trook
Gold Member
I am looking for a way to have some water available for some medium sized brush fires on my property. We are constantly burning limbs, dead trees, etc and I want a way to have some water available to suppress the fires if they tend to get out of control.
The average size brush pile is approximately 15-20ft in diameter and approximately 6-8 feet high. I do have a 100 gallon 3 point hitch sprayer with a good wand and decent pressure. I know this is not much, but it is certainly better than nothing.
I also have at my disposal a 250 gallon tote tank and a portable gas water pump that is supposed to pump up to 9000 gallons/hr. We have a 5ac lake I can pull water from to fill my tote tank, but the piles of brush are too far from the lake to draw straight from the lake to the brush piles with hose.
My thought are, after disking around the brush pile:
1) use the 100 gallon tank with the tractor if needed. This would be very mobile but will not have lots of volume. Would this be sufficient?
2) set the tote tank close to the brush pile (with pallet forks) and hook up the water pump (but not turn it on) and have it on standby in case the fire starts to get too big. Then, if needed, I can start the water pump and pull from the 250 gallon tote and put out a large volume of water in a short period of time. I only have a 25ft "blue" 2" hose. I don't have any type of fire nozzle, etc and I imagine I would go through the 250 gallons pretty fast. I have made an adapter that will allow me to hook up a standard garden hose to the 2" blue hose, but I am afraid of what such a large volume of water may do to any type of standard sprayer nozzle, not to mention if it will harm my pump because of reduced flow of water.
Please give me your opinions on what I should consider.
The average size brush pile is approximately 15-20ft in diameter and approximately 6-8 feet high. I do have a 100 gallon 3 point hitch sprayer with a good wand and decent pressure. I know this is not much, but it is certainly better than nothing.
I also have at my disposal a 250 gallon tote tank and a portable gas water pump that is supposed to pump up to 9000 gallons/hr. We have a 5ac lake I can pull water from to fill my tote tank, but the piles of brush are too far from the lake to draw straight from the lake to the brush piles with hose.
My thought are, after disking around the brush pile:
1) use the 100 gallon tank with the tractor if needed. This would be very mobile but will not have lots of volume. Would this be sufficient?
2) set the tote tank close to the brush pile (with pallet forks) and hook up the water pump (but not turn it on) and have it on standby in case the fire starts to get too big. Then, if needed, I can start the water pump and pull from the 250 gallon tote and put out a large volume of water in a short period of time. I only have a 25ft "blue" 2" hose. I don't have any type of fire nozzle, etc and I imagine I would go through the 250 gallons pretty fast. I have made an adapter that will allow me to hook up a standard garden hose to the 2" blue hose, but I am afraid of what such a large volume of water may do to any type of standard sprayer nozzle, not to mention if it will harm my pump because of reduced flow of water.
Please give me your opinions on what I should consider.