Tap
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I hear that there is a large fire down in his country. If I look at the map right, it is very close to him. Hope they get it out soon. We have a windy warm day here in SD.
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!!! Oh no!! 
Tap
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I am hearing on my fire radio that they are asking for more help from surrounding counties to try and corral the fire (fires) that sound like they are now NW of Jinglebob. That sounds about right as the wind has been out of the SE today. Hope it is just a precaution, and not as bad as it sounds.
Just looked, and I believe I am starting to see the smoke from that direction. Good Luck JB!
Just looked, and I believe I am starting to see the smoke from that direction. Good Luck JB!
Red Robin
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Best of luck Jinglebob. Hope it misses you.
Tap
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We are getting lots of smoke here now. I heard them call our neighboring fire dept. for help, then soon they were sending other units back. So I hope they got it out.
Turkey Track Bar
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Tap...thanks (I think 
) of the news. We did not (to the best of my knowledge that is) get the page for help. Jinglebob, I wish only for the very best for you and your community. This fire season is tough, as least for our community...please know you all are in our thoughts and prayers. I hope fire has ducked you.
Cheers for rain without lightning---
TTB :wink:
) of the news. We did not (to the best of my knowledge that is) get the page for help. Jinglebob, I wish only for the very best for you and your community. This fire season is tough, as least for our community...please know you all are in our thoughts and prayers. I hope fire has ducked you. Cheers for rain without lightning---
TTB :wink:
Jinglebob
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We had 4 or 5 yesterday afternoon. There was one a 1/4 mile to the west of me that burned a good sized area. The are still working to get one southeast of me totally under control. That one is in the breaks and they can't do much in the canyons and ceder trees, just stop it when it get on top.
The wind circled yesterday from the north to the east to the south southeast. We would think we had it and then it would break out again, down wind, where no one was paying enough attention. Most of the big units went to one a couple miles further west as it was close to a house. When I came in last night, they were all under control.
On the radio right now, they are saying that the one in the breaks has broken across a creek and they are calling for help. Sure wish I had a biggger, better fire fighting unit.
Thanks all for the prayers. I'm afraid this is going to be a long summer and fall.
The wind circled yesterday from the north to the east to the south southeast. We would think we had it and then it would break out again, down wind, where no one was paying enough attention. Most of the big units went to one a couple miles further west as it was close to a house. When I came in last night, they were all under control.
On the radio right now, they are saying that the one in the breaks has broken across a creek and they are calling for help. Sure wish I had a biggger, better fire fighting unit.
Thanks all for the prayers. I'm afraid this is going to be a long summer and fall.
Ranchy
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Aw, JB, hope today is much, much better for you guys.........I'm so sorry that you're having to deal with all the fires up there!
Tap, thanks, buddy!
Ya'll hang in there! It's gotta get better sometime! (((((((((((((hugs))))))))))))
Tap, thanks, buddy!
Ya'll hang in there! It's gotta get better sometime! (((((((((((((hugs))))))))))))
Tap
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I hear one of the fires near Jinglebob is almost 17,000 acres. I think that is big enough. It does sound like they might have it under control for now, but it is supposed to be awful windy tomorrow. :roll:
Jinglebob
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4:20 am. Just came in from watchin' the neighbors. Nothing goin' on so he sent me home.
One from yesterday flared up and jumped hi-way 34 and went on north another 5 to 6 miles. Got pretty close to Tumbleweeds place and I think it might have burned some of his pasture.
Don't know how many acres, but a lot for sure.
Saw something today I've never seen before. While we were fighting it, a small twister or dust devil came thru' the blackened part of the fire. Sure was glad it didn't come along the fire line or it would have caused a lot of problems.
Thanks all for the prayers. Grass will grow back with a little rain, but people can't come back.
Saddest was probably the hay that was in stacks. Heard tonight a neighbor to the southwest of me lost over 700 bales and the one east of me had huge stack the was burning. Hope they had insurance on it.
