Another fireman here !!!!

[kundyhole]

So as most of you have gathered from the undermanagers office I am going back down the pit .
I handed my written notice in yesterday and things went just as I expected them too , sling your hook and don't come back
So I have a bit of time on my hands until I start underground

As well as being employed in agriculture full time over the last 25 years I joined the FFW
which is basicaly the volenteer fire department

Thought I would post a few photo's of our kit to show you guys what the fire service is like here in Germany .

Here is our LF10



this is looking down the right hand side



Here is our pump 2000 liter pro min at maximum 17 bar



Here are the dreaded PA's



Changing room with our einsatz clothing , we have to get this stuff on and be on our way in 3 minuets ,we have to be at the incedent in 8 !!!!



This is our fire station



OH and the old git infront of the LF is me



And just to prove I can still carry a PA here is me after this years control excersise !!!!



Any more fire men here ?

Max

[dazbt]

here's a true story about the death of a fire engine;

The following is a perfectly true story based on an incident that occurred when a British made coal cutting machine was being demonstrated to a group of Chinese dignitaries and Coal Mining Engineers on the surface prior to being installed underground in a coal mine of the Inner Mongolian region of China. The town water supply was inadequate to supply a sufficient volume of water to display the many jets of dust suppression sprays, so the one and only town fire engine was commandeered to be used as a powered water supply…………………

A.M. 500 Shearer versus the Datong Fire Engine.

In the annals of distant time
In the year of Our Lord, 1979
As part of an Anglo Chinese affair
And even then with a bit of a dare,
Two machines of similar colour
Were put in a yard to face each other.
One was a shearer of world renown
Opposing the fire engine of Datong Town.

To have the new shearer officially baptised
A cunning plan had been devised,
The engine to feed a water supply
Which shearer technology was then to apply
To cooling and spraying
Dust suppression displaying
To colliery staff and other sightseers
Chinese Engineers awaiting the cheers.

Both booms were raised to full elevation
For a better display to the congregation.
All eyes on the drums were concentrated
The fire engine pump was then actuated,
Seconds passed whilst the pump was primed
More time elapsed as the pressure climbed,
Everyone stood with bated breath
Unwittingly close to a violent death.

A massive bang sent everyone flying
And many guessed that they must be dying
Diving headlong flat amidst the dirt
But by the grace of God not one was hurt.
The shearer inlet had been closed
Against an output normally open hosed.
No overload valve of any kind and no safety relief
Resulted in Datong’s fire engine being shattered in grief !!

[John]

Sept 7, 2015 15:01:17 GMT -5 dazbt said:

here's a true story about the death of a fire engine;

The following is a perfectly true story based on an incident that occurred when a British made coal cutting machine was being demonstrated to a group of Chinese dignitaries and Coal Mining Engineers on the surface prior to being installed underground in a coal mine of the Inner Mongolian region of China. The town water supply was inadequate to supply a sufficient volume of water to display the many jets of dust suppression sprays, so the one and only town fire engine was commandeered to be used as a powered water supply…………………

A.M. 500 Shearer versus the Datong Fire Engine.

In the annals of distant time
In the year of Our Lord, 1979
As part of an Anglo Chinese affair
And even then with a bit of a dare,
Two machines of similar colour
Were put in a yard to face each other.
One was a shearer of world renown
Opposing the fire engine of Datong Town.

To have the new shearer officially baptised
A cunning plan had been devised,
The engine to feed a water supply
Which shearer technology was then to apply
To cooling and spraying
Dust suppression displaying
To colliery staff and other sightseers
Chinese Engineers awaiting the cheers.

Both booms were raised to full elevation
For a better display to the congregation.
All eyes on the drums were concentrated
The fire engine pump was then actuated,
Seconds passed whilst the pump was primed
More time elapsed as the pressure climbed,
Everyone stood with bated breath
Unwittingly close to a violent death.

A massive bang sent everyone flying
And many guessed that they must be dying
Diving headlong flat amidst the dirt
But by the grace of God not one was hurt.
The shearer inlet had been closed
Against an output normally open hosed.
No overload valve of any kind and no safety relief
Resulted in Datong’s fire engine being shattered in grief !!

Do Chinese engineers blush Daz.....LOL

[dazbt]

Sept 7, 2015 15:08:55 GMT -5 John said:

Sept 7, 2015 15:01:17 GMT -5 dazbt said:

here's a true story about the death of a fire engine;

The following is a perfectly true story based on an incident that occurred when a British made coal cutting machine was being demonstrated to a group of Chinese dignitaries and Coal Mining Engineers on the surface prior to being installed underground in a coal mine of the Inner Mongolian region of China. The town water supply was inadequate to supply a sufficient volume of water to display the many jets of dust suppression sprays, so the one and only town fire engine was commandeered to be used as a powered water supply…………………

A.M. 500 Shearer versus the Datong Fire Engine.

In the annals of distant time
In the year of Our Lord, 1979
As part of an Anglo Chinese affair
And even then with a bit of a dare,
Two machines of similar colour
Were put in a yard to face each other.
One was a shearer of world renown
Opposing the fire engine of Datong Town.

To have the new shearer officially baptised
A cunning plan had been devised,
The engine to feed a water supply
Which shearer technology was then to apply
To cooling and spraying
Dust suppression displaying
To colliery staff and other sightseers
Chinese Engineers awaiting the cheers.

Both booms were raised to full elevation
For a better display to the congregation.
All eyes on the drums were concentrated
The fire engine pump was then actuated,
Seconds passed whilst the pump was primed
More time elapsed as the pressure climbed,
Everyone stood with bated breath
Unwittingly close to a violent death.

A massive bang sent everyone flying
And many guessed that they must be dying
Diving headlong flat amidst the dirt
But by the grace of God not one was hurt.
The shearer inlet had been closed
Against an output normally open hosed.
No overload valve of any kind and no safety relief
Resulted in Datong’s fire engine being shattered in grief !!

Do Chinese engineers blush Daz.....LOL

primarily the observations were of rushing, pushing, gushing and flushing .............. the blushing probably came sometime later behind closed doors, pretty inscrutable these Orientals you know.

[kundyhole]

Blood# hell gentlemen

You are both poets and you didn't know it



Max