Re: MTD Yardman Transaxle Rebuild
that's the same problem we have here in the county I live in, used to allow everyday folk to come in and cut up and remove downed trees for firewood, then the county crews would go in and clear the low brush, when a fire did start we could knock it down pretty quick....but the government decided it was a insurance risk to allow anyone on the state land so now when there is a fire, I'm out all day into tomorrow with the rest of the crew trying to contain and drown the fire.....
Half your luck if you can actually get to them and put them out.
Down here most of the native plants strike after a fire
So the burned ground will have thick scrubby brush to a couple of meters high.
Growing through this at spacing that can be as little as 6" apart will be the gums which grow tall & strait with a conical canopy, above the scrub.
Thus you get the fire at ground level , which ignites the oil bearing leaves of the scrub which in turn ignites the oil bearing leaves of the regrowth , which in turn ignites the canopy of the mature trees.
These fires are impossible to put out as they are burning 50' to 150' in the air and all you can do is to bulldoze a fire break then back burn from there onto the main fire.
Because the canopy fire can travel at speeds well over 60 mph you have to go a long way away to start the back burn then if the wind shift slightly you then have 2 fire fronts.
Once you get the canopy fire out you then have to go back & put out all of the ground fires caused by the burning canopy dropping ignition points down into the undergrowth below.
Yep,
Accountants or in our case meglomaniacs ignoring the real risks in order to save you from their imagined risks or elevate themselves to hero status.
And not meaning to be repetative but the previous inhabitants ( cause some don't like the work blacks ) had 50,000 years to work it out and find something that works but we reckon we are so much smarter we can work it out in less then 200 years.
In WA a local council banned black fellas from burning off cause it made the washing dirty.
Within 2 years the entire town was wiped out by wild fire, superiour intellegence ?
The very next year the WA government ( prior to federation ) made black fella burn off a criminal offence thus giving them an excuse to jail them where they ultimately died.
Bourk & Wills, famous white "explorers" starved to death in a region that supported thousands of natives but they point blank refused to eat black fellas food.
Their lacky King was not so proud or stupid and accepted the food the black fellas brought him so he survived.
We repaid the black fellas by killing nearly all of the tribe because they "allowed" Bourke & Wills to die.
The black fellas thought they were some sort of spirit people because they never collected nor ate any of the food they were standing in , some of which was even in the very tree they died under.
