Aerial Tower vs. Tower Ladder #1380771835001
Aerial Tower vs. Tower Ladder #1380771835001
Mike Wilbur discusses the operational differences between an aerial tower and tower ladder.
Aerial Tower vs. Tower Ladder #1380771835001
Mike Wilbur discusses the operational differences between an aerial tower and tower ladder.
or get a Bronto Skylift and make both of these trucks obsolete and pitiful
How do you guys overcome your fear of heights when on these at large heights? I’d shit my self haha
the interesting thing is in some cities even the departments very the terms, for example in Chicago their tower ladders resemble the first rig you showed, a ladder and a basket, their aerial towers are a straight stick with a plumbed waterway, and their standard truks are just a straight stick.
Let’s first define Aerial Tower and Tower Ladder, because these apparatus look similar. In the video this distinction is at the 6:37 mark. Watch this first if you are not sure of the differences.
Tower ladder has a telescoping boom instead of a civilian/firefighter ladder, with a bucket on top and an emergency escape ladder on top of the boom for limited emergency escape use. A victim would be taken into the bucket and lowered to the ground.
Aerial has a civilian/firefighter ladder, which has high railings on either side of the ladder for safety and ladder stiffness. This aerial then becomes an aerial tower if it has a bucket on top. Most aerial ladders do not have a bucket on top. It is incorrectly marked ‘tower ladder’ on the side of the bucket. For a normal aerial ladder a firefighter and victim would down climb the ladder together. However, with this bucket added you could lower the victim to the ground in the bucket just like a tower ladder.
chicago runs 12 towers and 40 straight sticks with no water way. also 4 snorkels
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That was interesting. The science of apparatus..
I believe a t.d.a would be referrenced as an aerial ladder since it does not have a platform to work off of.
The aerial tower is from my hometown, Purchase, NY, and will be replaced in a few months by a straight stick.
The Apollo is a 2001 Unit.
some aerial ladders are folded
My father always mentioned that having a mid-mount aerial or tower is the best thing. He said you can just pull right up to the scene, swing that ladder around and you don’t have so much of the truck in your way. Rear-mounts he said if you parked it in front of the scene, you have a whole lotta truck in front of you.
I think the more common term is Ladder Tower instead of Aerial Tower. That is what Philadelphia calls(ed) theirs.
RIP to both of these trucks
What about a tiller truck? What kinda ladder is that called?
I watched the rm tower responding!