My Freightliner Elaine Catches Fire! Shop & Orwell In Danger!

[@helicolors3970]

I really like the video shot showing the UNUSED fire extinguisher that was sitting right there. Apparently having the billowing smoke for video content was more important than using the fire extinguisher early on. You might want to rethink your priorities.

[@fsctrucking]

You might want to know something. Once I saw inside the hole I realized nothing that thing was going to do. Won't take the heat, or the fuel away. Only temporary cut the oxygen. Just like a brake fire, until the heat is removed, it will refresh. Learn something. 🖕

[@ItsTheCostanza]

Pin of shame

[@fsctrucking]

@@ItsTheCostanza you bet.

[@ItsTheCostanza]

@@fsctruckingI’d embarrass them even more. Post the pin of shame comment on the next video screen

[@fsctrucking]

@@ItsTheCostanza I just might.

[@jerradihlenfeld7573]

27 years as a fireman tells me that is 100% carbon and raw fuel built up inside. Carbon is soot or unburned fuel. You were on the right path FSC, this was much like a chimney fire.

[@jeffvanhorn69]

Agreed 💯

[@jeffvanhorn69]

Agreed 💯

[@derbruzzler7574]

Back in the day we burned out 2 stroke exhausts this way. Best way to get rid of the carbon buildup. I would have tried to cool the pipe with water. But its a differnt story sitting in your livingroom then standing beside a burning truck. 😅

[@jays106]

agree i'm thinking also the material inside the muffler was broke down and like a chimney just followed it up

[@mayhemsmaster5050]

You good sir took the thought right out of my thumbs!

[@mikec6892]

That's why always cut exhaust systems off with a reciprocating saw.

[@THSGUY]

That’s what I thought, cut-off wheel would been faster

[@67-trucktec]

​I've been doing this for 40 years. Your wrong. Go ahead and use your cut off wheels. FYI. They throw sparks too!!

[@mybizz8542]

@@mikec6892 exactly

[@hayojelken8180]

@@67-trucktec sparks yes but not nearly as much heat.

[@dave194315]

@@67-trucktec sawzalls hardly make sparks at all, cutoff wheels sure but a spark was not gonna light that on fire😂😂

[@Tom-In-Ga]

Now if I told this story at a truck stop, I would have started it with: "Now you ain't gonna believe this shiit"...

[@mybizz8542]

LMFAO, I know right😅

[@tomboone201]

"hold my beer"

[@Drakonniz]

*smashes NOPE button* The second I saw that brownish tinged milky off color smoke, the first thing I thought was 'oh shit.. they lit soot on fire'. I grew up with a wood stove that my grandfather taught me to operate, and clean. Plus, I was a Abrams mechanic in the Army. I think you had wet cake fuel soaked soot with other contaminants that lit off. You are VERY lucky that it not go sideways on you. Good job getting that out of the shop and put out. What you essentially had, was an "uncontrolled burn regen".

[@67-trucktec]

Perfect explanation. You're exactly right

[@DavidDishman-vc4tk]

I’m glad that everyone and everything is all good Steve

[@LevelUpTrucking]

SMH

[@dandydan2037]

In the words of me dear departed mother. Boys will be boys. Glad y'all didn't burn down Orwell, not to mention the building. Impressive how Chris just calmly took care of business.

[@fsctrucking]

See that actually is the true story. Crap happens. How you deal with it is what counts.

[@keepontruckinoutlawlife1248]

@@fsctrucking yez zir 100%

[@kelseywedge7167]

You need to call that new truck Christine

[@SemperFortner]

I don't think so

[@PatriciaMarshall-s2i]

Remember Tim's shop?

[@devinrussell420]

Matt (Diesel Creek KZbin channel) had restored a vintage Gallion road grader and named it "Christine" due to the amount of trouble & problems that the machine gave him for nearly the 2.5 years that it took him to restore it to operating condition.

