DREAM FDNY SOC SUPPORT LAD.

[68jk09]

This is only my idea of what an FDNY SSL should look like....i know nothing about this particular manufacturer just that it looks like it has a lot of compartments...my feelings are that all FDNY SSLs should be Tiller's so that they could negotiate any street in NYC & w/all the compartments they could always carry all the equiptment on the regular Rig that is now on the Second piece negating having to return to qtrs to pick it up on SOC runs..... http://www.ebay.com/itm/Fire-Apparatus-Slide-Reno-NV-Truck-11-/161229383545?pt=LH_DefaultDomain_0&hash=item258a052779

 

[In2theJob]

Nice, I agree.  I saw a set up like this awhile ago from a dept somewhere in the North West. It was set up for exactly like you said. There version of Rescue.

 

[BCR]

I agree it really can delay response times of the special Equiptment if the company has to retun to quarters to pick up the second piece. Check out meridan ct they just got a new seagrave tiller, very similar to the FDNY's tillers however what they did to get the extra storage was to spec the trailer out as a ladder pipe trailer. If you have a full pre piped water way it makes the ladder about 5 feet longer in the retracted position then one with out. Specing the longer trailer added an extra full width compartment on both sides . There ladder does not have a full length pre piped water only a pre piped bed section ladder pipe but it is the same length in the retracted position as a ladder with no pipe, another feature of the longer trailer is you can now walk clompletly around the ladder when it is in the bed with out climbing over it because there is now a few feet between the tip and the tillermans cab. The extra compartment might just be enough to fit the gear from the second piece

 

[patrickfd]

Portland, Or rescue/tiller
http://www.firefighternation.com/article/apparatus-innovations/tiller-s-also-heavy-rescue-vehicle

 

[Bulldog]

Portland, Or rescue/tiller
http://www.firefighternation.com/article/apparatus-innovations/tiller-s-also-heavy-rescue-vehicle

Nice-Looking truck however they forgot to put on the ladder!

 

[manhattan]

Bulldog - you can't go through life worrying about those meaningless details!  Don't sweat the small stuff!!

 

[In2theJob]

Portland, Or rescue/tiller
http://www.firefighternation.com/article/apparatus-innovations/tiller-s-also-heavy-rescue-vehicle

I believe that was the one I thought off. Didn't remember that it was missing the ladder.

 

[Lebby]

Nice, I agree. I saw a set up like this awhile ago from a dept somewhere in the North West. It was set up for exactly like you said. There version of Rescue.

Despite this thread being a decade old, the rescue tiller idea is still going. I recently came across Asheville, NC's new Rescue 3, a 2024 tractor-drawn KME.

https://kmefire.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/04/Segment-001-of-KME-FDIC-2025-Sell-Sheets.pdf

Tractor Drawn Aerial on Instagram: "WHY A TILLER RESCUE • Check out the story behind Asheville (NC) Fire Department’s Tractor Drawn Aerial Rescue • Video from: @tractordrawnaerial • @fdicindy @kmefireapparatus @revgroupinc • • • • • T A C T O R • D

1,437 likes, 37 comments - tractordrawnaerial on April 16, 2025: "WHY A TILLER RESCUE • Check out the story behind Asheville (NC) Fire Department’s Tractor Drawn Aerial Rescue • Video from: @tractordrawnaerial • @fdicindy @kmefireapparatus @revgroupinc • • • • • T A C T O R • D R A W N • A E R...

www.instagram.com

 

[3511]

Despite this thread being a decade old, the rescue tiller idea is still going. I recently came across Asheville, NC's new Rescue 3, a 2024 tractor-drawn KME.

View attachment 53270

https://kmefire.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/04/Segment-001-of-KME-FDIC-2025-Sell-Sheets.pdf

Tractor Drawn Aerial on Instagram: "WHY A TILLER RESCUE • Check out the story behind Asheville (NC) Fire Department’s Tractor Drawn Aerial Rescue • Video from: @tractordrawnaerial • @fdicindy @kmefireapparatus @revgroupinc • • • • • T A C T O R • D

1,437 likes, 37 comments - tractordrawnaerial on April 16, 2025: "WHY A TILLER RESCUE • Check out the story behind Asheville (NC) Fire Department’s Tractor Drawn Aerial Rescue • Video from: @tractordrawnaerial • @fdicindy @kmefireapparatus @revgroupinc • • • • • T A C T O R • D R A W N • A E R...

www.instagram.com

Is this an aerial ladder also or just a rescue truck?

 

[NikFDNY]

Is this an aerial ladder also or just a rescue truck?

Just a rescue

 

[TRAC@1854]

Despite this thread being a decade old, the rescue tiller idea is still going. I recently came across Asheville, NC's new Rescue 3, a 2024 tractor-drawn KME.

View attachment 53270

https://kmefire.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/04/Segment-001-of-KME-FDIC-2025-Sell-Sheets.pdf

Tractor Drawn Aerial on Instagram: "WHY A TILLER RESCUE • Check out the story behind Asheville (NC) Fire Department’s Tractor Drawn Aerial Rescue • Video from: @tractordrawnaerial • @fdicindy @kmefireapparatus @revgroupinc • • • • • T A C T O R • D

1,437 likes, 37 comments - tractordrawnaerial on April 16, 2025: "WHY A TILLER RESCUE • Check out the story behind Asheville (NC) Fire Department’s Tractor Drawn Aerial Rescue • Video from: @tractordrawnaerial • @fdicindy @kmefireapparatus @revgroupinc • • • • • T A C T O R • D R A W N • A E R...

www.instagram.com

Never knew one existed