A Fire Situation, Bring Out the Wildland Firefighting Tools

[@mikeforster8798]

Fun video to watch. I would dig up the stumps or the area around it before wetting it to make sure the fire is out. Also I would add a recirculate line to the tank so when the nozzle is off, the pump wont over heat or strain to move water when valves are shut off. Love the bloopers too. We are all human

[@sswoodprocessing]

I like your portable water setup for putting out fires. It is amazing that those underground fires can burn. Take care 👍

[@WilsonForestLands]

Yep and the amazing ones are the ones that can burn underground for over a year. Thanks for the comment.

[@joeyrector1015]

You put me in mind of myself. Always up to something as long as it has something to do outside. My wife calls me the fire starter lol

[@WilsonForestLands]

I know how that is, I have been accused of having a fascination with fire.

[@joeyrector1015]

@@WilsonForestLands right. I know what you mean lol. It's not any fun if a man doesn't like to burn off his land or brush

[@AppalachianPatriot]

Make a mop up wand. A pipe with hose fittings and brass jet nozzle. A water breaker wand from garden section works great too for ground fires. We run multiple garden hoses off of our pump instead of dragging the big hose. They save lots of water too.

[@WilsonForestLands]

Thanks for the tip. Sounds like a good idea.

[@lpeterman]

Well done -- on topic -- timing is everything. I too am a proponent of precautionary burning in patches to slow up potential wildfire. We've been too soggy to burn anything since last fall, the incessant rain has kept us from cleaning up slash with fire, we but hope to before hot and dry conditions prohibit any chance of safely burning. You never want to be "that guy." Your method of drowning that hot-spot was classic woodland/wildfire mop-up training. Make a mini pond in the root hole and let the water follow the charred roots to the embers. Cheers from (a still soggy) Linn County.

[@WilsonForestLands]

We are behind on rainfall here. We have only had enough to keep things damp. More of the showers that were happening in my previous videos that don’t add up to much. It was going into California most of the year. We got a little over the last few weeks, now it’s all going north and we are back to dry. Fire has been an important tool here but looks like about time to shut down fire for the year.

[@dennisworkmansr.714]

LOL, your outakes are so hilarious, you make it look so on the spot but also some of it is pre planed, at any rate I speaking for myself enjoy it.

[@MsdMakingSawDust]

I’m back.. had to grab a different device to finish watching. I’ve done that one before.. Yep it sure does start easier with the switch turned to the on position.. thanks for sharing

[@WilsonForestLands]

I’m glad you made it back. As far as forgetting to turn the switch on, as much as I hate to admit it, it wasn’t my first time I did that.

[@MsdMakingSawDust]

Looking real good. I didn’t see any smoke on my end but I felt the heat, as I was watching on my phone it started getting warm I immediately ran it into the kitchen and ran water over it and WHALA …and then I got to see the smoke…….right as the phone shut off.

[@WilsonForestLands]

I’m sorry I forgot to warn you don’t get your phone too close or it might overheat.

[@waltdelbo6445]

And love the bloopers. Your channel is unique. 👍🏻

[@WilsonForestLands]

Thank you, I always appreciate your feedback.

[@lucasdog1]

For ground spreading fires, like leaf and needle burns, I find a backpack blower is a good way to contain them. Blowing the debris into the flames works fast and can go where water isnt available

[@mattfleming86]

I like your setup. Im in an area with less fire risk (although we DO have some periods every year. Been there......) But I need to setup my water hauler trailer with a pump and hose. Wildfire, slash burning, livestock water, whatever. Just seems handy to have when those hard times hit. Thanks as always!

[@WilsonForestLands]

Having a water wagon is more handy than I first realized it would be. It’s like having a portable spigot that you can take to places where there are no spigots.

[@mattfleming86]

@@WilsonForestLands I already have a 250gal IBC tote on a trailer but it is a 1 trick pony.. i.e. put ALL of the water in one place. Unless one is filling the animal troughs it would be a "one bad mud hole, everywhere else is still dry" event.

[@edwinlikeshistractor8521]

Is it ever necessary to excavate or chase the burning roots? I did some growing up in Pennsylvania coal country and an underground mine fire could burn for decades. Last year was a very scary fire season. Time to put on the rototiller in case I need to create fire brakes. This video was a timely reminder. Thank you.

[@WilsonForestLands]

Usually just flooding the hole until it pools up with water it will run into all the places it needs to and do the trick. But there can be some cases where you would have to do some digging, such as on a slope where the water wouldn’t go uphill.

[@waltdelbo6445]

Good stuff. Gotta love granny low in those fords. 7.3?

[@WilsonForestLands]

Yep a classic 7.3. I miss the granny low in my new truck. They don’t make that anymore, they are all automatic now.

