Date: Sun, 11 Oct 2009 10:19:24 -0700
Reply-To: Rocket J Squirrel <camping.elliott@GMAIL.COM>
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From: Rocket J Squirrel <camping.elliott@GMAIL.COM>
Subject: Re: [NVC] An axe, shovel, and a bucket of water
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> ...if a wildfire
> came screaming toward your camp. Self -preservation often trumps
> incompetence ...
You bet and I guarantee I'd not be stupid enough to be standing in no
stupid forest banging ineptly at trees with a Harbor Freight axe with a
fire screaming toward me. I can't imagine that forestry service thinks
some camper from the suburbs will have the endurance and skill to wield a
axe to make an effective firebreak.
The burning root idea makes more sense. Firebreaks need big, strong firemen.
--
Mike "Rocket J Squirrel" Elliott
84 Westfalia: Mellow Yellow ("The Electrical Banana")
74 Westrailia: (Ladybug Trailer company, San Juan Capistrano, Calif.)
Bend, OR
KG6RCR
On 10/11/2009 5:50 AM dhundt@bendbroadband.com wrote:
> Haven't looked at that reg. in years, it brings back memories. When I
> was a kid in Central Oregon, we always used to carry those in the trunk
> of our bug whenever we'd head out for the woods. I would be willing to
> bet you'd figure out how to cut fire-line prettty quick if a wildfire
> came screaming toward your camp. Self -preservation often trumps
> incompetence, and barbecued Squirrel only smells good when it's not
> covered with hair. Carry that axe and shovel Don
>
> ----- Original Message ----- From: Rocket J Squirrel
> <camping.elliott@GMAIL.COM> Date: Sunday, October 11, 2009 2:11 am
> Subject: [NVC] An axe, shovel, and a bucket of water
>
>> The dispersed camping guidelines for the national forest hereabouts
>> urges that "You should have a bucket, shovel, and axe available to
>> control or extinguish escaped fire."
>>
>> (
>> http://www.fs.fed.us/r6/centraloregon/recreation/dispersed/index.shtml
>> )
>>
>> I can see how the shovel and water (I assume that the bucket is meant
>> to have water in it) would be useful if the fire jumps the fire ring,
>> and for making sure that the fire is out -- dead out -- and covered
>> before leaving. But how, exactly, would an axe be used to control or
>> extinguish escapedfire? I'm fairly sure that I'm not in any way
>> qualified or trained to be cutting down trees to form a fire break.
>>
>> -- Mike "Rocket J Squirrel" Elliott 84 Westfalia: Mellow Yellow ("The
>> Electrical Banana") 74 Westrailia: (Ladybug Trailer company, San Juan
>> Capistrano, Calif.) Bend, OR KG6RCR
>>
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