I've been having fun driving a water truck working the Sobrenos Fire along the central California coast. This is the most expensive fire in forestry history.

Anyways, I saw this trailer hitch extension and thought what a good idea. He kept it simple, strong and easy to build. It even passes inspection since there is a safety pin in it . I thought you all might enjoy this and give me a chance to keep up with Pops on the post count. LoL

Would that be a tilt deck trailer and the extra ball coupling to release to tilt. Looks very similar to one here.
cheers WF

WF, it a wash station.

The Soberanes fire has 450 people in camp and bringing in 700 more this week. These young men leave at 7am, get back at 7pm. They are dirty and look beat up. They get dinner and go strait to bed. Guess I'm getting soft. Cuz I take a shower before bed and I'm only driving a truck.

Mike---would have a pic of your water truck? This is what we use to cart water for fires---3500 gallons and a 1250 gpm pump

Dan, here is the camp base water truck. I've never seen on with a pup trailer before.

I'm driving a hook truck carrying a potable water tank with an 18 speed tranny. I got the easy job, fill up the kitchen morning - noon - evening. The dust control guys run all day. No naps for them

Mike-

Are you at Toro Park or some other camp?

My Sister in Law's son works at the Salinas Mariott Courtyard and says it has been very busy hosting fire personnel. No water truck needed there.

Do you get the occasional day off?

Daron

Hey Mike be careful--heard today that a water truck out there at the fire rolled over and killed the driver.

A few years back at one of our pine barrens wildfire I worked in conjunction with a water wagon which was an articulated Cat that looked like a scraper but had a huge tank and pump it was pulling. My brush truck would go in first and knock the head and flames down, dozer would follow and cut a rough fire road, and the Cat would come along and kill any fire along the edge of the fire road---all under a swarm of crop dusters that were dropping there loads over us---that was intense fun!!

Daron, our camp is 9 miles west of Fort Hunter Liggett.

Dan, yes there was a roll over and it killed the passenger. With me staying in camp it's pretty safe. I make one run to the base per day for water. I fill the kitchen morning, noon and evening. Not much to do in between. It only took a few days to realize this tent life wasn't for me. Now my travel trailer sits off out of the way. Not to far, about a 1/4 mile walk.

The water truck was in route to fire turned over in a Round about Intersection in the town of Lompoc.

I hate them stupid ass rounde bouts! they are putting them in around here on state routes! what a joke! semis are driving right over the berms and sides, they hardly have any room to make the half circle. We sure have some idiot hiway engineers these days, everything looks good on there computers and there "hi tech" drawings but in reality just doesn't work! Even small bridges on hiway routes they cant get right, the approaches are all uneven with the bridge deck, trucks slam bam over them and the next thing the concrete deck is full stress cracks.