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Mega Manufacturing: Pierce - Fire Truck Manufacturer | 4K Engineering Documentary
What is created here is intended to save lives for once: Pierce Manufacturing: the world's largest manufacturer of fire trucks.
It is the largest manufacturer of fire trucks in the world: Pierce Manufacturing in Wisconsin, USA. 1400 trucks are being built here every year - and each truck is one of a kind. Customers determine every detail from the first sketch on the 3D model to the finished truck. More than 13,000 individual components - most of them laboriously crafted by hand - are turned into an absolutely individual fire-fighting vehicle. Even the lettering and coats of arms so popular in North America are the result of Pierce's manual work with brushes and genuine gold leaf. All this is only possible with a lot of experience. The three thousand employees have on average twelve years of professional experience. After all, not just any product is manufactured here, but in case of emergencies their quality is a matter of life and death. The demands placed on a fire -fighting truck are correspondingly high: heavy as a truck, it must nevertheless be extremely manoeuvrable and fast.
Take a mega-frame, a cab equipped with lots of high-tech, a high-performance water pump and a gigantic ladder: We accompany the production of a popular Enforcer fire truck from the very first step - the construction of the chassis - to the final acceptance by the customer. One of the highlights is the assembly of the TAK4 wheel axle. Developed in the military sector, it enables cornering at top speed without tipping over.
After approximately three months of production, the grand finale is the installation of a gigantic 33-meter turntable ladder on the roof of the Enforcer. A nerve-wracking task for the workers. Using two crane winches, they have to install the component, which weighs tons, with millimetre precision. No cable must be damaged. The final inspection shows whether the installation was successful. Then the customer receives his very own personal emergency vehicle.
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Is this how the franklinville,NJ firetruck were made? in this building?
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I'm a huge fan of documentaries and your style of presenting them so I normally would join your Patreon. I'm a patron for 2 other creators as well. The issue is I'm in the United States and all your documentaries seem to be targeted only at an audience outside the United States since the facts are always presented in liters, kilometers, celsius temperatures, etc. In the United States we don't use any of those measurements so you might as well be speaking Chinese. I know the U.S. is only one country, but we do have 328 million people. That's 10 times the population of Canada. That's a huge number of people to completely alienate and I'd imagine that's why you don't have more patrons from the United States. Otherwise it would be an amazing channel and I'd love to be a patron, but the narration makes it almost unwatchable for me and a lot of other Americans. I'm not saying to change anything but I can tell you're trying to produce a quality product and that may have been something you didn't think about when trying to connect with as many viewers as possible.
@@MurrayHill17 I don't see why this should alienate anyone. We use those measurements all the time in the US. I retired as an engineer for one of the big 3 auto makers and everything we did was in the metric system. No one is changing back to the English system. It is the future.
Actually cool to see many people working on them and not too many robots.
America stuck in the past
@Max Cohain Name 3 parts of the truck assembly that would never work with robots.
Obviously this company prides itself on being able to deliver custom designs for individual Fire Departments. The only way to do that is using skilled Trades People. Not like the ultra automated Mercedes Truck building factory shown in one of these videos. Ultra automated factories are not cheap either. Highly trained Technicians have to maintain the Robots. Computer specialists. Massive very expensive machines to place components in exactly the correct place. It would be uneconomic in a plant that only produces 1,000 Fire Trucks a year. I enjoyed it. Good to see there is still a place for traditional Tradesmen in some areas.
@@lukasahs6064 Paint building parts and building the engine.
Let's not forget robots need to be built by humans and "taught" (programmed) how to build whatever it is, so humans might as well build the thing itself they should otherwise design a robot to build. Same happens in aviation which is also dramatical as far as precision and safety. Machines are human tools, not our replacements.
The city of Appleton: the only place where you can drive around and see a firetruck from every place you've never been. Cool.
same with oshkosh but military vechiles instead
@@henryhildebrand4236 Oshkosh is amazing, and they got the awesome air show.
