Dusty Britches
Well-known member
BAck about 2 months ago, a neighbor (whose pasture is next to a major F&M road) caught on fire. It looked like a cigarette from a passing vehilce started it. The patch is about 2 or 3 acres and he uses it to produce hay. He lost 6 or 7 bales with that fire.
Central Texas has been hit with the worst drought that anyone can remember. Red flag storm warnings greet each day.
On Thanksgiving evening, we noticed the smell of another grass fire. Fearing it was our neighbor "Sparky", we drove the fence lines looking for a fire. We didn't see anything, so we went off to bed. The next morning the radio reported that the volunteer fire departments responded to a fire - hay bales on fire. It was about 3 miles as the crow flies from our house. As we drove by we realized it was the same neighbor whose pasture burned a few months ago. This was the 3rd fire he had and the second time his stacked round bales burned. The bales are stored a hundred yards from the main road, but there was no evidence this came from a passing car.
I figure someone has it in for this guy and the 3 fires are arson. Hay is getting mighty hard to find. I sure hope they find who is doing this. I think about my other neighbor who stores his hay next to the main road and how easily an arsonist can ruin him. He operates on the 3 miles of both sides of this road and has stored several hundred rounds.
The drought is bad enough - now we have to worry about aronists and passing cars discarding cigarettes.
Central Texas has been hit with the worst drought that anyone can remember. Red flag storm warnings greet each day.
On Thanksgiving evening, we noticed the smell of another grass fire. Fearing it was our neighbor "Sparky", we drove the fence lines looking for a fire. We didn't see anything, so we went off to bed. The next morning the radio reported that the volunteer fire departments responded to a fire - hay bales on fire. It was about 3 miles as the crow flies from our house. As we drove by we realized it was the same neighbor whose pasture burned a few months ago. This was the 3rd fire he had and the second time his stacked round bales burned. The bales are stored a hundred yards from the main road, but there was no evidence this came from a passing car.
I figure someone has it in for this guy and the 3 fires are arson. Hay is getting mighty hard to find. I sure hope they find who is doing this. I think about my other neighbor who stores his hay next to the main road and how easily an arsonist can ruin him. He operates on the 3 miles of both sides of this road and has stored several hundred rounds.
The drought is bad enough - now we have to worry about aronists and passing cars discarding cigarettes.
