I really like the video shot showing the UNUSED fire extinguisher that was sitting right there. Apparently having the billowing smoke for video content was more important than using the fire extinguisher early on. You might want to rethink your priorities.
You might want to know something. Once I saw inside the hole I realized nothing that thing was going to do. Won't take the heat, or the fuel away. Only temporary cut the oxygen. Just like a brake fire, until the heat is removed, it will refresh. Learn something. 🖕
27 years as a fireman tells me that is 100% carbon and raw fuel built up inside. Carbon is soot or unburned fuel. You were on the right path FSC, this was much like a chimney fire.
Back in the day we burned out 2 stroke exhausts this way. Best way to get rid of the carbon buildup. I would have tried to cool the pipe with water. But its a differnt story sitting in your livingroom then standing beside a burning truck. 😅
It's a good thing you guys found that now instead of somebody finding out on the road. It just sucks that you almost burned down your shop. Must have had an angel watching over you.
Matt (Diesel Creek RU-vid channel) had restored a vintage Gallion road grader and named it "Christine" due to the amount of trouble & problems that the machine gave him for nearly the 2.5 years that it took him to restore it to operating condition.
That situation to me was just like chimney fire in someone’s home, then the creosote built up in the flu liner lights off. I feel like it had to be rich in fuel to light off like that. It was funny seeing Chris casually walk out and light a cigarette as if nothing was wrong 😅. Glad you guys were able to mitigate the problem before it got worse!
*smashes NOPE button* The second I saw that brownish tinged milky off color smoke, the first thing I thought was 'oh shit.. they lit soot on fire'. I grew up with a wood stove that my grandfather taught me to operate, and clean. Plus, I was a Abrams mechanic in the Army. I think you had wet cake fuel soaked soot with other contaminants that lit off. You are VERY lucky that it not go sideways on you. Good job getting that out of the shop and put out. What you essentially had, was an "uncontrolled burn regen".
In the words of me dear departed mother. Boys will be boys. Glad y'all didn't burn down Orwell, not to mention the building. Impressive how Chris just calmly took care of business.
You just made your best argument against mufflers. What you had was diesel soaked insulation. That’s how they made mufflers back in the day to deaden the noise. Look inside a burn chamber of an old fuel oil furnace.
Carbon and fuel in there. Like a coke fire. Glad it all worked out. Keep a few co2 fire extinguishers in there. You can get expired ones for free most times. They are still good if the pressure is normal.
i love the dedication to bringing us along on the journey. Steve got a big old muffler on fire in one hand and still thinking "grab the camera we got a story to tell!"
if you have a fire in there again while up there opening the door turn off the ceiling fans quick. the smoke would have stayed up at the ceiling on its way out. then if you had turned the fan around it would have pushed cleaner air in. just a tip to clear the air better while you're fighting your fire
Wowza.....I thought the sleeper was on fire at first. Certainly gives a whole dimension on Trucking with FSC. Good thing Jen wasn't around. ❤❤❤❤ Be safe.
Drove a Frightliner similar too yours from Dallas to Sacramento back in December’98 Great truck, but 65 mph was torture. My only real over the road team trip ever. Good experience. Appreciate all OTR drivers, at least the one that can back into a hole in under 5 minutes lol
I ran Cummins powered generators in the service in the 60s. Used to usually run at around 15-20% load. On a monthly basis we tied to the island power system and would run at 95% load for 16-20 hours. Always blew big chunks of soot and carbon out. Pretty spectacular at night. I'd bet with a Cummins and bad injector it never got pushed hard enough to blow out the carbon build up. The thought about moss growing in the there would contribute long burning fuel once it was lit.
I’m not going to criticize the way you handled that situation. I am just going to say thank the lord that you and Chris got situation under control as quickly as you did. Would have hated to see Elaine and Orwell damaged. Glad you made the decision to change the exhaust around instead of that happening on the road!!
I'm from Louisiana where everyone thinks we live in swamps, simple minded. A jig saw with a metal blade!! Just cut it off and remove. It doesn't have a flame that will set it on fire!!!
FSC Trucking you should invest in a exhaust catcher vent for your shop so you can have it vent the smoke out and away just a suggestion keep pumping those trucking videos out Love them
Matt (Diesel Creek RU-vid channel) when he had his new shop built about a year ago;he knew that he was going to be working on old vintage & modern equipment & vehicles in it so he had an exaust vent,A/C system,and a heated shop floor installed to make working in the shop any time of the year alot more bearable & comfortable.
