5pts384 & jaybird210
What captstanm1 is talking about doing is (and excuse me if I go way beyond too simple) taking a section of your hard sleeve and sticking 1 end into each drop tank - then take a 1-1/2" line with a fog nozzle on strait stream or a smooth bore nozzle and put it up in the end of the hard suction that in the tank you want to pull water from. Position the nozzle so that it's trying to push it's stream through the hard sleeve.
The vacuum created by this will cause the remaining "volume" of the pipe to fill with water and you have just created a jet siphon.
There are commercially available devices that do this, but if you're looking to get by on the cheap - this will do.
An alternate idea - if your drop tanks have drain chutes - you can connect these together making 1 large drop tank.
There are commercially available devices to connect the chutes with, but in a pinch you can turn one chute "inside out" (pull it into the inside of the tank) and then pull the chute from tank 2 into the inverted cute on tank 1 - roll a cuff in them to keep water from getting between them and viola!
The down side to this is that the water level in the tanks will always equalize - therefore it might be a good idea to use a low level or a floating type strainer instead of the ole barrel if your not already.
5pts384 - you are exactly on the money that a second drop tank (and even a 3rd) would have helped your traffic problems on the fireground side.
As for the fill site - there are a couple of things that may have helped out.
1) Establish a second fill point - you don't necessarily have to go to a totally different site if you have the water capacity at your current site, just move up/down/over far enough to safely get a second truck in & out.
If you don't have room at the current site, then you can consider establishing a second site. If you go this route (and keeping in line with my next point) - send the larger tankers/tenders to the farther site & the smaller ones to the closer site.
2) Separate where large tankers/tenders fill from where the small ones fill.
3) Once a good number of larger tankers has arrived on scene - consider removing the smaller ones from the shuttle operation altogether.
What captstanm1 is talking about doing is (and excuse me if I go way beyond too simple) taking a section of your hard sleeve and sticking 1 end into each drop tank - then take a 1-1/2" line with a fog nozzle on strait stream or a smooth bore nozzle and put it up in the end of the hard suction that in the tank you want to pull water from. Position the nozzle so that it's trying to push it's stream through the hard sleeve.
The vacuum created by this will cause the remaining "volume" of the pipe to fill with water and you have just created a jet siphon.
There are commercially available devices that do this, but if you're looking to get by on the cheap - this will do.
An alternate idea - if your drop tanks have drain chutes - you can connect these together making 1 large drop tank.
There are commercially available devices to connect the chutes with, but in a pinch you can turn one chute "inside out" (pull it into the inside of the tank) and then pull the chute from tank 2 into the inverted cute on tank 1 - roll a cuff in them to keep water from getting between them and viola!
The down side to this is that the water level in the tanks will always equalize - therefore it might be a good idea to use a low level or a floating type strainer instead of the ole barrel if your not already.
5pts384 - you are exactly on the money that a second drop tank (and even a 3rd) would have helped your traffic problems on the fireground side.
As for the fill site - there are a couple of things that may have helped out.
1) Establish a second fill point - you don't necessarily have to go to a totally different site if you have the water capacity at your current site, just move up/down/over far enough to safely get a second truck in & out.
If you don't have room at the current site, then you can consider establishing a second site. If you go this route (and keeping in line with my next point) - send the larger tankers/tenders to the farther site & the smaller ones to the closer site.
2) Separate where large tankers/tenders fill from where the small ones fill.
3) Once a good number of larger tankers has arrived on scene - consider removing the smaller ones from the shuttle operation altogether.
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