Framer saves burning field.

John B. · Dec 10, 2014

Silent Video but very good.
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John B. · Dec 10, 2014

(quoted from post at 04:39:51 12/11/14) Silent Video but very good.
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Alan K · Dec 10, 2014

I remember my dad talking about when they had a fire at home in a field when he was growing up. He took the WC Allis and the 2 bottom plow and plowed around the fire. Im sure it took a lot longer to get a path big enough so the fire wouldn't jump it. That is a big implement in the video, but that is a big field and a big fire.

rusty6 · Dec 10, 2014

Yes, if you get a big field fire going with a strong wind it is pretty much impossible to work fire guard fast enough to stop it. A big tandem disk with a tractor big enough to pull it at high speed is about the best bet. That or a road grader to scrape out a fire guard.

js305 · Dec 10, 2014

I am a member of a local volunteer fire dept. From time to time we have had large fires like this. We have done the same thing, with a fire truck following close behind, spraying water along the edge of where the disc made it's cut. Pretty effective even in the wind. We had a cropduster offer to do water drops on one big fire we had. He later talked to his insurance carrier and found out he wasn't going to do that any more! That worked pretty good though.

Bob · Dec 11, 2014

In this area, I doubt there's a farmer who HASN'T done that, and probably more than once.

Greg K · Dec 11, 2014

I've always heard that worked good, neat to see.

fixerupper · Dec 11, 2014

I have done that in a corn stubble fire. Could feel the heat through the cab windows. If the tractor would have died I would have had time to bail out and run but the tractor would have been toast. The wings of the disk were in the flames. I don't want to do that again ever. Jim

Robert Major · Dec 11, 2014

Hi
Have seen that clip before, to a city guy it's impressive, to a farm guy just another day something went wrong and he dealt with it.

I was in a field with my boss spot burning one day. we had a contained fire creep the break, while at the next spot near by. the breeze got up behind the fire on a mile run. The cultivator tractor had a 40K trans. I could not drive fast enough down the field to get to the end to plow a break. luckily the ditch was green grass at the opposite end road, and it pretty well stopped it before it jumped the next road and somebody else s land. not what we wanted but that ground sure was clean the next crop year!
Regards Robert

Geo-TH,In · Dec 11, 2014

I've seen same post here before.

Fast way to add pot ash.

Pitalplace · Dec 12, 2014

That is very common here in central Nebraska. The last large grass fire we had there were several tractors.

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