Clearing some land. PT lurking with grapple to stoke the FIRE

[PowerTracManiac]

 

[MossRoad]

There you go.

 

[japody]

You know that you can't burn until after 4 pm in VA? That's in effect until the end of April. I've got several large piles and I'm waiting for the ban to end before burning them

 

[joshlee]

Those grapples do wonders. It’s interesting how they have only been popular in the last 20 years or so, it seems to me anyway?

 

[two_bit_score]

We did not light the fire....

 

[cqaigy2]

Harry Truman, Doris Day, Red China, Johnnie Ray
South Pacific, Walter Winchell, Joe DiMaggio
Joe McCarthy, Richard Nixon, Studebaker, television
North Korea, South Korea, Marilyn Monroe

 

[woodlandfarms]

Every fall.... Love the grapple, allows me to burn way bigger than I probably should.

 

[MossRoad]

Harry Truman, Doris Day, Red China, Johnnie Ray
South Pacific, Walter Winchell, Joe DiMaggio
Joe McCarthy, Richard Nixon, Studebaker, television
North Korea, South Korea, Marilyn Monroe

Rosenbergs, H-bomb, Sugar Ray, Panmunjom
Brando, "The King and I", and "The Catcher in the Rye"
Eisenhower, Vaccine, England's got a new queen
Marciano, Liberace, Santayana, goodbye

 

[MoKelly]

We did not light the fire....

Isn’t that a Billy Joel song?

Well - sorry - I didn’t read the posts that followed.

MoKelly

 

[ponytug]

Burning restricted to after 4pm? So the smoke blends into evening barbecue?

That is a new one. Thanks for sharing.

I agree that grapples seem to be way more popular now. Growing up, it seemed like there were lots of tractors with mechanically driven attachments, but very few with hydraulics, but that could just have been our less wealthy corner of the US.

All the best,

Peter

 

[agjones]

Burning restricted to after 4pm? So the smoke blends into evening barbecue?

That is a new one. Thanks for sharing.

I agree that grapples seem to be way more popular now. Growing up, it seemed like there were lots of tractors with mechanically driven attachments, but very few with hydraulics, but that could just have been our less wealthy corner of the US.

All the best,

Peter

It's an old, but data driven, policy that's regionally accurate and has been effective.


"After 4 p.m., winds usually calm down and the relative humidity levels are on the increase, both of which reduce the potential for a debris fire or any outdoor open air fire to escape your control."
Frequently Asked Questions: Burning and the 4 p.m. Law

 

[PowerTracManiac]

Woodland, I am going to have to feed my little baby grapple alot of hardwoods so it can grow up and be half as beefy as your beast mode grapple!

 

[MossRoad]

People burn leaves here. Lots of leaves. It's illegal, but they do it anyway. They mostly burn them at night because they get home from work and go out to rake and burn. Unfortunately, there's less to no breeze at night, so the smoke just hangs in the air. It's brutal. The smoke goes up from the fire and drops down half a block away and then just sits there like a cloud of tear gas. And the rub is, these people pay for leaf pickup in their taxes, yet for some reason they think that since their father burned leaves, they have to burn them as well. It's just goofy.

 

[Bearsixty7]

People burn leaves here. Lots of leaves. It's illegal, but they do it anyway. They mostly burn them at night because they get home from work and go out to rake and burn. Unfortunately, there's less to no breeze at night, so the smoke just hangs in the air. It's brutal. The smoke goes up from the fire and drops down half a block away and then just sits there like a cloud of tear gas. And the rub is, these people pay for leaf pickup in their taxes, yet for some reason they think that since their father burned leaves, they have to burn them as well. It's just goofy.

Burning just requires raking and lighting the fire, leaf pickup requires raking and bagging or a bagger on a lawn mower (More money) may be why.

 

[MossRoad]

Nope. Leaf pickup only requires raking it to the street. You rake, the county (a vendor with a contract now) picks them up with vacuum trucks. You already paid for it in your property taxes, so every time you burn leaves, you're burning your own money.

 

[PowerTracManiac]

burn baby burn, it's a ......

 

[ponytug]

Yes, I don't get it either. And leaf litter makes great compost, though I admit it decomposes faster if you run them through a lawn mower or shredder first.

All the best, Peter

 

[MossRoad]

burn baby burn, it's a ......

disco inferno

 

[SpringHollow]

 

[MossRoad]

Great horn section!