Thanks, Sam! Great to hear your department has been doing the Rural Hitch for a while!

Yeah I was watching this video and asking, why not just use a gated wye? You can shut off one side to disconnect the tanker and connect the drafting engine to it without getting wet or potentially losing flow rate.

Except that old white Ford engine…from the 1970’s!

@@tylermacconnell217 Still better than the shit we got over here.

@@tylermacconnell217 Wanted to share a story from my old man. My old man was fire chief in a rural area and a neighboring FD said basically the same thing about their 1947 Mac. They had two brand new trucks and wanted to run lead on the fire, "you boys take that old truck and draft from the pond and feed us" Alright man w/e you need. They wanted to run lead because they were at the top of the hill and wanted the paper to take a picture with their brand new trucks running this call. Meanwhile, they kept calling on the radio that they needed more water, more water. Uncle was running the truck, "comming at you." Slowly but eventually had that 'old' Mac singing its high note feeding two trucks at the same time uphill. (3" lines 1000gpm 300' uphill 50' rise pulling from 2 5" suction sleeves on draft) Well, those boys running those fancy new trucks needed to shift on the roadway and shutdown / closed all their lines except supply. They failed to mention they were moving to the 'old Mac' falsely believing it wouldn't matter, (for whatever reason.) What they didn't know was that 'old Mac' was military surplus and was capable of feeding 3 3" lines at the same time. That 'old Mac' blew the packing out of every pump on those new trucks. Thus ending the new trucks being in the paper and instead a picture of a lone 'old Mac' fire truck at the bottom of a hill by a pond with lines coming up the hill like a spider was in the paper instead. I'd have to ask my old man since this was in the 80's, its entirely possible those new trucks were 1970's Fords. (Correction, new trucks were 1979 Chevys, the 'old Mac' had a 6cylinder 500 cubic inch gas engine.) Saw your comment and it kicked that story to the front.

@@bentheguru4986 😂 but at least it does the job over there. It could be like chinas FD 💀

@@tylermacconnell217 That Ford will out-pump most modern units and probably breaks down half as less. Especially if said modern unit is a Pierce, Rosenbroken or KME.

Tenders are made of chicken and go in the fryer. Tankers carry fluids.

Sorry to tell you but the terms are interchangeable, and always have been based on where you live. Get off your high horse.

@@Stargazzer811 Sorry to tell you but on a wildfire incident or an All Risk incident they are not.

@@Stargazzer811 It’s a nationwide thing not a local thing. Using slang will get people killed. Thank you but I already got off my horse after riding it this morning.

@@AppalachianPatriot Nice of you to tell me what I already know. First off, it varies if you use USFS/NWCG ICS terms or NIMS ICS terms. Note that 80% of departments that use NWCG are where? California, because its always on fire so the Feds are always helping put it out. Also worth pointing out is before NWCG was even a thing, the term tanker was used in the trucking industry and by USDOT for vehicles carrying and/or transporting large amounts of liquid. The fact that the vehicle switched from private service to fire service doesn't change what it is. Another point: Tender came about in the late 1970s from a program designed entirely for SoCal, called FIRESCOPE. Meaning that outside of that region, it doesn't mean fuck all. "NIMS/NWCG made me do it" isn't a valid excuse to stick departments with a term they don't want. Finally Tender is an utterly generic term anyway that comes from many places overseas where its analogous to company in a fire service, so it really isn't great to use anyway. The main point though is that people will call it whatever they want, so it really doesn't matter. Tenders and Tankers are the same.