Got real close to several houses in the last 2 days, but they got them stopped.
One little girl was home alone and had a fire start in their shelter belt. She had the smarts to call someone and a neighbor to the north was up flying and reporting, so he landed and got the house hose going and made a big difference.
I don't know about the rest of the people in other states, but around here we are sure grateful for all the good neighbors who all drop what they are doing and head to the fire. We had people from 50 to 70 miles in every direction coming in. They had slurry bombers out of Rapid City on these fires, yesterday and today.
The ones down in the ceder breaks are the hardest ones to control. The fire gets down in the bottoms of them canyons and draws and you can't get to them and have to wait for them to come to you. Then you have to knock it down, before it gets to the other side. I'm talkin' places where you can't go a horseback! Then them trees smolder for days. We'll be watching the one to the east for a long time.
And more dry lightning predicted for a few more days.
Ahh, it's a wonderful country to live in!
If you ever wanted to fight fire, come visit for the next week or 2 months! :wink:
One from yesterday flared up and jumped hi-way 34 and went on north another 5 to 6 miles. Got pretty close to Tumbleweeds place and I think it might have burned some of his pasture.
Don't know how many acres, but a lot for sure.
Saw something today I've never seen before. While we were fighting it, a small twister or dust devil came thru' the blackened part of the fire. Sure was glad it didn't come along the fire line or it would have caused a lot of problems.
Thanks all for the prayers. Grass will grow back with a little rain, but people can't come back.
Saddest was probably the hay that was in stacks. Heard tonight a neighbor to the southwest of me lost over 700 bales and the one east of me had huge stack the was burning. Hope they had insurance on it.
Got real close to several houses in the last 2 days, but they got them stopped.
One little girl was home alone and had a fire start in their shelter belt. She had the smarts to call someone and a neighbor to the north was up flying and reporting, so he landed and got the house hose going and made a big difference.
I don't know about the rest of the people in other states, but around here we are sure grateful for all the good neighbors who all drop what they are doing and head to the fire. We had people from 50 to 70 miles in every direction coming in. They had slurry bombers out of Rapid City on these fires, yesterday and today.
The ones down in the ceder breaks are the hardest ones to control. The fire gets down in the bottoms of them canyons and draws and you can't get to them and have to wait for them to come to you. Then you have to knock it down, before it gets to the other side. I'm talkin' places where you can't go a horseback! Then them trees smolder for days. We'll be watching the one to the east for a long time.
And more dry lightning predicted for a few more days.
Ahh, it's a wonderful country to live in!
If you ever wanted to fight fire, come visit for the next week or 2 months! :wink:
Turkey Track Bar
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JB:
Please know you and your community are in our thoughts and prayers. I am glad no one has been hurt or lives lost.
Tumbleweed (or any one else for that matter
If you need pasture or hay, please PM me. We have a pretty good list put together. It was started by a neighbor who had no grass in the spring, and it is very detailed. We've tried to keep it up and add to it. As well as both NDSU and SDSU Extension Services have Feedlists (entries for pasture, feed, winter cows, trucking, etc.) that are VERY HELPFUL!
NDSU's can be found here:
http://www.ag.ndsu.edu/feedlist/
I then link to SDSU's off of there (the link is at the bottom of the page)
Let us know if you need anything else. I know moral support and someone to bright your day is worth an aweful lot, and we're thankful for great friends, neighbors, and the ranchers.net family for providing that!
Cheers---
TTB :wink:
Please know you and your community are in our thoughts and prayers. I am glad no one has been hurt or lives lost.
Tumbleweed (or any one else for that matter
If you need pasture or hay, please PM me. We have a pretty good list put together. It was started by a neighbor who had no grass in the spring, and it is very detailed. We've tried to keep it up and add to it. As well as both NDSU and SDSU Extension Services have Feedlists (entries for pasture, feed, winter cows, trucking, etc.) that are VERY HELPFUL! NDSU's can be found here:
http://www.ag.ndsu.edu/feedlist/
I then link to SDSU's off of there (the link is at the bottom of the page)
Let us know if you need anything else. I know moral support and someone to bright your day is worth an aweful lot, and we're thankful for great friends, neighbors, and the ranchers.net family for providing that!
