Make sure you call your local fire dept! We had some farmers that smelled smoke around an old barn with over a hundred round bales of hay. They didn't smell it very strong inside so they thought they were ok. They should have called us out, even as a service run. Our Dept. has a thermal imaging camera that can easily detect a hot spot. Now not all dept's have those, but some have digital heat detectors. It's much easier for us to come out and check this for you, if most dept's are like ours we don't mind. I sure would rather do that then get woken up at 4 AM, and then spend 10 hours dragging hoses around. (Getting a little to old for that!) Luckily, nobody's hurt, just an old barn and hay lost for the owners. If in doubt, move it out!
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WHERE THERE IS SMoKE THERE IS FIRE !.thermal image camera is a big Help ,, BEEEN terribly Dry Here in S/IND.. lots of field fi8res from combines , Last WEEK around 3 PM ,wife put her Cigarrette out in PLASTIC flower pot on porch ,, AT Dark Brother and I kept smelling Smoke..but could not find a fire after searching , We were Thinking Perhaps it was from a Field fire 2 miles to the S/east , Then I saw a glow ing ember in the flower Pot where it had just burned Thru ,, had it flamed up , It could easily set the Dryed out foliage in the flower bedand front porchfloor afire, neighbor lost a barn 2 weeks ago ,Ignition Source UNKNOWN ,
started down in the ScrubBrush Woods and Made is way to the barn ... never had a close call with Hay YET ,...
started down in the ScrubBrush Woods and Made is way to the barn ... never had a close call with Hay YET ,...
Just finished loading the last two wagon loads of hay for the season, this afternoon. Have enough to supply my flock of sheep for a couple years. Figure about 8 to 10 thousand dollars worth. Nice barn, well built, well maintained. Have already discussed it with my fire chief. If it burns, they are to stand outside and spray water at it from a distance, no one is to go into that barn. THERE"S NOTHING IN THAT BARN THAT"S WORTH ANYONE"S LIFE! Very careful with being sure my hay is dry and safe.
We had a good summer in Minnesota for corn & beans - if you missed the hail & the flooding.
However, it was miserable for making hay. i didn't put up a bale that didn't get rained on. Just constant .15 inch rains, every other day, with an occational 4-6 inch downpour followed by 'dry' weather but as we tend to make hay on the low 'waste' land here, it was all under water at those times...
I baled some stuff just to get it off the field, round baled, I'd bale it until the baler would slip out, too wet to feed it through. I put them on the edges of the field, far away from anything, and told the wife we will see at what point bales actually burn. Seriously.
None did. I know it's a little different if it gets wet from rain, vs being too green yet; but it was some combination of both that I was baling stuff at.
Wife got the bales together a couple weeks ago, I had her stack them out in the field, across the ditch, in bean stubble. I just don't trust those..... Cattle can nose through them out in the field when the snow gets deep, eat what they want & lay on the rest.
--->Paul
However, it was miserable for making hay. i didn't put up a bale that didn't get rained on. Just constant .15 inch rains, every other day, with an occational 4-6 inch downpour followed by 'dry' weather but as we tend to make hay on the low 'waste' land here, it was all under water at those times...
I baled some stuff just to get it off the field, round baled, I'd bale it until the baler would slip out, too wet to feed it through. I put them on the edges of the field, far away from anything, and told the wife we will see at what point bales actually burn. Seriously.
None did. I know it's a little different if it gets wet from rain, vs being too green yet; but it was some combination of both that I was baling stuff at.
Wife got the bales together a couple weeks ago, I had her stack them out in the field, across the ditch, in bean stubble. I just don't trust those..... Cattle can nose through them out in the field when the snow gets deep, eat what they want & lay on the rest.
--->Paul
Lou from Wi.
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Not a looser, Just forgetfull. Why chastise a person for self esteem? Helpfull information ,i.e. A but can with sand and/or water for the porch would have been a much better suggestion,don;t you think?
LOU.
LOU.
buickanddeere
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Denial. It isn't just a river in Egypt.
Our fire dept. has a thermal imaging camera on our wish list. If you can pinpoint the heat source you can not only save lives much more safely, you can also often save the building by targeting the hot spot and not wasting time. Technology has made firefighting much safer but it does need to be used. The common saying in the fire service is "100 years of tradition un-impeeded by progress"........it's hard to get the older guys on board with anything new or different.......heck it's even difficult to get them to don SCBA, because "we never did it before".
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Lost a barn in the neighborhood that way a few years back. Owner never smelled a thing, but, for three days an elderly lady on her daily walk did. (the barn was 400 ft from that road) she alerted the barns owner all three times. They didn't think she knew what she was talking about and laughed it off. 2:00 am on the forth day we were trying to save cattle.
Yeah, but then go look at how much they cost us when they have health problems later in life.
Most are on Medicare by that time, and for those that aren't, even the best insurance plans only pay for so much... Who foots the bill? We, the taxpayer.
Smokers whine about the excessive taxes, "It's a free country! We should be able to defile our bodies if we want to!"
I say go ahead and defile your bodies, but don't expect me to pay your medical bills when the cancer shows up.
I like to stand at the smokers aquarium at the airports...from a distance where I dont have to smell the filth....and give them the L sign with my right hand. What a load of LOSERS. Go stand in a smoke chamber and huff and puff on a tar stick....GD what a wonderful thing to do. Look at the idiots standing outside on a 110 degree day....yeah I will stand outside in an oven and suck hot tar and smoke into my lungs...einstein.
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