Thread: What your truck needs.

Originally Posted by gadgetman

Water container.
Toilet paper.
Electrical tape.
Small tarps to lie down on.
Spare fuses, wire, nuts bold and screws.
Tow rope and snatch strap.
Shovel.
TOOLS! Make sure you can get the wheel off if a tyre place has been over zealous with the rattle gun.
Rag for the windscreen.
First aid kit.
Fire extinguisher, I keep forgetting to buy a new one, never think of it when I'm in the shop.

Warehouse had Orca 1kg dry powder at $20...Mitre 10 Mega had some at $18.99 (?) of their house brand. We used our extinguisher before christmas and still have a lounge (albeit with a few scorch marks) from a lithium 18650 that did a great impersonation of a sky rocket in the house. Get one for each vehicle and a couple for the house / garage....you never know.

My most used piece of kit is a gear bag with spare cold weather garments, a couple of old towels, Warehouse shower proof over trousers/jacket and some woolen hats. The number of times family and friends have dived into that bag to borrow some warm gear is amazing.

Hope I never have to use the likes of the trauma first aid kit or fire extinguisher [although have put out two vehicle fires over the years, neither of which were mine].
I also leave the PLB in the truck glove box when not hunting. Always know where it is that way and you never know when you might be on a country road and come across an accident and need to call in help without cell coverage.
Another good thing to practice ahead of time is how to get a GPS position off our phone that you can relay to emergency services. Again, if you come across an accident a GPS location will get services to the location way quicker than a verbal description of "three mail boxes up the second road on the left after the blue shed, next to a red shed, across the paddock from the pond".

Originally Posted by timattalon

Warehouse had Orca 1kg dry powder at $20...Mitre 10 Mega had some at $18.99 (?) of their house brand. We used our extinguisher before christmas and still have a lounge (albeit with a few scorch marks) from a lithium 18650 that did a great impersonation of a sky rocket in the house. Get one for each vehicle and a couple for the house / garage....you never know.

Having attempted to extinguish a fire recently with a large dry powder id have to say they are pretty useless for most fires apart from lithium battery fires..dont know how useful they'd be in a vehicle fire, one of the. Volunteers on here should know more?

Originally Posted by specweapon

Having attempted to extinguish a fire recently with a large dry powder id have to say they are pretty useless for most fires apart from lithium battery fires..dont know how useful they'd be in a vehicle fire, one of the. Volunteers on here should know more?

All depends on the type of fire, Iv put out two fires with dry powders and found em very effective and very messy / hazardous to breathing.

Hyd oil/sawdust in a forklift and turps spilled all around my feet inside a vessel while plasma cutting.

Originally Posted by veitnamcam

All depends on the type of fire, Iv put out two fires with dry powders and found em very effective and very messy / hazardous to breathing.

Hyd oil/sawdust in a forklift and turps spilled all around my feet inside a vessel while plasma cutting.

Dry powder ext can save the day in a road rage situation. At our Fire Ext course, the instructer said he'd squirted someone in the face who was angry, and it neutralised the situation straight away

Originally Posted by specweapon

Having attempted to extinguish a fire recently with a large dry powder id have to say they are pretty useless for most fires apart from lithium battery fires..dont know how useful they'd be in a vehicle fire, one of the. Volunteers on here should know more?

dry powder is ok but is horirbly corrosive to alluminium so it needs to be washed off asap. BCF is awesome but the green police have banned their use.