Wow, she's an absolute gem. I do hope this relic stays original. Her paint, fittings, and equipment are just so beautiful! Spend a year with water and soap, and a gentle touch, to carefully and lovingly clean her from stem to stern, top to bottom, inside and out. Preserve - not restore is what that old girl has earned. If I was physically capable I'd ask you for the job. Thank you for sharing this with us, and good luck with her.
Thanks. We will have a follow up video when it goes back to unidilla. Of course when it comes back next time for the restoration we will have a full video series on that so stay tuned down the road…
Behind the extinguishers, that's a forcible entry tool called a "Detroit Door Opener". The square clawfoot was placed against the door, the pointed end against the ground/floor and the lever was used as a fulcrum to force doors.
As a🚒 FF 35 yrs I haven't ever hurd of stutz , a rare piece of History there and should be restored to it's old Glory days . Well thanks for the walk around and Good luck with it .
Thank you for the thorough walk through, especially explaining what the items were in the toolboxes, it dusted off an old memory. I was in a volunteer fire department (1968-80) and there was a small, neglected fire station on the east side of town. One time, while the front bay door was open I was snooping around the back of the station. I had always assumed that the town's first fire truck was a 1938 (because it was designated "No. 1), but I saw a couple of identical toolboxes against the back wall of the station with the identical items in the boxes on that 1920 Stutz. So, there was a truck before No.1 (the town had two fire stations because, before an overpass was built in 1958, a train yard bi-sected the town and it could take 20 minutes for a train to pass and the way around that was two fire stations). The west side of town, built 1900-1960, had a fire hydrant grid infrastructure, but the east side of town, much more rural, didn't have that kind of infrastructure, so a relay system was in place because both No. 1 and No. 2 had 100 gallon water tanks it looks like the stutz didn't carry much water either. I only worked one fire on the east side and unit 3 had a 750 gallon tank (we responded with units 2 & 3).
Woodstock Connecticut has one that was originally purchased by a factory there and then sold or given to the fire department to use after they closed after wwii. It’s restored and on the road. It’s at the Woodstock fair every year.
I rebuilt a 1933 mack in 2003-2004 and had a contact in hummelstown, Pa. That had 11 trailers full of parts and a shop and barn full of apparatus. Lot of chrome stuff etc.- if interested let me know.😊
The old fire trucks would use both a magneto and a battery coil system for the ignition for dependability with a switch to select which one was needed. one set of sparking plugs was for the mag and one set for the battery coil ignition system.
Yes that’s true but on this truck it has only magneto and this is the original engine. The magneto has 8 outlets instead of 4 so they just went with reliability being a magneto.
It may look like that but it’s definitely equivalent to those. This has frame tension rods just like a Seagrave which makes it pretty strong. The engine is very powerful. 140 HP’s
Wow, she's an absolute gem. I do hope this relic stays original. Her paint, fittings, and equipment are just so beautiful! Spend a year with water and soap, and a gentle touch, to carefully and lovingly clean her from stem to stern, top to bottom, inside and out. Preserve - not restore is what that old girl has earned. If I was physically capable I'd ask you for the job. Thank you for sharing this with us, and good luck with her.
It’s staying that way!
Outstanding!!!! Can't wait to see more.
Thanks. We will have a follow up video when it goes back to unidilla. Of course when it comes back next time for the restoration we will have a full video series on that so stay tuned down the road…
I just bought a 1938 Seagrave ladder truck that belonged to the next town over from me in North East Conn. found it in New Hampshire.
Behind the extinguishers, that's a forcible entry tool called a "Detroit Door Opener". The square clawfoot was placed against the door, the pointed end against the ground/floor and the lever was used as a fulcrum to force doors.
As a🚒 FF 35 yrs I haven't ever hurd of stutz , a rare piece of History there and should be restored to it's old Glory days . Well thanks for the walk around and Good luck with it .
Your welcome!
This make reminder me my great uncle was fire chief as fireman missed him so much 😢
Thank you for the thorough walk through, especially explaining what the items were in the toolboxes, it dusted off an old memory. I was in a volunteer fire department (1968-80) and there was a small, neglected fire station on the east side of town. One time, while the front bay door was open I was snooping around the back of the station. I had always assumed that the town's first fire truck was a 1938 (because it was designated "No. 1), but I saw a couple of identical toolboxes against the back wall of the station with the identical items in the boxes on that 1920 Stutz. So, there was a truck before No.1 (the town had two fire stations because, before an overpass was built in 1958, a train yard bi-sected the town and it could take 20 minutes for a train to pass and the way around that was two fire stations). The west side of town, built 1900-1960, had a fire hydrant grid infrastructure, but the east side of town, much more rural, didn't have that kind of infrastructure, so a relay system was in place because both No. 1 and No. 2 had 100 gallon water tanks it looks like the stutz didn't carry much water either. I only worked one fire on the east side and unit 3 had a 750 gallon tank (we responded with units 2 & 3).
Thank you for sharing those memories from yesteryear! We hope to bring homage to this piece of history and make it look brand new once again!
Stutz is a rare fire truck. Here in Moosup Ct. We Had One, It was Sold For Scrap! This Is An Important Fire Truck, Thanks For Your Report!
Woodstock Connecticut has one that was originally purchased by a factory there and then sold or given to the fire department to use after they closed after wwii. It’s restored and on the road. It’s at the Woodstock fair every year.
I rebuilt a 1933 mack in 2003-2004 and had a contact in hummelstown, Pa. That had 11 trailers full of parts and a shop and barn full of apparatus. Lot of chrome stuff etc.- if interested let me know.😊
thats an incredible find you have there..
The Aurora Regional Fire Museum in Aurora Illinois has a 1921 Stutz fire engine in their Museum.
A curved bottom bucket directs the water more efficiently & accurately than a flat bottom.......
I believe the strange tool may be a Detroit Door Opener. It was a very effective early forcible entry tool . Can’t see enough to be sure.
I think that exactly what it is. Thanks for the name. It looks like a doorway fan hanger that they use today. Probably also spreads doors if needed.
The old fire trucks would use both a magneto and a battery coil system for the ignition for dependability with a switch to select which one was needed. one set of sparking plugs was for the mag and one set for the battery coil ignition system.
Yes that’s true but on this truck it has only magneto and this is the original engine. The magneto has 8 outlets instead of 4 so they just went with reliability being a magneto.
Detroit Door opener
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That looks to be a rather lighter truck than the American La France and Seagrave engines you have had in previously.
It may look like that but it’s definitely equivalent to those. This has frame tension rods just like a Seagrave which makes it pretty strong. The engine is very powerful. 140 HP’s
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Grazie millie!
The horse hair you found in that bag is for putting it around the threads of the pipe for a shillings. They didn't have teflon tayback in those days