@@ianmangham4570 yesssss!!!!!!!!!!! i love the airshow !!!
Excellent comment
mattsmith1318 I live here
“ Made with millimeter precision”. Slams spring with hammer
so what should have been used rather than hammer smart boi?
@@shikharashish7616 it’s called a joke get a sense of humor
@@JackGhufran2024 I do have sense of humor but it wasn't so funny , i am glad that you replied this fast , otherwise my friends take a decade to reply my message
It was one hammer strike away from the precise place it had to be haha
@@shikharashish7616 a spring compression kit? Hidraulic press? Thermal compression? Tbh im not sure wich spring we talking about, but there are other options besides a hammer
My department purchased 107' Ascendant ladder truck last year. Our final inspection took 3 days. We had company representative with us the whole time. From engineering personnel to management team members. I have been through these production areas. It was great experience. What was fantastic about the tour was the pride the employees had for their products.
I’ve had a tour through this plant and it’s simply BREATHTAKING! The pride and attention to detail they put into these is just second to none. Still gives me goosebumps. All the workers there just take a plot of pride in what they do. The overall atmosphere is happy. You can tell people are there because they want to be .. 😎😎 I’m surprised they didn’t show the Stryker airport fire fighting vehicle.. its massive.
That's because we only assemble and paint the ARFF cabs at the Appleton plant. The cabs are then shipped 10 minutes away to the new main assembly plant called Oshkosh Airport Products also owned by Oshkosh Corporation like Pierce Mfg.
That’s an Oshkosh product, not Pierce. Even though Oshkosh owns Pierce.
IT's all about the boss. If the boss is a putz, there will be bad attitudes all over!
@@Bray91 I was there twice in January 2015 when we did final spec and then again in August for inspection & PUC training. Absolutely amazing! 👏 The level of professionalism you could eat off the floor. I was at both facilities they wouldn't let me drive the airport rig or a tiller so bummed.
Awesome to see America jobs like this still doing strong, giving a small town jobs
and this my friends is why fire trucks cost as much as they do.
Went there two years ago for a Pierce class at their training center. And went for a tour of both facilities at night. Was the coolest thing I've ever seen. Got to see our new gigantic rescue in almost finished state. The county I work for has all Pierce products and product support is awesome for these. They are the Lexus of firetrucks.
What model was your rescue unit?
Lexus, which is just a Toyota with fancy decorative trims. i would put pierce in custom boat business. you get to pick a mold and what you want inside of it.
I was in the fire service for nearly 23 years. I worked on engines and trucks built by Pierce, Westates, Westmark, FMC, Crown, Sutphen, American LaFrance, Beck, KME, and many other brands. Hands down, Pierce were the best!
Best Documentary Channel on KZhead 👍👍👍👍👍
Don Vittorio DiMaggio # only issue is they do everything in metric system I would think a documentary about an American made item would be in measurement we use here
@@jays106 they've rightly globalized their viewership target unlike your provincial perspective.
Pietro Jenkins understandable I thought it was just the way they have to “change “ something to be able to upload on KZhead for licensing or something like that
jay s it’s high time you move away from your medieval measurements which are only used by Americans, the majority of the world are using metric
Muchie well seeing as I am American.......... I’ll stick with it. And so if the rest of the world as you say do something that means everyone should do it to be like them? Not me
Какие невероятно красивые машины, мощь, функциональность, красота и стиль в одном лице, просто фантастика!!! США это сила во всём!!! Современная промышленность это невероятные достижения науки и труда очень большого количества людей и времени, если хотите современная магия подобная миру фэнтези, но только в реальности!!!
Пирс - переоцененная хрень, они пытались зайти на рынок Европы и провалились с треском. В Штатах их спасает только культ и протекционистские законы, их шасси по сравнению со Сканией, Вольво или Мерсом - прошлый век, а стоят в два-три раза дороже.
