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Feeding a Hobby takes money!

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Willy-N

03-04-2005 18:49:15




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I like working on the tractors and fixing them up. But my real joy has been building this Fire Truck from scratch! Taken a year to finish it but then the toys are realy never done. Hope to have a good Fire Season this year contracting with the USFS on fires for 2005. Our area is so dry this year with lack of snow and rain it should be a good one. Then I can play with the Tractors again for a while the coming winter! Mark H.

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Barry from Stirling

03-07-2005 05:00:22




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 Re: Feeding a Hobby takes money! in reply to Willy-N, 03-04-2005 18:49:15  
Good Morning. Am I missing something here??? You say that " YOU WANT A GOOD FIRE SEASON " Would anybody really say that? Id be saying something like " I hope that there is no fires this season, because fires do so much damage and destruction. Insteadd you WANT a good fire season. WOW thats amazzing



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toolman

03-07-2005 12:53:10




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 Re: Feeding a Hobby takes money! in reply to Barry from Stirling, 03-07-2005 05:00:22  
barry, i think you missed the point of the post, we had had alot of bad fires in our part of the world in the last few years , willy lives just south of the kelowna area in wash.state, they are getting the same type of weather we are, because of past practcises and fire control we have put ourselves at greater risk, and the fires are buring hotter an longer now without much hope of man being able to put them out little lone control them, we are finding even after a winter snows on them they are comming back to life because of the deep stuff on the floor, a good season is one that we would have fires and get some of this stuff burned off but cool and wet enough to be able to get some kind of control over them as well, we don,t need or want a no fire season, as the yuppies continue to want to play farmer, buy tractors, move back into the bush, burn fields, then jump into their new pickups and commute a 100 mile round trip to their 80 grand job in the city and leave others behind to put out that once smoldering pile of brush they left that the winds have now picked and turned into a raging infernio and is threatening our homes and farms, thats is probably what mark was talking about, check into some pictures he posted about the fire that blew over his place a couple of years back and you might get a better understanding what he almost lost.

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Willy-N

03-07-2005 17:34:38




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  Crown Fire behind my house! in reply to toolman, 03-07-2005 12:53:10  
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This is a Crown Fire in the trees a mile from my home. The under brush was so thick we had to stand back and watch! Nothing you could do about it. It made it to my place and burned 30 acres of my place and a few trees but not my home. If these woods had burned a few times over the years there would still be trees there. Now it looks like moon scape instead. Mark H.

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Barry from Stirling

03-08-2005 04:36:11




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 Re: Crown Fire behind my house! in reply to Willy-N, 03-07-2005 17:34:38  
Morning Willy
I stand corrected. Where I live, 2 hours east of Toronto, Ontario. A forest fires is somthing that is just not heard of. If there was a fire like what I see in your pictures here, it would be one for the record books. Please forgive my ignorance. Barry from " Fire Free " Stirling



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Willy-N

03-08-2005 06:30:47




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 Re: No problem if you lived in a bad area you wou in reply to Barry from Stirling, 03-08-2005 04:36:11  
If you lived in a bad area you would understand the problems. Some people are lucky living in damp green areas and never get worried by fast moving brush fires. It is amasing how fast they can move, you can't out run them sometimes so you better understand the weather pattern as far as the wind goes. Mark H.



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Willy-N

03-07-2005 17:51:40




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 Re: After it went thru my place! in reply to Willy-N, 03-07-2005 17:34:38  
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This is what it did after it went thru my place. It burned under all the trees you see in the picture but I keep the brush and under growth cleaned up so the trees did not burn. That picture I just posted the fire burned every thing to the ground and sterized the soil it got so hot. It still does not look right after 4 years nothing but some weeds grow there. If it had burned a few times befor it would not have destroyed the forest completly. After the fire my pastures turned green and looked better than befor. It is still clean under the trees also and I realy don't worry about losing those trees in a fire anymore. Mark H.

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Willy-N

03-07-2005 07:09:09




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 Re: If you fight fires you understand why in reply to Barry from Stirling, 03-07-2005 05:00:22  
If we do not have fires the forest gets so bad when one does happen it is a disaster instead of just burning the floor of the forest. A good season is when you get lots of little easy to control fires like mother nature used to do befor we stopped them from happening. Mark H.



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Willy-N

03-07-2005 07:37:49




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 Re: It also thins the forest down some in reply to Willy-N, 03-07-2005 07:09:09  
The fires clean up the forests by getting rid of the downed trees and heavy under brush. When we don't have fires it builds up to a point the fires get so hot they crown and destroy the trees instead of burning the floor. We had not had a fire by us for 15 years and when it happen it burnt 9 homes around me and I allmost lost my home to. If we had been having fires once in a while the under groth would not have got out of hand so bad. Now around us it is a lot safer if a fire happens again. Mark H.

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billy j.

03-04-2005 20:06:28




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 Re: Feeding a Hobby takes money! in reply to Willy-N, 03-04-2005 18:49:15  
Nice looking rig you have there. You got it right obout the toys never being done.Seems like when one thing is done there is allways something else wanting some attention. william



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