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Farmer-Enhanced Fire Buggy

Farmer-Enhanced Fire Buggy

After a 7,000-acre prairie fire took part of his parents’ northwest Kansas farm in 2012, Marvin May was determined not to let that kind of loss happen again.   

“I’ve got the fire scared, I think,” he laughs. “Ever since we built the fire buggy, we haven’t had a fire.” 

Other equipment is prepped, too. Between an assortment of tanks on trailers and pickups (including the fire buggy), there are 13,000 gallons of water ready to go at any given moment. 

Since the former Mertz sprayer will go up to 35 mph, “We bring it on wheat harvest, so it’s in every field where we cut wheat,” May says. 

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