http://tinyfarmblog.com/2008/04/21/grass-fire-across-the-road/ Daily photo-journal of organic market gardening: growing local food with two acres and some tools...! Mon, 08 Sep 2008 08:29:26 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.6.1 http://tinyfarmblog.com/2008/04/21/grass-fire-across-the-road/#comment-24992 Deborah Sat, 26 Apr 2008 05:53:23 +0000 http://tinyfarmblog.com/?p=1126#comment-24992 Thankfully I've never been effected by forest:bush fires such as they have in California and Australia but I once witnessed a fire in the corn field next to where I lived.  It wasn't a particularly windy day but the fire raced across the field at such a rate I worried that if my cats were in the field they wouldn't be able to outrun it.  Very frightening. I hadn't though about the possibility of the ride-on mower sparking - time for me to find new home for the mower I think!   Thankfully I’ve never been effected by forest:bush fires such as they have in California and Australia but I once witnessed a fire in the corn field next to where I lived.  It wasn’t a particularly windy day but the fire raced across the field at such a rate I worried that if my cats were in the field they wouldn’t be able to outrun it.  Very frightening.
I hadn’t though about the possibility of the ride-on mower sparking - time for me to find new home for the mower I think!
 

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