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Knight Division TacticalDoes KDT provide pack mules for wildfire?
Pack Strings (Horse & Mule Pack Teams)
Yes.
KDT provides pack strings for wildfire incidents: horse or mule pack teams with a packer or wrangler to carry supplies where roads and vehicles can't go, with certified weed-free hay when the incident requires it.
Typical configuration
- Ordering name
- Transportation, Pack String
- Description
- Horse or mule pack team
- Method of hire
- Daily, with packer/wrangler, per shift
- Feed
- Certified weed-free hay when the incident requires it
Some fires burn in wilderness and roadless country where trucks can't go and motorized access may not be allowed. A pack string, a team of horses or mules led by a packer, carries food, water, tools and gear to crews and spike camps on the trail.
KDT supplies the horse or mule pack team and the packer or wrangler together, by the day, ready to work on the incident's schedule, with certified weed-free hay for the stock when the incident asks for it.
Available as
- Horse pack string with packer
- Mule pack string with packer
What's included
- Stock and packer/wrangler
- Certified weed-free hay as required
Where it's used
- Supplying crews and spike camps in wilderness and roadless areas
- Packing tools, food and water to remote line
- Packing gear out at demob
Questions, answered.
Does KDT provide pack mules for wildfire?
Yes. We supply horse or mule pack strings with a packer or wrangler for fires in roadless and wilderness country.
Why do pack strings need weed-free hay?
Certified weed-free hay keeps stock from spreading noxious weed seed into the backcountry. KDT supplies it with the string whenever the incident asks.
How are pack strings hired on a fire?
Daily, with the packer or wrangler included.
Need it on your incident? Say the word.
Add it to your request with anything else you need, then send it all at once. We'll come back with what we can put where, and when.