Mufflers get hot.

[TBS]

Came across across this video on YouTube.

 

[Haironyourchest]

My muffler was glowing red (red inside the outlet) a few days back

 

[LegDeLimber]

Damned vid was cut too short. Would really liked to have seen the next couple of minutes.
Just a civilian observer here.
Do any of you climbers (still?) have metal wire cored flip lines?
Or has OSHA or California declared them a hazard of some sort?

 

[OM617YOTA]

Dayum. Thought he had it under control for a bit there.

 

[EchoRomeoCharlie]

This is one of the thousands of reasons I do not climb/cut with only a flip line. I want a way to get to the ground quickly and easily at the drop of a hat.

If he had a choked climb line with either a mechanical or rope prussic or even a figure 8 set up, he could have unhooked the flip line and repelled out of the inferno quickly.

 

[Cycledude]

Yikes !

 

[andy]

This is one of the thousands of reasons I do not climb/cut with only a flip line. I want a way to get to the ground quickly and easily at the drop of a hat.

If he had a choked climb line with either a mechanical or rope prussic or even a figure 8 set up, he could have unhooked the flip line and repelled out of the inferno quickly.

....also a case for wearing gloves too... Jeezus!

 

[Brent Nowell]

Wow that spread really fast!!! He handled it well imo keeping calm and getting the fire off the tree and off the saw. Too bad it spread shortly after, I hope he was ok

 

[lone wolf]

Damned vid was cut too short. Would really liked to have seen the next couple of minutes.
Just a civilian observer here.
Do any of you climbers (still?) have metal wire cored flip lines?
Or has OSHA or California declared them a hazard of some sort?

They are a hazzard around power lines that for sure. They on the other hand add a slight bit of resistance to cuts from a saw but can still be cut in half.

 

[sb47]

Gloves would have gone a long way in the outcome. Descending a fiery pole bare handed would really suck.