Fire Extinguisher

[vharrison]

Just a reminder to check your fire extinguishers, make sure they are up to date. We had a small fire on our chipper last week and thankfully they were up to date and the fire was extinguished with no damage.

[OTGBOSTON]

Safety Smith says change your smoke detector and carbon dioxide batteries too!:D

[MasterBlaster]

Something to stay on top of, for sure!

Thanks for the reminder, Island Girl!

[Frans]

Safety Smith says change your smoke detector and carbon dioxide batteries too!:D

I yanked out the battery on my smoke detector. Whenever toast of anything smokes a bit in the kitchen, the stupid thing would go off. Drove me nuts with that high pitched alarm....

[squisher]

That is not a sound safety plan Frans relocate it orrrrrr stop burning your toast.:D

[OTGBOSTON]

I yanked out the battery on my smoke detector. Whenever toast of anything smokes a bit in the kitchen, the stupid thing would go off. Drove me nuts with that high pitched alarm....

:O

[JonnyHart]

We had a bucket truck catch fire while driving, a few years ago. It was due to leaves and debris falling between the cab and the bed, and resting on exhaust parts. We stopped, jumped out, I grabbed the fire extinguisher, and it was empty. Had to call 911.

[Koa Man]

In Hawaii commercial trucks have to have a yearly safety inspection which includes checking the fire extinguisher. If you get a ticket for an expired safety inspection on a commercial vehicle the judge can levy a fine of $100 per calendar day. I know one tree company that got caught 6 days after expiration and was charged $600. They were lucky it wasn't 20 or 30 days later.

[No_Bivy]

what caught on fire Gigi?

[vharrison]

Some brush got caught up in the chipper, and poof, caught fire! They caught it quick, thankgoodness.

[Burnham]

Poof???

[vharrison]

Poof???

:D

[MasterBlaster]

Poof???


I agree, POOF? Was it spontaneous combustion?

Does that happen a lot down there?

:?

[Paul B]

I saw a car catch fire in the mcdonalds drive through way back when. I gotta get a fire extinguisher for the truck, havent had one in there for a while.

[vharrison]

I agree, POOF? Was it spontaneous combustion?

Does that happen a lot down there?

:?

No, not really poof, just caught on fire. Slowly smoldering, then flames. :/:

[pantheraba]

I saw a car catch fire in the mcdonalds drive through way back when. I gotta get a fire extinguisher for the truck, havent had one in there for a while.

Don't get the smallest size. I had a standard small one in my truck a few years ago...was headed up to Ohio and saw a panel truck on the interstate in W. VA with flames coming out of the engine compartment. My bud and I stopped and I almost got the fire out but not quite. It took off again. We spent the next 5 minutes at the butt end of the truck hauling out everything we could while his 8 yr old daughter stood on the side and wailed and screamed...everything they owned was in that truck. He was a young black dude in dredlocks, nice fellow, a dental technician (made dentures). What got my attention was the tanks of gas (oxygen and acetylene) in the back. We managed to wrestle them out and away from the van and just threw all we could onto the shoulder. Finally the flames ran us out and we watched it melt (aluminum body). The State Patrol showed up then with a large fire ext...we could probably have saved it all if I had had a bigger one.

I do now.

[No_Bivy]

:O

[sotc]

were required to carry 5 pounders on all our vehicles if were working in a rural area during fire season. i just keep one in each truck and mounted on the chipper. suckers arnt cheap!

[MasterBlaster]

I just bought one at Wally World, $25. Dispose after 12 years.

[Al Smith]

Here is old Al the shadetree mechanic changing the starter drive on what was a nice Lincoln Mk 5.Went to start it up with the breather off,poof back fired and on fire.No fire extingusher,in a building that had a hundred thousand dollar motorhome in it,at the time.

What to do,what to do.I hooked my truck onto it and pulled it outside with the front tires on fire and called the fire dept as I watched it burn.:cry:

Then of course I went to town and bought two of the largest Kidde fire extingushers I could find.Kind of like shutting the barn door after the horse got out. Now I have 4 at the shop,two in my garage and two in the house .

