High-rise packs

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Permalink Reply by Dave LeBlanc on September 27, 2009 at 4:18pm

Not sure what the Cleveland load is, but we switched to the Bundles and have had awesome sucess with it. I have a Powerpoint of our setup if you are interested.

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Permalink Reply by Will Anderson on September 27, 2009 at 4:24pm

Dave:

One of my fellow instructors gave me a link to a YouTube video titled "Cleveland Load". I think it came from the west coast somewhere. If your load is the same w/ just a different name, then I'd be interested in the powerpoint. Thanks for the offer and help.


Dave LeBlanc said:

Not sure what the Cleveland load is, but we switched to the Bundles and have had awesome sucess with it. I have a Powerpoint of our setup if you are interested.

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Permalink Reply by Dave LeBlanc on September 27, 2009 at 4:39pm

Yeah it is the same set up. Search youtube for "the bundles" and you will find more on it.

There is one link. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kieu1TUpDfU

I will send the Powerpoint in a minute.

Will Anderson said:

Dave:

One of my fellow instructors gave me a link to a YouTube video titled "Cleveland Load". I think it came from the west coast somewhere. If your load is the same w/ just a different name, then I'd be interested in the powerpoint. Thanks for the offer and help.


Dave LeBlanc said:

Not sure what the Cleveland load is, but we switched to the Bundles and have had awesome sucess with it. I have a Powerpoint of our setup if you are interested.

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Permalink Reply by Dave LeBlanc on September 27, 2009 at 4:50pm

Here is the Powerpoint. We ended up moving it off the front bumper due to "resistance" by some of the brothers because they lost their trash line. Those that implemented the system were in favor of using the bundle as a trash line.

We make our loop a bit longer, more like 6 to 8 feet. It stores easier where we keep it. We also take a regular roll of hose, male end end, and unroll it to make the bundle. Kind of the opposite as shown in the video.

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• Standpipe System 1.ppt, 1.9 MB

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Permalink Reply by Will Anderson on September 27, 2009 at 7:03pm

Dave:

Thanks so much!

Will

Dave LeBlanc said:

Here is the Powerpoint. We ended up moving it off the front bumper due to "resistance" by some of the brothers because they lost their trash line. Those that implemented the system were in favor of using the bundle as a trash line.

We make our loop a bit longer, more like 6 to 8 feet. It stores easier where we keep it. We also take a regular roll of hose, male end end, and unroll it to make the bundle. Kind of the opposite as shown in the video.

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Permalink Reply by Dave LeBlanc on September 27, 2009 at 8:08pm

anytime brother

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Permalink Reply by Michael Swiman on September 28, 2009 at 7:58am

We have a similar load that we use for our high rise packs. Our loads are 150' of 1 3/4 line with a fog nozzle. Along with that the pack had a gated wye attached to it already to make the standpipe connection. We have attached a small bag to the pack that has adaptors, wrenches, pair of vice grip wrench. We found that this load works in our areas where we have several motel/hotels, where we can reach the middle of the floor with 2 packs attached to opposite standpipes at opposite ends of the halls.

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Permalink Reply by Jeff Schwering on September 28, 2009 at 9:06am

Dave, I looked at your powerpoint Brother, if you don't mind I'm going to take that back to work with me, and make a small proposal.

Thanks Bro!
Jeff

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Permalink Reply by Dave LeBlanc on September 28, 2009 at 11:35am

Go for it. that is why I posted it.

Jeff Schwering said:

Dave, I looked at your powerpoint Brother, if you don't mind I'm going to take that back to work with me, and make a small proposal.

Thanks Bro!
Jeff

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Permalink Reply by Wayne Benner Jr (Casper) on September 29, 2009 at 3:24pm

Will my department is in the process of switching over from 1 1/2 donut rolled ????????? Which I was against from day 1 to a load called the Denver Load. Very easy to make into bundles of 50-100ft. Easy to carry on the SCBA cylinder.

Ive tried the Cleveland load but I honestly believe the only benefit would be the last 50ft (Nozzle) to be effective.

We also are ion the process of removing the 2 1/2 Fog nozzle to replace with solid bore (NFPA 14) for many reasons. As you see in the pictures it keeps the hands free for other things such as TOOLS. And for those long climbs hold the handrail :L)

You can find the Denver Load on line.

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Permalink Reply by Ricky Teter on September 29, 2009 at 11:11pm

I don't have any experience with the Cleveland Load, so I'm not much help there, but in regards to extending a line my personal opinion is that you never break and extend a hoseline in a smoked hallway unless you can do so without losing your water supply, (i.e using a breakaway nozzle as your shut off to extend from.) just like you should not enter a single family residence fire with an uncharged line, you should not be on a charged fire floor with a dry line.

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Permalink Reply by Rich Long on October 1, 2009 at 1:45pm

We have tried the Cleaveland on our Skid loads at 150 ft of 13/4 hose with pistol grip nozzles the biggest issue that we've had is using our hotel pack straps they seem to slide around a bit and getting them tight enough to not move is next to impossible. As far as the load itself goes we found it works just as well with 150 ft. as far as know at least 2 of our pumpers still have them in use.

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