Sometimes we did use the dozer blade instead, or have a dozer in front sort of clearing a path for second dozer to put in plow line. Plow is quicker than the dozer blade. With the blade, when you got a blade full, you had to push it off to the side. Even with it angled that can happen. The plow line ends up being about 6 to 8 feet wide, and it is typically moist soil so it creates an effective fire break. Ideally, a plow line is put in, and in lots of cases somebody would be following up behind plow with a drip torch and lighting off fire side of the line. That fire would burn towards the main fire and create a wide plow line/black line area ahead of main fire. Then off road water units followed up catching any hot spots. Obviously there are times when all you are doing is flanking the fire, trying to pinch it in with no safe way to get ahead of a ripping fire with a dozer. Often on large pine type fires in Michigan, it takes a change in weather or cover type to get it contained. I would think the rocky terrain would be a huge limiting factor in the effectiveness of a fire plow. I have been to California twice during my career fighting fire, once with a hand crew and once on an overhead team, and agree a fire plow would not have worked well in the areas I was at.
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