[@amerritt261]

You just made your best argument against mufflers. What you had was diesel soaked insulation. That’s how they made mufflers back in the day to deaden the noise. Look inside a burn chamber of an old fuel oil furnace.

[@andrewverhulst3473]

My thoughts exactly… the insulation from the muffler

[@jessesager9460]

That situation to me was just like chimney fire in someone’s home, then the creosote built up in the flu liner lights off. I feel like it had to be rich in fuel to light off like that. It was funny seeing Chris casually walk out and light a cigarette as if nothing was wrong 😅. Glad you guys were able to mitigate the problem before it got worse!

[@ericstanley808]

Chris is a machine jeeez hope he didn’t take 25 years off his life 💨

[@scottreed5460]

Chris is a man just calm as a cucumber, Steve on the other hand is a dramatic princess..

[@harveyhagar]

I'd PAY to see someone call him a princess to his face...

[@jp2793]

if you have a fire in there again while up there opening the door turn off the ceiling fans quick. the smoke would have stayed up at the ceiling on its way out. then if you had turned the fan around it would have pushed cleaner air in. just a tip to clear the air better while you're fighting your fire

[@jeffwyche3909]

Always, Always, Always use a Sawzall to cut exhaust pipes

[@fsctrucking]

We repair trucks. Not steal catalytic converters.

[@kevint6672]

LMFAO​@@fsctrucking

[@michaelworden9265]

😊😊😊😊 ​@@fsctrucking

[@dave194315]

@@fsctrucking but the simple fact is a sawzall would’ve cut that in about 5 seconds and not lit anything on fire.

[@Fed72]

Man, that was extreme for a while there!! You both stayed pretty calm for being freaked out. Very happy and thankful that you're both ok👍.

[@keithhutzler1196]

In the previous video Steve commented about a mosquito. Steve/Chris 1 mosquito 0 I think he left the building 😂

[@fsctrucking]

😅🤣😂

[@67-trucktec]

Awesome comment!!

[@moefuggerr2970]

Carbon and fuel in there. Like a coke fire. Glad it all worked out. Keep a few co2 fire extinguishers in there. You can get expired ones for free most times. They are still good if the pressure is normal.

[@70elcamino.]

Poop cow

[@tucobenedicto109]

Moss, bird's nest, tree sap from pine which is flammable and fuel! Creosote. Chimfex chimney fire extinguisher. Crazy. Glad you and chris are ok. Change or check all the exhaust pipe before you fire it up.

[@edwardpetty5401]

I was worried about the two of you inhaling all that smoke. WOW!

[@Johnny64ism]

yeah man you and me Both Not good

[@calgale8467]

I ran Cummins powered generators in the service in the 60s. Used to usually run at around 15-20% load. On a monthly basis we tied to the island power system and would run at 95% load for 16-20 hours. Always blew big chunks of soot and carbon out. Pretty spectacular at night. I'd bet with a Cummins and bad injector it never got pushed hard enough to blow out the carbon build up. The thought about moss growing in the there would contribute long burning fuel once it was lit.

[@scottontheboat2340]

In homes It's called a chimney sweep In modern trucks it's called regen

[@stevengobeli8351]

Got hot enough it burned the hair off of Steve's head!!😅

[@DylanGawDangObrien]

Honestly, i think this is the first time i caught panic in your voice. Glad everything is okay brother! Stay safe out there

[@fsctrucking]

Once we knew it wasn't just diesel fuel, we knew it was serious.

[@DaveDepp-m7k]

Steve, believe you hit the jackpot when Chris came along...!

[@mybizz8542]

@@DaveDepp-m7k lol

[@lawrencejneuser8801]

It's a good thing you guys found that now instead of somebody finding out on the road. It just sucks that you almost burned down your shop. Must have had an angel watching over you.

