🚒💧 Burp Drafting: Steps 1 and 2 💧🚒 If you've ever been on a rural fire scene with a failed primer, you know how stressful that is. When seconds matter, the burp drafting technique can help keep water flowing and ensure the mission goes on. 💪🔥 Here are Steps 1 and 2: 1️⃣ Use your apparatus's onboard tank water. Fully open the tank to pump and tank fill. 2️⃣ Recirculate the water at a high speed. This creates negative pressure at the pump’s impeller, drawing water from the booster tank back
🚒💧 Burp Drafting: Steps 1 and 2 💧🚒 If you've ever been on a rural fire sc…
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🟦 BURP DRAFT: Step 1 🟦 Primer fail during rural water supply? Here’s how to get that working: the burp draft, as taught by Andy Soccodato of The Water Thieves. ➡️ Step 1: Open tank-to-pump and tank fill fully ➡️ Step 2: Recirculate water at high RPMs ➡️ Step 3: Let the impeller create negative pressure; water from the booster tank takes over You're building flow to burp the air right out. No suction. No stress. Just smart drafting when your primer lets you down. 💥 👉 Download your tactical ch
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😮 This clever hack really allows you to keep drafting seamlessly when adding a second intake? #RuralWaterSupply Episode 5: Multiple Intake Drafting ➡️ TFT.com/multiple-intake #firefighter #watersupply #drafting #intake #firefighting #taskforcetips | Task Force Tips
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📍 BURP DRAFT: Steps 4-6 📍 Primer fail during rural drafting? Avoid this critical mistake! ➡️ Step 4: Throttle up to about 150 PSI ➡️ Step 5: Crack the master intake valve ➡️ Step 6: Open that intake in increments (Avoid this critical mistake!) Watch your master discharge gauge. Fluctuation means the air is burping out through the tank fill, and the draft is working. 👉 Download your tactical checklist to learn more from Andy Soccodato and The Water Thieves! Head to the comments. | Task Force T
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🚒💧 Burp Drafting: Steps 1 and 2 💧🚒 If you've ever been on a rural fire scene with a failed primer, you know how stressful that is. When seconds matter, the burp drafting technique can help keep water flowing and ensure the mission goes on. 💪🔥 Here are Steps 1 and 2: 1️⃣ Use your apparatus's onboard tank water. Fully open the tank to pump and tank fill. 2️⃣ Recirculate the water at a high speed. This creates negative pressure at the pump’s impeller, drawing water from the booster tank back
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🟧 Avoid this common mistake in burp drafting! 💡 Andy Soccodato of The Water Thieves LLC shares a critical tip on the tank fill line. "It's important for pump operators to know the size of their tank fill line. If the line is too large, such as two inches in diameter, opening it fully can lead to pump cavitation. This happens when the tank fill discharges more water than the tank-to-pump plumbing can supply, causing pressure issues when throttling up to 150 PSI. To prevent this, slightly gate b
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💡 Burp Drafting Variation (No. 2) - Can I burp draft by flowing from a handline nozzle? 🚒 Andy Soccodato of The Water Thieves discusses a variation of the burp drafting technique he teaches (recirculating water through the tank fill valve). Can you use a nozzle? What limitations does this tweak come with? "Some firefighters perform this technique while advancing and flowing a handline in a burning structure," he says. "However, there are two key issues: 1️⃣ The pump operator may not know if th
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