New Tillers

[mkeit]

Bid is out for 5 Tractor Drawn Aerials-to be opened Feb 2.

 

[Bulldog]

Seems like every time tillers go out for bid are fewer of them. How many are actually in service these days?

 

[grumpy grizzly]

Seems like every time tillers go out for bid are fewer of them. How many are actually in service these days?

2020 Ops Ref. 2012 L-34, 2013 10, 5-6-20-39-40-101-104-106-118-143. 2016 L-147-175. Total of 13.

 

[t123ken]

How many rear mounts and how many tower ladders?

 

[Nasibova]

How many rear mounts and how many tower ladders?

www.fdnytrucks.com

 

[jlab]

The last solicitation for tillers no bids were received.

Seems odd that no bids were received. There are a number of cities that do use them. Baltimore, Philadelphia and cities on the west coast to say the least plus a number of smaller departments.

 

[grumpy grizzly]

www.fdnytrucks.com

www.fdnytrucks.com

46 75' 15 95' TL's. 69 RM's give or take.

 

[JohnnyGage]

Tillers are widely used, included with the examples noted above, the DCFD has mostly tillers. The FDNY has maintained its fleet of 13 for many years. The only variation I am aware of, L6 went from a tiller to a RM, back in early 90's. When L6 got a New Captain, he requested to go back to a tiller. Since then there has been no change, that I'm aware of anyway.

 

[Rachammer]

will the new tillers replace old ones? or are they actually gonna move 5 RM's into tillers? i mean it seems abit early to replace 7-8 year old tillers when most ladders in FDNY go for 10+ years....

 

[Bulldog]

I know a lot of departments are actually going to more TLs because of the added compartment space. I know at least 3 departments in this area (Louisville Kentucky) have gone from RM to TL for this reason.

 

[grumpy grizzly]

I know a lot of departments are actually going to more TLs because of the added compartment space. I know at least 3 departments in this area (Louisville Kentucky) have gone from RM to TL for this reason.

Chicagoland area only has 2 tillers, Cicero and Evanston. Chicago got rid of theirs in the late 80's

 

[kidfrmqns]

Tillers are widely used, included with the examples noted above, the DCFD has mostly tillers. The FDNY has maintained its fleet of 13 for many years. The only variation I am aware of, L6 went from a tiller to a RM, back in early 90's. When L6 got a New Captain, he requested to go back to a tiller. Since then there has been no change, that I'm aware of anyway.

Weren't 151 and 173 tillers well into the mid-90's? I could be wrong but I thought when I worked as a medic in Queens from 92-97 that 151 was a tiller then.

 

[grumpy grizzly]

Weren't 151 and 173 tillers well into the mid-90's? I could be wrong but I thought when I worked as a medic in Queens from 92-97 that 151 was a tiller then.

A old apparatus list from 1994 shows Ladder 151 as a 1991 Seagrave, Ladder 173 with a 1989 Seagrave

 

[t123ken]

Weren't 151 and 173 tillers well into the mid-90's? I could be wrong but I thought when I worked as a medic in Queens from 92-97 that 151 was a tiller then.

Correct about 151 and 173; also about Ladder 6 which was a rear mount for a while in the mid '80s and early '90s for some reason in the narrow streets of Chinatown before going back to a tiller.

 

[t123ken]

Wasn't Ladder 84 a tower ladder for a while?

 

[TRAC@1854]

Ladders 26 in East Harlem and 28 in Central Harlem were tillers in the 70's as well as Ladder 25

 

[Nasibova]

The last solicitation for tillers no bids were received.

don't understand the no bids thing, but realistically, l'm sure they will be Seagraves.

 

[EdMc]

I believe 27 and 59 Truck in da Bronx had a tiller in the early 80's.

 

[mikeindabronx]

I know 59 was a tiller

L-29 was a TL and then went to a RM

 

[Lebby]

The last trucks to transition from tiller to rear-mount (besides those that are still tillers, obviously) were (by date of the manufacture of their last assigned TDA)

1991 - 151
1989 - 173
1980 - 59, 26, 28 (theirs was also assigned to 30) and 27