It’s funny how different suppression strategies vary from state to state. These fire lines would not work out west here. I’ve fought fire in Florida and West Virginia and I loved being able to rely on these plows to do the heavy work. Out here in California, these plows wouldn’t do anything other than help us plant next years crops.
@pamundson9
2 жыл бұрын
This would be great for mop-up in the west. Not so much in the field of fireline cutting. They typically use much bigger dozens in the western states for cutting fireline.
@davidthurmond6735
6 жыл бұрын
Rome disks are the heaviest to cut into hard pan ground or either john deere cutting disk
@RomeKG471
6 жыл бұрын
Rome K/G blade on a D7 or D8 would be the right tool.
@bogthing1
4 жыл бұрын
Stones, shaking frogs and the strange and terrible Rome, what's not to like?
@epilepticgaming4417
6 жыл бұрын
Just trying to give the benefit of the doubt; maybe they don’t have large enough equipment and will go back over it multiple times?
@defy2598
4 жыл бұрын
A fire- break may be 2 to 15 feet wide. A firebreak should be two to three times as wide as the height of the nearest surface vegetation (fuel), such as grass and shrubs (Fig- ure 13a). Firebreaks may require annual maintenance (removal of invading vegetation).
@michaelf6232
6 жыл бұрын
The frog was cool !!
@cdarting91
Жыл бұрын
Wow, I have never seen a fire dozer set up like that.
@raeanker3078
5 жыл бұрын
Thanks for the video but what sort of Fire will that stop ,even the slowest moving fire with no embers would jump that path .
@minormachining8908
5 жыл бұрын
Handcrews *routinely* stop fires with scratch lines to mineral earth much narrower than that. Lines must be tended until the fire burns to the line, but a line gives you something to defend. Shovel or mcleod makes quick work of hypothetical embers. Would a D8 make a stronger line? Well, yeah. But you don't just cut a line and then just ignore it and cross your fingers.
@ROTAXD
6 жыл бұрын
As soon as I hearf Mick & Keith I was in !
@brucebonkowski9568
2 жыл бұрын
Dear Mark why are the dozer blades so small as I figured the blade were made to move debris down and out of the way Also why are your equipment made with a work speed and a transport speed to get out of a dangerous area as these are fitted for a special job not making a freeway .next question mark with the Weird weather we're having why are water run off sent to dredged retention ponds that can be used yes with the fire water will everaporate but look at phoniex la Vegas and say the rain instead of the sewers but piping to these areas even if they over flow .last mike that have dozer with these stone rakes and tractor 6 ft back racks why are we either run those mulchers and pulvise those needles to small pieces less chance on catching fire you are the bravest men and need different to handle those area to keep you out of harms way
@MegaBear369
6 жыл бұрын
I don't know what brand of weed their smoking, but that little path ain't gonna stop a fire.
@watchthe1369
6 жыл бұрын
2 or 3 passes at least, limbs of the trees are hanging across those breaks.
@xcalibertrekker6693
6 жыл бұрын
Yea they need at least a few passes and to remove any trees nearby.
@McNamEvan
6 жыл бұрын
Apparently a good brand
@blazelyfid671
6 жыл бұрын
You good bro I think you just watched it stop a fire.
@makingithappen9722
5 жыл бұрын
Must b strong
@koda7820
2 жыл бұрын
They supposed to drop the angled blade and scrape over the dirt, if you don’t scrape the dirt then it’s not gonna plow.
@possumsquasher3777
5 жыл бұрын
Almost time for some new disks
@JohnSmith-uy7sv
5 жыл бұрын
don't know who adjusted those tracks, but they are way to tight for that size and model. Hardly any slack at all.
@shaggy6594
2 жыл бұрын
So are you saying that a larger machine should run tracks that tight and a smaller machine should run tracks slacker?
@TheBrushcutter
6 жыл бұрын
I agree Jason, or at least use the blade that's on it to sweep the litter away out of the path.
@ericlakota6512
3 жыл бұрын
Wow that disk rip it up we have one but biger that rips like that it can change pitch i dont know weather to steer or change the cut but it dose both
@leehart9055
6 жыл бұрын
I am curious.....why not use the front blade to remove grass/weeds/limbs etc?
@makingithappen9722
5 жыл бұрын
I guess they r hi
@brandoncaldwell95
5 жыл бұрын
The blade is for just clearing. They are cutting the ground to put water down. Also doesnt create wind rows of trash that needs to be cust bad down.
@natisa43
3 жыл бұрын
That has already been done,, thats why the breaks r being harrowed instead of plowed..
@shaggy6594
2 жыл бұрын
The plow or harrow is step 1 used for establishing your break by cutting and chopping roots and vegetation. The v blade comes next to push and roll bare the dirt over and widening the break and covering chopped vegetation.
@michaelofsc6021
5 жыл бұрын
Where is the plows? All I see are discs behind the dozer.
@Mark-em5zm
2 жыл бұрын
Too much green in the line to be effective.
@1945thom
6 жыл бұрын
this is only a partial solution. you need to top off the trees with a helicoptor saw
@madtrapper8301
6 жыл бұрын
Could use some weights on that offset disc it will cut a lot better then look awful sandy there won’t take much weight to make it cut better
@nuno31081973
2 жыл бұрын
much more easy to work inside off trees and make fire lines
@LLImprovement
3 жыл бұрын
I have an old ROME disc i just bought and i'm going to be trying to fix it up.
@TheQuidditchfan
4 жыл бұрын
I'll take my dad's old John Deere 450d with the straight blade and c frame plow
@jonathanharrington9648
3 жыл бұрын
This is pointless a dozer can do the same thing with a blade we use them on the line all the time in Oregon and California
@HeavyDoug6373
3 жыл бұрын
No it's not pointless. The idea here is economics. The land owner has pre-existing fire breaks that were constructed some years ago, probably by this very same dozer. The land owner paid around $125.00 an hour plus a $60.00 delivery fee for every day the dozer was on site. Normally a GFC (Georgia Forestry Commission) TPOP (Tractor Plow Operator) will pull a harrow as fast as they can which has two benefits. 1) To insure that the fuel is completely turned under and 2) reduce the amount of time charged to the landowner. You can't blade this fire break as fast as you can if you harrow it. Furthermore the tactics of fighting wildfire are vastly different between the West Coast and the Southeast. You definitely have to blade your firebreaks in Oregon and California because of the rock and terrain, I know because I'm out there every year as a HEQB. But this video was made in South Georgia where the terrain is all flat and the trees are planted in rows, wide enough to get a bulldozer through. For instance did you notice the v blade on the front of the tractor. That dozer would never work even in North Georgia and even less in Oregon and California. However it is ideally suited for its area, the lower coastal plain.
@4468861989
6 жыл бұрын
wtf is going on here......
@johnnydavis8351
6 жыл бұрын
Half ass attempt... At a full blown attempt of wasring my tax dollars ..
@davidlaster3752
4 жыл бұрын
Where y'all at
@natisa43
3 жыл бұрын
Ga
@johnnydavis8351
6 жыл бұрын
THAT'S pathetic...
@dogwedl1167
3 жыл бұрын
x
@rogerb7623
Жыл бұрын
i would say someone is getting ripped offed. somone must be getting a kick back on this work/equipment. totally useless.
@josuesantos1067
6 жыл бұрын
Eu ja vi a grade aradora so que em trator de peneu
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