@solarissv777 оставьте своё мнение при себе мне оно неинтересно.
Actually their TRUCKS... but your right. 😊 But Germany puts out some good work in those fields too... along with a FEW things from a couple other major Countries. If you like watching how things are made or built... try... HOW ITS MADE.. & MODERN MARVELS. 😊
@@solarissv777don’t know what your on about my department has a 2010 Spartan and it’s been reliably severing my community for the last 14 years besides the obvious annual maintenance it hasn’t been in the shop for any reason
Been there doing an inspection of one of our trucks, the people that work there are some of the best I have ever met, they will stop working to explain just what they are doing at each step of the way. Only place I have ever been where raw materials go in one end of a building and a large truck rolls out the other end. Great trucks made by great people.
I want a documentary on 500 to 1200 ton mobile cranes (ex: Liebherr)
There is one
@@Jp_1984pls give me the link??
Zubayer Islam Rezoan Make your own documentary
Id love to see Liebherr, Demag and Grove/Manitowoc.
Hey these documentaries are free buddy ok! Beggars can’t be choosers.
Made in America by professionals for professionals. I love this documentary. Stay safe builders and firefighters, this American right here is grateful for all of you.
America have the best looking Fire engines / trucks in the world. Loved them since being a kid. They still look amazing
i remember there was a kid at my high school who was obsessed with fire trucks, and i kinda get it now.
I'm that kid at my HS lmao
@@ShinGojira-xq7fm yeah I’m obsessed with all things with engines
Man getting hit by football 🏈
I live in Appleton. just moved here. Cool to see my new town in a doc.
Chamber Check they make fire trucks in Clintonville too.
That's a different company though, but I've taken a tour of the Clintonville plant and it was awesome.
NP70707 apparently Cliltonville is where 4 Wheel Drive was invented also.
@@TheMW2informer Yep Seagraves,,
@@TheMW2informer FWD purchased Seagrave in1963 and moved the Seagrave operation from Columbus Ohio to Clinton.
As someone who’s driven/operated all kinds of fire trucks... Pierce makes the best. Hands down.
No one makes a finer fire engine than Pierce! They are so well built and the finish work is second to none.
Oshkosh has been a national leader for decades. Tho I prefer Rosenbauer my self.
Scania + Angloco all the way
I also loved the ol American La France trucks
Crown
Wow! How things have changed. Many years ago, between 1978 and 1984, I worked for the Duplex Truck Chassis company in Midvale, Ohio. We mainly produced custom fire truck chassis and Pierce was one of our primary customers. If I recall correctly, the Pierce "Fire Cat" was very popular back then. My primary job at Duplex was electrical assembly and installation, so the segment on cab wiring and testing was of special interest. Like I said at the beginning, the manufacturing process is certainly far more advanced and I wish I could still be part of it! This video brought back a lot of really good memories of those years.
I'm a firefighter and this was pretty cool to read! Thanks for sharing and thank you for your contribution to the fire service!
It is good to see a company with employees who are dedicated to building such a quality vehicle. Fire trucks sure have evolved from the ones I used to ride and operate in the 70's-90's. Was part of the last generation to ride tailboard. All are closed cab now. Thanks you to the men and women at Pierce who help insure the life/safety of many firefighters.
I rode the tailboard with the open cab without power steering until 1976.
@18:37 WOW!!! those vending machine for supplies....thats pure GENIUS!!!
😂😂
SHIT YES IT IS!!!
Great idea for inventory control and to control the timing of Pierce's obligation to pay for component parts. Didn't the documentary say that payment for the parts is triggered by being vended by the machines? And probably the customers also pay for the fire trucks during the construction process, which would reduce the company's inventory costs during the construction process. Interesting that these machines are all custom designed and constructed, rather than having a few standard models for their customers to select from.
