I was too young to participate. Probably about 1960 when they were getting ready to replace the 1931 ALF city service truck with a brand new Maxim/IH 65' Junior Aerial. Pretty big stuff in the small town of Ashland, MA.! The rectangular brackets are probably for Carpenter Hand Lights, a very common light carried by most of us for a lot of years before Streamlights became common. They are still available at flea markets and the 7.5V batteries can be ordered. Very heavy light that worked well to vent a window in a pinch and could be left at a door to mark it when you entered a room. Send the Museum a letter and ask them to research your truck's folder for a list of supplied equipment if that is what you want to equip it with. One of the neat things about fire apparatus, as opposed to old cars, is there is no such thing as the need to provide original equipment in order to be correct. The equipment changed with time, so all you really need to do is decide what era you want to represent. I try to keep mine set up as it would have been in the mid-fifties, but having something from the early seventies would still be OK since it was in-service than. If you do go with a Halligan try to search for an original with the "soft" round steel bars as opposed to the newer cast style that Ziamatic sold. Pretty rare and they tend to bring a higher price at flea markets.

Don't lose sight of the fact the Watts supports this site as a public service to those of us who enjoy sharing information about Mack trucks. It costs money to keep the site up and every post that is stored eats up data storage space so individual posting limits have to be imposed to keep costs down. Last year Barry started the membership program in an effort to lower the cost to Watts of maintaining the site. Some of us choose to help out, while others do not. That is a personal choice, but don't get upset by the limits if you don't want to help out to keep the site up and running.

Remember the great story in "Report From Engine 82" about the halligan being stolen and held for ransom because the member had bought it himself?

Different trucks. Look closer, Number 15 is a tandem the other is a tri-axle.

The Museum should have sent you a list of what was supplied to York with your truck. If you don't have it try asking the museum for it. In addition to the "standard" fire service tools there were regional differences. My truck was spec'ed with a Herbert Hose Clamp for example, something I had never heard of, but Richmond, VA used them extensively.

Green with black fenders is pretty hard to beat. Any chrome or pinstriping will really pop against the dark colors compared to the red.

I looked at that on CL a while ago. I love the 60's "brick" shield over the back step.

Try Magnet paints for a pretty good paint at a much lower price. http://content.yudu.com/Library/A1w57f/MagnetPaintsCatalog+/resources/index.htm Same folks who make the Chassis Saver paints.

Never noticed much difference between the brands, but assuming the charging system is operating properly, what usually does in a battery prematurely is the lack of a tie down to keep it from bouncing around. I use Battery Minder brand maintainers and they seem to work very well to keep the tractors, dump trailer, and fire trucks charged.

One thing to consider if you do your own is to make a stand for the wire spools. I used conduit inserted into plywood end pieces. This allows you to grab several wires at once and pull them into a bunch. It is helpful to have someone there to tape the bundle together every couple of feet while you spool the wire off to keep it neat. You can cut the tape off later if you don't need it. And kind of a "Duh" comment; make sure you cut the wire long enough with a little extra. (Yes, that is the voice of experience.) You can also buy the little ID tags that clamp on the wire to help keep them straight.

Yep, but at least the truck doesn't complain about your hobby. As a good friend says all the time "God, I love my wife!"