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[rob love]

Good eye Terry, you are right. The DND ones have a stamped handle vice the cast handle on the red one.

[Alex Blair (RIP)]

Originally Posted by rob love

Good eye Terry, you are right. The DND ones have a stamped handle vice the cast handle on the red one.

Rob..
The Ansul blue fire extinguisher had a bigger brother..Bob Carrier has the next size up from the one shown..It is dry chem with a nitrogen cartridge that is pierced when the pin is removed and the handle slammed down which charges the extinguisher..The content tend to lump and compress so should be turned upside down and hit with a rubber hammer to loosen up the contents..
Bob may be able to post a picture..
It is a military 25 pounders used on Canadian Air Force runway crash trucks..
This one fell off one that I was following across the grassy area of the runway.. in Edmonton..and I stopped and picked it up but they didn't want it back so it stayed with me from '76 til I donated it to the barn boys to protect them from Lucifer...
In a pinch..
It is identical but bigger than the one shown.

[rob love]

The 20 pound purple K extinguishers were mounted on the trucks designated for flammable goods. This included the fuel tenders in the airforce, as well as trucks handling fuel or ammo in the field. We usually mounted the large ones on the brush bar at the front of the truck. BSMs were responsible for the ammo in a battery so on the BSMs LSVW, a pair would also be mounted as well on the bush guard....a lot of weight for a small truck.

Never saw them mounted on the Jeeps though....that would have been overkill.

[Alex Blair (RIP)]

Originally Posted by rob love

The 20 pound purple K extinguishers were mounted on the trucks designated for flammable goods. This included the fuel tenders in the airforce, as well as trucks handling fuel or ammo in the field. We usually mounted the large ones on the brush bar at the front of the truck. BSMs were responsible for the ammo in a battery so on the BSMs LSVW, a pair would also be mounted as well on the bush guard....a lot of weight for a small truck.

Never saw them mounted on the Jeeps though....that would have been overkill.

The one I gave Bob was the same colour as the one you posted and was on a Fire truck..I was following it up the hanger line when we crossed a strip of bumpy grass and it fell off the truck..I was following it in a CE yellow peril half ton when it fell off I stopped and picked it up and when I caught up they told me to keep it..
they had lots of them..So I did.
Bob could post a picture and give the details and weight off it..I believe it was over 25 pounds..
Not purple..BLUE..

[rob love]

Originally Posted by Alex Blair

The one I gave Bob was the same colour as the one you posted and was on a Fire truck..I was following it up the hanger line when we crossed a strip of bumpy grass and it fell off the truck..I was following it in a CE yellow peril half ton when it fell off I stopped and picked it up and when I caught up they told me to keep it..
they had lots of them..So I did.
Bob could post a picture and give the details and weight off it..I believe it was over 25 pounds..
Not purple..BLUE..

Any of the ones I saw from out of the DND system were blue. The powder they emit is referred to as purple K.

I have seen red ones of these as well with some of the airfield equipment. Not sure if they were supplied with the vehicles or if they were local purchase.

[Scott Bentley]

Originally Posted by Alex Blair

Rob..
The Ansul blue fire extinguisher had a bigger brother..Bob Carrier has the next size up from the one shown..It is dry chem with a nitrogen cartridge that is pierced when the pin is removed and the handle slammed down which charges the extinguisher..The content tend to lump and compress so should be turned upside down and hit with a rubber hammer to loosen up the contents..

Same drill with the 5 lb little guy.

When I did my bi-annual fire fighting training, the Fire Fighters stressed that these thing need to be beat around a bit because of the contents compacting and settling on the bottom.