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Location: MN | Anyone know? |
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Location: Blaine, MN | Need the insurance money boss? |
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Location: MN | short STRIKE - 12/2/2016 6:56 PM
Need the insurance money boss?
Now there's a thought |
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| Many years ago old roommates of mine had a mushroom / who knows what else, induced burn of a fiberglass boat and it burned long and hot, with a lot of black smoke!!!!! In the driveway not on the water no less.
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Location: Minnesota. | My 1997 681VS sure did, in a garage fire.
You could still tell it was a boat but that's about it. Super hot fire, even the trailer twisted all to heck. Fully insured for what I paid for it new (23,000) but that didn't come close to a new Ranger in 2012. Had to put another "car loan" onto it to step up to a Z118. Great choice but - that 681 was a fine boat!
I'm totally happy again... |
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Location: Minneconia | So what are the causes for these boats to catch fire sitting in a garage? |
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Location: Minnesota | Could be mice chewing on wires short out just a thought |
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| I thought you liked your boat... |
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Location: Minnesota. | Dirt Esox - 12/10/2016 7:41 AM
So what are the causes for these boats to catch fire sitting in a garage?
In my case the stupidity of the owner! Don't ask!
I'm a former tradesman and did something dumb in my garage. I knew better. Totally responsible. |
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| My buddy's boat burned up in his driveway. Flames were a good 30 feet in the air, and hot enough to scorch my bushes and kill part of my lawn. So hot that his truck caught on fire too... Fiberglass, paint, wood, carpeting, rods, lures, gas, and oil... Pretty much everything is flammable but the screws holding it together. |
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| Even aluminum will burn, if subjected to enough heat. Thermite grenades are the standard the military uses for burning equipment, documents. Simply powdered aluminum, with an igniter material. For decades, planes leaving the old Denver airport took off over Rocky Mountain arsenal, one of the largest chemical weapons storage facilities in the states. A cynical old NCO told me the calculation by the pentagon was that if a plane crashed there, the temperature at which the aluminum skin of the aircraft would burn was high enough to incinerate any chemicals released into the atmosphere by the crash.
By the way, really not a good idea to try and burn aluminum shavings, etc. One problem with the thermite grenades was that they sometimes exploded rather than burned as they are supposed to. We always used a blasting cap under the handle to set them off remotely, rather than just pulling the pin and tossing them. Only had one out of a couple dozen we used blow but that is enough. |
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Location: Almond, WI | I have a saying: Non-flammable just means you're not trying hard enough. |
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Will a fiberglass boat burn?