Wildland Firefighters
Montana Mountainmen with heavy metal. Soft Track Skidgens and other heavy equipment on the fireline since Montana Firestorm 2000. Known far and wide as "Plumb Crazy!"
It takes a certain level of insanity to risk your life for others; many of whom you'll never even meet.
The iron that holds the line.
Our self-contained operation is built around two FMC Type 1 Soft Track Skidgens, a Type 4 fire dozer and a Type 2 tactical tender. These are machines that work 50% slopes and saturated soils where rubber-tired equipment can't follow.
FMC Softtrack · 50% grades
Photographed doing the work.
All of these photos are our own, no staged/stock photos.
Reclamation · soft-soil hillside
Twenty-six seasons in the smoke.
Dedicated to the memory of Marc Mullenix; mentor, friend, and instructor. Also to all the close friends met dancin' with wolves on the firelines. Fighting fire, with fire. The 'Whoopass Tribe'.
The crew · Whoopass Tribe
By the numbers
Follow a rig down the rabbit hole.
Every unit documented like a capability statement — specs, photos, and the incidents it worked.
