North complex fire more dozer line

[@dezmondw7927]

Was on this fire 30+ day's.
Even had the Alemda Fire where I reside in Southern Oregon start up 6 day's into my 2nd deployment on the complex. Lost my house and my Camaro.
Fire activity on this Complex was one to remember.
Good job boy's!! Keep up the good work, and that head on a swivel 😎

[@williamfocha5168]

Rule #1 if you can't see the operator he can't see you. Learned it 40+ years ago as a seasonal fire for the Division of Forestry (before it was CalFire)

[@oldamericaniron5767]

Good words to live by when ever around any moving equipment.

[@omgdbwhatadb5586]

@@oldamericaniron5767 and don't disconnect the backup beeper. I hate seeing a piece of equipment move backwards and no beep.

[@Tuner010]

I heard one way to get their attention is spray the cab; They'll be angry but it will work great if you need to convey something very important.

[@dgsantafedave1]

We had a fire last week in Rancho Tehama, CA and I saw one of these dozers leaving loaded up on their truck. Pretty awesome unit! Love your video's great view of the fire line and operation! Please stay safe you guys really are heroes and with the help of the sky units and ground crew you keep us folks in the country safe. Thanks!

[@brettrichards666]

You're close to me then. I'm from Cottonwood, and Redding area.

[@arnoldreite1843]

Love the content keep em comin

[@idahotim4083]

A dozer boss needs to be equipment experienced to be a dozer boss, sadly most are not. But they went to a class and that made them qualified. Night ops is even worse. I feel your pain. On night ops I made a dozer boss trainee put glow sticks all over his pack and where them around his neck so I could spot her. I also gave her a lot of safety training on where to be and where not to be as night ops you get blinded quickly by the glare off the dust you stir up. It is stressful for sure having to watch not only what your doing but look out for someone else on foot.

[@byronschroedel432]

My father who was a career firefighter in Napa Valley area operated a open cab d6 flat trac circa late 70ies into the 80ies during the fire season. He operated up and down California and at that time there was no certifications, just had to be a qualified cat skinner. Remember him coming home with layers of dust and fire retardant covering him from head to toe. He would operate day and night often times surrounded by the prison crews that worked the line behind the bulldozer. He eventually died from lung cancer at the age of 45. The dust, retardant and the loads of protein foam he was exposed to got him early. Nothing to do with your post just old memories

[@careyquadtrac4219]

@@byronschroedel432 kudos to your father man!

[@irondiver292]

Your Dad lived man. Many never do. God bless you

[@williammorigeau2980]

Dozer Bosses are beginners of the stepping stones of moving up the ladder. They know what they have read in the manuals to be a dozer boss. I had a dozer boss one time we were getting lightning over our heads I told him we should disengage so he had to look it up in the manual to see if that was the right thing to do!

[@davidmorris3102]

When I was a DOZB trainee my CDF trainer was surprised when I told him I ran a dozer back home. You're spot on when you say they need equipment experience.

[@gusobrien6090]

D6R would really be sweet in this situation. Keep on pushin.

[@Forestryman707]

Love the videos. Please keep them coming. I could see this channel blowing up. Not many videos of fire fighting dozers

[@kramnoslaw4474]

Nope that's for sure

[@sheldonjanzen3483]

In alberta they dont let us release any photos or videos working on the fire. U can get fired if you do. Otherwise i would have made tons of videos like this. Awesome stuff!

[@sheldonjanzen3483]

James street.. im on the list again this year so if fires break out ill get some action hopefully and take a camera out with me. Its all waiting on mother nature again. Last year we had no fires in my are, but the 2 years before were super busy.

[@avid6186]

@@sheldonjanzen3483 why can't you show videos?

[@abikerinpa]

Keep the video’s coming my new friend 😎

[@WildfireEngineer]

Communication its a two way street

[@andybee4236]

You probably saved his life moving him on. Stay safe

[@scotabot7826]

Boy, I bet the filters in that dozer get changed quite frequently!

[@tomyousch7070]

Thank you for your efforts.

[@markfischer1012]

Stamper always stays far away so operator can swing or spin to maneuver . CDF

[@jamesmiller7283]

This guy must b new to this game !

[@9711james]

Sounds like you keep your tracks pretty tight is that on purpose? Just curious

[@nickshubin3627]

Did you have a heart to heart with the dozer "boss"?

[@Bwill11]

Get these boys a D11

[@mikeznel6048]

Too big for what they're doing.

[@jeremy_238]

Not really when it comes to fire faster is better

[@dozer1642]

@@jeremy_238 you ever run a D-11? Ever haul one in a road? Ever fought fire?

[@squintzpalladoris9761]

Get that Manzanita 💪

[@ctxiv9806]

A d11 isn’t something you can just haul around you gotta build it on site! The blade alone is a load itself! Along with the tracks cab n engine

[@Wildland_Firefighter]

Push son push!

[@sharpshooter7127]

Looks like they need bigger tractors with KG or v blades. At the minimum a D6 but a D8 would be more efficient

[@whynot4720]

How do I get into this field of work, cutting fire lines with a dozer?

[@georgesmith8113]

👍👍👍👊👊

[@thago8887]

trato são bonito 🇧🇷🇧🇷😀😀🙄🙄👍👍✌✌✌

[@Tuner010]

What type of dozer is often used to fight wild fires? I'm planning on doing an rc fire dozer version and I'm learning by watching these types of videos.

[@kingsofwildfire3139]

Most common dozer used on fires in the west are D6N and D6R or D6T caterpillar those are the most common but all brands are used From case to John deere and Komatsu but they are all about the same size as the cats Whether it be the small D6N or the bigger D6 t's They're all considered type 2 dozer and a type 2 dozer are the most common on fires

[@ckoutdoors23]

Deer 650

[@bldlightpainting]

​​@@kingsofwildfire3139 Grow up little boy and stop spewing immature disgusting filth on a public video! How pathetically uneducated and Godless, and sad to know your father and mother failed to train you to be a real man, a true gentleman of moral character. Instead you sound like just another ignorant BLM street thug.

