Saturday morning's classroom session reviewed the basics of hauling water in the rural setting.
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A fill site crew works to get a 1,000 gpm set up to load tankers.
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Wentworth's pumper drafts from the first dump tank.
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Offloading from the rear.
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Piermont's tanker dumps its water.
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Chichester's 2,000 gallon engine/tanker was a water hauler for this drill.
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For units that could not dump water (meaning engines), they pumped off their loads using 4-inch hose and this homemade pipe.
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An engine pumping off its 1,000 gallons of water. It was important to locate this "pumping off station" away from the dump tanks so that the engines would not block out tankers.
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Dual, Holley pipes in action.
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The final product - a 3-tank operation and 600 fpm.
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One of two fill sites - a dry hydrant in a river.
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Loading tankers.
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Using LDH and an LDH manifold to load a 2,000-gallon tanker.
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