@@gkelly941 It's hard for there to be a standard model of apparatus for customers. Many Departments still operate out of small stations or in rural areas with rugged terrain. Every apparatus that is built has to be custom designed for each customer to fulfill height and weight restrictions as well as fulfill the needs of the department. A department local to me has a combination Tanker/Pumper engine from another manufacturer that carries almost three times as much water as a regular engine in order to provide a first due engine in rural areas and on the highway where there's no hydrants. That piece had to be measured to the inch and weighed to the pound in order to fit in the older station it resides in as well as be short enough to fit under municipal bridges in the area. That's just one example. Although I do believe larger cities have more standard models that they use when replacing trucks since they require such a large number of apparatus. So manufacturers will build several at a time likely with a quicker turnaround!
Ah yes let me put dogs in a vending machine and throw it in a pet shop see how it works
Wow this is awesome we just got a Pierce enforcer for my department. Thank you all at Pierce for one hell of a job!
Lol we have engines from the 60s
@@cardboardtruck1009 nice!
@@cardboardtruck1009but I bet they still do a great job and prob look GREAT doing it too.
When i was a volunteer, they built a engine for us, tour through the plant, if we stopped at a work center, the employee would come over and ask if we had questions. Asked our salesman why they did that. He said they get in trouble if they didn't ask us. Hands down, best customer service anywhere
Have always been curious as to how these were manufactured........Now I know.......Outstanding video......
I spent 40 years working on heavy duty trucks. Fire trucks always seem to have the best build quality! Garbage trucks were okay. Class 8 tow trucks were the next best and fire trucks out outclassed them all. Of course they would, they have to work correctly every time. When a packer on a garbage truck fails you take the truck out of service. When something fails on a fire truck somebody could die! Amazing equipment. I think the coolest one for the airport firefighting once. I saw one I think made by Oshkosh I could do like 70 miles an hour. Has pretty quick for the amount of weight it's moving. Amazing Pretty amazing when you consider that the concept starts on paper, goes through a computer then to the manufacturing floor. Pretty cool, well done, thanks
I love seeing fire trucks in the street all the time. They are so amazing and clean. Proudly made in the U.S.A.🇺🇸❤️
Alex Travels only crap. There are several reasons why Europe don’t use America trucks. They are not safe enough and good enough. Why is it always that all people working in fabrics never use safety clothes..? Only some eye protection and ear..??,,
@@slikerdet why are all European firefighters cowards?? When your in emergency services it's your job to put your life on the line.
S. Michael DeHart aka WVUmounties8 Well they are not cowards. Remember that you can’t just copy and insert a new fireman when one is gone. Firefighters in USA dies like flies because they take unnecessary risk and so on...it’s not illegal to use you brain and survive ..
@@slikerdet I don't think you all have any roads big enough for real fire trucks! The only trucks I see that Europe has is no bigger than a medium duty chassis that we use in America.
@@slikerdet cowards!!
I was surprised that they are built by hand. I guess custom building each one does not allow for much automation. This is incredible.
8:45 Adorable how they overlayed an angle-grinder sound effect on a clip of a metal stamper.
I've heard hydraulic press brakes make that noise plenty of times. I guess you might have never worked in a sheet metal shop if you think that is a grinder noise.
@@farout1220 Shop was a mandatory class in school and I grew up on a farm surrounded by hydraulic equipment. I have never heard a press that's made that sort of noise before. That isn't what made it jump out though. I'm a video editor in my spare time, so adding little sound effects, timing it up, and adjusting the gains is something I'm familiar in. The only press that sounds even remotely believable is the the third one where it's blended into the background audio. The first two presses it's so loud that it's obviously overlayed. The first one darn-near powers over the narrator and the second press sfx starts a fraction before contact. What make and model of press are you using where that's a normal sound because even looking it up on here all the sample videos I'm finding show the loudest part of a break press is retracting it upwards? Impact is relatively silent across all of them.
