greg g Posted October 9, 2017 Report Posted October 9, 2017 Hope everybody is safe from the fires. 2 Quote
Reg Evans Posted October 10, 2017 Report Posted October 10, 2017 Thanks Greg. We are just a couple of miles from two fires that started because of downed power lines. It was crazy windy here last night. My daughter and son in law are here now because they were evacuated from where they live. Things are normalizing now. Quote
Desotodav Posted October 11, 2017 Report Posted October 11, 2017 Glad to hear Reg as I saw that the fires were not far from your place. Word has made it all the way here to Oz about the terrible fires over there in CA. Hope that all of our forum brother's and families are well, and hopefully the end is near to this tragedy. 1 Quote
greg g Posted October 11, 2017 Author Report Posted October 11, 2017 Pictures on the news very saddening! Hope more folks will check in as areas get under control. Concerned for everyone's safety! Quote
Branded Posted October 11, 2017 Report Posted October 11, 2017 Earl Edgerton is in Santa Rosa, he has my camshaft for a regrind. Hope all is well with him. The camshaft can be replaced. Quote
Brent B3B Posted November 10, 2018 Report Posted November 10, 2018 On 10/9/2017 at 3:36 PM, greg g said: Hope everybody is safe from the fires. Wow! A little over a year later and I echo this again. Quote
laynrubber Posted November 16, 2018 Report Posted November 16, 2018 I see pictures and I notice several with burnt hulks of various vintage rides. Quote
pflaming Posted November 17, 2018 Report Posted November 17, 2018 (edited) Tonight the news reported 600 people unaccounted for. Fire so hot it just incinerated things. Very serious. Very sad. We stoped the logging, animal grazing for environmental reasons. Terrible! To clean out the thistles in our pasture fences, we would wait for a near west wind. When we set fire to the farmost west end, that fire of thistles would travel down that fence row so fast we could not run fast enough to keep up with it. It burned so hot, so fast, and so short a time that all thistles vanished yet the barbed wires would not get hot! Most of our fences were half to a mile in length. Life was different back then. Edited November 17, 2018 by pflaming Quote
Eneto-55 Posted November 17, 2018 Report Posted November 17, 2018 3 hours ago, pflaming said: Tonight the news reported 600 people unaccounted for. Fire so hot it just incinerated things. Very serious. Very sad. We stoped the logging, animal grazing for environmental reasons. Terrible! To clean out the thistles in our pasture fences, we would wait for a near west wind. When we set fire to the farmost west end, that fire of thistles would travel down that fence row so fast we could not run fast enough to keep up with it. It burned so hot, so fast, and so short a time that all thistles vanished yet the barbed wires would not get hot! Most of our fences were half to a mile in length. Life was different back then. I remember once helping my grandpa burn off one of the pastures (NE Oklahoma), and although he had a wide fire block area plowed, it jumped into the fence row, and suddenly there was this wall of flames that came roaring up around the side. We barely stopped it from taking down the milk barn. Quote
TodFitch Posted November 17, 2018 Report Posted November 17, 2018 On 11/15/2018 at 6:55 PM, laynrubber said: I see pictures and I notice several with burnt hulks of various vintage rides. One fellow I know moved to Paradise from the greater SF Bay area maybe 5 or so years ago. He had a '37 Plymouth and a bunch of A body slant 6 vehicles at the time he moved. Not sure what he had when the fire started but I've learned that everything he had burned. Both he and his wife were able to get out safely though which was the important thing. Quote
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