fire in uwharrie

Lorenzo816

Lorenzo816

CTB
Joined
Jan 12, 2008
Location
Cabarrus County, NC
I got a pic not too long ago from a boat on the north end of tillery. Looks like uwharrie is on fire near falls damn.
Can't post it from this phone but does not looked like a controlled burn.
Smoke is over albemarle now.
Anyone know anything?

I'll post the pic later.
 
Damn... we are going up 2moro, hopefully its nothing too bad... :popcorn:
 
Heard controlled burn on the news.
 
It was a 1000 acre controlled burn, the biggest one of the year. We actually used a helicopter to ignite it.




http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tb4X-_to7TA


ai130.photobucket.com_albums_p275_nissan11_DSCN07861.jpg


ai130.photobucket.com_albums_p275_nissan11_DSCN07771.jpg
 
Reid said:
i think i saw that video on the garage.
Click to expand...


I wouldn't shit you...you are my favorite turd.
Vaseline is an over simplification but a mixture of petroleum jelly and a reactive agent that causes a 5-10 second delayed combustion are mixed and dropped from a helicopter.

The machine that does the mixing and dropping is called an Aerial Ignition Deployment System....thats right someone operates the AIDS machine....I'll pass.

Both of the above are strange but true facts.

Don't ask what happens if a ping pong ball hits a deer.
 
fire-bunny.jpg
 
Ron said:
I wouldn't shit you...you are my favorite turd.
Click to expand...


lol...i googled this. wow.

soooo....the AIDS machine shoots out vasoline covered ping ping balls.....



this is genius.
 
Do you have to use protection when handling the ping pong balls so you dont contract AIDS?.....how contagious is it?
 
I remember using Vaseline to put out a burning sensation..........sooooo.....nevermind! Have the deer's been partying or.........nevermind!
 
Ok for clarification sake.
I was making light of a few situations..butt was also dead serious.

Helicopter deployed control burns are ignited using flaming ping pong balls. If everything goes right they do not erupt until they are on the ground....if it goes right and usually it does.

The first time I took part in a controlled burn the operator told me that the machine was called the AIDS (Aerial Ignition Deployment System) machine but the name had been changed because it was no longer politically correct. Several of the guys I know still use the term.

Now as to the Ping Pong ball and the deer bit....I started college in the Forestry program and part of one of our labs was to go conduct a controlled burn. That burn was drip torch ignited but the burn contractor discussed helicopter burns as part of a training session. You have to picture the class, the Forestry program consists of the redest of the rednecks at Clemson...yours truly included. In the early 90s Copenhagen cans, hats with a fish hook on them, and Rocky boots were a requirement. Well this one young lady who was a Sierra Club, Green Peace, tree hugging hippy who had the entire stated goal of going to school so she could prevent all the evil clear cutting and destruction of living things (trees). So while she quietly wept over the thought of burned habitat at the aforementioned outdoor lab she asked, "What happens if one of those flaming balls hits a poor deer."

The gruff contractor dead pans, "Well little lady (I shit you not he said "little lady") we all eat good that night. But typically the deer are smart enough to run away when they hear the chopper..."

She was mortified and made famous on a Tshirt around campus.
 
Ron said:
I wouldn't shit you...you are my favorite turd.
Vaseline is an over simplification but a mixture of petroleum jelly and a reactive agent that causes a 5-10 second delayed combustion are mixed and dropped from a helicopter.
The machine that does the mixing and dropping is called an Aerial Ignition Deployment System....thats right someone operates the AIDS machine....I'll pass.
Both of the above are strange but true facts.
Don't ask what happens if a ping pong ball hits a deer.
Click to expand...

You are correct. The chemicals are injected via needles into the "ping pong balls." The balls are first injected with potassium permanganate and then ethyl glycol is injected. Approximately 30 seconds later, combustion.
 
As a former Fireman, that seems like a complicated, & expensive way to start a fire. Butt the Feds gotta spend Your' money somewhere. Best we don't get into a discussion of arson, & homemade bombs! [shh]:alien:
 
rodney eppes said:
As a former Fireman, that seems like a complicated, & expensive way to start a fire. Butt the Feds gotta spend Your' money somewhere. Best we don't get into a discussion of arson, & homemade bombs! [shh]:alien:
Click to expand...

It's much cheaper than dividing the burn up into 3 separate days and paying for the additional man power to fire it by hand with a torch. That's 1000 acres burned safely in 8 hours.
I can tell your former fire career was not as a wildland firefighter.
 
Nissan11 said:
It's much cheaper than dividing the burn up into 3 separate days and paying for the additional man power to fire it by hand with a torch. That's 1000 acres burned safely in 8 hours.
I can tell your former fire career was not as a wildland firefighter.
Click to expand...


Bingo...the key is the "controlled" part of the controlled burn.
1) You have to burn it the direction you want ti to burn...
2) its not always easy or safe to walk into the center of 1,000 acres and start a fire and then get out, while also ensuring complete combustion.
3) Its nice to watch..
 
Back
Top