1978 American lafrance 100' Tiller

[joemagliari]

Truck sounds great

[wannabenj]

nicejob to both backing that baby in.I would have torn the house down.

[MrEngine8firefighter]

wow that must suck to back up

[dudleyFF1018]

are all those trucks your dads?

[blackmale78]

Really beautiful piece!!

[peterbilt37971075]

beautiful truck

[hdug86989]

it runs on gasoline?

[ladder06]

That is one nice looking rig.

[TheEng33ine]

nice truck

[SonofthePhantom]

Sweet

[huppypuppy]

ALF = American LaFrance, right????

[JdbTrucks]

Here is some info. the truck is privately own by my dad and the buliding is too.The doors are just painted red to look like a firehouse. The trucks motor is not tweaked it just has a vertical exhaust and a small muffler.

[CFDPaul]

@JdbTrucks haha wow i wana do that when i get older, have my own fire house that would be awesome. Just one question, does it cost ur dad alot of money

[68Engine68]

@JdbTrucks Your dad is one lucky ass guy.

[Wonkawillie77]

@JdbTrucks Nice rig and all but your Dad could use a little driver training.

[JdbTrucks]

@Wonkawillie77 It wasn't my dad how had the problem! If you ever driven a tiller which you probably never have then you don't know how it works. The guy in the back was having the problem because he hadn't ever steered the ass end.

[Wonkawillie77]

@JdbTrucks I tillered Ladder 3 and Ladder 4 (among other duties since I retired as a Captain) for the City of Albany, NY Fire Department so I do know what it's like to drive and tiller a TDA. So, watching your father, who I'm sure is a great guy, he is having problems backing in and the tillerman is as well.

[sushidude123]

this boy active?

[121baway]

I don't think because it dosent have a Fire department name or the engines number on the side of the door

[boredmud]

the motor sounds tweaked, killer rig, clean and very nice.

[HereFish]

I stick with our quint. I would not want to drive either end of that!

[jarrad24k]

What is the name of this place?

[JdbTrucks]

It my dad's place

[pcjoel999]

private....revamp job then???

[TurbinePower69]

@JdbTrucks How many miles on that 8V71 that's powering it ??

[arohn2007]

I bet that thing is fun to back into the station! hehe

[blinko656]

How rare is that?

[DTMRM8]

We need more tiller man POV response videos!!! Very nice truck by the way.

[Enjoi4659]

:( i want one... my dept has an 86 LaFrance as our primary Rescue.. ive always loved tillers

[JdbTrucks]

This truck here came from the Pittsburgh, Pa Fire Dept. and was originally the twin to the other American LaFrance Pioneer tiller. We have a few tillers in the collection. We have a total of 16 trucks-all are ALF's with the exception of two Seagraves. Stay safe and God Bless.

[JdbTrucks]

This is located in Camden, NJ. If I had a more experienced or regular tillerman, we would of had the truck put away a lot quicker. But, we just take our time and sooner or later while get it back in nice and safe. The truck does have an 8V71 DD.

[Eng109Dr]

Where is this at?

[frier451]

That sounds like an 8v71 to me.

[greeniron32]

Wow, tight squeeze, takes 4 minutes & 3 men to back it in.

[Skitiludrop]

You're backing this into a museum right?

[huckbeduck]

Man I'd hate to be the a-hole who cut it to short in an emergeny

[staktikis]

Beautifull cabin, where does the America lafrance gets its name from, America is the country its built, was the founder French ?

I know Mack does have French founders, but i cant place America laFrance.

[Firefighter5130]

AWESOME!!!!!!!!!!!! I love any truck from 1980 Back to 1900

[fdny214]

our 81 la france pumped for 24 hours straight once

[bec1422]

Beautiful truck, my department has a 1972 American Lafrance engine and its pumped for 17 straight hours at a fire without being shut down. Its one hell of a truck.

[fireenginebuff]

That is one beautiful ALF tiller. The sound of the Detroit Diesel engine is music to my ears.

[RDG484]

Who originally owned this rig?

[RDG484]

Never mind. I just saw in the other video it's ex-Pittsburgh.

[youngestpilotinGa]

wow this must be a pain in the ass

[fmartinjr]

Saw it at the Philly,and Wilmington,De fire musters

[greg6244]

THATS NEW JERSEY RIGHT??

[wonderbizzle]

YEAH!!

[arohn2007]

I'd hate to be respondable backing that thing into the station.

[spreader32]

WOW ! tight squeeze. How was the turn coming out? I bet you both drivers had to be on their game, huh? Great looking rigs too. Love the "old school" fire trucks. Don't make 'em like that anymore.