Better to have two or more 1000-litre tanks, as you can switch them from skidder to pickup quite easily, you push a hump of dirt with the machine, put the back wheels on it, back the pickup up to it, and let the tank down on half-brake .... you do not, repeat not, do this when the tank is full, lol ...... you don't want a wajax pump on this tank, no more than a 1-hp Robin, with 60m of half-inch rubber garden hose on a reel .... early in a fire you don't have much water no matter how prepared you are, and you don't need much either, it's a matter of how you place it .... 12 or 15 litres/min is lots, in the right place at the right time, and that's the thing with the skidder unit, it's rapid response not mop-up .... useful thing on this tank is a valve at the bottom, for filling the 20-litre indian pisscans, which can be better than any hose, as the man packing the water values it, uses it where it counts
I had a good little wajax coming, but the neighbour's need was greater, plus he will be around more regularly and will have it totally portable, so i chipped in for hose and bulldozed a road into the main pond here .... now they won't have to call me when something starts, i'll just hear an army rolling in .... you might be right about model A '34, don't know, but i thought model T started in the mid-20s ... ? .... a guy not so far away knows everything about a single year in there, '34 if memory serves, there was a coupe and a pickup version, he's restored several of each, and it sticks in the mind that they are model Ts |
