I had a pasture fire get away from me to the neighbors land when the wind shifted. What worked real good with foot tall grass and 2-3 foot tall flames was a snow shovel. One whack with a snow shovel would kill most of the fire under it. Basically worked the line from behind and got it before it spread too far. Had a friend with a wide, flat metal snow shovel and I used a wide, flat plastic one. The plastic one warped so it isn't any good for snow and the aluminum one got bent but I keep them handy for fires as they are light and easy to swing. Much easier than a grain scoop or a burlap bag with a bucket of water. I don't think my garden sprayer would have touched those flames and fire trucks can have a dickens of a time putting out fires with their pumps and nozzles.
I don't think the neighbor would have cared if I burnt his pasture too but with the wind shift I didn't have a back burn set up on his place. One pasture runs north and south with crop ground on either side so I had waited for a wind out of the east and I back burned by the state highway ditch so it didn't get on their right of way.
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Today's Featured Article - A Lifetime of David Brown - by Samuel Kennedy. I was born in 1950 and reared on my family�s 100 acre farm. It was a fairly typical Northern Ireland farm where the main enterprise was dairying but some pigs, poultry and sheep were also kept. Potatoes were grown for sale and oats were grown to be used for cattle and horse feeding. Up to about 1958 the dairy cows were fed hay with some turnips and after that grass silage was the main winter feed. That same year was the last in which flax was grown on the farm. Flax provided the fibre which w
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