[Paul B]

I have two 10 pounders at home and an old 3 lb one that I dont trust that it is charged or hmmm, discheargable? The truck is a little cramped already, not much room for an extinguisher and one wouldnt last long on the outside of the truck. I have to look at the space behind the seat, I should be able to stuff one in there.

[inztrees]

shake the 3lb. once and a while so the cem does'nt get chuncky

[Paul B]

yup, good suggestion, I was told that they can 'cake up' if left alone too long, thats another part of why I dont trust the one I have. Would rather spend the lettuce to get a new one that should be reliable. :)

[squisher]

Paul a good place to mount is on the floor right beside the driver's seat. There should be room to tuck a small one in there lengthwise along the side of the seat. Easily accessible and out of the way that's where the one is in my bucket truck, I'd grab a pic but it's still in the shop.

[Paul B]

bench seat amigo, standard cab. only place is kinda behind my butt or mounted to the b pillar which I dont think is realistic spacewise..

[squisher]

I'll get a pic when my bucket's back and you'll see what I mean. It won't just sit there you have to mount the bracket tucked up nice and tight. You don't want a unsecured extinguisher in the cab of your truck.

[squisher]

Unsecured fire extinguisher warning:

A friend of mine rolled a skidder and he was belted in he woulda been fine but the unsecured fire extinguisher tucked behind the seat hit him in the head and killed him. Keep items in the cab secured espescially the unforgiving ones, anything can happen.

[brendonv]

Geeze, glad eveything went OK.

There was a cab over burnt to a crisp on the highway this morning. I'll admit, I dont have 1-this weeks priority.

Thanks.

[sotc]

paul, you think some one will steal it out of the bed? the chip truck is the only one in the cab of the 4 i have. the rest are accessible by anyone

[Skwerl]

My truck had a holder mounted next to the driver's door. Altec gave me a new extinguisher with the truck and it's been in the holder since I got it. If somebody wants it bad enough to steal it, they can have it.

[squisher]

People used to steal them from the islands at my old gas station occasionally. Of course people used to steal basically anything and everything there.:lol:

[top hopper]

Boy Brian, that sure is a nice truck!!

[MasterBlaster]

Yeah, Brian's gone all big time on us. Mike Poor, watch out!!!

[Skwerl]

Thanks guys, I still can't believe I bought it. Obsessive compulsive isn't bad, is it?
:|:

[Paul B]

SOTC, I keep my 8' ladder and 5 gallon mix fuel jug locked to the headache rack, I wouldnt expect an unlocked fire extinguisher to last very long :( too many punks in the world.

[sotc]

that sucks paul!

[squisher]

Paul lives in the big smoke.:D

[sotc]

they have concrete canyons there?:)

[stehansen]

I have fire extinguisher story. My Dad and I used to have cattle in the hills and about this time of year we would spray them for flies and ticks and stuff. Just get them in the corral and go in there with a spray nozzle and a hose. We had a tractor with a 100 gal 3 pt. sprayer and my Dad was pulling it up with his about 1982 chevy pickup. There was a really steep hill just before our corrals and this got his automatic transmission hot and it spewed out oil from the dipstick tube onto the exhaust manifold and caught on fire. We just looked over at the pickup and the grass was burning under it, I hopped in and tried to move it, but it had already burnt some of the ignition system and it started but didn't have enough power to move itself. I had just bought a small extinguisher at the hardware store about a week earlier. So we are all running around (like a chinese fire drill) and I went and got my new extinguisher out of my pickup we popped the hood and I gave it a squirt and the fire went down and then came up again and I did this two more times and the fire stayed out. I was going to put the rest of what was in the extinguisher on the smoldering motor just for good measure and it gave one little weak gasp. Those little extinguishers have 3 short squirts and that is it. I went the next day and bought a bigger one and haven't used one since.

[MasterBlaster]

I didn't want to buy one that was too small, they had plenty of them.

[olyman]

My truck had a holder mounted next to the driver's door. Altec gave me a new extinguisher with the truck and it's been in the holder since I got it. If somebody wants it bad enough to steal it, they can have it. you can buy, or build, a nice box for the ext to fit in. thats lockable. no need to lock till go into house, or whatever you decide. keeps prying hands away-----