[@markchodroff250]

50+ years as a mechanic! Now I have lung cancer , breath in guys and good luck 🥵

[@MeMe-pj2zl-DDP]

Thank God Diesel does not explode like gasoline ty for letting me share Matt AKA DDP be safe out there My 2 friends and everybody yuuuuup

[@davidklauer3422]

Drove a Frightliner similar too yours from Dallas to Sacramento back in December’98 Great truck, but 65 mph was torture. My only real over the road team trip ever. Good experience. Appreciate all OTR drivers, at least the one that can back into a hole in under 5 minutes lol

[@JoshsTruckingadventures]

Whole new meaning of burning coal

[@TOP2095]

Chris was cool and collected through out the whole deal.

[@bobertmcboberty1385]

i love the dedication to bringing us along on the journey. Steve got a big old muffler on fire in one hand and still thinking "grab the camera we got a story to tell!"

[@nigelhales874]

You certainly didn't want a Tim Gentry and son problem

[@ehcatsfaneric2211]

Lol mysterious fire..right

[@KickininMyRv90]

Wowza.....I thought the sleeper was on fire at first. Certainly gives a whole dimension on Trucking with FSC. Good thing Jen wasn't around. ❤❤❤❤ Be safe.

[@stansdds]

The smoke coming out of Elaine's exhaust looks like a runaway engine, but without the engine actually running. That was one heck of a fire, just crazy. Burned like charcoal. One thing is certain, your shop has been well fumigated.

[@Firee1951]

Being a farm truck for a lot of years, it possibly had a lot of dry grass and dust float into the exhaust pipe/muffler.

[@rickpratt8789]

And a lotta idle time, lotta soot build up.

[@jamescorbello6658]

Rats nest, birds, tree leaves, needles, solidified diesel😅!!

[@jamescorbello6658]

I'm from Louisiana where everyone thinks we live in swamps, simple minded. A jig saw with a metal blade!! Just cut it off and remove. It doesn't have a flame that will set it on fire!!!

[@jesstill7833]

W T F ,I been around trucks for 54 years and never seen anything like it wow ,,,man lucky it didn’t burn the truck down

[@fsctrucking]

Neither Chris or I ever seen anything like this.

[@donaldharris1134]

That shit wild how pipe laying on the ground just blazing

[@timdehoogh8441]

FSC Trucking you should invest in a exhaust catcher vent for your shop so you can have it vent the smoke out and away just a suggestion keep pumping those trucking videos out Love them

[@fsctrucking]

It's a rental. Believe me, when I do build, it will be loaded with things Chris and I dream of. A ceiling vent is a must.

[@devinrussell420]

Matt (Diesel Creek KZbin channel) when he had his new shop built about a year ago;he knew that he was going to be working on old vintage & modern equipment & vehicles in it so he had an exaust vent,A/C system,and a heated shop floor installed to make working in the shop any time of the year alot more bearable & comfortable.

[@dave194315]

Reasons not to use a torch for a sawzalls job😂

[@67-trucktec]

Sissy!

[@dave194315]

@@67-trucktec ah yeah cause wasting hours smoking out the shop is so manly😂😂

[@dave194315]

@@67-trucktec don’t get me wrong I love the blue wrench as much as the next guy buy this was a job for a sawzall…

[@tabithasalb9903]

Omg that was crazy. 😮 Glad that you were both there working at the time to combat the never ending fire. Wowza! Chris having a smoke 🚬 after everything was under control was fun to watch...funny.

[@dvone4124]

Lab notes: FSC experimental jet engine shows promise, but needs a better test stand.

[@christinechaya6081]

Hi Steve & Chris so glad you guys are ok!! that was very scarry!!! I had 12 acres of woods in Maine and a lot of pine trees. The needles were all over the ground and had very sticky stuff stuck to them. If the truck was in the woods could it have somehow gotten into the exhaust pipe and stuck to the sides? possibly. On the other hand, it makes for great content!!! from the other 2 Flyers fans! 😂Please say Hi to Jen for us, my boyfriend Frank has been a Flyers fan since '79

[@warrengee-f9l]

my lungs are hurting just watching ... chimney fire 😬

[@keepontruckinoutlawlife1248]

You to did a great job putting this out most people wouldn't of had a clue on wtf to do

[@TedBendel]

Use a Saw Zaw with a metal cutting blade and not a cutting torch

[@rogerjohnson2080]

I'm glad that it didn't get worse and set the whole place on fire, and that both of you came out of this all right. Hopefully, both of you went and got yourselves looked after medically, to make sure that no damage was done to your lungs.

