Bulldozers
Posted: Sat May 11, 2013 7:08 pm
What's the role of dosers? I've heard about them, but never understood what they were for.
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 =)
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.
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.