HOW TO LOAD 150’ PRE-CONNECT MINUTEMAN LOAD
- Connect first 50’ length of hose
- To transverse pre-connected pigtail
- Begin bedding first length of hose
- Flat loaded
- In crisscross manner
- Two hose rows wide
- Keeping folds approximately 10” inboard of both hose bed edges
- Until 3-5’ of hose is remaining
- Fold the final 3-5 feet of the first length of hose
- 90 degrees vertically from hose bed
- In center of hose bed
- Laying male coupling over top of hose-bed divider
- Connect next length of hose to nozzle
- Place nozzle in hose bed
- On proper side
- 150’ Captain side
- 200’ Engineers side
- Lay hose towards opposite side of hose bed
- Form a loop
- 4” long
- At opposite side of hose bed from nozzle
- Lay hose back towards nozzle side of hose bed
- Form a second loop
- 4” long
- Next to the nozzle
- Lay hose back towards opposite side of hose bed
- Form third loop
- 4” long
- Next to first loop
- At opposite side of hose bed from nozzle
- Flat load remaining hose
- In crisscross manner
- Folds even with hose bed edge
- Until hose is loaded
- Connect final female coupling to male coupling
- That was draped over hose bed divider
- Laying coupling neatly on top of hose bed
- Place hose strap under nozzle side of hose
- Behind nozzle
- Capturing pull loop
- Larks foot hose strap
- Around hose load
- Tightly
- With tail placed next to nozzle
