Wagon Pipe Nozzle??

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Permalink Reply by Eric Myers on October 14, 2009 at 11:08am

Can you clarify what a Wagon Pipe Nozzle is to us folks out in the West? If it is an elevated Master Stream that is fixed to the top of your Engine, than yes we do. Salt Lake uses stacked tips ranging from 2" to 1 1/8". It could be smaller I am not 100% sure. Our Master Streams are set up to be removed and placed on the ground for remote multiversal applications. eg. LCG tanks, tank cars, reverse lays, etc. It could be manned or unmanned. Hope this helps.
Eric

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Permalink Reply by Wayne Benner Jr (Casper) on October 14, 2009 at 11:40am

lol..We run stacked tips on or deckguns on our Engine.. We do have fogs but they sit in the compartment. We have the stacked tips so we can hit it hard with reach and GPM. Blitz attack etc. If its a fully envoled fire why not put what you have on it fast.

We too can make them ground monitors in which we too can put on the Fog/Combo for HAZ-MAT situations.

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Permalink Reply by Jim Miller on October 14, 2009 at 2:17pm

thanks guys. i have a few arguing the fact of the fog for exposure protection vs. doing damage to the exposure with the straight tips. We run tips on our rig, but some think the fog is the desirable tip. I feel that radiant heat will penetrate the fog curtain type pattern with this applaication and the water would be better used by directly wetting the exposure and putting some on the fire.

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Permalink Reply by Jeff Schwering on October 14, 2009 at 8:33pm

We run with fog nozzles on our deck guns, but, the faithfull stack tips are always close. Depending on the incident type or need, we have no problem changing over. Different incidents call for different nozzles.

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