Bought a Wallenstein chipper

[sixdogs]

What type of wood chips? Ironically we just had wildfires this week. I had piles of cedar chips all over about 15 acres ive been clearing. They burned. I would say easily (i wasn't here) because the only thing round the piles was prairie grass. I've been putting out smoldering stuff under trees that I put chips around for days

You're replying to an old post and I've learned a lot about burning wood chips since. I would be careful in the arid grasslands of OK but you're ok if the ground is a little damp, not windy and away from dry grass..

Wood chips smolder more than they burn and are actually hard to keep going. A pile can smolder all day unless there's a wind. I take my chips to a chip plant now but when I did burn I did it in the spring when things were damp-ish and the chips had dried a little. On a calm day with no dry grass nearby, I built a pile or a long row of chips and lit on the downside of the wind. Maybe upside a bit, but so the wind, if any, would control the burn. I had no troubles and the chips just smoldered. If the wind died down I used a leaf blower to keep them going.

I would never burn in dry grass or windy conditions.Just don't do that. You have to be careful in warm weather in OK.

Just in case, I leave my chisel plows on when I burn so I could get ahead of an errant burn in an emergency.