I almost lost all my Rats

[Country Misfit]

My neighbor was burning some limbs and leaves and it got away from her.It caught my grass on fire. I was taking a shower when she knocked on the door and was yelling fire.I threw on a pair of pants and ran outside and fire was around my 38 Packard -47 jeep tk-49 Dodge tk and near some of my " parts trucks" ..I didnt have a water hose near by , so I grabbed a shovel and I was throwing dirt like you wouldnt believe. I got all the fire out that was near the cars. A tire was burning very close to my storage building and I knew if it keep burning my building would catch fire,so i jumped on my tractor { with ft end loader } and threw some dirt on it. I got it all put out,all I lost was a tire. 1st chance I get ,Im going to clear out a spot for my stuff and put down some gravel so no grass can grow .

 

[Yankee Transplant]

Thats a good idea .. fire aint no joke . glad you were home .

 

[Tripper]

Don't need a neighbor like that!!! Glad your stuff didn't get toasted!

BoB

 

[smallfoot]

You might snatch the matches from your neighbor... Fire, one of man's greatest tools can create havoc uncontrolled. I had to build this house I'm in twice because of fire....no fun doing over!

 

[Sam_Fear]

Well, I hope she apologized.

 

[earthman]

That was a close call. Glad it was no worse.

 

[Country Misfit]

She said she was sorry,and she"s glad none of my junk burned up. I wanted to cuss her out but I could not talk because of all the smoke hurt my throat.

 

[soltz]

You did good. gravel is good. also you might think about a 2 foot dirt strip along your fence or property line. I've a done a bit of dirt flinging, not a lot of fun. Glad all you have is a soar throat. Did you stop to put boots on [S

 

[Country Misfit]

I put on my tennis shoes,I knew I was going to have to use a shovel.

 

[AZRodDave]

Quick thinking!

I put on my tennis shoes,I knew I was going to have to use a shovel.

Wow! Glad nothing was lost (but a tire). Makes for one hellofa visual, and one could almost laugh after the fact, despite the temptation to use that shovel for something else.

 

[donsrods]

Glad it turned out ok. I would go over and have a serious talk with her and let her know she could have caused a lot of damage............you could have lost more than your cars, maybe your home. I didn't think there were any places left where you could still burn stuff, I know you can't down here.

Don

 

[21willys]

Glad you got it contained!


Bob we can burn pretty much anything in IN as long it's not tires. They don't like that....

 

[Neverdone]

close call.....

 

[I-R-POPS]

You just can't fix stupid. I just don't get the idea that you have to
have a match to clean up the yard.

Glad it worked out for you.

 

[26Troadster]

glad everything is ok. my neighbor has alzheimers, and was burning leaves, i'm glad i was coming across the yard when we saw the smoke and that i had a lot of water hose on that end of the house.

 

[christcrusader13]

Too close for Comfort!

WOW!!! 1st off I'm glad that you are ok! 2nd, I"m glad that the rats made it, tin like that is not exactly 'replacable'... I hope your throat gets better soon!

I almost lost my 64 C-10 in a not fire related incident... My carb was leaking fuel and I swapped it for another on thanksgiving while at my parents house.... I put the new one one and my dad was fussing that I was wasting my time and the truck wasn't going to run anyway... in which I told him I had driven it, BUT it wouldn't stop because of the brakes....

As he fussing under the hood adjusting the distributor I reach through the window to bump the engine over.... the truck immediately fires up and proceeded to back down the drive way, into a field headed straight for the woods... my dad had bumped the truck in reverse....

I chased it down flung open the door and jumped in, immediately slamming on the brakes.... of course nothing happened so I slid it from reverse to neutral to drive and proceeded to slow down the truck about 3" from a tree.... The whole time my dad is rolling on the ground laughing hysterically that won't be a Thanksgiving I forget!

 

[IronRat]

Glad you are OK, could have been worse that just the cars.

Here's an idea. Talk to your neighbor and use your front end loader to dig her burn pit with a dirt berm on your side of the pit as a fire break. It's unrealistic to think this won't happen again with her. The fire pit might be the answer. You might also get her to agree to only burn when your home. In the long run it's better to live with your neighbor vs. live against them.

 

[Country Misfit]

Glad you caught your run away tk CC13. I had something like that happen a long time ago + the car didnt have any door handles .I was running trying to stick my finger in the hole,to open the door. If we had good scents we would sell all our junk and not have these problems.

 

[Country Misfit]

I could not sleep last night , thinking about what almost happened. I talked to her and showed this site so she could see what we do with "junk". She said she would never burn anything again. I told her ,I have a trl. she can use to put yard stuff in and I have a place where I can throw it and let it rot.

 

[Neto]

Nearly everyone here in our small unincorporated town burns their leaves in the Fall. My wife's dad has a place I can dump that sort of stuff, but it's around 4 miles away, and we have so many trees that it takes a couple of stomped down PU loads for every time we clean up the leaves, and that is about every few days during the worst of it. So if the leaves are good & dry, we burn them in our back yard. But the grass is different here than in Oklahoma where I grew up, for instance. There the grass is really brown & dry that time of year. (Of course there we didn't have any leaves to burn, either.) Here it rarely gets brown, and is green even now, in the winter. I accidently started a grass fire once when I was a kid (back in Oklahoma), and it almost got into the ripe wheat field. That would have been a fire storm.