11/08/2025
FIRE PREVENTION.... are you ready for harvest ??
It's freakin dry and hot out there! 🤯 🚒 🔥 🚜
Its "a simple stone spark caught the field on fire" or "the peat moss under that chopped down willow tree was 400° and spontaneously combusted!!" (TRUE STORY!)
My gutt is telling me that harvest season will be EXTRA scary, that equipment fires/losses could be high and the "back up equipment" that dealerships have will run out fast all across Canada.
For us, our fear is the harvester; we "are" the custom guys, we are the ones that the farmer will call when their machine goes down and there isn't a spare. So what will we do when there isn't a spare for us?!
Well, as of tomorrow morning we are loading up our water totes, the pump and hose onto the flatbed and hauling around an extra piece to the train of equipment that will move from farm to farm.
Its annoying and time consuming and not at all convenient, but if we can get to the equipment before the FD can and can save what we have, then it's worth it.
Leaf Blowers will be powered up and fueled.
Extinguishers will be charged and near by... but design flaw! why don't more tractors have a spot for a decent sized extinguisher???
Do what you can friends.
Have totes full of water ready.
Have the pump checked and repaired.
Have a hose attached.
If you can, have this on a trailer that can easily be taken to the field.
Recharge those extinguishers, buy some extras, and put them in the truck.
Keep the plow out or easy to grab if the need to break up the field for you or a neighbor comes up.
Make anything that will help easily accessible and ready to move to save what you can. Machinery or Crop.
For us and for our farmers, we just can't afford to be down and we can't afford to wait for a replacement... can you?
Stay Safe this Harvest Season.
Jennie and Adam.