Electric hydraulic press Its the sound of a motor loading up A hiab crane makes much the same sound Depending where the motor is, where the microphone is and how close to capacity the press is will determine the noise it makes Or maybe they did over lay audio over it, but it's the correct sound Definitely not an angle grinder anyhow
Lmfao
Thank You Pierce Co. for allowing us to see how you build these trucks ! A top notch first rate company.
kahvac Pierce is shit
“The fire truck is still missing a crucial part. The ‘so called’ body”
Pierce is THE biggest manufacturer in the world.
Of fire apparatus? Not likely - the REV Group has several fire apparatus brands which between them build more units than Pierce.
Pierce: We have hundreds of different shades of red and yellow so you can get your truck in any colour you'd like. Customer: Purple? Pierce: GET OUT!
Actually they make purple too! There's a dept in NC with a purple engine that's somewhat new
@@ShinGojira-xq7fm yeah
I vote for Perrywinkle 😂
@@alexandersalarms5380 hi
@@westchesterfirstresponse9488 "xd"
Speaking from experience, pierce makes some of the best equipment on the market.
This is such a great documentary. Screw all the people bashing it. Unless your a firefighter here in the USA you’ll never get it.
Exactly, although the documentary was off on some details.
You got played fool That’s not my point a**hole. It’s for the people who question or point out things that are wrong with it. People got so many questions about this documentary that most can be solved if there actually involved in the fire department
What's more amazing is how all of this was done 50-60 years ago with literally none of the high-tech machinery and computers we have today. I just went to a local car show and they had a couple Fire Trucks from the 60's. They were incredibly high tech for their era. Amazing American ingenuity!!
Great video of making these fire trucks , my son is a volunteer fireman I am sending him this .
@john hello,how are you doing
80% masterpiece of hands in assembling the fire truck not by a robotic equipment..its a big help for the livelihood of the workers for their families..
Our fire department went to Pierce for it's new platform ladder truck . It's beautiful !
My cousin works there. Good to see Americans manufacturing something. This is a real necessity. Good job guys.
Many praises to the people building these very complex machines! Fighting fires has got to be one of the most intimidating professions. If one doesn't believe this try getting one out by yourself. Special thanks to the men & women that use this equipment on a daily basis.
I saw the house on fire. I called the fire department I'm the 1st responder .......... Damn it!
I like how they have vending machines all over the factory. You can't buy any products that doesn't have to do with your Job at the factory. No more missing product's
These commentaries always remind me of when I was at school, trying to pad out an essay to achieve the word count - i.e. chuck in lots of unnecessary exaggerative words to get closer to the 5,000 word target. It does make me cross.
Imagine how cross your teacher was having to read full class's worth of padded up essays. 😂
I would love to visit this factory. I'm a big kid when it comes to firetrucks.
@Justin hello,how are you doing
@@yvonnebraun7 ok
Alexander’s Alarms glad to hear that maybe I can get to know you a bit better
@@yvonnebraun7 Okay? why?
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That is a lot of beautiful American jobs right there. Love it!
One the buffoon could have brought back from China!
What a wonderful collaboration among hundreds of great people. You have every reason to be very proud of your work!
21:57 If only my Ram had the Allison tansmission! A cummins and an Allison is the perfect combo!
Ram? Rust through within a year’s time. Junk!
@@tomvana4270 how did mine make it 320k and still going then????
@@realityhurts8697 I didn’t say anything about mileage. It’s just that they rot faster than a dead animal on the side of a road. And were not talking surface rust .
My stepdad was deputy chief of Milwaukee fire department for many many years and one of the coolest experiences I've had was when we went to pick up the enforcer he ordered for the city best road trip ever
Glad I watched this documentary. I was curious how a fire truck was built, and I was NOT dissapointed. Although, I didn't know it was built and assembled by hand, or no robotic help. Also, didn't know that fire department ARE customers for that matter. I always thought that cities, counties, states, and/or countries (I may still ignore how fire trucks are sold or else's). Well in any cases, these 48 minutes were well spent.
