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  1. captain-crank

    Military Fire Trucks

    I see the selling prices dropping and quantity increasing on bobbed deuces. Good luck with your collection.
  2. captain-crank

    Military Fire Trucks

    Load showed up about 7. Pushed it off with the Bobcat. Driver steered while the Dodge pulled it up the driveway. Had to stop traffic.......... Great driver, he stopped along the way and removed one of the mirrors. Seems it wasn't used to going 75 MPH backwards. I think I found the data plates...
  3. captain-crank

    Military Fire Trucks

    PM sent. Thanks !
  4. captain-crank

    Military Fire Trucks

    I read that they pierced the airframe to get CO2 inside it. Was that something out on the boom?
  5. captain-crank

    Military Fire Trucks

    Loading 16 tons of dead weight Tatman's Towing - Urbana, Illinois...... gets it done the right way.[thumbzup]
  6. captain-crank

    Military Fire Trucks

    No expert here, just learning as I go along. The REO Type F1 tractor was model 29XS. HDX Hercules 196" wheelbase with an overall length of 23 feet 7 inches. Aside from the Corbitt and Mack/Kenworth, the only other REO truck info I have regards the CARDOX 29FF REO
  7. captain-crank

    Military Fire Trucks

    You are my new best friend.:beer: What can you offer up? At this point all I have is what I posted and assume that to be reasonably correct.
  8. captain-crank

    Military Fire Trucks

    More good info.[thumbzup] Milfireguy also has a really good site I got my initial info from, thanks Ted. I just made the connection between you two. Click this for Ted's site John
  9. captain-crank

    Military Fire Trucks

    :shock:.........awesome.
  10. captain-crank

    Military Fire Trucks

    Some updates. Rumor has it the Mack will be loaded and heading North later this week. I asked that the water cannons be guarded with rabid dogs and razor wire..... 300 lbs each and mostly brass. That would be liike losing the cherry to your sundae. Truck was received from surplus around 1969...
  11. captain-crank

    Military Fire Trucks

    Mike, I'm waiting on delivery. Just bought it a couple weeks ago. Here's some bad pics of it as purchased. Been sitting outside about a year and a half. Hard to believe it's the same truck as the pic in my first post. Thankfully no real rust, just faded and oxidized. Got this one just in...
  12. captain-crank

    Military Fire Trucks

    Jim Davis is an amazing man in this field. He's helping me figure some things out on my first fire truck. A '42 Class 155 Crash Truck
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