🔥 Our Worst Nightmare 🔥 The scariest thing about living with the land - Free Range Homestead Ep 68
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- Опубликовано: 21 мар 2024
- We share with you our fears about living in rural Australia and what we do to mitigate the risk. We look at the tragedy that happened at @southamptonhomestead8747 and chat with owner, Jeff Pow, about what he is doing on his property to prevent the devastation from ever occurring again.
To see some live footage of a devastating fire storm ripping through a property on Kangaroo Island check out this video sent to us by Jeff. • Escaping a Fire Storm ...
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Very interesting interviewing your friend Jeff. I live in BC Canada. We have the same concern of threatening lightening fires every year. We are entering spring season with not much rain, and our winter was very mild with not much snow cover on our mountains, and the summer coming is having us on edge. Thank you for a good video and all the best of luck with protecting your block and "your girls"!
Love the patient baby soaking up all this knowledge. This is fascinating and so good to hear how you have to plan ahead. In NW England, we have to plan ahead, like, when will we get 24 hogrs without sodding rain to get onto the lawn and garden. If you need to live somewhere with a low fire risk, come here, if you can get a match to light, the wind and rain will put it out. Just love this global warming, when is the warming arriving?
Excess Fire load is exactly the problem but making a desert isn't the answer this guy is onto it
Every episode right from the beginning has been a lesson of some sort.
Thanks for sharing.
Glad you did some tree and brush clearing when you took over the property. A bit more peace of mind. But always something more to do.
Incredibly informative and brought knowledge that I had never heard before. Exotics get a terrible wrap, but he absolutely seem to have a place. Food and protection.
Wild Fires are in fact a natural occurrence and ecological changing process. We as modern Homo sapiens with sedentary lifestyles of building stationary permit homes out of flammable materials is the cause for such concern and loss. sure miss you both sailing and educating us all about the beautiful rugged Australian coast. Jim Rodgers
Oh man I remember those fires, we are in Northland NZ and our skies turned dark and everything was orange, couldn't believe how intense it hit us so far away.
YOU are AWESOME
Hi Troy & Pascale, there are so many aspects of managing land. Your videos are so educational many many people around the world who regularly suffer forest fires or bush fires should really take note. Wishing you all the very best from the UK.
great show really enlightening about using trees for feed as most people cut them down to grow more grass and about the trees that are less lightly to burn thanks
Valuable information.
You guys are blessed
Great efforts -- it's certainly a priority to make your land / home area as firewise as possible. It's been a crazy hot summer over here in the SW of Western Australia this year (as you know!). I'm sure you've a clear 'bushfire plan' ready. We've only activated ours once this year, and hoping the main danger has passed for now. ❤❤
Yep, you guys have a bit of a dire situation with dry summer gullies and hills that can make a bad situation much worse. I think on balance I may have preferred cyclones!
@@FreeRangeLiving ;-) We're in Balingup ...
I know. I remember seeing a property advertised there as "perfect for a pole home!". That block would be rough for a goat and pure hell in a fire.
I live in a rural area of Central Oregon. The species are different but so many paradelles. Pre white settlers the native pine forests burned on a 10 to 30 year cycle. This resulted in lower ground fuel loadings and the fires were much less intent than the wildfires we have today. Our public forest land owners are attempting to re introduce controlled fires into our landscapes. In our small community we work together to manually reduce these fuel loading each year. It will be an ongoing project to create a safer place for us to live.
Stem density in regrowth forest is a commonly overlooked factor. Old bush is notable for the space between trunks and sparse undergrowth.
Oh this is so devastating. I know how scary summer fires are. We live in a very dry area in wheatbelt in WA. Every summer I get anxiety about these dry storms. We have had to evacuate too many times :(
Definitely not a nice feeling. Thanks for bringing attention to this. Trying to prepare the property and lessen the fuel load is the best you can do to help protect your property from being burn to the ground.
Excellent video! You guys are brilliant! Your homesteading videos are informative and interesting. Amazing preventative preparation for fire....Interesting research on fires in Austrailia....Wishing you 3 all things good and safety❤
8:28 Had a big Eucalyptus limb come through the roof on a new years eve in the late 90's, Altadena CA. Had another huge one partially over a neighbors property that was always a worry. Super messy bark. Wood burned nice in the fireplace though.
Yes, it was some work clearing the dangerous trees, but our winter firewood is assured for some time!
Sorry couldn’t watch this one. Gives me horrible memories from two years ago when my brother lost his farm 2 years ago here in BC Canada. Fires Destroyed everything on his 58 acres. Including many other farms and homes. I’ll be watching your next one. ❤️
Very understandable in those circumstances. Our respects to your brother- we hope his fortunes have improved.
