C8AX Fire in Texas Queensland.

[gordon]

... any landing you can walk away from.

Sorry to hear about the injuries, but your mission now has to be to find another one to rescue and balance up the numbers.

[motto (RIP)]

I hope you were insured Peter!

David

[Pete Solomon]

Thanks everyone for your words of concern and support - It's been a week now and I'm starting to feel much better. I returned to work Thursday but still have dressings on my hip and I am not wearing my uniform shirt rather an issued T Shirt as the polyester/nylon number was rubbing under my arm too much.

The Blitz was insured - with Shannons. For those of you in Australia who have access to them all I can say is go with them. They have been very good. I lodged the claim over the phone, they told me the steps I need to take and handled everything with no mess, no fuss. The claims assessor rang last Thursday and they have written off the vehicle but as it is over 30 years old I have rights of Salvage. I have been very impressed with their service, speed of claim and professionalism.

I'm not sure where too next. I have been grounded by the bride who doesn't want me owning or working on any more projects for awhile - it was pretty scary for her to take "That phone call" so I'll let things cool off at home for bit before we see whats next. A Landrover LRDP vehicle would be nice!

Cheers
Pete

[Lionelgee]

Originally Posted by Pete Solomon

Thanks everyone for your words of concern and support - It's been a week now and I'm starting to feel much better. I returned to work Thursday but still have dressings on my hip and I am not wearing my uniform shirt rather an issued T Shirt as the polyester/nylon number was rubbing under my arm too much.

The Blitz was insured - with Shannons. For those of you in Australia who have access to them all I can say is go with them. They have been very good. I lodged the claim over the phone, they told me the steps I need to take and handled everything with no mess, no fuss. The claims assessor rang last Thursday and they have written off the vehicle but as it is over 30 years old I have rights of Salvage. I have been very impressed with their service, speed of claim and professionalism.

I'm not sure where too next. I have been grounded by the bride who doesn't want me owning or working on any more projects for awhile - it was pretty scary for her to take "That phone call" so I'll let things cool off at home for bit before we see whats next. A Landrover LRDP vehicle would be nice!

Cheers
Pete

G'day Pete,

It was sad to read the thread about your C8AX catching fire on you and for the fact that you got hurt as well. Good to hear that it was insured and they were easy to deal with.

I am in Bundaberg and we had the fire engines around yesterday after the next door neighbour set fire to his paddock with a lawn mower. The fire went straight for my spare parts Land Rovers - three of which are going to be made into one good Fitted For Radio Series 3. I put one branch of the fire out which went straight under the middle of the Land Rovers. I let the rest of the paddock go because despite it being mown down low the fire was moving too fast with a westerly wind behind it. Two fire engines later and about three hours of mopping up after the fire brigade left.

Queensland is in for a very bad fire season after the floods. The bulk of the area that burnt in my paddock was under water in January.

Kind Regards
Lionel

[Private_collector]

Jeezus...............thats a very close call, Pete. I'm embarassed to say I only just became aware of your incident, now. When I read the first post, I thought there must have been some wreck by the roadside that a bushfire had gotten at. Saw your own post and the accompanying photo, then I understood!Speedy recovery to you! Hope you are not in great pain still. I would wish you to be in NO pain, but i'm sure we both know better than to expect that, right?

Anyone else ever entertain feelings that these old trucks really don't want to be restored? That, and that they occasionally try to kill those who love them most! Bastards of things.

I am REALLY giving serious consideration to a fire supression system firing down from above the engine somehow. Guess that's not gonna help greatly at speed, but might buy a little time to eject.

Pete, you and your drivers mate are lucky to be alive. Your friend sure has some steele in returning to the inferno to retrieve the arms & ammunition.

[Private_collector]

Originally Posted by Lionelgee

Queensland is in for a very bad fire season after the floods. The bulk of the area that burnt in my paddock was under water in January.

Thats the truth, Lionel! All that rain then, dry as a buzzards crotch now.

I put my fire pump in for a service last Friday. Had been backburning behind the dam, with pump running, just in case I got nervous. Fat lot of bloody use it was though, because the wretched pump kept stopping less than a minute after each time I started it up. That is NOT what I want to happen in an emergency situation! Hearing Petes horror story goes to show, anytime, anywhere, when you least expect it, expect it!

[Ausmick]

http://www.mapleleafup.net/forums/sh...ad.php?t=13576

I just was looking at a Blitz on an Aboriginal Community here in NT and got me thinking about doing up another, got on MLU and just found out my old project got burnt. I sold it to Pete as it was a Kiwi truck and he was ex military and a Kiwi himself so a perfect home.

I drove it from NSW to Alice Springs in 2010 to attend the Alice Springs Truck Show, 6000km at 60km/hr........

Glad no one got burnt to death, sad ending for the old girl.