Ditto what RAH says. City friend that has some property in the country got a nasty bill from the rural fire department when he let a fire get away and had to call them.
We used to use wet burlap sacks soaked in a 5 gallon bucket of water when I was a kid for fire control (along with back fires, etc.). Now the weapon of choice are several different water sources including small 3 gallon hand sprayers, 20 gallon ATV mounted electric sprayers up to a 55 gallon tank mounted on a UTV with gasoline engine power pump and small fire nozzle. (We still have to burn wheat field stubble occasionally although we no-till soybeans into the stubble without burning if at all possible).
As long as flames are not very big, it is amazing what a 3 gallon hand pump up garden sprayer will do in controlling foot tall flames or less.
Last edited by snrub; 08/04/15 11:16 AM.
