Stabilizer or Outrigers?

[Guest]

Which do you tend to call them, Stabilizers or Outrigers?

Just thought it would be a good topic for everyone.

Sorry the picture is a little blury.

Edited April 27, 2006 by NRFDTL11Buff

[ENG47INE 17]

Which do you tend to call them, Stabilizers or Outrigers?

Just thought it would be a good topic for everyone.

Sorry the picture is a little blury.

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outriggers.

[CPAGE 2]

We call them JACKS. ie are the jacks down or are the jacks set.

Just my 2 cents

[Guest alsfirefighter]

Depends on what mode you are in.j

If you doing training call them the proper name, give all the names they might be called. By definition that picture is an outrigger.

[Guest]

I don't think it really matters does it? The most important thing to make sure of is that their set properly.

[huzzie59 75]

Outrigger

[Guest]

What about Jacks?

[Firefighter57 0]

What about Jacks?

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I personally would call them outriggers. On a midmounted tower ladder, the "things" that come down from the middle of the truck are called stabilizers because they stabilize the truck from tipping one way or the other. The jacks are the ones in which the truck is "jacked up" off the ground.

[Ex-2114 7]

How about Gantry...

[IzzyEng4 427]

There one in the same. Jacks is a slang term associated with the old screw downs. Stablizers were the term used on older aerials that remained in the same poistion on the truck and went up or down. Outriggers were "jacks and stablizers" that moved out and down from the body of the truck. However the terms have changed. On Aerialscopes the middle set are out riggers and the two "jacks in the front and back are stablizers. A-Frame and E-one sissors are outriggers.

The term is similar to what we call a hook, rake or pike and pipe, knob or nozzle.

Though at one time there was a difference, today they tend to mean the same thing to the public.

Edited April 27, 2006 by IzzyEng4

[Guest]

Well Put IzzyEng4, Looks like thats the final answer.

[ONLOCATION 24]

Would Also have to go with Outriggers, but most commonly heard on the Fireground is 'JACKS'. To be honest is there really an actual title to each different style, I would figure so but really don't know the Different ID.