There’s no "official" end to the fire season … it just depends on the weather, but with all the moisture we’ve had in recent weeks, the wildfire danger is definitely over for us. That meant it was time to drain out the water tanks on our fire trailer, which is what we did today. With a cold front forecast to arrive this weekend — 16 degrees Friday night, 15 degrees Saturday night and 14 degrees on Sunday night — we also had to get this done before the water froze and ruptured the tanks and valves.
I have the tractor hooked up to the fire trailer because we have a trailer ball now mounted on the pallet forks — it quickly unscrews so you can use the forks to move other things — and this makes it quick and easy to maneuver trailers around the ranch. No longer do we have to hitch them up to a truck just to move them out of the vehicle shed for something like this, for instance.
In the end, we were very relieved that this year fire season came and went without incident here.
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