Everyone that owns or manages land needs to have a plan for dealing with fire. Some need to do and plan more than others based on their but circumstances but even the smallest home owner needs to have a plan of action for dealing with such a problem. Do you stay and fight the fire ? Is it bigger than you can handle and you need to evacuate. Escape routes planned in advance increase the odds of getting out safely. AND GUESS WHAT ? It absolutely comes as no surprise to me that you two are completely on top of the situation. Great !
Gotta know when to hold em, and know when to fold em!
I think that you two are right on the money. Agroforestry is the go. It's not trees or no trees but rather which trees and a combination of things rather than extremes.
Factoring in what could be and diminishing the odds of. Cost effective changes. Planning for the worse if it ever happens.
Another excellent video, thank you !
Great!
Interesting 👍
Thanks for sharing. 🌧🤞
Another great episode guys.
Really interesting ep, nice ne.
Hi Troy and Pascale, very interesting video. The regerative farming pratices seems to be becoming a lot more popular and aired in the media which is a great thing. Just back from two wonderful weeks at Port Davey / Bathurst Harbour. Had 4 days of blue skies and no wind, a lot of the waterways were glassed out, very spectacular.. I always forget how stunning this area is. Had a great sail home 20 to 30 knots from the SW, 3 to 5 metre seas, the trimaran handled it really well, three reefs in the main, and only a small bit of jib, still travelling at ten to twelve knots with a top speed of 18.9 knots when we were brave enough to surf the swells. Hope you are all well, kind regards Alistair.
Sounds very idyllic. I've never been on a multi surfing swells. Does it feel like one hull is digging in? I do love sailing at those speeds though, a lot of miles get scrubbed off the map pretty quick and it gets the dolphins quite excited!
Very interesting video!
When you started Ramshackle Ranch, I remember being concerned for you all, it being so soon after the Great Burning. Glad to see that you still have the sailor's penchant for identifying and mitigating all risks as much as possible! (Not that I thought you had really lost it!😂)
Hope the rain comes soon!
Take good care!
You might consider staging the fire water supply on the opposite side of the fire break. If the forest is burning, it will impede your access.
The fire water supply is at the buildings, unless we want dam water, then we can draw from troughs in the paddock.
There's a group in Scotland working to restore a previously clear cut "forest", which is now a preserve with far too high stem density of only one species and no undergrowth. They cut down trees selectively and leave them to decay, nourishing the soil and opening space for various native trees and plants to grow.
We're just about to get into our fire season here in western canada. it's dry. it's going to be nasty. ......
Best of luck over there. I thought it never stopped raining there in the west, or is that just right on the coast?
Really interesting, thanks.
Good news for me - I planted a Mulberry next to my house (extreme fire zoned), it quickly grew very large and now provides cool shade in summer with some light in winter, because its so deciduous, and bird watching as they love the fruit. The leaves can be decimated by possums sometimes though.
Sounds great!
I hear that planting a fire retarding hedge might prevent fires closing in. And to keep trees from growing closer than 200m from home. All the best
Have loved every one of your episodes right from your first sailing days. We now enjoy your adventures with the pigs, goats cat dogs chooks and of course your beautiful little family. I love that your baby is included in your daily activities, outdoors and indoors. However I am a little concerned that she is in close proximity while Pascale is cooking on the gas cooktop. Gas stove fumes can be harmful. New studies have linked gas stoves to increased rates of childhood asthma and have shown that using a gas stove can produce elevated levels of benzene on a par with those from second-hand tobacco smoke, or more tiny toxic particles than the exhaust of a diesel-powered vehicle. I'm sure you are well qualified to do some research into this problem
Gas cooking is fast and easily controlled but I have been cooking on an induction cooktop and have found it even better than gas and with no extra heat or fumes. Your do need to have compatible cookware but I have used a round steel plate under any cookware that does not have a magnetic base and this works well. The steel plate heat up and in turn heats the pot sitting on top of it.
We hope that you continue to enjoy your wonderful lifestyle and we do so vicariously as well. I hope you do not think us presumptuous to be giving you advice
All the best
Jeff and you guys remind me of the Greek proverb, "societies grow great when men plant trees in whose shade they will never sit."
I hope your worst nightmare never happened stay safe.
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Been from Northern California I can say oak trees are where it’s at! currently landscapers rolling golden Hills with either valley Oak or black oak and there’s some white oak in there as well. We have over 110 120° summers. They do just fine produce lots of shade, and it would be interesting to see if these acorns would work over there. ?? lol
Amazing hardy trees. I planted a few here and they've survived with no care or water.
better get to paintin' that roof blue (or throw a blue tarp over it) before it's too late...if you know then you know.
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and...it seems like you know. God bless, guys, we're prayin' for you@@FreeRangeLiving
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Looks like people need to be fire wise. And if not burned once in a while it causes massive fires. Tree museums don't do any one any good. I am all for letting loggers cut fire breaks. Before the wood is no longer useful but for a massive forest fire, Cutting fire breaks allows for healthier forest too and diversity.
