Excerpts from villageofniles.com:
New Business:
A. Fire Chief Feld informed the group that public works would be asking for board approval to purchase a 2028 fire engine at July’s 23rd Village Board Meeting. This engine is a part of the Village’s CIP for fiscal year 2029 and would be placing the 2015 Pierce engine into reserve status.
B. Fire Chief Feld informed the group that at the August 27th, 2024, Village Board Meeting, public works would be requesting a change order for the fire engine in production (Approved by the Village of Niles Board of Trustees meeting on April 27, 2022). The intent to purchase had a not to exceed $889,000 threshold. The pre-construction review has led to a price which is $6,060.00 dollars over the not to exceed amount. It was explained to the committee that there were 11 pages of changes/addition/deletions to the original proposal which resulted in the need for a change order of $6,060 dollars.
thanks Martin
#1 by Mike C on December 12, 2024 - 7:32 AM
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Tony – I do believe you are affiliated with a Seagrave dealer if I’m putting the name together.
There is no way Seagrave backlog is 3 – 3.5 years! Through the 2024 year, Seagrave will deliver approximately 16% of it’s backlog. Do the math! That technically means Seagrave has a lead time of more than 6 years if they keep producing at this rate. If Seagrave were to have a 3.5 year lead time that would mean Seagrave would need to produce approximately 29% of the trucks they have on order per year! Seagrave has not produced this many rigs in more than 30 years in one year! Basically, this means Seagrave needs to increase production by 57% per year just to have a 3.5 year lead time.
I’m not bashing Seagrave, I’m only presenting the data! I love Seagrave and they build an incredible product but there is no way the lead time is 3 – 3.5 years!
#2 by Tony Calzaretta on December 11, 2024 - 8:35 AM
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Seagrave is a 3- 3.5 year lead time for an engine. This has been stated before on here. Don’t know why it has to be repeated.
#3 by Chicagoland Fire Photos on December 10, 2024 - 12:58 PM
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Mike,
Yes they do they have a Pierce TDA on order expected delivery of 2026 or 2027 I think. Cicero also has a Seagrave TDA on order excepted in 2027
#4 by mike on December 10, 2024 - 8:13 AM
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don’t they have a tiller on order?
#5 by Mike C on December 9, 2024 - 3:08 PM
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Lead times remain very long for the apparatus builders! It seems like most apparatus builders still have a 3 or 4 year lead time. Seagrave is around 5 or 6 year lead time. It seems like orders have slowed down a little but production really hasn’t increased much with any of the apparatus builders.
#6 by Michael m on December 9, 2024 - 3:02 PM
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They have an Enforcer PUC engine that is currently being built at Pierce. I am guessing that will go to Engine 3. The current Engine 3 will become reserve, they will see the current reserve.
#7 by Craig Mack on December 9, 2024 - 1:53 PM
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Which manufacturer? Pierce again? That must’ve been an old order to have that price