My volunteer FD in the town I grew up in had commissioned a unit to be built back in 2007, and it was a huge event because most the trucks they had were from the late 80s. They had the draft plans all over the community hall and had the garage space prepped well in advanced. It's all the guys would ever talk about it felt. When you're a small town FD saving up that much money for a new rig it's a big big deal.
Fun fact for y’all take a 10 minute drive south from this plant and you will find a Miller plant proud to be a Wisconsinite!
Miller wreckers?
Welders, Beer or Tow trucks??
It’s really cool to see the vehicle on the highway (I live in a city next to Appleton)
Used to work for Pierce a few years ago. Great people and great leadership.
The chassis weighs 4 tons 🤯 That's more than my truck and camper fully loaded. Insane.
Former firefighter. Absolutely great documentary. We had Grumman and American Lefrance trucks. God bless the police and our firefighters.
American LaFrance trucks are beautiful trucks it’s very unfortunate they went out of business
More military stuff please
Marlon Osiya I’ve been through the Oshkosh plant and they’re pretty secretive about it. They might be able to show some stuff though.
@@35057 thanks
@@marlonosiya8197 try the channel "Real Engineering" cuz a new military type documentary just got posted an hour ago.
Pierce, Seagrave, SVI, Alexis, & KME. All outstanding manufacturers for our brave First Responders.
Don't forget American Le France.
@@kruzn1934 Yeah, no. They went out of business for a reason, man.
You forgot Ferrara who is a up and comer as well, they built the Rescues for the FDNY
I had the opportunity to watch a training session for my city's fire department. I was impressed to see they have a Pierce aerial truck, a 105-foot aerial unit. 😮
Thanks 🙏 ❤️ 🇺🇸
I spent many years manufacturing aircraft and I'd be right at home in this factory. Many of the procedures and processes are similar.
This is one video that the public has to watch..
I was lucky enough to get a tour of the plants a 'few' years back. It was very impressive and would love to go see it again someday to see what has changed. IAFF 441 retired member.
Tom Pinnef pierce told me you can’t tour their factory anymore unless you have ordered apparatus
amazing
@@AndrewZ12793 I wound not doubt it. But we did but then the person that set it up had family inside Pierce management. Very impressive setup - from the state of art ladder building etc. Guess I was lucky then - retired from 31 years of fire service. We did buy a few engines from them. We did buy others from General which was a tele-squirt and a ladder from KME. Take care, thanks for the insight.
the parts vending machines (18:38) is actually a good idea... wonder who else would use such an implementation for parts supply
I just got a good idea. I am going to start a company that has ones for school with pens and pencils and erasers and notebooks and good candy and even gum.
Good idea, less waste
We have supply vending machines at my part-time job. If someone needs an 4 gas LEL meter you punch the job# and your employee number in and it will vend the unit out. Automatically tracts that unit to a specific project, same with leather, nitrile, and rubber gloves..
Yes vending machines, I sure save a ton of money on the such small stuff ,make it more to the employees to not waste. It, or lose the item between jobs
Ford Chevrolet Chrysler a lot of ac manufacturers I seen them everywhere
I've been there. Picked up 5 trucks and drove to AZ. Best trip ever!
The vending machine idea is something
I like how they are all using Milwaukee Tools another native company from Wisconsin in Brookfield about 2 hours away. I do not recall it being said, but Oshkosh is the parent company and who designed the TAK-4 axle that is on their military vehicles. Oshkosh bought Pierce in 1996 and used a lot of their truck and military technology after that, thus the TAK-4 front axle and so much more.
I wondered about that I saw Oshkosh on the sign at the start and wonder if it was their axles. Thanks
@@ttjoseph1 And your point is? Milwaukee Tools is a native company from Wisconsin founded in 1924 and moved to Brookfield in the late 1960s. Does not mater who currently owns Milwaukee Tools, I stated, NATIVE company to Wisconsin. TTI owning Milwaukee is no different over FCA owning Chrysler, both companies are native to the USA.