[@dennisworkmansr.714]

How far do you have to go to get water, I would guess the tank holds 500 gallons?

[@TheOldManAndTheSaw]

I hope you checked those holes for rogue Wombats before you filled them with water. They hate getting wet.

[@WilsonForestLands]

That’s a good point. I was so focused on hoping the fire hose didn’t fill up with wombats over the winter, I didn’t think about them being in the fire hole.

[@TheOldManAndTheSaw]

@@WilsonForestLands As you age, you'll be able to better "think ahead"........or not. However, you WILL NOT be able to think (remember) back.

[@keithclark486]

I guess you drain the water from the tank during the winter?

[@WilsonForestLands]

I don’t need to drain the tank. It was low because I used the water in it for some things over the winter. It doesn’t get cold enough here or cold enough long enough to freeze the tank very much. If I was in a place where it gets really cold I probably would need to drain it.

[@adammoggysawmilling5164]

I looked for your live stream yesterday did I miss it or get the date wrong?

[@WilsonForestLands]

We did the live stream on Two Brothers Outdoors channel. Sorry you missed it. I probably could have been more clear about that. I will post a link to their channel below. They have the recorded version there. m.kzbin.info/door/Cl2Me3eA9Ys6--Rx3vag1Q

[@utubemouse]

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[@RobSharp-wo5qj]

Add dish soap (Dawn or Sunlight ) to the water . Will redoes the surface of the water and it will soak into the burning fuel.

[@mikeforster8798]

Add it after the pump otherwise the bubbles will cavitate your pump

[@ronharrington228]

I also have always wanted to be articulate with the English language but alas....

[@WilsonForestLands]

If you ever figure that one out let me know how it’s done.

[@ericflowers2146]

They just showed something like this on fire country.

[@WilsonForestLands]

I am not familiar with Fire Country, I will have to give that a search and see what that is.

[@AppalachianPatriot]

@@WilsonForestLands Fire Country is a television show based on an wildfires. It is on FOX.

[@Formerlytrouserttrout]

Hey Mr Wilson. I'm glad to see you teaching more than tree felling. I feel that forestry management education is something that is severely lacking in today's world. I do have a question for you. *I'm looking at a Used Stihl 661 ms and a used Husqvarna that's a bit smaller. Is there anything I should look for as far as wear and tear? I've only ever used one saw and it was my dad's old McCulloch*

[@WilsonForestLands]

The forestry management is the part I am interested in the most. When it comes to chainsaws I am the type who runs them until they start giving me problems then I trade them in for new ones. I’m not the best to ask about buying used chainsaws as I don’t spend much time working on them. Pull on the start cord and make sure it has good compression. Gives good resistance on each revolution as you pull it. Just from the outer appearance you might be able to tell if it’s been used a lot or not. Especially looking at the bottom if the paint is heavily chipped up and it’s heavily scratched up, it may have spent a lot of time rattling in the back of someone’s truck going to work every day. I would open the fuel tank, see how clean it is in there. Take the air filter off, see how clean it is underneath inside the carburetor. Start it up, make sure it starts easy. Make sure it revs up strong and cuts strong without producing too much smoke after warm up. There are a few things, there are probably others who could add more.

[@Formerlytrouserttrout]

@@WilsonForestLands Thank you Mr. Wilson. That is a huge help. I am extremely interested in forestry management as well. I feel that our forests aren't looked after properly. Up here in the umatilla it seems that every other tree is dying or dead. I love our pines but it seems like the forest is oversaturated with termites/disease. What do you think causes that?

[@WilsonForestLands]

​@@Formerlytrouserttrout Around 100 years ago we started putting out the fires that would burn regularly at low intensity and keep the forest cleaned out around the larger fire resistant pines. Without those fires thinning the trees out, the trees have now grown up too thick. Too many trees competing for limited water and other resources makes them weaker and more vulnerable to bark beetles and disease. Combine that with drought and recent hot summers and we are seeing serious die off in some areas. Now since the forests are so over grown, when we do have fires, they often burn so hot they kill the whole forest in many cases, instead of just cleaning them up. Now a lot of forest management is moving more toward trying to thin out the forests and restore them to a more fire safe and healthy condition.

[@Formerlytrouserttrout]

@@WilsonForestLands I'm speaking to the Ranger of the Umatilla office about burning tomorrow. I was out hunting today and I started seeing tons more orange trees than I should. I totally understand. I'm gonna try to start something. Thank you

[@WilsonForestLands]

@@Formerlytrouserttrout Forest managers are aware of the situation. I was at a seminar about it all day yesterday with BLM ODF and others who were discussing the massive off we are having here. It's become such a large scale problem over much of the Western US and Canada. We have gotten ourselves into a massive problem without a simple solution. The expense and man power it will take to restore the forests will be massive.

[@CraigAllen-re9bf]

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