Cheers---
TTB :wink:
Northern Rancher
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You can really see the impact fire has if you travel north to south in Saskatchewan-when our country was first settled a huge fire went through in '18 pretty much burned unchecked all summer-my grandparents came close to losing their homestead as it was solid bush up here. For the majority of the people who moved up here later it opened up alot of acres and made proving up a bit easier. As firefighting practices got better the land that isn't farmed is getting thicker and thicker-spring burning used to be a management practice for most ranchers up here-kept the willows from encroaching and didn't allow a big buildup of fuel. No it is just about impossible to get a fire permit and thus we have some huge fires that cost 100's of thousands to put out. If you travel about two hours south of me you hit a huge indian reserve-natives religiously burn off their ground every year-they've changed the land along the road from inpenetrable poplar to knee high grass-hopefully there will be some benefit from the terrible fires to the south of us.
cowsense
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If you travel about two hours south of me you hit a huge indian reserve-natives religiously burn off their ground every year-they've changed the land along the road from inpenetrable poplar to knee high grass-hopefully there will be some benefit from the terrible fires to the south of us.
Yaa and some of them get new govt. housing every year out of the deal too!!!
Yaa and some of them get new govt. housing every year out of the deal too!!!
Jinglebob
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Northern Rancher said:
I think we may see a little good come from these fires as it will knock down the woody plants for one year, anyway.
But we sure don't need to burn any trees down, in this part of the country. Hell, it's almost a hanging offense to cut down a live growing tree around here, cause there ain't too many. :wink:
Everything comes in cycles. We had wet years that brought problems. Now we are having dry years that are bringing problems. We whose ancestors have been here for over 100 years, have seen it all before and that is one of the reasons we have succeeded. We have our ancestors knowledge of what went on the last time we had these same problems and we learned from their mistakes and improvements. Too bad the government hasn't! :x
And I sure wish I had been along hiway 34 yesterday as the bikers came thru' who ignored the cops trying to turn traffic away from the fire area, where it was burning along both sides of the hiway. I do believe I would have been tempted to see if you can knock a bike down with a well aimed water jet from a fire fighting hose! Idiots! They caused problems and hardships and near accidents for those trying to save grass and houses. And they wonder why we dread the rally, every year!
Better not pull into my yard on a bike for a few days. I am kind of painting them all with the same brush, even tho' I know there are some good people who ride bikes. Too bad there are so many of the other kind, who screw it up for the rest.
OK, I'm done bitchin' now. Thanks for letting me vent. :lol: I get this way with lack of sleep. :lol: :lol: :lol: :lol:
Faster horses
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That's okay, Jinglebob. You can vent here. After all, we understand.
Tumbleweed
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I saw a few of those bikers Jinglebob mentioned the day before yesterday when the fire was just getting to hi-way 34. Smoke got pretty thick and I didn't see much of them after that. We tried to stop it from crossing the hi-way but the wind was to strong. I had two fellows with me running the hoses and at times all I could see was the yellow line on the hiway if I looked straight down. The smoke was so thick you could hardly breathe and at times there were flames coming over the pickup.
Once when we got out of it and were turning around to make another pass we could see it had crossed the road to the west so we went through a fence and headed north along it. Went a couple miles knocking it down but it kept breaking out behind us and it seemed to be getting a long way ahead of us and we appeared to be pretty much alone. The fire was headed for the neighbors buildings about five miles to the north of hiway 34 so we pulled out and got ahead of it and on the west side to try and keep it away from the neighbors homes. Their was a gathering there along a gravel county road of tractors with discs, ranchers with sprayers of all kinds, the county road grader and volunteer fire depts from all around the area. The fellow who runs the county grader bladed the shoulder of the road bare and that was a huge help in stopping the fire. Every one that could fought this fire all the way with what ever they could and this fire appeared to be getting spread out one to two miles wide. Back away from the road the fellows driving tractors pulling discs were going down the fireline with sprayers following up. It took all of these things to get this fire stopped. It took a lot of water to and their were tanker trucks following along the fire to fill the sprayers.