[@kevinrider8703]

You need bigger dozer dude BIGGER

[@calebheddy1447]

strobes

[@sheldonjanzen3483]

Is there only 1 cat on this crew? We always use crews of 3 or more cats. First cat in walks down the trees/brush. Second cat rolls the brush to the side. 3rd cat helps roll brush and clears roots to topsoil. All is done in 1 pass. We allso have a guy on the ground walking/quading ahead to determine the path. This looks so dangerous to me 1 machine all by itself just stirring up the brush. Cut the line and keep moving ahead.

[@fowletm1992]

If money was unlimited maybe
We very rarely run more than 1 machine amd 1 truck following
Can spread out over a far larger area with the same number of machines

[@sheldonjanzen3483]

We value our personal safety more i guess? With a crew of 3 cats we can clear an area 100 m by 100m in 10 mins or less. We always have a helicopter overhead too so nobody gets trapped in a backfire. People working alone are the greatest risk and many people have died learning this. A few times weve been caught and made a quick clearing before it got too bad. Clear out a giant pad, park all the machines, and wait it out or helicopter evac or just watch it burn past.. Also when cutting fireguards it can be done in pretty much a single pass. Ive cut over 18 km of fireguard in a day on a great crew. Thats progress. Cost wise, our cat crews only mobilize when theres extreme fire risk or active fires nearby. The forestry/gov does logistics, helicopters, and ground crews. Private contractors do all the cat work. These guys have far more experience and are way more effective than gov/forestry guys who have very little real operating experience or knowledge. Most operators i know have extensive experience in logging and dirt work. All this cat work you do supporting ground crews, we use an excavator and a tracked water tender/nodwell for. Im in no way calling your work down. This poor dozer guy in the video is overworked and overstressed. Hats off to him on a good job. Its that andrenaline rush..thats why we do it. Its a huge battle of man vs nature and we are like the tank division!

[@fowletm1992]

As I said if Monet was no issue
We're in Australia
Fighting fires woth no professor help sbd no pay we're just farmers doing what we have to
Switch out unlimited budgets for smarts and local knowledge
We all know where a fire is going to go how fast it'll go and when to pull out because of a wind change thatll happen shortly
But we also do most of our fire fighting with fire
Run a strip 300m in front of the fire and burn back onto it
Only used 1000lts of water last fore I was at

[@sheldonjanzen3483]

@@fowletm1992 its nice when theyr that small. My last fire was in 2019. It was out of control for over 45 days. It covered over 55000 hectares and had over 60 pieces of heavy machinery, and over 200 personal. I think our forests are a lot thicker around here. We do backburn too, but that takes longer and usually makes more spot fires. Last summer we didnt have a single fire. Its a very unreliable line of work for making an income. In the end it is a risky job not many will step up and do. Hats off to you guys keep an eye on the wind and run for the black if theres trouble!

[@fowletm1992]

@@sheldonjanzen3483
We farm right on the edge of the bush so our fires are usually 100k+ acres and hit the farmland periodically over the whole summer
Last big one hit a cross a 20km front at the same time
15 trucks 2 dozers
We just don't have to luxury of concentrating in one area and cat really retreat into burnt areas cause it's in the bush
We're doing all the work on the downwind of the fire
Where we're farming it's all broad acre cropping so we have about 250k acres cleared and that makes up 10 operations woth a total population of about 40 people including kids
That gives us a about 100km on boarder with bushland and the bush goes basically for ever till it gets to the desert
So fires can burn out there for 4months
But we just worry about it if it hits the farmland
Most of it is burnt now so we'll get 5yrs now of calm at least
Been some hectic summers the last 3 doing nothing but standing in smoke chasing fingers for 2months or so

[@arthurjohnson8450]

I operated dozens on fires scince 1972 I would be scared to death to operate a small dozer like that. Smallest dozer that should be allowed is a D7 and up the bigger the cat the better you are. How do you explain to a person that lost their house. Sorry about your property,but look we didn't disturb any brush.

[@williamgibb5557]

The smaller guys are easier to transport but why not a D8 or so. Just push everything to the side and follow up with the smaller to cleanup.

[@karen7366]

Thing you need a bigger dozer

[@hcaveman6954]

Doesn't that unit have a horn? Use it.

[@stevendelcarlo3294]

Just keep cutting and pray for no bee's

[@pgraham3760]

talk to your boss and do it his or her way

[@jeananderson815]

get a d11 in there and do something

[@watchthe1369]

Man it looks like you just had the wrong machine for the job or terrain. An excavator with a blade mounted and a mulcher/ grapple head might have been a lot better. Too many logs to push out of the way when a mulcher/ grapple could have chopped and tossed them with a blade to scrape things as it went. With that fuel load, you may as well back out and let it burn while reinforcing the road as a fire break.

[@1979augistine]

You boss has Clearly never been by any heavy equipment before , just explain to him sometimes people have zero common sense until they get hurt by them being dumb

[@scooby969]

Wtf kind of operating is this. This is the worst I seen just cause you got the keys doesn't make a operator

[@DennisTurpin-tx4vw]

Stop complaining and do your job. You haven't pushed very many fire lines have you. It shows what are you running a little 4

[@skidooklimer]

25 years as an operator and gotta say, this was sad to watch. Horrible operating would be much too nice of a compliment. No understanding of the basic fundamentals let alone how to cut line...pathetic. Looked like a kid who watched a few videos and decided seek and destroy was the best option.