[@fsctrucking]

And what would they do? "Yup Mr. Feszchak, you inhaled smoke. See billing on your way out."

[@rmarrons]

Probably a combo of diesel, soot, creosote and maybe squirrels or some kind of critter dropping acorns and bedding stuff down there.. I don’t know, crazy situation. An extinguisher would have done nothing for that. Glad it all worked out in the end and Orwell and the shop didn’t get damaged!

[@agedwiseone9220]

And paper wasp nests? The truck has been sitting for years with the exhaust stack uncovered.

[@RednebC]

Good one. Glad you're OK and the shop is all good for the most part. Could have been a LOT worse and glad you're still good to put out the video!

[@Bluestreak589]

The next genius who comes along saying FSC produces boring videos... OSHA will be at the shop 9am Monday morning to review these events with the FSC safety committee. Also, Chris has one hell of a pair of steel lungs.

[@fsctrucking]

9am. Their late for work.

[@Bluestreak589]

@@fsctrucking Typical bureaucrats. They love getting paid to do nothing.

[@jeffvanhorn69]

I had a chimney fire in my house a few years ago which looked just like that pipe burning. If you ask me, that was fuel and oil build up in the exhaust, the fuel lit, then burned the build up, which is it's own fuel to continue burning. The crumbling stuff you showed from the pile on the floor looked exactly like what I pulled out of my chimney after getting the fire out.

[@MeMe-pj2zl-DDP]

Now Owell is going to need a good bath inside and out ty for letting me share Matt AKA DDP be safe out there My 2 friends and everybody yuuuuup

[@dougnorton5143]

This must be where 'Fire in The Hole' came from!

[@vicpetrishak7705]

Greta Thonburg is going to be camping out at your shop’s door !

[@MasterWitchDoctor]

how dare you (in my Greta Thunberg voice).

[@mentlegen8187]

Peg would be proud 😭

[@andrewverhulst3473]

I actually laughed…. At 10:40 when you came out coughing from the smoke, and Chris walks out… smoking a cigarette in the smoke and no coughing lol😂

[@bostedtap8399]

Spot the smoker. Lol.

[@BangkokPaul]

This was definitely one of your most exciting episodes🚛🔥🔥🔥🔥

[@TheJaxxJackson]

I started to die laughing at 10:43 when Chris and Steve are heading outside to escape the smoke, and Chris is smoking his cigerette lol Chris was trying to hotbox the shop lol

[@Samanthareneeheart1]

I wouldn't have used a torch. I would have used a sawzall or grinder with a cutoff wheel. Less chance of fire. Copper burns green & and produces green smoke, could have had trees growing in it leef litter, tree sap, old fuel & oil coating the exaust

[@NightStalkers-hx3dq]

I was thinking the same thing. Sawzall seems faster and easier, cut many a car in half with one. I would also use an induction heater on frozen bolts, but what do amateurs know...

[@funkyjunk22]

Wet stacking is the term that comes to mind. Low load and over fueling equals coked up exhaust.

[@robertwiley7744]

This is the most intense video I've seen in awhile!!!

[@mattyw190]

Had me worried that you'd nearly burnt your shop down. Glad everyone's safe and everything's good.

[@JeffMartin-r3b]

Hey stave how are you doing today on this beautiful day and I like watching your KZbin videos and they are very educated and I like the content in the videos and I like the way you discovered what is happening in the video

[@grahamrobinson894]

I have an 1800..I'm in GB.. love watching your trips around the country in Orwell.. look after Chris...🚛💨

[@thebeardedtrucker8454]

Hopefully you won't have alot of smoke and soot damage in the. Building glad your both ok.

