Special tinfoil used to protect historic building from wildfire
NEAR TROUT LAKE, Wash. -- State officials have utilized tinfoil to protect the oldest building in the Gifford Pinchot National Forest from a ravaging wildfire.
With flames from the 4,500-acre Cascade Creek Wildfire scorching trees south of Mount Adams, the USDA Forest Service covered the historic Gotchen Guard Station with aluminized structure wrap as a precaution earlier this week. The special material protects buildings from radiant heat and burning embers.
The 12-by-26 cabin is located approximately six miles north of Trout Lake on the southern slopes of Adams. Built in 1909 to monitor grazing activities, it is now used to house forest guards overseeing recreational use of the mountain.
The station is one of eight surviving structures from the beginning of the forest service still standing in the Pacific Northwest.
With flames from the 4,500-acre Cascade Creek Wildfire scorching trees south of Mount Adams, the USDA Forest Service covered the historic Gotchen Guard Station with aluminized structure wrap as a precaution earlier this week. The special material protects buildings from radiant heat and burning embers.
The 12-by-26 cabin is located approximately six miles north of Trout Lake on the southern slopes of Adams. Built in 1909 to monitor grazing activities, it is now used to house forest guards overseeing recreational use of the mountain.
The station is one of eight surviving structures from the beginning of the forest service still standing in the Pacific Northwest.
Put out a few raw potato's on the table and a couple of trout ...... and you've got a well baked meal....
http://www.popsci.com/scitech/article/2009-06/fireproof-house
The other benefit is it offers protection from alien mind control, thwarting experimental abductions and possible full blown invasion! Right out of X-Files. Or Northern Exposure.Â
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Actually, pretty great idea. I have come across ruins of old cabins many times in the cascades. Is great some are being preserved. The old pots and bottles are fun to look at. I left them all as they were. Monuments to a time long past and someones shelter or home. Found a really cool old tree on top of a mountain near Lake Wenatchee with a carving on it, from the 1800's. Makes you wonder who it was and what they lived through.
And just think what some firetrailing work by criminals could have saved. What point the historic building if no one can see it except in the rain?
What makes it 'special'?
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I'd like ta know cuz I'm down to about half a pallet of the regular stuff.
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Thanks in advance.
@bobalouie You'r a hat maker, right? :-)
 @bobalouie That one was truly good, boba.
Can they make hats out of it?
Maybe you can sell it to the OWS'ers for lining their hats!
So you could wrap your house for 100 bucks worth of Reynolds Wrap? That's way too simple. Don't tell the Gubmint!Â
 @Sid Vishess Well... a couple corrections Sid... it's not exactly Reynolds Wrap, and it actually is the "Gubmint" doing it. They've been doing it for years now, and it also doesn't always work. I know it's a pisser when facts get in the way of a Gubmint jab, but there you are.
 @TruthinAdverts "...it's not exactly Reynolds Wrap..."
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Indeed, so HOW MUCH does this "special" Reynolds... er... Special Aluminum Domicile Protection Wrap" cost?
 @jcman  @TruthinAdverts "Actually, the navy wants biodiesel."
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Oh, you mean the Navy was ORDERED to buy it by the Green Cabal?
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Biodiesel=$16 per gallon
Diesel= $4 per gallon
 @Sid Vishess  @TruthinAdverts Actually, the navy wants biodiesel. It's the oil companies that don't want them to have it as it would cut into their profits.
 @TruthinAdverts No problem with the firefighters. Just making my usual wild-eyed observations about how -when the Government gets involved- they could take something they could get at Costco and turn it into a taxpayer gouge.
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Bio-diesel for the Navy, anyone?
 @Sid Vishess  @TruthinAdverts Cost? Not certain... I don't purchase it Sid... but it's been around for years... along with "set-and-forget" firefighting yard sprinkler systems, and pre-foaming agents for homes. "Gubmint's been doing that stuff for years. Sometimes it's effective... sometimes it's not. I realize it's far more enjoyable to go off half cocked with implications that only you and some delightfully small, merry band know how to "get er dun", but there's no "magic bullet"... not even "special" Reynolds... er... Special Aluminum Domicile Protection Wrap" for either saving these structures, or putting these fires out. Most of these structures are saved and fires defeated by the hard work of firefighters coupled with the fortune of the weather. Â
Obviously there's some sort of conspiracy going on here...
 @Vexorg Good one! :-D
 @Vexorg Based on what?
@Zoso @Vexorg They make hats out of it perhaps...