[SEL] our hobby and fire ...in Australia and North America

[Richard Fink Sr]

Peter that sounds like a good system. My luck would be if i had to use it 
the battery would be dead or starter would lock up.   The only thing i have 
experience close to this was back about 20 years ago we had a brush fire 
behind our house.[a few thousand acres of water shed] I came home from work 
when i heard it was on fire . The local fire department was on the seen and 
i informed them i had just filled a 1100 gallon gas tank we had there for 
our trucks. They never left our place till the fire was completely out. I 
don't think any thing is more dangerous  that a fire or flood.
R Fink
PA





At 10:05 AM 1/28/2006 +0800, you wrote:
>You may have noticed that there has been a marked absence of postings from
>members in the Eastern States of Australia . Many of these blokes live in
>fire risk areas and would no doubt be busy looking after their properties
>and in some cases are active in volunteer fire fighting teams.
>I live in an area that could be at risk but due to a quirk in seasonal
>conditions no hot weather has been experienced so far this summer. The fuel
>is there so the risk is present.
>Precautions .......I would be interested to hear what other members who are
>at risk do.
>In my case I rely on rain water storage and a submerged bore pump. I have
>tank capacity of 30,000 gallons . This consists of two 12,000 gal tanks of
>rain water and a 6,000 gal tank that is topped up by rain water and
>bore water.The bore water is OK but does have a Tannin content ,this
>dissipates so can be used for drinking.
>The house is protected by a deluge sprinkler system that I have installed.
>This is fed by the 2.5 HP electric bore pump. This is OK whilst there is
>mains power . But as in the case of a large bush fire the the power supply 
>is usually cut off.To overcome this i have installed a 4HP Rosebery 
>engine[ this is where the hobby cuts in] .The Rosebery drives a 2 inch 
>centrifugal pump piped into the deluge system and fed from a separate 
>water tank.I start the Rosebery with a 12 v starter motor ,battery on 
>constant trickle charge.
>All this combined with a portable fire pump gives me some peace of mind 
>and I feel that I have done the best I can to combat a fire .
>It would be interesting to hear what methods you in other parts do .
>Peter Ogborne
>Little Grove ,Albany
>West Australia
>''Heart of the Rainbow Coast ''
>jopeter at omninet.net.au
>
>
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