It was indeed sarcasm. In fact I applaud folks who take initiative without waiting for permission. I believe in the adage that "its better to seek forgiveness than ask for permission"

HA! yep.Now, we can take that storyand use it as illustration of exactly what the left is doing. They are "using their badge" to tell the country what is right, who is right, and dictate our morals and actions. They just have yet to figure out they have met a "prized bull" not their usual herd of lemmings waiting to be told what to think and do. It will not end well....they are "showing us their badge"..

That is a good idea, actually. Run a couple through a riot, with maybe some protective cages for drivers. Not much an umbrella can do at that point....

Awesome. Now take those bull dozers to Portland and save the city.

I agree that ranch hands "do that stuff", but ignoring the simplest safety device...sitting right next to you, is negligence.

I once needed some quick welding done on an antenna I was installing for a farmer. His foreman walked right past a welding helmet to do the job. When I asked him about the helmet, he stated something like "Oh, this will just take a second".

A minute later, he was cussing his negligence as some splatter from the weld destroyed the lenses on his brand new glasses. He was lucky that he was wearing those!

There are just some things people should not take for granted.

I sincerely hope that none of your statement, which I perceive as sarcasm, ever comes to past.

Ranchers are used to dealing with tough situations that suddenly happen. You discover that one of your cattle is tangled up in a fence. The equipment you need, such as the heavy-duty wire cutters, is back at the barn. All you have is your horse, a rope and a knife. What do you do? Well, you're a rancher, not a safety engineer. You just do it!

For me, it's not cattle, but sheep and goats. I had to free a stuck sheep just this morning, and a stuck goat yesterday. No hard hat, no gloves, and a good possibility of losing fingers. Probably not OSHA compliant.

There's a joke about the dangers of ranching, here: https://www.northernstar-online.com/s...

I've worked some wildlands fire training as a radio head, too, and training is better, no question. Most of the training doesn't come in firefighting techniques, however, but in command-and-control. I think that's the thing that impresses me most in this effort (not to far west of me) is that they still pulled off an amazing job despite being constrained on communication and having little centralized control. I'm sure everyone in that town were thankful to have a home to return to.

Nope. None. Amazing what americans can do without all that crap.

Thats the point. The State let everyone down, failed completely, they save a whole town creating a fire break. The weather that started this was forcasted 4 days in advance. It was this or burn. They didnt burn, and im ok with that. Out here farms run lots of bulldozers and big tractors, she is a ranch hand, and they do that stuff.

I realize that your comment was probably made "tongue in cheek", but it does have some merit.

Working for a state agency (32 years) that specializes in wildland firefighting (and having been on a few...), you come to appreciate just how dangerous it is for untrained volunteers to take on such responsibilities. Just watching the video, I noticed that the cat operator wasn't wearing her hardhat, neither was the older gent, running around with his shovel. I also failed to see ANY kind of radio communications between these people (I was a radio tech).

Granted...when you've no other recourse, doing it this way may be your only option. However, like climbing towers (I did this, too) without a harness, or even a belt, often times has disastrous results that could have totally been avoided.

Perhaps these folks should seek out an organization that could help them properly prepare for such actions, in the future...

Did they have a permit? Were they trained and licen? Didn't they realize they were putting lives at risk by their reckless actions? (I didn't see any masks either) Mark my words, no good will come from taking the law in their own hands!

Classic personal responsibility vs government dependence. I guess this part got left out of the 2020 DNC platform.

I love hillbillies

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Exactly.

Great post, nick! Sorry I missed it when it was posted.
This shows what Americans can do when we aren't distracted by lying politicians and biased media who are focused on fear and hate to gain power over us.