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    M-715 still in service.

    https://reddirtinmysoul.com/2020/08/...+In+My+Soul%29

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    Quote Originally Posted by TJinSD View Post
    M-715 still in service.

    https://reddirtinmysoul.com/2020/08/...+In+My+Soul%29

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    Not really unbelievable if you're familiar with Wyoming rural firefighting. The state receives surplus military vehicles and distributes them to fire zones statewide, and they keep them until they wreck them, wear them out, or quit using them. We had a '52 Studebaker Deuce west of Wheatland until about 2003, which went back to State Surplus because everyone moved away who could run it.

    Glendo had a 715 west of town (last time I saw it was four years ago), so I'm not real surprised there's another one in use somewhere in WY (that blog writer sure is cagey about where that ranch is located). My old M37 is still on duty up near Laramie Peak west of Glendo, as another example.

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    Thanks for that information. It's very interesting. Another thing to keep an eye out for on trips around Wyoming.
    That ranch is west of Ten Sleep if I remember correctly.

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    but that old Jeep can get places pickups can’t! In fact, Daniel and M. took it out again today to put out some more fires. They finished up and met the government boys coming out to fight the reported smoke. They asked if a pickup could get there and Daniel told them, “NOPE!”. It has its quirks, but it is a perfect vehicle for this rough country.
    Somehow, "brush trucks" on FD's around here have become 18,000 pound monsters on dually F550 chassis, with skinny road tires. They'll get stuck on gravel.
    DP

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    Quote Originally Posted by kaiser715 View Post
    Somehow, "brush trucks" on FD's around here have become 18,000 pound monsters on dually F550 chassis, with skinny road tires. They'll get stuck on gravel.
    Couple of friends of mine were the first to a lightning strike west of Wheatland, WY, where we all used to live. They got it put out, and were heading down a really rough old road in back to the house when they met some Forest Service guys heading up on foot. Harry & Miller let them know the fire was out, and asked them why they were walking. After looking the 1944 GMC 7107 over, one said "We don't have anything that will get up here."

    Another: fast-forward to 2002, and my mom's place a mile or so east has become a base-of-operations for a crew from California responding to a fire nearby. At one point, the incident commander comes up to me and asks if there was somewhere they could fill their snazzy new truck with digital readouts and foam capability, so we took a ride down to the pond. I showed him where I fill the tank on the M37, which was, admittedly, no boat ramp, but not the Rubicon, either. He didn't hesitate when he said it wasn't accessible to that Play Station truck, and it was all I could do not to ask abruptly "Then what the h*ll are you doing here?".

    This I believe to be the primary reason these old trucks hang on in rural fire zones: the guys who man them know and respect their capabilities and don't want newer, less capable ones.

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