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To: Karen Lawrence who wrote (97)	2/6/2003 1:40:48 AM
From: ManyMoose	Respond to of 140

LOL! What are pulaskis? Some kind of ski boots, I'm guessing. I could have some fun with this one, Karen. No. A pulaski is a firefighting tool. Imagine a double-bitted ax with one of the bits turned 90 degrees so you can use it as a chopping hoe. It's the best tool for fire fighting that you can have, short of water. I don't understand about the fire on your sister's property. It was a bonfire? Fires are beautiful. I've seen quite a few in my career. I remember one burn where we had about 400 tons of slash per acre. (That's a lot; the usual average might be 30 tons). I carried a drip torch, which is a big can of diesel/gasoline mix with a drip spout curled up like a pig's tail with a burning wick at the end. When you want to light something, you tip the drip torch so the diesel/gas runs out past the wick, where it ignites and then drips to the ground where it ignites the slash fuel that you want to burn. You have to keep moving, for obvious reasons. I've never heard of anyone being killed during slash burn because it's done very carefully.