Well here,s how my day went,pics.Fire oh no!

[ozarktreeman]

Well this happened about 2.15 after a pretty good start to a day,about 26 tree deep into a 48 tree job.
Don,t know what started it,electrical investigator says.
Never seen people run so fast as when you shout fire,full tank of gas.
No one was hurt,luckily. Thank god for insurance and a backup truck.
sorry about picture quality cell cam.

 

[slinger]

Glad to hear no one got hurt. That's a loss for sure. Hope the ins/ company ponies up replacement cost!

One of the firemen diagnosed the cause when my farrowing house/nursery burnt "Somethin got too damn hot".

 

[hanniedog]

Sorry about the truck but glad that no on was hurt.

 

[ozarktreeman]

Glad to hear no one got hurt. That's a loss for sure. Hope the ins/ company ponies up replacement cost!

One of the firemen diagnosed the cause when my farrowing house/nursery burnt "Somethin got too damn hot".

Ins,hopefully wont be a problem,no claims in last 5 years.

 

[Tree Pig]

wow man that sucks glad everyone was OK

 

[TreeClimber57]

Oh shoot!! NOT GOOD!! Glad all are ok.. hopefully insurance picks up this mess.

 

[ozzy42]

Sorry for your loss. Glad all were safe.Hope the ins. comes thru for ya.

 

[ropensaddle]

Well this happened about 2.15 after a pretty good start to a day,about 26 tree deep into a 48 tree job.
Don,t know what started it,electrical investigator says.
Never seen people run so fast as when you shout fire,full tank of gas.
No one was hurt,luckily. Thank god for insurance and a backup truck.
sorry about picture quality cell cam.

Wow, you got that other truck just in time. Hope all it ok was jerry up in the bucket during the fire?

 

[Toddppm]

Looks like the fire dept got there pretty fast. Hopefully the ins. still calls it a total loss and you can get a new truck!

 

[treemandan]

Jeez. Good to know that at anytime the whole operation could go up like that. Glad no one was hurt, it sure looked nasty.

 

[treeman82]

My chip truck burned up this past March. Total loss, no fire insurance on it. Everybody who saw it said "I've never seen a truck burn that bad before."

 

[lego1970]

Sorry to hear about your truck but as mentioned glad nobody got hurt. Hope your able to get a replacement soon. Good luck.

 

[ozarktreeman]

Wow, you got that other truck just in time. Hope all it ok was jerry up in the bucket during the fire?

yea,just went up to tell him I was looking for another dump site,smelled something didn't pay much attn,then flames in the cab,said jerry truck is on fire ,what get your a## out of the bucket.never seen that boy move so fast.lol
Yea it,s time to break out shorty.

 

[ozarktreeman]

My chip truck burned up this past March. Total loss, no fire insurance on it. Everybody who saw it said "I've never seen a truck burn that bad before."

wow,way worse than mine.But still a total loss.

 

[treeman82]

I don't know about you, but when I was standing there, watching the truck burn... watching the fire fighters put it out... I was pretty calm. Not upset, nothing. Cracked jokes with the cops and firemen... As long as I made it out of the incident without getting hurt, and nobody else got hurt, those were the important things. Trucks can be replaced. No point in getting mad.

 

[ozarktreeman]

I don't know about you, but when I was standing there, watching the truck burn... watching the fire fighters put it out... I was pretty calm. Not upset, nothing. Cracked jokes with the cops and firemen... As long as I made it out of the incident without getting hurt, and nobody else got hurt, those were the important things. Trucks can be replaced. No point in getting mad.

Pretty much same here,kept my guys away one of which is a volunteer fireman,trucks show he,s the 1st to grab the hose.
I said well I guess your off the clock now.Wife was more tore up about than I was.I figure it,s insured.don't know how that's going to work out.but hoping for best.

 

[pdqdl]

I had a fire once...

I drove my company pickup truck to a New Year's party some years back. When I pulled up and parked, smoke started boiling out from under the hood. NOOooo! It's almost new! It's not paid for yet!

I raised the hood, and saw (for some unfathomable reason) that one of the master cylinder lines was glowing bright red! I quickly popped on a glove and began yanking it to break whatever short was setting it aglow ( I needed tools to get the battery terminals off).

SIZZLE! SIZZLE! POOF! ...The brake line ruptured, spewing flaming brake fluid all over the firewall, which burst into a solid wall of flame.

Then one of my buddies came up and said "DAVE! Would you like a beer?" Exceedingly frustrated that one of my moron college friends could even think that I would want a beer at that time, I hollered back NO!



...then it occured to me...beer doesn't burn...

YES! GIVE ME A BEER NOW! PLEASE!

Beer in hand, I got the fire out pretty quick, with much gratitude to my friend that was thinking a little clearer than I was.

[It turned out that the brake line had shorted directly against the starter feed wire; with dual batteries, there was no way I could have detached the battery terminals quickly to break the connection.]

 

[Hddnis]

Good to hear no one was hurt.

I hope it somehow works out to be an unexpected blessing, cloud with a silver lining.

I had a truck once that quit in the parking lot a McDonalds one day. I ate, went out to leave and it would crank but not start. I could smell an electical spark smell and just had it towed back to the shop.

Turns out that the wire that powered the fuel pump had shorted out against the fuel line, blowing a hole in it. There was evidence of a very small fire, which would have been about a teaspoon of fuel escaping. Basically as soon asit shorted and made the hole it also turned off the pump. If any other wire in that bundle had rubbed and shorted instead, the pump would have been feeding a gasoline fire under the hood. It would have been a total loss in about a minute.


Mr. HE

 

[ripplerider]

A couple of yrs. ago we changed out the batteries in the chipper truck. I told the guys to put the old batteries in a bin till we could exchange them. Well, they put them in the same bin we kept a couple of chainsaws and the gas and oil that went with them. One day they filled up a saw, used it a minute, put it back in the bin, then jammed the metal gas can in on top of one of the batteries. There was enough juice left in the battery to burn two holes through the can where it rested on the terminals, releasing about two gallons of gas into the bin, where it promptly caught on fire. This happened in a flash (no pun intended). My guys reacted instantly. One of them reached in and snatched out the two saws (he was wearing leather gloves and a long sleeve shirt, still I told him he was crazy). The other ran around the truck, grabbed the fire ext. and emptied it into the bin. Got out with only a few scorch marks on the side of the truck. Lesson learned : batteries and gas cans dont mix.

 

[groundsmgr]

Glad no one was hurt. And you have a replacement truck.