Motorized Buckets-Yes it's real

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Sad to say that alot of teams outside the Town of Islip have never had the experience of running Motorized Dummy, Motor Hose Replacement, and Combination (always a great photo op with both trucks side by side on the starting line). I remember as a kid watching Lindenhurst run these events at the East Islip Labor Day Drill and was lucky enough to run them at least once during my career between 1979-1998, including winning Dummy 2 out of the three years between 1986-88 that we added it to Lindenhurst Invitational(Surprising considering the edge the Islip teams should have had). The rule was then changed that if 20 or more teams entered the Drill you could only run "The Big 8" to help speed up tournaments. That being said, I found the following event in the 1954 FASNY Drill Rule book. I do not have a 1955 Rule book but the event disappears in the 1956 FASNY Book(NYSPDCA starts in 1957) so I'm not sure if it was run in 1955.



This is definitely an event I would like to see run and try to run!!
Congrats to Bay Shore for possibly holding a State Record for 73 Years.

And yes, that is the size of the rule book and is only about 1/8" thick!

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That would be awesome to see, I wonder when and why that was taken out

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Like running dummy only instead of getting the dummy you run buckets. Sounds pretty cool. Can anyone find the state record??

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If I had to guess, it was probably cut due to the length of time needed to run the event; the State Record is just under a minute.
They also started 300 ft from arch- in this day and age a B ladder start should be sufficient to knock a good 20 to 25 seconds off and bring it in around 30 sec.-only about 5 sec slower than the 1959 Ground bucket record. But thats only my guess.

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Look under the Contest title
State Record is 57.4 Sec held by Bay Shore @ Saranac on 8/18/38

That is unless someone broke the record in 1954 and again I'm not sure if it was run in 1955