Thread: Linen fire hose strops

I've done this too and it works great. I like the ends your friend put on there, I only sealed my ends with super glue but it works alright. Geezer posted something about hanging it to dry with weights and it works to stretch and straighten it.

Wolfpack Mike hangs with the weights as well. Could not figure out a way to do it, but it makes sense.
He also says spray starch is good. I may try to iron/starch one.

Since the laundry-room overhaul, the iron went missing.......Nobody quite knows where it went, nor misses it!

The fire hose that I have used is not lined. Depends on the vintage.

I hang mine to dry using two small pieces of wood on either end c-clamped together so just an inch of the strop is sandwiched. Then I loop rope through the c-clamps on both ends. The loop on the top goes on a hook, the loop on the bottom goes through a 10 pound weight. Looks pretty funky hanging next to shirts and stuff in the laundry room.

Originally Posted by xiaotuzi

I hang mine to dry using two small pieces of wood on either end c-clamped together so just an inch of the strop is sandwiched. Then I loop rope through the c-clamps on both ends. The loop on the top goes on a hook, the loop on the bottom goes through a 10 pound weight. Looks pretty funky hanging next to shirts and stuff in the laundry room.

Just goes to show ya, 'Tuzi! I reckon it was not so much my not being able to figure it out......

I am just plain LAZY!

Besides, I was doing 3 almost at once!

Originally Posted by 32t

The fire hose that I have used is not lined. Depends on the vintage.

Yeah, recent experience showed me that modern 3 inch hose (used by HFD) is now red and all rubber stuff. No fabric covering..

I remember seeing the stuff hanging in hotel corridors back in the day, under glass.
Big valve and brass nozzle in there as well.

.......... Yeah, and besides if they are not already matched up with some leather who cares if they shrink?

Now a days the brass nozzle wouldn't last a day!

Despite saying "Quaker City Rubber Co." this one is not lined with rubber.

I think the fabric-covered hose is/was a space-saving thing. Seems it is coiled flat in the fire truck and went round as the water-pressure hit. Rubber inside must have been quite thin.

Reminds of an old Andy Griffith movie. "Angel in my pocket'. Andy played a new preacher in a small town.
Grandpa had a still in the church basement. As it blew up and the church was burning, the FD arrived and their hoses were like Swiss cheese! Church burned down!

TBH, they still use fabric covered hoses for the big boys, coiled on the truck.
Lots of hose flattened out in a small space.