Posted by Bret4207 on March 18, 2018 at 09:00:02 from (64.19.90.196):
In Reply to: Home fire fighting posted by JimS on March 16, 2018 at 19:02:47:
We live in an a essentially unprotected district in northern NY. Structure and grass fires are our concern. For most 0o the year I keep a 300 gal cube in a field truck with a simple gasoline powered pump in it with reducers on the 100 of ft hose I have to a garden hose size. Not perfect by any means, but it works better than spitting on the fire. I also have an old portable fire dept pump rated for 250gpm I'm working on. (A Rupp-Gorman IIRC for those wondering) What I'd really like to do is what docmirror suggests and get an older fire pumper with tank. In my state if you have a private fire truck you'd likely be sued into oblivion by local fire companies and anyone else that thought they could make a dime if you claimed you had a "fire truck" for local use without it being part of the local fire service. But! If you had "former" fire truck for washing manure off floors or maybe some sort of crude irrigation, you might be okay. Pretty darn sad when you have to think about liability for protecting your own property or your neighbors.
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