I saw Jinglebob along the gravel road on of my trips back from the tanker but there was no time to stop and visit. I was past Jinglebobs place when the fire near his place started but when I got there and looked back I saw smoke from the fire near home that was just getting started so I headed for that one.
Yesterday that fire here broke out again and headed south. I don't know how much it burned again but it appeared there were slurry planes working it all afternoon and it looked like they had it under control near dark from where I was. Myself and others were watching the norrth side of it to make sure it didn't take off again. I don't know how many acres it has burned. Heard from a neighbor that before it broke out again yesterday that it had already covered 16,000 acres but I don't know that for sure. It seems to cover a pretty big chunk of country.
Their is no moisture in the grass, the humidity is very low and the winds have been strong when these fires were burning. It is really hard getting them stopped. There is no moisture even in or under the cow chips so they don't smolder when the fire has passed. They are just little piles of light gray ash.
Hope the fires don't take off again today
Once when we got out of it and were turning around to make another pass we could see it had crossed the road to the west so we went through a fence and headed north along it. Went a couple miles knocking it down but it kept breaking out behind us and it seemed to be getting a long way ahead of us and we appeared to be pretty much alone. The fire was headed for the neighbors buildings about five miles to the north of hiway 34 so we pulled out and got ahead of it and on the west side to try and keep it away from the neighbors homes. Their was a gathering there along a gravel county road of tractors with discs, ranchers with sprayers of all kinds, the county road grader and volunteer fire depts from all around the area. The fellow who runs the county grader bladed the shoulder of the road bare and that was a huge help in stopping the fire. Every one that could fought this fire all the way with what ever they could and this fire appeared to be getting spread out one to two miles wide. Back away from the road the fellows driving tractors pulling discs were going down the fireline with sprayers following up. It took all of these things to get this fire stopped. It took a lot of water to and their were tanker trucks following along the fire to fill the sprayers.
I saw Jinglebob along the gravel road on of my trips back from the tanker but there was no time to stop and visit. I was past Jinglebobs place when the fire near his place started but when I got there and looked back I saw smoke from the fire near home that was just getting started so I headed for that one.
Yesterday that fire here broke out again and headed south. I don't know how much it burned again but it appeared there were slurry planes working it all afternoon and it looked like they had it under control near dark from where I was. Myself and others were watching the norrth side of it to make sure it didn't take off again. I don't know how many acres it has burned. Heard from a neighbor that before it broke out again yesterday that it had already covered 16,000 acres but I don't know that for sure. It seems to cover a pretty big chunk of country.
Their is no moisture in the grass, the humidity is very low and the winds have been strong when these fires were burning. It is really hard getting them stopped. There is no moisture even in or under the cow chips so they don't smolder when the fire has passed. They are just little piles of light gray ash.
Hope the fires don't take off again today
Tap
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Thanks for the report Tumbleweed. I felt like I was riding along with you at the fire. :shock: Man, those big fires can be destructive. Is your neighbor Paul S. losing a lot of grass too? I think he already had some bred hfrs. consigned to the sale Monday, but now that the fire went thru, I am sure he thinks he made the right choice. But you know him, he probably has about 2000 more of them scattered around the country.
Stay safe you two. :!:
Stay safe you two. :!:
Tumbleweed
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Tap it was Pauls home and his daughter and son in laws homes that were to the north just on the other side of that gravel road. I think he's thinking just like you say that it's time to be moving his heifers. He has some nice heifers that will make good ranch cows. I calved out 150 of them I bought from him last fall but sold them earlier due to the dry conditions. They were nice heifers and calved out easy.