The biggest issue with California is we dry out quick. We have a longer fire
season now it's mother nature I mean we're not getting the amount of rain that we usually get
and we're starting to see a lot more a lot more dry spells.
Reduction of fuel is a big thing for cities and utilities
and the Ventrac is able to do that for us.
One of the biggest things is you know keeping your fire break. Your defensible space around
your property. Around your cities. Making sure that you're getting the areas mowed down clear.
The vegetation needs to be done on a hillside. It needs to be done in a creek bottom. It needs to be
done you know everywhere just so you don't have the fuel in the fire to get it up in the trees.
The mowing is the key to keep it out of the trees because that's where it all starts from.
Sparks up and lifts up and then it starts going across from tree to tree to tree.
We don't get rain until way late in the season so the fuel
has been dry for a really long time so we're ending up getting
longer periods of more active fire weather that you can you know get a fire sparked quicker.
The general terrain in northern California is a little bit more hilly
you know cities are starting to expand out into the hill areas.
We're mowing more in a hilly situation rather than just flat open areas.
I feel that the Ventrac is really good at getting into a lot of places
that other pieces of equipment can't get into. As in under bushes around trees you can tighten
up the areas around a tree because you can get the deck up near the tree and not do any damage on it,
and you don't have the issue with hitting your cab on the trees hooking branches
breaking doing damage to the branches. You're able to successfully get in there and cut the
manpower down. That's a big part of buying Ventrac for us was cutting the manpower down. I could put
more Ventracs on the ground and get that much more production than having 15 weed eaters.
The area that we mowed yesterday was a walking path in the city that on both sides of it is
a fire danger. As you can see in the videos it's hilly it's wooded it's you have to get underneath
the trees you have to mow around different objects that people throw over the fence for you. There's
you know just multiple multiple things going on here. You got bushes you got shrubs you got
if you wanted to you couldn't even get a tractor in here there's no way
you would be able to get a regular tractor in here at all to mow it'd be all handled.
So what the Ventrac does for us in our city work is it helps the cities prepare
for the fire season it gives the cities the comfort of knowing that everything's clear,
clean. They're not going to worry about out of control fire. You're able to really extinguish the
amount of fuel that's left in the area that you're mowing around the city. The cities like seeing the
results after we come through rather than when we used to go through with the regular tractor.
It's cleaner I mean and we're able to get into areas that we never were able to get into.
You have to reduce the amount of fuel that's there and the Ventrac is able to do that for us.
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