Probably a combo of diesel, soot, creosote and maybe squirrels or some kind of critter dropping acorns and bedding stuff down there.. I don’t know, crazy situation. An extinguisher would have done nothing for that. Glad it all worked out in the end and Orwell and the shop didn’t get damaged!
I had a chimney fire in my house a few years ago which looked just like that pipe burning. If you ask me, that was fuel and oil build up in the exhaust, the fuel lit, then burned the build up, which is it's own fuel to continue burning. The crumbling stuff you showed from the pile on the floor looked exactly like what I pulled out of my chimney after getting the fire out.
Moss, bird's nest, tree sap from pine which is flammable and fuel! Creosote. Chimfex chimney fire extinguisher. Crazy. Glad you and chris are ok. Change or check all the exhaust pipe before you fire it up.
The next genius who comes along saying FSC produces boring videos... OSHA will be at the shop 9am Monday morning to review these events with the FSC safety committee. Also, Chris has one hell of a pair of steel lungs.
6:40 we had a similar case of unburned fuel in the exhaust of the tugboat i was working on, and when they gave if full throttle it sounded like a jet engine with fire coming out of the exhaust 😂
The smoke coming out of Elaine's exhaust looks like a runaway engine, but without the engine actually running. That was one heck of a fire, just crazy. Burned like charcoal. One thing is certain, your shop has been well fumigated.
Im sure i aint the first one to say it. Chris is one badass man. Cool and calm through the whole thing. Its too bad i live in Sweden. I would like to shake that mans hand and spend a couple of days with him in the shop and learn from him.
I think it’s pine pitch, which has been building up for a long time, and, pine pitch is EXTREMELY FLAMMABLE!! I’m just glad you 2 & Orwell and the shop are all safe! You said it sat under a tree for quite a while, so that’s my opinion on what that was, that was burning in the exhaust pipe and muffler.
One last comment it was starting to look like a repeat from Gantry and Sons only in reverse order and you know he would have been on his way to your shop in a heartbeat thank God it worked out ok my 2 friends yuuuuup
That's almost like the coals i use in my forge, that can burn green when I hit it with air to bring the temperature up, with oil and carbon build up and add diesel to that, it might have the same effect, happy to see your both okay though, now you need to wash it all down now or it will stink for ages, take fella's. 🇬🇧
Omg that was crazy. 😮 Glad that you were both there working at the time to combat the never ending fire. Wowza! Chris having a smoke 🚬 after everything was under control was fun to watch...funny.
I'm glad that it didn't get worse and set the whole place on fire, and that both of you came out of this all right. Hopefully, both of you went and got yourselves looked after medically, to make sure that no damage was done to your lungs.
I wouldn't have used a torch. I would have used a sawzall or grinder with a cutoff wheel. Less chance of fire. Copper burns green & and produces green smoke, could have had trees growing in it leef litter, tree sap, old fuel & oil coating the exaust
I was thinking the same thing. Sawzall seems faster and easier, cut many a car in half with one. I would also use an induction heater on frozen bolts, but what do amateurs know...
In the US Army, we had diesel fed heaters for the field tents (metered raw diesel into a barrel like container). The containers, and the assembled vent pipe, would fill up with carbon. Once the container was hot, we’d periodically pour some water into the chamber. The water would instantly turn to steam and bast the carbon out (little tiny balls). Only problem is the outside of our GP medium tens would be covered with these carbon balls.
@@fsctrucking - I understand. I was explaining a “field expedient” way of how we got rid of carbon build up. Who knows, you might have had tree debris and/or animal nests mixed in with sludge carbon deposits. At this point, it doesn’t matter what it was as long as there’s none in the pipe section you’re going to keep. That would be a bummer. Also, good reminder to other truckers to examine their exhaust pipes, especially if the truck has been sitting awhile.
Steve kept mentioning a green cast to the smoke.. I kept thinking about radiator coolant. coolant will burn but gives off a sickly sweet smell so who knows.. but I kept thinking radiator fluid burning
The only two things I know that puts off green are aluminum and copper. They can use aliminium in the makeup of those pipes. The wire mesh. I Googled. I am glad you're both safe and the shop. Take care.
Had the old yard dog at my old job, a GMC ASTRO with a 6v Detroit that burned ALOT of oil. Another tech and I had the job of replacing the muffler because most of the guts were rotted out. When we started torching on the bottom, the half burned oil and fuel that had built up thru the years started on fire and the sides of the muffler were vibrating.
