The Siren Board

Not getting it now. In search of nice siren around 200lbs lbs or less.

Your best bet would be a Model 2, 2T, Sterling Little Giant or Sterling 2v8. Model 2's are out there, you just need to look hard. It took me months to find my Model 2-120 and even longer to find the 2T. Good luck!

Pretty much every siren, aside from the ones listed above weigh close to or more than 400 pounds. I got a shop crane from TSC for about 200 bucks, helps load, unload, and move those sirens around.

estokke09 wrote:Your best bet would be a Model 2, 2T, Sterling Little Giant or Sterling 2v8. Model 2's are out there, you just need to look hard. It took me months to find my Model 2-120 and even longer to find the 2T. Good luck!

Yes I'm just going to hold out until I find a suitable unit. Im very patient if nothing else.

A thunderbolt siren head is 222 pounds without the horn and bracket (They weight something around 80? I got that number from an estimation from FS's weights in the manual.) The problem with it is that it is VERY awkward because you have the 180 something pound rotator assembly then the 30 something pound chopper assembly on top. So it always takes me and another person to lift it onto a truck or something like that. Straight up making sure the 30 pounds on top doesn't wobble too much or we have to set it down and try again. Or if you lift the whole thing with the 80 something pound horn on it... That's a different case. It took us 3 people to do that (Me lifting the chopper assembly, The stronger guy lifting the rotator assembly and the last guy lifting the horn.) Now I don't know how heavy that is to you but if you want the full siren assembly then your blower is going to be the problem. The RCM1 itself was rated at 70 something pounds in the manual and the blower was around 5 to 700 pounds in the manuals. (FS and Sutobilt manuals.) Anyways sorry to knock this off I just thought I could explain that.

So it always takes me and another person to lift it onto a truck or something like that. Straight up making sure the 30 pounds on top doesn't wobble too much or we have to set it down and try again.

Lift it straight up? When going and picking up sirens I always moved thunderbolt chopper/rotators by removing the horn and bracket, strapping the rotator/chopper to a 2 wheeler, using two 2x6 or 2x8s for a ramp and rolling the 2 wheeler up into the truck on the ramp. I have never lifted one to put it in a truck. I have moved, probably, 10 thunderbolts this way. I have pulled several skid mounted fully assembled thunderbolt heads up into my s-10 to move them after assembly. Up the ramp by hooking the end of the skid with the 2 wheeler and pulling it up into the bed of the truck.

When I got my 2t22 I removed the horns and intakes and rolled it up the ramp on the stators.

Now thunderbolt blowers are another story entirely...... :crazy:

CDV777-1 wrote:

So it always takes me and another person to lift it onto a truck or something like that. Straight up making sure the 30 pounds on top doesn't wobble too much or we have to set it down and try again.

Lift it straight up? When going and picking up sirens I always moved thunderbolt chopper/rotators by removing the horn and bracket, strapping the rotator/chopper to a 2 wheeler, using two 2x6 or 2x8s for a ramp and rolling the 2 wheeler up into the truck on the ramp. I have never lifted one to put it in a truck. I have moved, probably, 10 thunderbolts this way. I have pulled several skid mounted fully assembled thunderbolt heads up into my s-10 to move them after assembly. Up the ramp by hooking the end of the skid with the 2 wheeler and pulling it up into the bed of the truck.

When I got my 2t22 I removed the horns and intakes and rolled it up the ramp on the stators.

Now thunderbolt blowers are another story entirely...... :crazy:

Moving and loading a siren on your own is always an interesting challenge, and one that I enjoy almost as much as getting another siren to tear into. I have found that the degree of challenge in moving a siren is directly related to the upcoming challenge of rebuilding it.

Agreed on the blowers CDV777-1. All I have to say is that it is a happy day when you find one with good wood under it and a buddy with a forklift nearby.

thunderchief wrote:

CDV777-1 wrote: Now thunderbolt blowers are another story entirely...... :crazy:

Agreed on the blowers CDV777-1. All I have to say is that it is a happy day when you find one with good wood under it and a buddy with a forklift nearby.

It took an engine lift and a lot of muscle to move my 6M blower around. Not something I look forward to doing often