"Green and Sustainable" Fire Vehicle

[Subdeacon Joe]

1905 Fireman's bicycle.

 

[Cypress Sun]

 

I could have found a better location for the pry bar!

[sassnetguy50]

@Subdeacon Joe you need your eyes checked, that bike is red.

[watab kid]

wonder if their clothes were fire retardant ? 

[Alpo]

I wonder if the other end of the crowbar has a wrench?

 

He's got a fire hose. If he was the first one to the fire, he could be hooking his hose up to the hydrant, assuming he had a wrench.

[Pat Riot]

I wonder if someone actually used this at night. That carbide lamp at any speed wouldn’t work worth a darn. 

[Forty Rod SASS 3935]

But...but...but where does the Dalmation sit?   

[Cypress Sun]

18 minutes ago, Forty Rod SASS 3935 said:

But...but...but where does the Dalmation sit?   

 

He doesn't, he chases the fireman while nipping at his ankles the whole time. It's by design, makes the fireman pedal faster enroute to the fire.

[Alpo]

I just decided that thing next to the crowbar is the hose nozzle. Originally I thought it was a flashlight.

 

But even with a nozzle, he's still going to need a wrench.

[Alpo]

10 hours ago, Pat Riot said:

I wonder if someone actually used this at night. That carbide lamp at any speed wouldn’t work worth a darn. 

It never occurred to me that that was supposed to be a headlight. I thought it was his light for when he got to the fire, because when you're looking through the smoke and the darkness for people to pull to safety, having a light would be a good plan.

[Calamity Kris]

The "Prybar"on the handlebars is also a hydrant wrench.  You can't see that end of it but that's what it does.

[Alpo]

Like this

 

[Rip Snorter]

Back in the old time NYC neighborhoods you learned to open a hydrant with a wire clothes hanger and a broomstick / stickball bat.

[Forty Rod SASS 3935]

1 hour ago, Rip Snorter said:

Back in the old time NYC neighborhoods you learned to open a hydrant with a wire clothes hanger and a broomstick / stickball bat.

How'd you know that?  Was you once  a Nyorker?  

[sassnetguy50]

2 hours ago, Alpo said:

Like this

 

Not on this particular bicycle.   Look through the front spokes, next to the fork.  The red holder is made for a straight bar, too skinny for jaws to protrude from the bar.  

[Rip Snorter]

15 minutes ago, Forty Rod SASS 3935 said:

How'd you know that?  Was you once  a Nyorker?  

Yup! A very long time ago.   

[Pat Riot]

12 minutes ago, Rip Snorter said:

Yup! A very long time ago.   

Question: Who cleaned up the horse poop in the streets way back when? 

[Rip Snorter]

Actually, there were still stables near Central Park at least into the '60's and horse drawn carriages for tourists to ride.  Sanitation workers with a cart and a shovel would clean up.

[Pat Riot]

15 minutes ago, Rip Snorter said:

Actually, there were still stables near Central Park at least into the '60's and horse drawn carriages for tourists to ride.  Sanitation workers with a cart and a shovel would clean up.

No, not then…well, maybe. You mean 1860’s right?

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Just messing with you. 

 

 

[Rip Snorter]

10 minutes ago, Pat Riot said:

No, not then…well, maybe. You mean 1860’s right?

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Just messing with you. 

 

 

You must have me mixed up with someone famous...