Just a little reminder to all my fellow Chevy freaks.

[Blazin]

You should all have a working fire extinguisher in your vehicles. Mine saved my truck from burning up in a plow customers driveway at 1:00 AM this morning!!! Pressuer line from the plow pump gave it up and sprayed hot ATF all over very hot headers. I smelled it and when I looked out the window the snow beside the truck had a pretty orange glow to it!!!!
This is the third time one has saved one of my rigs, and I have used half a dozen or so on other motorists vehicles over the last 20 plus years.
 Oh yeah and a first aid kit is a good idea as well, the ones in my rigs have come in handy several times over the years.

[bake74]

     I personally always have a first aid kit, ( kinda always need one ), I learned to carry a fire extinguisher in my rock crawling days, they sure do come in handy for fires.

[VileZambonie]

Agreed Blazin, very good advice. It's just an annoying tin can until it saves your hide! I keep a firextinguisher in the kitchen, next to my bed, in my garage and in my vehicles.

[Blazin]

Yeah my bed gets pretty hot sometimes too, guess I should get one for there!!!!

[zieg85]

Yeah my bed gets pretty hot sometimes too, guess I should get one for there!!!!

LOL Blazin!!!  I have several 20 lb ABC fire extinguishers in the garage and a couple of CO2 just in case it is small fire under the hood

[Irish_Alley]

This one famer I know probably wishes he had one in his 99 dodge 1 ton. He was just driving down the road he’s a heavy smoker well he noticed smoke coming out the back of his truck he also had brand new parts for his mule that he was taking all to the dealer to have them installed buy time he got pulled over she was burning the spray in bead liner acted like gas in the bed and the wind we had last week. By time he got the trailer unhooked and out of the way the truck was blazin. Well the wind carried the fire to an alpaca farm took out about 20 acres and the fire company luckily was able to stop it right at a barn

[DnStClr]

Blazin you should take some of the quilts off your bed,  lol      But thanks for the heads up. I'll get an extinguisher.

[Blazin]

Funny thing one of my friends pointed out to me the other night. She says " Why do you have a wedding quilt on your bed? " Um I didn't know it was a wedding quilt! It has rings interlocked in the pattern!

[roger97338]

Funny thing one of my friends pointed out to me the other night. She says " Why do you have a wedding quilt on your bed? " Um I didn't know it was a wedding quilt! It has rings interlocked in the pattern!

Your "friend" was hinting at something. (I think she wants your quilt!)

[spectreblazer]

i carry mine ever since by blazer caught on fire. i felt hopeless once i got it off the road and had to just watch it burn. luckily is was mostly electrical. i put a 20lbs for overkill it and had it go off by accident. i was mudding with my buddies and hit a big mud hole and it popped the pin. made a big mess. couldn't breath very well either

[Blazin]

So do a couple of my other friends! 

[87454westernhauler]

my dad wishes he had one a few years ago. he lost 400 bales of hay and our old flat bed that belonged to my great grampa and almost lost his dually because of a tire blow out that got a spark in the hay and couldn't get it out.  we now carry them at all times

[Bonanza76]

The 76 C20 I bought recently had a really old extinguisher in it.  Date on it said 1972, the gage said recharge.  Couple questions, can they be recharged, and if so, where?  second, how do you dispose of them properly?

[Canadian 4X4]

to dispose of them empty it and you can scrap it the older ones have a copper tube for a pick up tube.

[Grim 82]

Couple questions, can they be recharged, and if so, where?  second, how do you dispose of them properly?

For a portable extinguisher, they are cheap enough it's best to just get a new one. The best way to dispose of an old one is to take it out in the country and shoot it with a high power rifle a few times and then throw it in a scrap iron barrel