FIRE DOWN BELOW

[sailorise]

Angle grinding and some welding. All in a large wooden boat. Usual precautions plus a good hose down of the bilges afterward. Three hours later an inferno. Everything gone including every power tool known to man.
In a boatyard, not insured, now not just broke but in debt. Risk assessment? what risk? Beware! Fires don't just happen to others.

 

[Sixpence]

If this is referring to yourself , I hope nobody got hurt , I know what it's like and you have my sympathy
Dave

 

[alb40]

We had a fire in our yard yesterday, a pile of old wood and fiberglass sitting in the corner decided it would spontainiously combust. Must have been the strength of a few dry weeks coupled with the strong afternoon sun. Luckily it was all well clear of anyone and everything.

I too hope there were no injuries. The current dry weather coupled with dry wood and power tools needs extra care at the moment it seems.

 

[cliffordpope]

Very scary. It's almost impossible to believe how things you can't make burn when you want them to take on an awful life of their own at other times.
I was sceptical of the warning on a tin of linseed oil that oil-soaked rags can combust spontaneously, but a woodworker friend said it is not unknown.
After reading of all the classic boats lost in the Easticks fire at Acle some years ago, it made me think too of how much everyone else using a yard is interdependent.

 

[jon]

Very sad to hear of the fire, my experience was a near miss, on going back into my workshop after a meal and before locking up for the night, I found it full of smoke. I traced it to a pile of sawdust under the band saw in an enclosed space with little oxygen fortunately. I can only assume a spark came off the blade as it passed through the guides.
Friend in the village not so lucky, lost his workshop, had been welding earlier in the afternoon, sawdust and welding not a good mix.
It is a condition of my insurance policy that all sawdust is removed each night, needless to say like many I suspect, I do not always comply with it.