New FDNY Tillers

memorymaster said:
I read about it many years ago however where escapes me.
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My uncle was the chauffeur of Ladder 37 when they received one of the 1955 FWD woodens brand new. Even before they had a hydraulic lift on the aerial. He told me when I was a kid that these were Chicago FD rejects. I never doubted ol' Uncle Charles. Maybe it was because they had open cabs that Chicago rejected them. Just guessing.
 
124 also had a '55 FWD well into the '60s... ....always was said original order was for Chicago but they wound up in NYC.... always thought it was strange that after a few yrs of Metal Aerials in the FDNY ...'48 Pirsch & '53 ALF's the FDNY bought the '55 FWD's .with Wooden Aerials.....$$ ??
 
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3511 said:
My uncle was the chauffeur of Ladder 37 when they received one of the 1955 FWD woodens brand new. Even before they had a hydraulic lift on the aerial. He told me when I was a kid that these were Chicago FD rejects. I never doubted ol' Uncle Charles. Maybe it was because they had open cabs that Chicago rejected them. Just guessing.
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Let me check with my CFD peeps.
 
I checked in with my longtime Friend Jim R. a longtime Chicago FD History expert explaining that going back to the '60s i had always heard that the FDNY's 1955 75' FWD's had been a cancelled order from Chicago FD..... He was sure that they were ordered by the FDNY directly from FWD & there was no Chicago involvement....i guess sometime way back when somebody started it...i know i believed it thru the yrs but now i will chalk it up to Urban Legend.
 
68jk09 said:
124 also had a '55 FWD well into the '60s... ....always was said original order was for Chicago but they wound up in NYC.... always thought it was strange that after a few yrs of Metal Aerials in the FDNY ...'48 Pirsch & '53 ALF's the FDNY bought the '55 FWD's .with Wooden Aerials.....$$ ??
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$$ was what I was told also. The city was too cheap to continue with metal aerials and had a fast buy for the Chicago rejects.
There were also stories that the metal ladders heated up making them dangerous for the firefighters and that one metal aerial in Brooklyn had been used to prop up a wall and wound up getting bent. I heard these stories among my firefighter family but cannot contest to their truth. It's just what I was told by the guys who were OTJ at the time.
 
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BrianJS said:
So imagine nearby Ladder 143 on Jamaica Ave is getting a new one as well?
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H&L 151. should have never been changed to a RM. When we responded to boxes in Forest Hills gardens it is very difficult to
make corner turns and just getting very close to parked cars. It won't be for quite a while before you see 151 in a tiller. They are at the bottom of the current list
 
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AuxWarYearsCapt said:
H&L 151. should have never been changed to a RM. When we responded to boxes in Forest Hills gardens out was very difficult to
make corner turns and just getting very close to parked cars. It won't be for quite a while before you see 151 in a tiller. They are at the bottom of the current list
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Well just for your information 151 has been going to the Rock for tiller training recently so that's good sign
 
E812 said:
Well just for your information 151 has been going to the Rock for tiller training recently so that's good sign
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It is a good sign
E812 said:
Well just for your information 151 has been going to the Rock for tiller training recently so that's good sign
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Possibly 2 things.
The job decided to give them a tiller sooner than later. Like l said they are on the bottom of the list and so far all the seagraves delivered have been in the same order as the lists l have.

Or the job will be refurbishing a tiller and they will use that until they get a new one
 
AuxWarYearsCapt said:
It is a good sign

Possibly 2 things.
The job decided to give them a tiller sooner than later. Like l said they are on the bottom of the list and so far all the seagraves delivered have been in the same order as the lists l have.

Or the job will be refurbishing a tiller and they will use that until they get a new one
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AuxWarYearsCapt said:
It is a good sign

Possibly 2 things.
The job decided to give them a tiller sooner than later. Like l said they are on the bottom of the list and so far all the seagraves delivered have been in the same order as the lists l have.

Or the job will be refurbishing a tiller and they will use that until they get a new one
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Yes that is why I asked a question about the 2 2005 tillers because I've only seen the 2002 seagrave being used for a spare
 
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