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In the mid-1970's my Dad leased some property to an unscrupulous sawmill operator who left a LARGE pile of cedar waste, mostly sawdust with lots of trim ends mixed in. The pile was about 40' tall and covered several acres.
In the spring of 1980 I came home when my four year hitch in the Marines was over; shortly after that the sawdust pile caught fire.
The Idaho State Fire Marshal paid us a visit and politely informed us that if we couldn't put out the fire, they would, and we would be billed for the expenses.
The economy was really down in 1980 and we were unemployed, so we set to work. I ran my Dad's old D2 Cat and started pushing burning sawdust out while my Dad sprayed it down with a firehose. The sawmill owner had drilled a pretty good well, and thankfully he couldn't take it with him when he fled the country.
That little D2 had an 8' blade on it, and sawdust being pretty light I could push a pretty big load out after I established a trench to push through.
We spent the better part of that summer getting that fire put out, but we eventually won the battle.
An HD 21 would have been mighty handy on that job!
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