Bulldozers
Bulldozers
What's the role of dosers? I've heard about them, but never understood what they were for.
Re: Bulldozers
And, that's more of a wildlands fire piece of equipment. I don't think Riverside city fire has any =)
Re: Bulldozers
zz0468 wrote:Cutting firebreaks.
I was just wondering because it seemed wierd.sp1989 wrote:And, that's more of a wildlands fire piece of equipment. I don't think Riverside city fire has any =)
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Re: Bulldozers
Not so weird. The dozers are trucked to the fire on flatbed trailers. One dozer operator can cut a hellofa lot more fire break a hellofa lot faster than a 20 man hand crew.
Re: Bulldozers
So the hand crew is the crew that battles with the equipment (like at a structure fire)?retiredFD07 wrote:Not so weird. The dozers are trucked to the fire on flatbed trailers. One dozer operator can cut a hellofa lot more fire break a hellofa lot faster than a 20 man hand crew.
Re: Bulldozers
cvrules90 wrote:So the hand crew is the crew that battles with the equipment (like at a structure fire)?retiredFD07 wrote:Not so weird. The dozers are trucked to the fire on flatbed trailers. One dozer operator can cut a hellofa lot more fire break a hellofa lot faster than a 20 man hand crew.
Mostly fire rakes, shovels and chainsaws.