Massive Montana Field Fire!!!!!!!! 2021 Wheat Harvest

[Ptah]

[captain queeg]

2. Those fires take right off. Helped during a harvest on the Palouse in E WA

Years ago when I was going to WSU. I was just driving a truck. I’d sit there and wait for the combine to come fill me up. I was laying on the hood half dozing when I noticed my farmer with his tractor and plow. I looked the other direction and saw a field on fire. He was going to cut a Fire break as were several other farmers. It spread really quick but the farmers’ fast reaction got it under control.

[gopiscrap]

5. I worked for a short while in Thornton just outside of Oaksdale

I was also a WSU student. Where was your farm that you worked on?

[captain queeg]

6. He had a couple parcels but the main stuff was over by colfax.

He was a relitivly small time farmer compared to a lot of them that had 1000s of acres.

[gopiscrap]

8. I got a speeding ticket in Colfax once

I spent four years and two summers in Pullman

[captain queeg]

9. Ha! Didn't everyone? Just kidding, I never got a ticket there but it was a famous speed trap

I guess I’d heard about it often enough I was always careful going thru town. When I was at WSU there was supposedly some engineering students that went to court and beat a speeding ticket by explaining Doppler radar to the judge, and the cops didn’t have anyone knowledgeable to defend the ticket so it was thrown out.

[gopiscrap]

10. OMG I beat my ticket because the guy

wrote the wrong date and I could prove I was on a plane that day

[captain queeg]

11. Wow. I guess that's why they had to write so many tickets.

Totally incompetent. By the way, there was a store on the main drag, I think it was a pharmacy. There was some word play with Tic Tok. Some college kids wrote some sarcastic article, I guess in the student paper making fun of the name. The owner wrote back his surname was Tok (or something like that, can’t remember now) but I’d think of it every time I drove thru town.

[gopiscrap]

12. I love it

it's fun for me to go over to Pullman every once in awhile I was thinking next summer perhaps to meet mid state and have DU get together-Mike

[captain queeg]

13. I haven't been there for a long time though I used to work for the Corps of Engineers after college

I worked at Lower Granite for awhile. A lot of ex WSUers talk about that big party they used to have down on the river at the start of the school year. Can’t remember what they called it now and seems like I’ve heard they’ve put the kibash to it nowadays, but don’t know if that’s true. Most of my work was downstream of there at Lower Monumental and Ice Harbor dams. I liked working there back then, been awhile now.

[gopiscrap]

14. I was at one of those party's once

me and my friends used to go to Boyer Park all the time

[captain queeg]

15. I think they ran them out of Boyer part over to the other side of the river.

I’m a sand dune area on the other bank.

[Duppers]

3. Yikes, that was scary!

Btw, as you probably know, one of those big combines cost as much as a house.

These farmers have to be gamblers.

[Grasswire2]

4. my grandparents homesteaded in Saskatchewan

I've heard the stories of prairie fires. Terrifying.

[Ptah]

7. From five years ago, here is a thread about a fire on my grandparents homestead.

https://www.democraticunderground.com/1062516