[AT] OT Fires

[Cecil Bearden]

Either in a flood (Katrina ????) or the primer that is hooked to one side of 
the exhaust outlet sucked water into the engine....  Interesting setup for 
ppriming...

Cecil
----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Richard Fink Sr" <nancydick at pennswoods.net>
To: "Antique tractor email discussion group" <at at lists.antique-tractor.com>
Sent: Monday, January 02, 2006 9:14 AM
Subject: Re: [AT] OT Fires


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> Cecil sounds like they were in a flood some time some where.
> R Fink
> PA
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> At 05:40 AM 1/2/2006 -0600, you wrote:
>>I watched one fire start up about 6pm last night and it burned thru the 
>>night about 7 miles NE of here.  TV crews never mentioned it, but it 
>>showed up on their radar.
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>>saturday morning I bought 8 Hale Fire pumps off of brush pumpers.  For 
>>some reason everyone had water and mud in the engines.  I have spent the 
>>last 2 days disassembling the engines to have them bored.  they are Briggs 
>>Twin L-head engines about 12 to 16 HP.  I still need tghe bases or sump 
>>for one of them.  Water froze inside and pushed out the sump.  One is on a 
>>2 cylinder wisconsin, and three are on CCK Onan engines.  I am going to 
>>need a lot of parts.  sheet metal etc, it looks like.....
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>>Wish I was still off work, I would bore them on the Bridgeport...
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>>cecil in OKla
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>>----- Original Message ----- From: "H. L. Staples" 
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>>To: "Antique tractor" <at at lists.antique-tractor.com>
>>Sent: Sunday, January 01, 2006 9:09 PM
>>Subject: [AT] OT Fires
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>>We have had a bad day in the area winds gusting to 50 mph. and 
>>temperatures
>>in the high 70's, with extremely low humidity.
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>>Five or six structures have been burned about 15 miles north west of here.
>>No rain for several weeks, with something over 12"s  short for the year of
>>2005.
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>>The TV camera crews have been reporting showing mini blasts as the cedar
>>trees explode as the grass fires overtake them.
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>>The Red Cedars have really taken over in the last 25 years.
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>>Luckily so far no bad fires real close.
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>>H. L. Staples
>>McLoud, Oklahoma
>>USA
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