Upton Volunteer Fire Dept Engine 2

[brewsterfire]

I'd like to purchase the light bar on the Uptown eng. 2. fdny5555@yahoo.com Ryan

[dustystix76]

@brewsterfire i'll let you know, there's some rumblins about replacin it with a LED bar, don't know when tho

[HedgehogOutdoors]

Beautiful truck! What do you call the color of it, I've been wondering for a while. I'd love one of them old 65s, like a dump truck version or something. Our dept. has a lot of newer stuff, but nothing's quite as nice as a good old reliable truck!

[DJslimU571]

great job on putting the hose back. real organized lol.

[fireman9576]

time to get a new light bar for the old truck . but great looking rig

[Firefighter72BG]

doesnt matter how old as long as it gets the job done

[dustystix76]

@sneezabonk that's a GMC Brigadier (not sure what year) with 3000 gals of water, you can see it on my new firehall walkthru vid,

[sneezabonk]

@dustystix76 can you get a video of it please

[dustystix76]

@sneezabonk i will as soon as i can get another vid camera, damn soon to be ex ran off with the one i had

[wmoore09]

We have 2 almost identical to this truck. Ours are 85's. You can still Pump and Drive with this once Correct?

[dustystix76]

@wmoore09 no it can't pump and run

[theone2225]

where is Upton located?

[dustystix76]

@theone2225 Northeast Wyoming, about 40 miles from the South Dakota border

[HACnum1fan]

Is this one still in servise? My department just got rid of a pumper just like that one. After 20+ Years of service it left the station with less than 16000Mi on it. Thankfully its now a show truck and all original still.

[dustystix76]

@HACnum1fan yes it's still our first due truck, unless of course it's broke down for whatever reason, then first due goes to Eng 3. i'm not sure of the mileage, i'd have to go look at that

[PaulieMac77]

nice truck but that knockin would bug the crap outa me lol

[dustystix76]

@PaulieMac77 that's the flasher module...any vehicle with flashers makes that sound...plus, you can't hear em with the engine runnin anyways LOL

[PaulieMac77]

@dustystix76 yeah true nice station ya got there not 2 sure on the green on the little truck tho not what ya call the sweetest colour lol

[dustystix76]

@PaulieMac77 thanks! the part in the vid was built in 1977 i belive, with the ambulance bays bein put on in 82 or so and an additional 3 bays put on 2 years ago

[PaulieMac77]

@dustystix76 just a  nice size station for the needs of the members

[aevl911tcv]

@dustystix76 nice video i love the lime green fire trucks you have over there any chance of more video of the outside of the fire house and the fire trucks please ;)

[dustystix76]

@aevl911tcv thanks! just got a new vid camera, will do that soon! 

[aevl911tcv]

@dustystix76 thank you.

[dustystix76]

@aevl911tcv new vids are up, i still need to get a daytime outside vid tho

[aevl911tcv]

@dustystix76 ok thank you dusty

[dustystix76]

@thecowboy09 yep! it's our main roll out unit, so it definately gets used more than 3.

[dustystix76]

@thecowboy09 hell i'd love to see a vid of that! ya just dont' see a whole lot of trucks like 2 anymore

[bman4451]

now that truck would look good with a led lightbar

[dustystix76]

i agree, but funding is gettin VERY hard to come by from the city, state and county...but we're makin do...i'm hearin rumblings in the department that we may be gettin a newer pumper from a neighboring town...

[dustystix76]

yeah, i've noticed those are hard to find, if we ever swap that out, we could probably get a good price for it lol. we looked it up and those are the right bulbs in it. it's only done that since i've been on the Dept. (almost 3 years)...that is still a good truck, pumps good and everything, it's just lacking on the side lighting that is required these days...if i can get the Dept talked into it, we'll add side lighting with LED's or strobes to bring em up to date..

[911caddy]

Classic Chevy Engine with a hard to find Twinsonic Light bar. It wouldn't be too hard to make a new red lense for that melted one. I'm guessing the flasher burnt out at some point and the light stayed on that particular side.. Or maybe a wrong size/intensity bulb on that side.