[@tripod6406]

That's almost like the coals i use in my forge, that can burn green when I hit it with air to bring the temperature up, with oil and carbon build up and add diesel to that, it might have the same effect, happy to see your both okay though, now you need to wash it all down now or it will stink for ages, take fella's. 🇬🇧

[@jrw41069]

Never a dull moment at FSC Trucking. Lol! Y'all handled that well

[@Diesel_Dan_______]

Guys, we are careful doing that here at Roadrunner on our older truck, we always avoid using torches to cut the exhaust system off older trucks. we found out the same way you did... The soot deposit tends to act like fuel-treated charcoal. Once ignited, it will burn very fast and hot. Steve the bad injector probably saturated the old buildup from it running recently and once you hit it with a cutting torch it ignited. Glad everything worked out.

[@issue31]

Good example of you can’t fix stupid! Call the fire department!

[@fsctrucking]

Why? We handled it. You sit in the corner and suck your thumb. Let the men work.

[@Papieck37]

That escalated quickly... Damn! 😮....

[@EdmondBouchard-sy3ml]

Steve one year I was working at a junkyard, and I was driving the payloader and the ground guy was cutting the gas tank out with the torches, and it had a pin hole in it, and it blow up the tank looked like a popcorn bag that came out of the microwave thank God I didn't have my hands on the controls it scared the crap out of me. The guy didn't get hurt. On Saturday's people would bring their kids to the yard, and I would put a show on for the kid's crushing cars the kids loved it.

[@MeMe-pj2zl-DDP]

One last comment it was starting to look like a repeat from Gantry and Sons only in reverse order and you know he would have been on his way to your shop in a heartbeat thank God it worked out ok my 2 friends yuuuuup

[@jerrylewis3391]

“Who’s Ganty”?🤦‍♂️🙄🙄

[@MeMe-pj2zl-DDP]

Sorry spell check problem Gentry and Sons trucking on KZbin sorry about that yuuuuup

[@jerrythiger6748]

Im sure i aint the first one to say it. Chris is one badass man. Cool and calm through the whole thing. Its too bad i live in Sweden. I would like to shake that mans hand and spend a couple of days with him in the shop and learn from him.

[@michaeldalzell6670]

The only thing that comes to mind is the song “Smokin In The Boys Room!!!”

[@10rcoleman]

Nothing like a 13 speed that’s what I learned on I drove a 18 it’s nice you can split both sides but it might have just been the one I had they seem weaker and the 13 was smoother shifting without using the clutch

[@blueovaltrucker]

Chris being as cool as the center seed of a cucumber and Steve adding his theoretical flair makes for a fine video.

[@lawrencejneuser8801]

I stayed at my grandfather's house one winter, they said that on an oil furnace you didn't need to clean the chimney. Ever since he had that oil furnace installed it had been dropping Ash and nobody thought to clean out the bottom of the chimney. The winter that I stayed there, there was only a 2-in hole that was going through the ash. I filled up three Beer boxes with Ash. It was so bad there was Ash coming out of the heating vents. It was 5 ft from the clean outdoor to the place were the exhaust vent went into the chimney. He had switched from coal to oil 20 years before. It's a good thing i checked it out because we could have died in our sleep.

[@dieseldoctor2221]

Thats the damnest thing i ever seen Steve and Chris!!!!

[@fid4446]

That right there is worth a million views on utube, hopefully Elaine is not bad luck truck

[@fsctrucking]

We'll beat the bad luck out of it if so. I believe in God, not luck or karma.

[@jamesmcnally4087]

I'm guessing if it sat for a good while, in a farm environment, some critter had built a home in the pipe

[@TruthAlways59]

Outstanding gentleman! Nice work and quick response! Best video to date!

