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Ralph,
I follow Juan Browne's channel too.  I live in the same kind of area south of him near Yosemite.
He mentioned the pge changing to the new safer insulated wires. I think that would do the trick.
We have all aluminum cables here, when one of those hits the ground it arcs. I'll bet the power lines have been starting a lot of our fires for years.  Pge and CalFire must have known.
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Sent from myMail for Android Wednesday, 27 November 2019, 04:54PM -08:00 from Ralph Goff  alfg at sasktel.net :

>
>On 2019-11-27 5:07 p.m., Cecil Bearden wrote:
>
> I am a believer in Electric power.  Many years ago when we had 
> something like 14 small engines to keep running on various sprayers, 
> elevators, augers, etc. before the advent of ethanol gas.  We still 
> had problems with carburetors and ignition..... I had a source of good 
> used 3 phase motors cheap.  We found 2 old military 3phase diesel 
> generators and kept them running and exercised.  Our engine problems 
> were eliminated.  a 5hp 3ph electric motor will run a 40ft auger much 
> better than those old cast iron 10hp Briggs engines.  A 3hp electric 
> motor would run a hypro sprayer pump great...
> Cecil
>
> Thats fine until the power goes off and all the electrical powered 
> equipment won't start. I can light a fire under my old Wisconsin and 
> have it going. I've had good luck with the old engines although I did 
> have to add a little heat yesterday when I needed to start one.
>
>https://youtu.be/e1Kdf2w6qew
>
>Ralph in Sask.
>
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