"I bought a fire truck!"

[NeTree]

FOB... dump the cab forward and grease the 20 or so fittings for the shifting and steering. The linkage for the shift goes to a really freaky mechanism in the front, THEN to the tranny. Do this about once a month, regardless of use.

 

[MasterBlaster]

Irreguardless, or irregardless, is not a word. ;^}

No shit.

 

[lumberjack]

Sure it is

 

[Al Smith]

Judge for yourself http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Irregardless

 

[MasterBlaster]

Regardless, It is generally listed in dictionaries as "incorrect" or "nonstandard".

 

[Koa Man]

How about irregularity?

 

[Al Smith]

That I must admit is a truism . However irrespective of the wordsmiths definition of what is or is not proper usage it gets used ,irregardless of their opinion .--or in spite of it ,whatever the case .

 

[Al Smith]

How about irregularity?

That would be when the cheese gets binding,I would well imagine .A little prune juice fixes that problem .

 

[lumberjack]

"Word: unit of language that native speakers can identify" is how I look at it. Ain't is a word as well

 

[MasterBlaster]

I'm not much of a fan of variations on "ebonics."

 

[squisher]

That is super cool Gary!


My wife would kill me if I came home with a firetruck.

 

[Al Smith]

Ebonics perhaps but let me tell you La. has a lingo all of it's own in certain places from my limited observation of folks from those regions .On the other hand the same thing could be said about Ohio I would well imagine .

 

[pantheraba]

OK....Big Red, Fire Cracker, whatever Hayden decides to name it...the truck made it home. His great grandparents, Pop and Nana, and my wife and I let Hayden show us his "Cars" while we waited.

Alex got it cranked and made it home in good order. One of the maintenance guys found some of the original hose attachments/devices. Hayden and Alex drove it around the neighborhood 3 times before they backed it down the drive to it's parking place. Here's lots more pictures.

 

[MasterBlaster]

Dang, you sure go through a lotta film!!!





Cool toy!

 

[squisher]

Looks to me like the truck has already paid for itself in smiles.

 

[stehansen]

That is super cool Gary!


My wife would kill me if I came home with a firetruck.

Your daughter would have your back Squish.

 

[Paul B]

I am thinking ahead to when he gets dropped off at school by daddy in his rig...
" yeah, my dad is a fireman and we have our own fire truck."

 

[stehansen]

Our dept used to have a truck like that. Had some huge gas motor in it and got about 2 mpg loaded down with all the stuff. 'Course, everyone drove kind of like they stole it. Had an allison auto in it. Have a couple of acquitances that have old fire trucks. They complain that they are expensive to insure and license and that they don't hold enough water to be very useful as a water truck. We had a commidities drying and grinding company that had these huge piles of almond hulls or prune pits and stuff like that and they would have fires frequently. The fire dept sold them an old truck cheap, outfitted the truck with enough old hose to get them by. Taught their employees how to run it and it cut way down on the number of runs out to that hellhole. Hope your son has fun with it. It looks pretty cool in the traditional red color too.

 

[Al Smith]

Some of those fire trucks of that age did have huge gasoline engines .The Fords were often 534's the Chevy/GMC's used a huge in line 6 of 500 -600 cubic inch range .

Dependable,produced max torque at relatively low speed,2400 or so . Used a lot of gas though .

 

[MasterBlaster]

So how big IS the engine, Gary?

 

[Jonseredbred]

My Dad sprayed tree's for years when I was a kid with a mid 40's Ford fire truck, It was cool as shit.

 

[Al Smith]

My friend who is deceased now told a story about a big old pumper his fire department bought from the Air Force at Wright -Pat .Low hours,huge pumper with a 503 in line 6 .

He said that slow running six would out pump a 427 V8 the department had .

The exhaust pipe finally went bad and it took like a 3 1/2"- 4" pipe plus the danged muffler cost them about 300 bucks and that was over twenty years ago .

 

[Paul B]

a 503 inline 6? holy crap.

 

[pantheraba]

I am thinking ahead to when he gets dropped off at school by daddy in his rig...
" yeah, my dad is a fireman and we have our own fire truck."

Now that would be pretty cool, getting dropped off at school one day from the fire truck.

Steve and Al, y'all are spot on about the engine. Alex found out that the new engine in it (less than a year of drive time on it) is the main engine, not the pumper engine. Here is the info tag, shows 222 net HP...we'll have to do research to see what it has in it.

It is a gas engine.

 

[pantheraba]

MB, we don't know engine size yet...I think heard Alex say it is a chevy...he is working on getting the original paperwork from the City. It would be cool if they still had paperwork on file.