Excerpts from FireApparatus.com:
… E-ONE has now entered the steel aerial arena.
Jim Salmi, director, aerial product development, led the discussion on the new aerials the company is building. From the pivot point of the ladder on down, everything about the aerial apparatus is exactly the same as E-ONE’s aluminum aerial devices. There are, of course, some innovations that Salmi shared.
The aerial, designated HPS 105, offers a 2.5:1 safety factor and an integral torque box chassis, criss-cross underslung jacks with no pins, and compartments over the jacks. The ladder is 105 feet and features a 500-pound tip load dry or wet for up to 1,000-gpm flow. A roller system allows the aerial, constructed of 100 KSI Domex, to operate without needing to be greased.
… E-ONE’s new advanced aerial control systems, features a 3½-inch backlit color display that comes through the console with essential information needed for the operator. E-ONE’s ramp control features three predefined settings that can change how firm or soft the ladder starts and stops.
#1 by Rj on March 27, 2015 - 1:15 PM
Some of these comments are way off, E-One is not the only manufacturer to offer aluminum. Sutphen uses aluminum exclusively. Moreover, a company cannot patent the use of a metal. I imagine pierce offering aluminum and E-One offering steel is just an attempt to broaden their client base by extending into markets that will only purchase one metal or the other.
#2 by Crabby Milton on March 27, 2015 - 11:25 AM
Oh. I thought PIRSCH pioneered the aluminum ladder. IT also seems that while SEAGRAVE sold mostly steel ladders, they offered aluminum for a short time.
HEHE, maybe they’ll be more steel ladders now that the FORD F150 is aluminum so that metal may be in shorter supply. Those beer cans have to be used for something.
#3 by Mike L on March 27, 2015 - 10:05 AM
E-One was the only manufacturer to offer an aluminum aerial ladder before their patent ran out and Pierce started offering it as well but all manufacturers have been using steel ladders since Pirsch invented the steel ladder in 1934. It will be interesting to see what it looks like.
#4 by DMc77 on March 26, 2015 - 6:04 PM
Blasphemy!!
#5 by Crabby Milton on March 26, 2015 - 3:19 PM
Why should SEAGRAVE have all the fun?