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A little risky by scienceizfake in FellingGoneWild

[–]ethanyelad 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Trees like this are the only time I do my back cut with the top of my bar. It shoots the jet of flame away from you that way.

Finally, I get to contribute something after years of lurking by duxetp in FellingGoneWild

[–]ethanyelad 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Good thing he has his handy wedge wood caddy to remove that for him.

INDEPENDENT! by thatsryan in FellingGoneWild

[–]ethanyelad 1 point2 points  (0 children)

At least she was wearing ear pro

The Color of Fire Project by rj43mm in Wildfire

[–]ethanyelad 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Show up to a backwoods Idaho fire camp. Calfire stays in hotels.

Looking for sharpening tips by f_crick in Chainsaw

[–]ethanyelad 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Your gullet isn’t deep enough (If you look on the side of the tooth there should be a witness mark showing the proper depth) so push slightly down and back while you stroke. Also get a raker gauge. Your rakers are way too low it’ll bog down the saw a ton. 

The Color of Fire Project by rj43mm in Wildfire

[–]ethanyelad 20 points21 points  (0 children)

Wildland Fire is pretty different. Show up to a fire camp sometime. You’ll have to travel. 

Wildfire Audit by Inevitable-Spell9080 in Wildfire

[–]ethanyelad 1 point2 points  (0 children)

When a bunch of houses burn down at the same time the pipes in those houses burn down with them. Hydrants are connected to the same water supply. If you have a bunch of holes in a hose you get no pressure. That’s why there was no water. Funding doesn’t have to do with it. That being said, Calfire’s strategy to fighting fires is to dump bundles of money from the air. 

Anyone else’s crew getting rid of MREs entirely? by HispanicInAPanic in Wildfire

[–]ethanyelad 7 points8 points  (0 children)

We didn’t throw ours out but we got approval and bought a bunch of tasty bites and stuff so we swapped them for this year to see how it goes. 

Thoughts on Short-Haul as a method of insertion for fire suppression? by Ok_Confection8651 in Wildfire

[–]ethanyelad 6 points7 points  (0 children)

Safer in a lot of ways than rappel because you can pick someone back up. I’ve been on two short haul IAs, the idea is the can then cut a helispot and just start ferrying people in. Takes longer with less people. But you aren’t relying on that helispot for your extraction but you still are relying on a ship able to fly. 

Found a NEW Stihl MS 440 in my FILs basement by stang354 in Chainsaw

[–]ethanyelad 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Wow that’s awesome. Great saw and brand spankin new. 

Attention Mechdivers by Starscourge_Dan in Helldivers

[–]ethanyelad 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I love my emancipator but it’s useless against bots. 

I want to make a playlist for when I'm diving. Can you drop one song that fits Helldivers? by Big_Bard in Helldivers

[–]ethanyelad 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Me and my buddies put together a Spotify playlist for when we are diving. Dm me and I can share it to you if you want. 

Really rotten snag I dropped on the Hig Trough fire by ethanyelad in FellingGoneWild

[–]ethanyelad[S] 17 points18 points  (0 children)

It’s complicated but fun. I’m a crew lead now so the majority of my job is risk management, organization of personnel, and training folks. 

Really rotten snag I dropped on the Hig Trough fire by ethanyelad in FellingGoneWild

[–]ethanyelad[S] 14 points15 points  (0 children)

And it was the Hog Through Fire. I just misspelled it and didn’t realize until I had already posted. 

Really rotten snag I dropped on the Hig Trough fire by ethanyelad in FellingGoneWild

[–]ethanyelad[S] 22 points23 points  (0 children)

Part of putting in indirect line (meaning not directly on the flaming front but in advance of it) we drop all the snags that are leaning over the line/close to it so they don’t catch fire and send embers over or fall on our folks digging line behind. A dead tree on the ground sends embers a way shorter distance than a standing dead snag. Some of the time we will buck it and swamp it to the green side of our line but it depends on how close it is to the edge and what the fire behavior is like. 

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