@@cvpiDOTnet there's so much overlapping cross ownership of companies these days its hard to know who owns what.But its also sad to see how big Walmart has forced many companies to ship manufacturing overseas.
cvpiDOTnet the point is that Chinese people own it ...surprised a Native American company got bought out by the Chinese
Now this is America!!
Thank you Pierce, MERRY CHRISTMAS
44:57 I played this over an over, but he clearly says, "A momenchous occasion."
Phew! Thank God you spotted that!
I was like what did he say?...
... did not catch that, and here I thought I was paying utmost attention 😵
Wow! What a video. I never knew what went into building this type of magnificent piece of machinery. Thanks for this video.
I’m a volunteer firefighter for New Haven Volunteer Fire Rescue and we have a 2010 Spartan most reliable engine I’ve ever rode in
Pierce are my favorite trucks. Great video.
Must salute these guys. Design and assembly has been elevated to an Art Form! Bravo!
exactly
The description is WRONG about all the parts being crafted by hand, that's patently false. Most all the parts are precision laser cut from various sheet stock, label with a bar code, and fit together with jigs that make for consistent fit of the various components. I've been to the Appleton plants, and they are VERY impressive. Pierce makes the best trucks that I've seen personally.
@ffjsb. Don't be a douche-bag. When they say its "crafted by hand" they clearly mean that it is custom built, which is exactly what you said about them machining everything. Everyone else knows what they meant. It's clearly what they showed in the video.
all computer controlled machines are precision made unless programmed otherwise
@@davidsmith5704 STFU, you've never even been to the plant. People who don't know anything about manufacturing DO NOT know what they meant.
@@deanhauser6626 Even a computer controlled machine has to be calibrated frequently. Moving parts wear, and have to be adjusted back to within tolerances. If the X/Y grid is off, everything else will be off.
@@davidsmith5704 so what about ladders ....not made by Pierce ...pump not made by them as well as loads of parts
Great video .
@John hello,how are you doing
Amazing video. I had no idea how much work goes into them. Glad to see so many people building quality products.
I've been past the plant several times. These trucks are freakin cool
Great to see how life saving engines are being built
Я слышал о том, что в США пожарные департаменты это уникальные организации, каждая чуть ли не со своим сводом правил и законов, и что пожарные машины для каждого департамента производятся на заказ, под конкретные задачи и с определенными требованиями. Но я просто не могу поверить в то, что все пожарные машины страны сделаны в ручную и каждая из них уникальна! При том что каждый автомобиль это практически произведение искусства! Это невероятно!
Its great to see people working on these machines.
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Workers in that factory: WTF are millimeters? We only measure in number of bananas per distance from a king's nose!
@@anonymousarmadillo6589 no its hamburgers per eagle
Wow luv this documentary 💪💪
That place is AWESOME. I've been though that plant multiple times. It's hard not to turn in to a little kid when around all those fire trucks
¡Extraordinario... Desde mi niñez he sentido una gran admiración por los carros de Bomberos! ¡Gracias por compartir!
I can say that this is still a fairly new as well, filmed in Aug-Sept of 2019. I can tell by the delivery dates of some of the fire apparatus being delivered on the Pierce web site. Fire apparatus have come a long way from the 60's and 70's, you really have go back and look what the Pierce rigs looked like 40-50 years ago.
You can tell it's new because they take break in their work areas while they "look at their smart phones" aka zombies when they aren't working
Can confirm it was filmed over the summer (July-August) I was working there at the time.
Kyle Retzlaff do you think the enforcer is the top of the line? We have Pierce PUCS and think they are the top of the line for Pierce. Thanks
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SALES: "Finally, what color would you like your truck?" FIRE CHIEF: "Do you have firetruck red?" SALES: "Yes, yes we do, matter of fact. Which of these 500 shades of red would you like?"
