Smoothbore or fog nozzle...

[ChiefKN]

Clearly a troll.

There is no way some 15 year old is coming on to this site and selected ALL the topics that will create mayhem.

What's next Blue Lights? Leather Helmets?

I call shenanigans on this person. She/he aint who she/he claims and is just stirring things up.

[Firehouse_Chick]

Clearly a troll.

There is no way some 15 year old is coming on to this site and selected ALL the topics that will create mayhem.

What's next Blue Lights? Leather Helmets?

I call shenanigans on this person. She/he aint who she/he claims and is just stirring things up.

Please, I can understand you're concerns, but this thread isn't about me.

I appreciate all of the info and help I've gotten so far.

[BULL321]

Clearly a troll.

There is no way some 15 year old is coming on to this site and selected ALL the topics that will create mayhem.

What's next Blue Lights? Leather Helmets?

I call shenanigans on this person. She/he aint who she/he claims and is just stirring things up.

I bet she soon starts a thread on Union v/s Non-Union, or Paid v/s Vollie, East v/s West, Whats the best color for a Fire Truck (Yellow of course! ) I mean, I love to argue just as much or more as the next guy, but there is no way that this "kid" just happens to ask question and start threads about some of the hottest contested subjects out there.

[BULL321]

Please, I can understand you're concerns, but this thread isn't about me.

I appreciate all of the info and help I've gotten so far.

What do you mean its not about you? You are the one asking the questions and starting the threads. Why are you not in School today anyway?

[ChiefKN]

What do you mean its not about you? You are the one asking the questions and starting the threads. Why are you not in School today anyway?

We have a winner!

Time for this person to come clean!

Bull, are you a detective??

[Firehouse_Chick]

What do you mean its not about you? You are the one asking the questions and starting the threads.

But my questions are not about me, they're regarding the stated topic.

Why are you not in School today anyway?

Christmas vacation




Any other opinions, everyone has been helpful. Thanks, so far I'm learning a lot!

[ChiefKN]

Christmas vacation

Yea, right...

Lame.

[Firehouse_Chick]

Yea, right...

Lame.

How so? They still in school over in Jersey Chief?

[Nozzle nut 22]

Wait! I have to get the popcorn ready for this one!


Ok, now I'm ready...

I like mine with butter!


My opinion is, they both work. I'll choose the one with the lowest reaction, and the fewest gizmos and gew gaws on it. It needs to be rugged as hell, extremely hard to clog, and operate in an intuitive fashion. In other words firefighter-hopped-up-on-adrenaline proof. No suicide knobs or other multiple control options.

Personally, I prefer a smoothbore. Lots of flow, a low nozzle pressure for less reaction, and exactly 1 control- an on and off. Unlike an automatic, you get instant feedback of pressure/flow problems. The solid slug of water tends to have more penetrating power and is less vulnerable to high heat.

If I do get a fog tip, I prefer a fixed gallonage/low pressure model. These also have the benefit of a reduced nozzle reaction, and the larger droplet size they create is also less vulnerable to high heat.

[Firehouse_Chick]

I like mine with butter!


My opinion is, they both work. I'll choose the one with the lowest reaction, and the fewest gizmos and gew gaws on it. It needs to be rugged as hell, extremely hard to clog, and operate in an intuitive fashion. In other words firefighter-hopped-up-on-adrenaline proof. No suicide knobs or other multiple control options.

Personally, I prefer a smoothbore. Lots of flow, a low nozzle pressure for less reaction, and exactly 1 control- an on and off. Unlike an automatic, you get instant feedback of pressure/flow problems. The solid slug of water tends to have more penetrating power and is less vulnerable to high heat.

If I do get a fog tip, I prefer a fixed gallonage/low pressure model. These also have the benefit of a reduced nozzle reaction, and the larger droplet size they create is also less vulnerable to high heat.

Thanks for all the thoughtful feedback.

It's funny, regarding your comment on the pistol grip (which is what I believe you meant by suicide knob). My brother said these are largely useless. Sometimes for car fires or misc stuff they could be used, however, when attacking a building fire he's explained many times, not to hold the line by the pristol grip (his dept only has them for trash/car fires). He said this can be telling of someones experience or lack thereof.

As he put it; when doing this, you're basically placing the knob under your armpit area and allowing the nozzle reaction to get the better of you. By holding it, you have to rotate your whole body around with the nozzle. Instead, he was taught to hold the nozzle well out in front of your body.

He let me try this, it was amazing. It reduces the amount of work you have to exert and you won't be muscling the nozzle with your whole upper body.
He showed the difference between holding the grip while flowing a 2.5 line and then putting the nozzle way out in front of you. I could actually hold the 2.5 by myself by putting it way out in front of me!

[ChiefKN]

This entire thread is predicated on one giant lie.

[mtg55]

Man, I take a week off and the pups take over? Where'd I leave that rolled up newspaper.....

[ChiefKN]

Man, I take a week off and the pups take over? Where'd I leave that rolled up newspaper.....

A week off?

Sheesh, are they going soft at the salt mines?

Hope you were somewhere warm.

[mtg55]

A week off?

Sheesh, are they going soft at the salt mines?

Hope you were somewhere warm.

Hahaha, nah. Workin on the house. I WAS on your side of the border yesterday, the guards musta been sleepin

[ChiefKN]

Hahaha, nah. Workin on the house. I WAS on your side of the border yesterday, the guards musta been sleepin

Probably just drunk.