Mopar1973Man

Another long day of work driving the 4,000 gallon tender, filling fold-a-tanks, setting up sprinklers, laying out hoses you name it. (Pictures of the fold-a-tank, crew, my crewman is David in the orange hard hat...) I'm now been doing the the roll of crew boss for our crew. Fire Chief has been busy doing evacuation duties and dealing with other administration duties in base camp for our crew. So I'm spend a part of my day training a few newbies in the crew. Quite the task taking care of the all the things that need to be done. Like MoparMom had said I'm up early and out the door. Then get home at 9pm typically and hitting the rack exhausted. Not much you can do about thing other than delegate task to crew members and spread the work loads.

Also depend on which county you re-new in as well. Like Valley county is about $5 bucks cheaper than Adams county. Little weird secrets I know.

Push the disconnect tool in the collar and with a little twisting motion rock the line back and forth and the should come free once the o-rings starts to move. Sometimes the dust and grit get into the first o-ring make it a bit tough to first move.

That's a normal summer in the picture this summer its bare trickling over the top board and its only two 2x6 board now compared to 3 2x6 board in the photo. I'm being nice about the water and insuring my neighbor below me get some flow too. I'm still holding 116-120 PSI. I've seen days where the system is spitting air from the sprinklers because of low water. If I had time I would head up and shot a picture now and you'd be shocked. This is same system that feeds my 1 1/2 fire hydrant in the yard too. Making me a bit worried about water for fire suppression.

We are doing good. I'm just tried and long days. Fire is possibly going to cross US95 by late today or early morning maybe. It just depends on the nightly winds. I'm going to pack my old camera tomorrow to see if I can captures some pictures for you guys and gals. So far we are holding our own on the North side of the fire and doing well. I've been filling ponds with the 4,000 gallon water tender. Been assisting USFS with equipment and cache duties. I might... be relocated to the south end of the fire maybe tomorrow depends on Commander from forestry and our Chief. It's been light smoke on the north side today being we've had a south wind. North side looks light that day... Our 4,000 tender and filling engines from Elk Lake Creek. Drop point and some of our fire fighters. Give a feel of driving up to some of these home are narrow dirt roads going back nearly 1 1/2 miles. No pull outs, only one turn around.

Here is my water source...

ECM, PCM and VP44 are on the Passenger side negative battery cable. There is no body grounds for these 3 computers. Any error codes? Yes error codes can exist without tripping a check engine light. Any programmers on the truck previously?

Actually each grid element is 95 Amps for a total 190 Amps for both.

They had some air tankers up doing drops during the initial attack. They where called off because of the wild up and down draft in that canyon. Helibase has be set up in the New Meadows valley and Base Camp is just south of New Meadows near the tamarack Mill. I'm going to have to pack up my old camera and take it with me on the fire for photos. I figure I will be back on site first thing about 7am in the morning. Matter of fact I've got to haul out and get watering tonight.

JAG1 you better come back here... I'll give you all the fire you want to stay warm with... I'll just park you up Elk Lake Road... Might have to sign you up for the Fire Dept.

I'm about 2.5 miles from the fire now. Technically yes I'm in the path according to the sandbox models they are doing. It heading north and spreading east and west. So to be smart I moved my RV from here at home to a friends place in New Meadows, ID. That way I don't have to worry about embers or fire fallout landing the roof of the RV. It also become a fallback place for us if it does come this far. So on my way home from New Meadows, ID I stopped at our fire camp. I talked to the Fire Chief and he informed me that he wants me to go home and rest. He want me ready for when the $ h ! t hits the fan. Right now they are placing fold-a-tanks at homes and setting up sprinkler systems. They also been cleaning up brush and trees so when the fire does reach Elk Lake they have a better chance of fighting it.

I've also got a solar / hydro system here. 4,000 watt Trace Inverter 400 watts of solar panels 200 watts of hydro-generator 820 Amp/Hours of Batteries 6,500 watt Gasoline Generator

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Most would say to clean the spot and spray them with lacquer.

In 2012, the average sales price of coal at the mine was $39.95 per ton, and the average delivered price to the electric power sector was $45.77 per ton, resulting in an average transportation cost of $5.82 per ton, or 13% of the total delivered price.

Coal you need a small wood fire to get burning. Once burning it burns for quite a while. I was introduced to coal a few years ago. I see some the Fire Chief had in his shop. Amazing how long a small chunk of coal will burn. Yes it coal does burn rather clean.

I would welcome you down this way but not much to see with all the smoke and fires now burning. Beautiful country up her but right now its not a good time to come look.

Whew! I'm home at the computer. Sorry for the up-side-down picture I was doing from my tablet today. As for the fire its about 2 miles from my house right now. http://inciweb.nwcg.gov/incident/4506/ I've been given the day off to get things in order here with jobs and personal stuff and I will be hitting the fire lines on Monday for sure. As far as I know the USFS is say it's not if but when it will enter the Elk Lake Subdivision. They are figuring on Tuesday. The fire model shows that it will burn north toward us and down to the river. (Picture fixed) Here is also the fire location to me. (Mouse pointer)

I'm lucky to be stationed at house with WiFi. This is a serious event and talking long term. It's move off a sit and wait right now.

The Teepee Fire is in my district and rolling hard now. Just mere 2.5 miles away from the house to Elk Lake Road where I was station last night to wait for the fire to come. Good to hear...

Sorry gang... I've got to keep this short and say I'm fighting a local fire near my home. It started in the Hazard drainage and now is heading north threatening Elk Lake Road homes. I've got to be back on the fire line at 7am. I'll report more by tomorrow night.

There is a surge that is created by a magnetic collapse of the motor winding. Kind of like what killed the LED in my exhaust brake switch. Every time the power was cut to the solenoid of the vacuum valve the voltage spike was so great that the light weight LED burned up. I've been zapped by battery cables or wiring from heavy draws on starters as the magnetic field collapses it creates this surge. http://www.allaboutcircuits.com/textbook/semiconductors/chpt-3/inductor-commutating-circuits/ So because of the light weight hardware in some version of Quadzilla the circuits are damaged from this spike.

Don't set any voltage on Timbo's sensors. More or less look for voltage rise then for it to fall back and take 1/2 turn more from the screw. http://articles.mopar1973man.com/2nd-generation-24v-dodge-cummins/26-engine-systems/39-timbos-apps-installing

I would get a few tubes of caulk and go for it.

Nice pull.