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100 foot ladder Fire Truck

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high-tech safety engineering and firefighters get to the location this is got to work Cutting Edge diecast construction and precision fabrication on a mammoth scale how to build a place busting Vehicles that's a matter of life and death why do depend on what we do and make sure we do it right to create the ultimate fire truck you need an ultimate Factory Pierce Manufacturing battling of raging Blaze failure is not an option for firefighters only one thing stands between them and dead chaos  dare fire truck from Mega frames to high pressure hoses high tech front cabs to safety ratings souped-up engines to ladders that reach the sky of fire trucks more than a vehicle it's a mobile rescue ready for any crisis four generations Pierce manufacturing set the gold standard building custom Cutting Edge fire trucks that battle blazing 7 and safe locks today no company in the world crafts more firefighting apparatus then Pierce 1800 Vehicles a year  and now created the ultimate fire truck the Pierce 100 ft heavy duty ladder mod  spider fight Powerhouse is a jack-of-all-trades it can reach 100 ft and shoot a water jet and a blaze busting 2000 gallons a minute top it off with Precision Point handling motion-sensitive safety Innovations and life-saving latter equipment and it's taking the fire truck too high Lake Heights  Pierce manufactures this heavy duty fire truck at their ultimate Factory in Appleton Wisconsin this Mammoth facility votes 800,000 square feet of manufacturing light it takes 45 days more than 1500 workers and some serious muscle to build these rigs  weed over 2,000 different custom packages there's no such thing as a standard if you look at our Industries are starting 3000 fire departments now every one of them fight fires differently we've got to be flexible with our designs to build one-of-a-kind trucks Pierce Factory Engineers based a challenge setting up a manufacturing process with I'm capabilities their solution dividing assembly into a multiple steps with production flexibility where the chassis Foundation takes shape fabrication where welders craft the trucks aluminum cab and body paint where deal gets it Shine assembly where workers install thousands of components and Ariel assembling where the massive ladder attaches to the Finish here's how appears 100 ft aerial Fire Truck design lays out the open cab interior holds the driver seating critical safety equipment enough to outfit a team of 10 firefighters a 750 gal center-mounted water tank connects to a high-power pump a reinforced Center support structure called the torque box holds the Mechanics for the mammoth aerial up top this 15000 lb ladders stabilized by a rotating platform and for hydraulic arms gives the truck its 100ft reach and powering it all is a heavy duty diesel a connected directly to the main mechanical systems  what to get a fire truck off the ground it all starts here Prima where the massive chassis Foundation takes shape when it's done this 35 x 3ft frame will shoulder the weight of the entire and it's heavy payload including onboard equipment firefighters and gallons of water all adding up to a staggering 36. that's a big Ariel unit those big ladder units and things like that big tankers a whole lot of water they have to be heavy duty starts with two steel rails please to black beans must quickly become the Rock Solid base of a state-of-the-art fire truck in frame-up you like to say the truck starts here  frame assembly comes down to two things keeping it straight and level everything about a fire trucks found it has to be square workers use an overhead hoist to slot the frame rails into a massive Jay with the help of air powered stabilizers jig seats the rails 34 inches apart with so much riding on these rails the exact parallel angle is critical now too the rails in a strong load-bearing Square the team installs crossmembers over a lifetime of operation heavy cargo and twisting pressure put men distressed on the alignment  workers flight of fully assembled frame to awaiting suspension assembly the suspension system includes the base structure for the engine transmission wheels and brakes this groundbreaking independent front suspension systems called the tack for with a fire trucks on its way to a raging Blaze Saving Time can lights compared to most truck standard straight axle suspension this heavy duty system handles more like a sports car allowing the truck to make returns and faster stops  this is the one thing that we have done in the past 20 years that I think is going to save more lives than any safety feature that we have independent front suspension has a military pedigree parent company Oshkosh truck first designed and built the suspension for the US Armed Forces  the troops put the suspension through 80,000 actual test in extreme off road conditions thousands of military trucks are delivered daily with independent front suspension and that's what we've captured and put into a fire truck to build each component of the tack for suspension the Pierce team starts with a Precision engineered laser cutter Ross steals the heart and soul of every firetruck first this system carefully choose is the proper bin depending on what it's cutting this Tower holds 10 bins of Steel in total each shell has a maximum capacity of over a ton Cheryl awake  suction cups grab the raw sheet metal and loaded onto the laser cutting table the laser cuts through plates with Npower up to 4000 watts of energy  the laser Burns Out supports and connecting pieces that when does suspension together working through the raw steel with tolerance is down to 3007 in we're not building Swiss watch but it's good to know that we can get that kind of quality into our parts  the laser cutter also minimizes sheet metal waste using a computer Pro I'm called optimization nesting software the software process is up to 3 days of cutting orders at once the result less scrap whichever way whichever way they would fit into the sheets the best his way to software is going to divide them up  the Freedom From The Nest the arm lifts drags the cut Parts over a metal rake has the fire truck suspension build continues the tat for assembling divided into four critical parts the wheel hubs and rotors brakes and a wishbone shaped connector called the control on that attaches the whole assembly to the truck the Pierce fire trucks control arms are souped-up versions of what's found on many SUVs control arm sub-assemblies are similar to water a frames are in most of your car Rebecca Cloud age difference is this control arm makes an SUVs look downright an email the check for control arm is built to carry Lowe's allowing fire trucks to haul more Fighters and equipment to the scene  with the control arms in place it's time for the Hub and rotor assembly key parts of the suspensions wheel and brake system  hubs and rotors install as a unit vented discs inside the wheel frame use for breaking hubs connect the whole wheel construction to the truck to install Hub and rotors together first pressurize Rams rivet 10 studs into the Hall these sturdy bones will eventually support the fire trucks big wheels  as the bill continues its time for the brakes when firefighters do an emergency Running Red Lights it takes powerful brakes to stop 36 tons of fire truck to meet the challenge Pierce size the 100ft ladder trucks brake system  voice lowers a massive clam or caliper on to the wheels break the calipers the mechanism that actually squeezes the brake rotor making the truck stop these Monster brakes can stop a truck going 60 how's an hour 60 feet sooner than standard brakes can bats for car loans of life-saving difference like the rest of the wheel assembly calipers huge  small 10 times bigger than what's on your car and the truck special anti-lock brakes caution it's called electronic stability control or ESC on snow and ice of fast-breaking truck and spin out of control but with ESC the system senses dangerous road conditions and adjust the breaking pressure tire by Tire  PSC he stabilizes the trucks direction and speed helping the driver regain control  now it's time for the yes he did get some Cutting Edge tires  15 in diameter for regular vehicle mistlin 2:20 to 5 these wheels have a built-in bonus a special Tire protection valve located between the metal wheel frame and the rubber in the event of a Dane explore the band keeps the tire rubber attached to the wheel frame  on a racing fire truck hits vinyl you don't want the tire coming all the wheel that's catastrophic  now after 3 days and four major build stations the chassis suspension build starting to come together it may not look like a truck yet put it on fire emergency each critical detail translates directly to safety speed stability on the road coming up Beyond welding it's lightning fast or bonded with soup strange glue  still to come crash testing fire trucks

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