Keep an eye on your tires

time2roll wrote:

snowpeke wrote:
This Trailer may of started this big fire! I don't know what kind tires had but in this heat check your pressures at every stop. If they are China bombs replace them!Blow out

I don't buy that at all.

I would like to see an independent test where towing a trailer would cause a fire. Dragging chains, flat tires I don't see it. Just more FUD. Unless of course an occupant threw a cigarette into the dry weeds when getting out to review the situation.

You've obviously never followed a trailer with a dragging safety chain AT NIGHT, then. Depending on how much is dragging, it can be everything from a spark here and there, to a solid stream of sparks, like you'd see off a grinding wheel. Hell, whoever thought that =shooting= in the forest would cause a forest fire? Well, it =can= and it =does=. I was skeptical until I saw some low-light shooting videos and it was eye-opening. I now agree with the USFS when they close an area to shooting due to fire danger.

Lyle