Rolling road rescue hose - GIF

[Altair]

Rolling road rescue hose.




Previously:

Hose coiling machine - GIF
Hose clove hitch - GIF
Fire hose coupling binder - GIF
Fire hose coupling binding machine - GIF
Fire hose cleaning system - GIF

[tonyfoale]

I saw no rolling road. Clever and skilled hose coiling but..............??????????

[desbromilow]

the hose is attached to "road rescue" equipment (commonly called jaws of life) - so what's happening is that the guy is rolling up his road rescue hose.

the rigs I used to drive had the hydraulic hoses on reels, so this was never an issue, but we did have a hand unit we rarely used which may have had a manual coiled hose.

[tonyfoale]

the hose is attached to "road rescue" equipment (commonly called jaws of life) - so what's happening is that the guy is rolling up his road rescue hose.

the rigs I used to drive had the hydraulic hoses on reels, so this was never an issue, but we did have a hand unit we rarely used which may have had a manual coiled hose.

Thanks for that. English can be ambiguous when multiple adjectives are used. I always quote the song title "The purple people eater" as an example. Is he a "people eater" who happens to be purple, or does he only eat purple people? The song title could refer to either. You have to listen to the lyrics of the song to find the answer.

[Jon]

English can be ambiguous when multiple adjectives are used.

[mklotz]

Sometimes these confusions can be resolved by appeal to the more obscure rules of grammar. If the two adjectives are coordinate adjectives, i.e., they both refer to the noun (as opposed to the first adjective acting as a modifier of the second adjective), they should be separated by a comma. The test here is to mentally replace the comma with "and". If that still conveys the same meaning, the adjectives are coordinate and a comma is needed.

Example: "An old teak door" could be written as "An old and teak door" so a comma is required → An old, teak door

Since "purple people eater" is written without a comma, and "purple and people eater" makes no sense because you can't eat a color, we have to assume the "purple" refers to "people" and not to "eater".

If one is a skilled writer, such confusing double adjective constructions will be caught during editing and reworded to unambiguously convey the intended meaning.

[tonyfoale]

Sometimes these confusions can be resolved by appeal to the more obscure rules of grammar. If the two adjectives are coordinate adjectives, i.e., they both refer to the noun (as opposed to the first adjective acting as a modifier of the second adjective), they should be separated by a comma. The test here is to mentally replace the comma with "and". If that still conveys the same meaning, the adjectives are coordinate and a comma is needed.

Example: "An old teak door" could be written as "An old and teak door" so a comma is required → An old, teak door

Since "purple people eater" is written without a comma, and "purple and people eater" makes no sense because you can't eat a color, we have to assume the "purple" refers to "people" and not to "eater".

If one is a skilled writer, such confusing double adjective constructions will be caught during editing and reworded to unambiguously convey the intended meaning.

A skilled reader is as essential as a skilled writer. Yes the purple refers to the people. As he himself explains "...eating purple people and it sure is fine" "...I wouldn't eat you 'cause you're so tough."