A burning rope.
May 31, 2019 17:49:28 #
DOOK wrote:
Thanks for looking, folks. I appreciate your comments very much. 
Earl.
Earl.
Beaut shots Earl of some idiots activity....
May 31, 2019 17:53:40 #
SX2002 wrote:
Beaut shots Earl of some idiots activity....
Thanks Ron. Yes, I agree. It wouldn't have caught fire on its own. I put it out with water after I'd finished taking photos.
May 31, 2019 21:02:18 #
May 31, 2019 21:08:39 #
ab7rn wrote:
Maybe someone was doing a butane backsplice!
It's a bit of a mystery--rope can't be just ignited with a match, so it must have had some fairly intense heat applied for a considerable time. Earl.
Jun 1, 2019 01:12:37 #
DOOK wrote:
I went to an old wooden jetty out the front of my place to photograph some ducks (as I often do) & saw a nylon(?) rope on fire at the end of the small jetty. There was nobody else around, so I have no idea how it caught fire. Downloading is recommended.
D500/Nikon 55-300mm.
D500/Nikon 55-300mm.
I hope you put out the fire after shooting, Earl.
Jun 1, 2019 01:20:50 #
TomC. wrote:
I hope you put out the fire after shooting, Earl.
Thanks, Tom--yes, a bucket of water soon doused it.
Earl.
Jun 1, 2019 02:10:53 #
I think that I would have extinguished the fire rather than photograph it, Photography seems like a lower priority than potentially burning a whole dock. Once a heavy creosoted dock is involved, the fires are very difficult to extinguish. The deck planking doesn't appear to have creosote but the structural timbers below the decking often have creosote preservative and are quite difficult to get water onto due to being covered with decking planks.
Jun 1, 2019 02:52:49 #
photogeneralist wrote:
I think that I would have extinguished the fire rather than photograph it, Photography seems like a lower priority than potentially burning a whole dock. Once a heavy creosoted dock is involved, the fires are very difficult to extinguish. The deck planking doesn't appear to have creosote but the structural timbers below the decking often have creosote preservative and are quite difficult to get water onto due to being covered with decking planks.
There was absolutely no panic. The timber showed no signs of catching fire & the jetty/pier is small, fairly remote, & unused (apart from some local kids who occasionally fish from it). If I thought there was any danger, or there was a boat moored in the immediate vicinity, I most certainly would have extinguished it pronto. Earl.
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Jun 2, 2019 21:25:37 #
cucharared wrote:
Well, that's certainly a mell of a hess.
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Thank you Ron (Mr Spooner). One doesn't often see a rurning bope.
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