Your opinion about Colorado farmer battles wildfires in tractor
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Marleah Stout- Poor farmers. Hard working honest people growing food for the population. All the risk is on their shoulders and global warming keeps ruining their crops.
MrWolfSnack- For all you idiot dumbasses that live in the city and never seen how fires start....let me give a story.During 2006 in the driest summer ever here and during a water ban (no wasteful water use, including watering plants), I was cooking on my barbeque grill, and when scraping off the grill, some charcoal ash filtered out the bottom of the grill and onto the grass. The superdried grass ignited within half a second from the ash, and in 10 seconds there was a grass fire spreading out and away from the grill. I ran to some bags of dirt I had and quickly dumped that over the fire and put it out and no harm no foul except about a 2 foot patch of my yard was dirt for a year. That is just an example of how easy a fire like this can happen.
KZ2killer- I salute you sir for risking your life to stop a fire with just a tractor
mncarguy- I bet the only thing running through that guys head was "Fuck fuck fuck fuck fuck, go faster you bitch!" That's what'd be going through mine anyways..
John Shepard- "Risks his life"Please, the fire is not spreading THAT fast, if he drives at constant speed there is no way for the fire to catch him unless he fucking turns into it.
Gerald Hand- Not to take anything away from this quick thinking farmer, but RISKING his life? Look at the flame bed- less than a foot. Hardly a raging wildfire. I used to know much of that down with a 5 gallon pump can on my back. Leave it to journalists to over sensationalize something
ThePainTrain765- The farmer is all: YOU SHALL NOT PASSSSS!
Steven Dearden- This is not a controlled burn... His wheat field caught on fire. You do not control burn your crops. That's the stupidest thing I've ever heard. You control burn weeds and undergrowth. Not the field you planted earlier that year. You are all idiots
TheJacobski- And why is the cameraman not helping/calling for help instead of filning
Davey Short- That is a smart farmer.
Tim Saunders- ... and it's still floating around facebook. Wow! Just Wow! - Never really thought about farmers taking this kind of a risk. Kudos to them for having firefighting balls of steel. Lots of things could've went wrong, but they pushed on anyway.
Erich SCHOEBINGER- lol - lots of "non-firefighters" here i think. As a Fire Fighter - well done to the farmer. It wasn't his first time, you can see that. What he done was solid - great job....
Justin Bierschenk- that is what me family dose when theirs a fire they us the tractor and disc
Autotrope- As an Australian: you call that a wildfire??? Cute.
Piotr Niewinski- Colorado farmer battles wildfires in tractor: http://youtu.be/IdiLwjRVarM
Blane Hoemann- Thus is not a wildfire they are burning the field to get rid of the extra seeds left In the ground
Анатолий Георгиевич- #всеправильносделал
brian wolff- a new tool make thing like that to left like hockey stick make it as long as you need to broke the fire and how many feet
Delve Spectrum- And that is the definition of a honest dollar. Now if I could get my bread to culture some bacteria...
Micheline Cossette- All that burnt wheat...hey somebody should come up with a way ro make toast. Peanut butter on mine please, thank you very much!
prairie mark- In our community a young guy saw a fire in the field and he jumped on a tractor with a disc and went to work like this. However the tractor quit and would not start. The fire engulfed the tractor and started the tires on fire. Usually if the tires burn then the fuel tanks go and the tractor is history. The tires weigh many hundreds of lbs each and cost thousands each. They burn like everything when they get going. In this case two fire trucks came and put the fire out before the $400,000 tractor was burned. However the owner was unhappy with the guy who borrowed his tractor and got it burned. But he calmed down by the next day. In farming communities people help each other out and there is seldom lawsuits over things like this. In 45 minutes there would be 20 fire trucks in our community....most if not all of them private fire fighting rigs.
Derp DeDerp- That guy's an idiot. He gets paid more for burned crops than he would for actual product.
LastCynicStanding- This guy is my new hero.
Edward Mynning- Farmers are hero's
Bryan Stuber- That sucks for that farmer I feel really bad for him my grandpa farm 1000 acres all the hard work they do for everyone they can't afford to have tragic like that
asaaqas- to any one saying its a controlled burn think about it realllll hard.....why would he not plow BEFORE the fire if it was on purpose
Mike Wall- There creating a fire break, fuck the crops destroyed that would be the least of my worries, that's what you have insurance for, but doing what you have to do to protect what little you have left is more important than the destroyed crop that got burnt.
Ernest Mesa- Good job Mr Howard
Diane Finnigsmier- This ain't his first rodeo!!! WTG!!!
LegalShield3000- He was getting awful close to the flames near the end. Recognize the need to put fore out, but being alive another day is a good plan too.
Trevor Short- Saved the day
brian wolff- fix up a old yellow tank make spray er like fire holes to it if you need link a pump on a truck to save your plants
Depro690- Atleast the wind wad blowing the wrong way.
Steve Konrad- https://sites.google.com/site/skonmedia/
BLUESTAR- SEEMS TO ME HE SHOULD HAVE CUT GRASS OR HAY LONT TIME AGO DUMMY. TALK ABOUT LATE ON THE JOB JEEZZZ
Mr Marvin- good idea:)
renegadeoflife87- Curious what the aftermath looked like. He's got a disc on the back not a full plow, there would still be some flammable material exposed. Though it almost certainly would slow the fire down I would think, especially if another tractor behind him widened the firebreak. This right here is the difference between an entire field's harvest lost and being able to save at least some of it, as well as keeping the fire from accelerating and destroying homes or barns.