I wonder how many green or blue trucks are made.
In the 1970s, there was a trend toward yellow fire trucks. Apparently, they were shown to be more visible. But I haven't seen one in 40 years.
Average customer- All the reds looks the same Sales- Customers are idiots.
@@gatsby66 our department has had yellowish green since the 70s the only on in our county we have departments with yellow, red of course and white, blue
@@gatsby66 you can go to an airport fire department, they tend to gave more colorful engines.
This is an awesome documentary! I mean, who doesn't like fire trucks?👍
I welded the first 12 of their new style ladder in 1984. I did brake and shear and machine maintenance for Simon Ladder Towers until they were bought out by Pierce.
I love how they show the interior of the cabs and even the storage compartments are sprayed with linex but haven't given them a plug as of 20:06
@Jeremy hello,how are you doing
46:50 Love this scene, very satisfying to watch!
Fire trucks magnific
@Roberto hello,how are you doing
Great job you guys
It's intresting that in europe our firetrucks are built on scania, volvo and merecedes platforms. But in America they build the whole truck ground up. Is there a reason for this?
Well no auto manufactures make them. They are an independent company. Now their parent company makes military vehicles so maybe the chassis extends to them.
No reason I’m aware of. Would imagine is all about controlling it.
It just preference. There is fire trucks built in the US on general chassis from manufactuers such as Freightliner, Peterbuilt, and International. These are called "Commercial" trucks. Even the company in the video will build on them. They come in as a driving, rolling chassis and the fire truck manufacturer will build off of it. Commercial trucks are cheaper to build so you will see a lot of rural departments with them. But it is more common for Fire Depts, especially more urban/city depts, to get a what we call "Custom Built" (what you see in the video) because custom built handles wear and tear better over time than commercial trucks. Not to mention, custom built fire apparatus from the ground up were designed from the ground up by engineers, their engineered specifically for the dynamics of a fire truck (compartments full of equipment, on board water tanks, and potentially aerial devices on top of the truck). Custom chassis will handle the wear and tear better than a commercial truck, and will perform and handle much better as well. Hope that clears things up for you.
@@BReese504 Thanks for the reply!
@@BReese504 Thank you..... you save me asking the question, Yes here in the UK we just mostly have the "Commercial" type Fire trucks
This place is a mile down the road from my house, I see these beautiful trucks everyday and would love to take a tour, told my son to try and apply it looks like a good place to work. Hey Pierce do you need a tool and die maker, ha ha, just kidding the marine engine place down the road is a good place to work too
Who else decided to watch this out of curiosity?The most challenging part from my view was the dam ladder being placed.
Sweet I`ve done suspension & repairs on Seagrave never Pierce👍Good show
What I learnt from watching this: It's a matter of millimeters.
That would be thousandths
LMAO i love how he said that like 5 times
@@Chrizke22 you mean 5 times in a sentence. This should be a drinking game. A shot every time he says millimeters haha
0zzyninja I just wish they would pick a measurement system sometimes it’s metric sometimes it’s imperial
*learned*
My department is a proud owner of a single ‘92 Pierce Lance Custom Cab Heavy Rescue.
Wow just amazing....thank you Pierce for your magnificent work which allow wonderful people to save so many lives ...also Go Pack Go!!!!
i like the Pierce - Fire Truck Manufacturer
Made in AMERICA, built so well that it will last several decades in service, and look brand new 40 years after its built. America makes everything better, stronger and last longer than the rest of the world. Bring business BACK TO AMERICA!!! USA, ALL THE WAY
Our department used to order pierce fire trucks. The city cheaped out and ordered Seagraves and they are in the shop constantly. At 50k miles the seagraves are done. We have some 2006- 2008 pierce trucks as spares and they are better than new seagraves.