Hey! You guys ever try something like this???

Chip812 · Jul 9, 2013

I hope it worked... Looked dangerous to me...
http://www.liveleak.com/view?i=760_1373385040

Case Nutty 1660 · Jul 9, 2013

it can be dangerous for sure I have put out many fires the same way, last year we had a wild fire come across our pasture the grass and sage brush made a heck-of-a- fire I was in my 1470 Case 4 wheel drive and the flames where 10'-15' above the cab I was running the front gang of my offset disc right at the fire line throwing dirt on the fire shutting the fire storm down took over a mile to stop it the fire burned 700 acres in less than a hour fire trucks could not slow it down as it was creating its own wind thanks for posting cnt

RayP(MI) · Jul 9, 2013

Yeah, but not on that scale - stopped a yard fire with a large garden tractor and a rotary mower. Hats off to the guy. Looks like field had been previously harvested, thank goodness.

Grampy · Jul 9, 2013

Yes, done the same thing, only, we had two JD 8640's with tandem disc's, I was following with a pickup with water tank and hoses, I put out anything that "jumped" that line. we were working in pasture - grass and some sagebrush & we had a LOT of help there ! We keep our disc & grass fire truck ready all through late summer ! KEN

Anonymous-0 · Jul 9, 2013

As a kid I watched Dad do it with a John Deere 50 and a small disk, maybe an 8 footer. Our electric fence started it, much smaller scale that this, probably less than 5 acres. Then I hired on with the state as a wildland fire fighter. Fought lots of fires in the 32 plus years I was there, used dozers with fire plows though, or off road all wheel drive trucks with water and fire plows.

Larry NEIL · Jul 9, 2013

Just this June! But I set the fire...
Was rakin hay and had a 1/=3/4 wet spot I had tiled 10 years ago, but never would dry up. Full of reeds and cat tails. Horses had it pretty well stomped and was driven through it with the rake.
I stopped, lit her off and just knew someone from across the tracks would call the FD so I raked around the fire then had my Son bring the disc out. When we saw the red lights through the trees, it was already burned out and smoking so He just dove into it with the disc. Worked great, and later that day I grabbed the 4 wheeler and seeder and through out 10 lbs of orchard grass!

Royse · Jul 9, 2013

Sure hope his AC was working!
Any closer and he might have lost a tire or 4.
That could have been ugly.

fixerupper · Jul 9, 2013

Yeah. I could feel the heat through the cab window. Unsettling for sure. Jim

Dan T in MO · Jul 9, 2013

Last Fall we had a small fire In the field. It was mostly out by the time I got home from my in-town job, but there were a few hot spots left. I used the blade set at the steepest angle to cut some shallow ditches around the hot spots.

dbNga · Jul 9, 2013

Another example of an AmerICAN not waiting on somebody to bail him out.
I have often wondered why the firefighting agencies don't bomb the wild forest fires to create firebreaks. Some structures may still get damaged, but entire neighborhoods should not get wiped out.

uncle henry · Jul 9, 2013

i have with a terracing plow but not on that scale
looks like they were doing what they could with what
they had to fight the fire

ben there · Jul 9, 2013

i did it about 25 years ago with a Ford 2000 and a 6 foot disk...fire was my fault and i ran to house to call VFD,luckily my dad had been using tractor and disk was on it...jumped on it and started disking road up that ran thru brush...came thru a wall of fire and smoke and ran into firetruck...i was happier to see them than they were shocked to see me comin out of there...burn't about 3 acres and most of the hair i had...learn't my lesson.

JMS/.MN · Jul 10, 2013

Not terribly dangerous with a diesel tractor. More so with a gas.

Handyman · Jul 10, 2013

I'ts done that way all the time around here in ID, you can cut a lot of fireline faster that waiting for the BLM or someone to get a couple of cats hauled in and unloaded.

John_PA · Jul 10, 2013

Looks like an uncut wheat field. I see tram lines in it from the sprayer. I hope he saved it. I have had deer eat my paycheck, I am sure fire eating it feels just the same.

since I regularly run a JD 650H dozer onto burning piles, it doesn't bother me, but, he is lucky the wind stayed against him. If it would have came with him, that would have had him lift the disk and flee a few hundred feet downwind in a heartbeat. Short grass doesn't have many calories to burn. Do the same thing in heavier wood brush, and it could have engulfed him.

Sometimes, turning into the wind and crossing the fire is a lot better than trying to run from it. You might have to pull out smoldering stuff from the undercarriage, but, it isn't as bad as it looks.

Glad to see someone take the initiative.

Dick2 · Jul 10, 2013

There used to be a lot of fires back before straw choppers, fought a few of those myself.

One day we went by the neighbor's field after a lighting storm without rain. Lighting had struck a wheat windrow and the windrow was burning in both directions. My brother & I went out and stamped the fire out after it had burned about 40 ft. Never told the neighbor that we put it out, but I imagine that he was wondering about when he combined that windrow.

Lazy WP · Jul 10, 2013

Those aren't tram lines, that is combine tracks. Lots of 36' plus headers out in that part of the country.

JMOR · Jul 10, 2013

I know of a case where the tractor drove into the fire several passes, but on one, the engine died and it was because the fire consumed/displaced oxygen to the extent that it was insufficient to run the engine. Fast moving fire didn't kill operator or set tractor on fire & after flame front passed, probably less than 20 seconds, he restarted the tractor & continued to fight the fire on my oat field. Underwear suffered 'skid marks'.

John_PA · Jul 11, 2013

Is he running a stripper header?

Looks mighty tall for harvested wheat!

mj · Jul 12, 2013

Yeh - if the wind turned around he'd been a hot-footin'it for sure :!:

Will Herring · Jul 12, 2013

Never done it myself, but grandpa told me of a time when he stopped a neighbor's fire from creeping too far over the property line (neighbor was burning ditches, I think) with a 6' hydraulic disc behind an old AC WD. Wouldn't want to get too close, and that guy was definitely living dangerously. I'd have cut that fire line a bit further out to stay away from the flames, and been in a hurry to make a second cut back the other way, and then one more time back for good measure!

Also said that he crossed the fire line once (to initially get into the field) and was moving wide open in second gear and the fire didn't do anything to it when she went over.

Don-Wi · Jul 12, 2013

Looks to me like wheat that isn't harvested. Can see at the end where it was combined. Probably set the fire with the combine.

Donovan from Wisconsin

Check Break · Jul 12, 2013

You can see where the heat penetrated the cab around 1:13 as he turned away from the black. A cat can't catch a fire like that, let alone build a line around one as fast as a 4x4. Fortunately for that guy, the wind was helping him out and there was little chance of a slop over. As chaotic as it looks, that was a relatively mild grass fire. I've seen them move 35 miles in one day.

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