SA Firefighter
Special Interest Image Posting => Emergency Vehicles => Topic started by: qujibo on January 17, 2007, 09:45:09 PM
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For those of you who haven't seen it or heard about it
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I haven't seen it or heard about it... Whats the story with it?
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This machine is the result of years work led by our group officer down here. The idea is when you get fire in scrub, start at the flank and put a track around the fire edge, much the same as they use dozers for. dozers are a bit of a logistical nightmare to move at best of times and are also pretty slow. This thing tows around a heavy steel A-frame which basically knocks down the trees and pushes then to either side, leaving a 6m wide bare earth break. This can be done at 7 or 8kms per hour. The tyres are logging tyres so you can puncture them. This thing, along with the tatiara Tractor and wake rake, and the Tatiara 34 appliance has done probably more than 400km of fire edge so far and saved a lot of man hours in doing so.
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Good work by the group officer, it would be good to get a few more around the state
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Don't be surprised if you do in the next few years
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Ive seen it in action and with the tatiara 34 working with it they are a mean combination. No fire stands a chance. There should be more like it, especially in high/dense vegetation areas.