[@coyleatkinson]

both of you took in a fair amount of smoke

[@KirkDeWitt]

I’m not going to criticize the way you handled that situation. I am just going to say thank the lord that you and Chris got situation under control as quickly as you did. Would have hated to see Elaine and Orwell damaged. Glad you made the decision to change the exhaust around instead of that happening on the road!!

[@ilysftujs1839]

You both just smoked a case of Marlboro reds in 15 mins.

[@scpittman5769]

Reminds me of Cheech & chong up in smoke fuel and carbon build up

[@tracyshrable4224]

I like your style! Everything comes off with the torch!

[@rickpratt8789]

I call a torch my liquid wrench.

[@keneldred9030]

I think it’s pine pitch, which has been building up for a long time, and, pine pitch is EXTREMELY FLAMMABLE!! I’m just glad you 2 & Orwell and the shop are all safe! You said it sat under a tree for quite a while, so that’s my opinion on what that was, that was burning in the exhaust pipe and muffler.

[@mikerooney7928]

Sawzall for the win?

[@carlroop2674]

Watching you guys in this stayed situation, there's almost as full on this watching tim waltz trying to load a shotgun

[@fsctrucking]

Staged? F you. 🖕

[@carlroop2674]

Anybody with any common sense that bought an old piece of c*** like that? That was garbage when it was new unknown, not to use torch to cut that that stack open

[@timmieclark9976]

Maybe a honey bees nest. Sugar burns green.

[@mepley5115]

Chris is one cool dude under fire😂!

[@fsctrucking]

Facts!

[@thomasmassey3080]

It's the muffeling material inside the friggin muffeler. It was like watching Dum and Dummer in action! Chris needs to learn how to remove things with tools other than a friggin torch!

[@67-trucktec]

Been doing it that way for 40 years and I will continue doing it that way. The situation was contained nothing was hurt what's the problem

[@fsctrucking]

Says the guy with nothing but a keyboard. 🖕

[@thomasmassey3080]

Sorry you feel that way Shreck, i wish you well going forward.

[@JrFlexing909]

Well, you can't say Elaine was smoking the good stuff till you taken the exhaust off. But laughter a side. Least you gotten the exhaust off, that thing was smoking up your shop as well, can't belive it heat up the pipe like that. but everyone is safe. Safety first.

[@thomassavage527]

It was probably running way too rich for too too long! Massive soot

[@S3pra]

Not the rolling coal that we're used to on this channel! Glad to see you guys got it contained in the end

[@doherty2jz845]

Elaine trying to burn the place down.

[@cromax7]

I’m surprised you don’t appear to have a fire escape at the back of your garage. If you did you could have opened it and got a through draft to clear the fumes quicker. Glad you both seem to be ok. 👍

[@dansmith-kd8wz]

Why screw around with the torch, take the clamps off.

[@maxpuppy96]

In all my years I have never seen that, it's an FSC regen. 😂

[@keithewald9707]

I'm saying fuel. Wet stacked

[@Eisbaer-F8]

soot, it was soot what burn inside. i hope that the windows are closed on orwell, if not you will remember a long time about it. you have big luck that not happen more. lg hubert

[@stuartburke383]

Zip cuts are faster for that job and no smoke.

[@67-trucktec]

And they throw Sparks

[@stuartburke383]

@@67-trucktec much less heat and therefore significantly less chance of a fire. Cutting stainless band clamps or flex pipe with a torch is painful. Zip cuts take care of them in seconds.

[@JosephHard-bd5hj]

Our warehouse upgraded from those Dayton style fans to Patterson fans. The Pattersons push way more air around.

[@SmR-x3z]

Ain't even going to say it. Nope not gonna do it.

[@mybizz8542]

@@SmR-x3z I said it

[@bd5av8r1]

Hill Street Blues: "Let's be careful out there." :)

[@lawrencepevitts2434]

Does Chris ever get excited?

[@67-trucktec]

Once, but nobody could tell!