[AT] OT Fires

[charlie hill]

Cecil and H.L. is it possible and are you capable of cutting fire lanes 
around your places?

Charlie
----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Cecil Bearden" <crbearden at copper.net>
To: "Antique tractor email discussion group" <at at lists.antique-tractor.com>
Sent: Monday, January 02, 2006 8:45 AM
Subject: Re: [AT] OT Fires


> 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
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> From: "Richard Fink Sr" <nancydick at pennswoods.net>
> To: "Antique tractor email discussion group" 
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> Sent: Monday, January 02, 2006 9:14 AM
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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.
>>>
>>>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.....
>>>
>>>Wish I was still off work, I would bore them on the Bridgeport...
>>>
>>>cecil in OKla
>>>
>>>
>>>----- Original Message ----- From: "H. L. Staples" 
>>><hlstaples at mcloudteleco.com>
>>>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.
>>>
>>>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.
>>>
>>>The TV camera crews have been reporting showing mini blasts as the cedar
>>>trees explode as the grass fires overtake them.
>>>
>>>The Red Cedars have really taken over in the last 25 years.
>>>
>>>Luckily so far no bad fires real close.
>>>
>>>H. L. Staples
>>>McLoud, Oklahoma
>>>USA
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