Well, the forsets around us have just been closed to a lot of access, so expect fire trails to overgrow, fuel load to grow and a bunch of politicians blaming climate change for some big fires here in 10-15 years.
Geo engineering, cloud seeding etc.. its the reason for these fires and drought and floods. Very sad what they doing to the planet
I think massive Tongan volcanoes may be somewhat on the list.
I would like to get the book Geoff talked about called the Middle Path….could you please expand on the author name please?
@Free Range Living have you guys looked into Permaculture design? In particular water retention strategies and water landscapes. I'd love to see you experiment with permaculture more! Read Bill Mollison, Sepp Holzer and watch Geoff Lawton.
All that I mentioned would absolutely help you mitigate these hazards as well as transform your landscape to a richer more resilient one
You must be new to the channel. It's like religion to them, but only been at it for ~12 months, and achieved heaps in that time, within constraints of, not their property.
Not new :) been at it for many years. Fair enough about the 12 months. I knew from other videos they drew some ideas, but always had the impression they focused more on the animal output than the plant output, and watching their videos couldn't tell the extent to which they implement water design. Eg. Retention (they do have ponds), connection (are they connected?), slow down water absorbtion (design the flow?), absorbtion (plant around each?)
There is a limit to what we can do as care takers on this block, so we won't be doing any Holtzer excavator adventures. The pigs digging has made nano-swales that have helped water infiltration, but it needs much more carbon to be incorporated over the next few years. Destroying noxious weeds with animals and capturing wasted run,-off is a fairly safe couple of modifications on land we are only newly introduced to. Too many techniques implemented before seeing a few seasons unfold would likely lead to expense and failure.
I appreciate the conservative approach :) It's fun to watch you guys experiment, and learn. Keep it up!! I love both the sailing and agricultural videos, hope to enjoy many more! Greetings from Spain.
I am weary of being incidary an starting of wildfire with some online responses. This is offered as a slow burn information to others who might read this and be interested in understanding and working with the places we live. If you have not already, I recomed reading "Fire country" by victor steffensen. An insightful book with 80 thousands of years of experience living as part of country. The concept of sick country is a strong one for me. I live in southern victoria where fuel load have got to a point 80 km out of melb that the wrong way fire will be catastrophic. This is part of the lock and leave managment parks stratagy of parks and the largest issue is the bueracratic colonial cultures ability to understand, read country and then act with right burning practice. Mixed with this is false myth propigated with city and country populations about fire fear and heroic battlings. I am relieved our first nations managment got a mention. The books by Tyson Yunkaporta "right story wrong story" and sand talk will give a deep philosphical understanding of how to be as placescape. enjoyed as always. D
👍"bueracratic colonial cultures" which continues 2 centuries later. But what would us blackfellas know, only been here for 60+ thousand years.
Yeah, tribal villagers, walking around with sticks, knew better than modern society.
WA just locked up vast sections of our bush, and the old hands in the forestry depth who have managed many wildfires are being replaced with part timers and volunteers. Trouble definitely brewing and all the wrong people are being listened to.
@@tonybodlovic5825 please read the books i have mentioned. They may help you understand it what we do with those sticks in modern times that counts. have a good day
Do you have Koala bears in your eucalyptus trees ?
There are no natural koalas (they are Not Bears) in Western Australia.
Sorry, marsupial . @@paulmeakin3376
No Koala this side of the desert.
I think you're greatly underestimating the power, speed and ferociousness of Australia's wildfires. your house is not safe.
That's why we have an escape route planned
@11:15 👍Imagine the environment today had the land been shared, rather than taken by greed & force. Thousands of years knowledge lost, ignored as dumb blackfella talk, rather than benefiting All, passed on through future generations.
Which unfortunately still happens after 2 centuries of lives & property loss.
@15:30 Are there rules prohibiting you from tethering the goats in the bush during the day to reduce fuel in patches? When was the last controlled burn done in there?
If the tractor has a PTO, high-flow water pumps are available for them, refill the IBC quick.
Impact Sprinklers on top of building roofs wetting it and the surrounding ground.
We walk our goats and let them browse, but 2 aren't going to make a big dent in the fuel. It has been due a burn for 3 years but the shire hasn't managed to get to it. I did look at pto pumps, but we got a Honda driven one so it could be at the house working if I was cutting a break with the tractor. Our neighbour is an old firey, so we would be joining forces in case of trouble and I trust his judgement. With regards TO's and white fellas learning from each other- we're still at odds thanks to some people who benefit from driving a wedge between us. Makes me see red.
Ya doing a lot of work for a property you don't own. I don't want to sound mercenary but I hope you are being paid for it.
Not paying rent or rates is a pretty good deal for having control of land. Many people that agist do more.