Category:Engineers log

Well after receiving a fair amount of visits from the Australians, Europeans and Canadians it has prompted me to make this more user friendly to our metric system brothers n sisters in the Fire Service by starting work on a metric based Q-Ref and I think I’ll be adding a metric based Engine Pumping Calculator …
Continue reading Metric Conversions Coming

On the products page is the link to the Engine Pumping Calculator is available on the bottom. So check this out on the Products page. Hydro

A remake of the Cascade Fire Slide Rule “How To” is completed and up on the video link page as well as on the youtube channel. This also includes the trick I teach during the academy on how to use the slide rule with combination/fog nozzles.

It’s official, Thomas Dockery, working in Dispatch, has won the Challenge. You can check out the video to see the results submitted and how they compared with my original numbers. https://youtu.be/nAf5i3Qrx5o Congratulations Thomas! Hydro

The Discussion with Jersey went very well and covered a couple of other items outside Foam. The foam portion that we discussed talked about the events that took place leading up to the the moment the engineer cavitated the pump on foam. We talked a little theory as to what could have led up to …
Continue reading 3rd Hydro Side Chat with Jersey

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Always plan for the Worst scenario, when you do nothing but this type of planning, everything else becomes easier to deal with and less stressful. This goes with those that speak of “I don’t have time to do calculations”, yet we should be “pre planning” problem areas so when we get an incident in that …
Continue reading Interview with Jersey, Round 2.

Interview with Chris “Jersey” Franek, on the importance of Hydraulics and Engineers and what role they play in and on the fireground and the significance of training. The interview does have some audio issues and as a result some portions had to be removed. The recording process however, is intelligible and we were able to …
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Found a couple of things to fix in the Q-Ref. its updated and on the site and the Version number has NOT changed. The updates were on pages 8 and 12. Pg 8, an “underlining” was added to signify an importance to Flow Demand always dictates the number of Tenders Required regardless if its for …
Continue reading Q-Ref update

This is the area for those that might want to ask general questions with other Engine Operators around the country, or simply talk about anything general. A casual non specific section of the site. Enjoy! 🙂