Right place, right time.

[jonyyuma]

Rickman, Same problem. they finally managed to destroy my Chevy hunting truck. A big rat buillt nest on V-8 and ate the wiring. Uncle called it a packrat..I fought it for over three years, tearing out the nests?

 

[Artisan]

Just last night as i laid down I began to think about hanging a chain saw
from my tractor, then I though If I do that I should consider an
extinguisher as well. After reading this I think I will make it so...

 

[flyerdan]

Agree on having extinguishers onboard, it's pretty cheap insurance. Forklift had one on it when I got it and I put one in the Bobcat when I put lights on it.

My uncle lost a new car to a fire a few years ago. Apparently, a transmission cooler line leaked onto the exhaust pipe and started the fire. Unfortunately, he and his companion were so conditioned by the Hollywood image of cars immediately exploding violently withing seconds of catching fire, they left everything inside except for what was in their pockets. Took a good twenty minutes for the car to burn up; a fire extinguisher would have saved the car, along with all of their possessions. That and a functioning bull**** filter to weed out the television 'truism' dreck.

 

[kebo]

Good thing you caught that fire before any damage was done!! Give that dog a hug and a big chew bone!!!!

 

[MHarryE]

Agree on having extinguishers onboard, it's pretty cheap insurance. Forklift had one on it when I got it and I put one in the Bobcat when I put lights on it.

My uncle lost a new car to a fire a few years ago. Apparently, a transmission cooler line leaked onto the exhaust pipe and started the fire. Unfortunately, he and his companion were so conditioned by the Hollywood image of cars immediately exploding violently withing seconds of catching fire, they left everything inside except for what was in their pockets. Took a good twenty minutes for the car to burn up; a fire extinguisher would have saved the car, along with all of their possessions. That and a functioning bull**** filter to weed out the television 'truism' dreck.

I was investigating a fatal accident on a piece of construction equipment, diesel of course. We were trying to reconstruct the accident scene from pictures. One of our team spent most of his life investigating accidents. He wanted me to search for evidence we had things measured right so he guided me, using the pics, to where the person would have been treated. Sure enough I found the cap of the syringe I believe they call a heart needle, for injecting drugs directly into the heart in an attempt to get it restarted. I commented that all the stuff is on the wrong side of the road, that the victim landed on the other side. The expert told me to look at the fuel stain. I said right, but that's diesel, it isn't going to explode, and they pulled a guy with a broken neck away to treat. I thought they would work to get his heart going first before doing anything else. He told me that even EMT's watch too much television and associate fuel of any kind with big bangs, so he had way too many investigations where the crew further injured or even killed victims due to fear of fuel and explosions ala the movies.