Building a bonfire...

[MinnesotaEric]

Oh, I just had a brilliant idea last summer when I had a giant pile of debris piled up as as high as the front end loader on the Kubota would keep stacking it. It got bigger and bigger and I let it dry out for several months. One day the wife asked me when I was getting rid of it and I said soon. It was out in the middle of a field and it had rained a few days earlier so it was a good day to die...errrhh uhhh burn. I got the brilliant idea of pouring some old gas on the pile where I could reach it. Lots of thorns, big thorns in that stuff that I had cut with a chainsaw and tore my hide up on over several months of clearing. I was about to have my "revenge". I left a little gas to pour back a line out a ways to light...you know like Wiley E Coyote would do. Yep, I lighted up the little line and it went "WOOSH". About took off my eyebrows and the flames were licking up to heaven. Scared the you know what out of me. I didn't know fire could move that fast. :shocked:

I use this to set stuff on fire.

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[Sprinklerman]

Buddy of mine gave my 10 year old son a survival fire striker , so my son just had to start a fire , after 45 minutes of making sparks he got one going in the fire pit . he was proud of himself . I then told him to hand it over , I dont have time to build a new house right now .

 

[ultrarunner]

Maybe a chipper would be a better option or one of the skid-steer mulchers?

Since it is diseased the only recommended disposal is to incinerate on property...

Never having done this and with the location adjacent to a new subdivision... I can only imagine the fallout.

Of course I will have to have everything in order... permit, notifications, regulation stacks, standby equipment, etc... it could all be for naught if a spare the air burn ban is in place...

The best scenario would be getting an assist from the local FD for "Training Purposes"

 

[4570Man]

If they show my attempt will be to show them that the pile is at least 4x4x4 and thus meets the requirement . I don't think they will laugh though. Haryr K

4 inches, 4 feet, 4 yards, 4 miles? I don't see any problem.

 

[om21braz]

Since it is diseased the only recommended disposal is to incinerate on property...

Never having done this and with the location adjacent to a new subdivision... I can only imagine the fallout.

Of course I will have to have everything in order... permit, notifications, regulation stacks, standby equipment, etc... it could all be for naught if a spare the air burn ban is in place...

The best scenario would be getting an assist from the local FD for "Training Purposes"

Yep, considering your overall task, the FD would be a big help.

 

[farmer2009]

Since it is diseased the only recommended disposal is to incinerate on property... Never having done this and with the location adjacent to a new subdivision... I can only imagine the fallout. Of course I will have to have everything in order... permit, notifications, regulation stacks, standby equipment, etc... it could all be for naught if a spare the air burn ban is in place... The best scenario would be getting an assist from the local FD for "Training Purposes"

I've learned that here if you're going to burn have a dozer handy. Be sitting on an idling dozer when the FD shows up. They'll call everything off and start shooting the bull with you. I've never had them just show up by the way.

On wildfires when the dozer shows up they find a tailgate and hop on. When dad had his field fire (neighbors employee started it) this is what happened. Had 3 departments there. Once both dozers were on scene the FD sat. Took us 4 hours to get around that fire 30+ acres. FD said dozers are here we're done. Have seen more than one example of this. And have had several FF say the same thing.

But yeah you might be as well off to just let them "train" with the fires. But if recommendation is for burning because of disease and that's on a government letter then it seems like the government would force the government to let you burn. .

 

[TomSeller]

I got talked to by the guys in the big red trucks about these. They told me they would like a little hotter fire.

 

[dragoneggs]

I got talked to by the guys in the big red trucks about these. They told me they would like a little hotter fire.

Yeah I try to burn hot and not get caught! I try keeping the smoke down but throwing a stump on does cool it down and sends signals of the smoke kind.

 

[ultrarunner]

Smoke is a huge issue in the SF Bay Area... we even have smoke police and not much AG left.

Do have a Deere 350C dozer at the site... easy enough to have on standby... good idea.

 

[dragoneggs]

Hey a tractor is great for loading a fire as well as leveling one. Fun but a bit scary shoving the FEL into a bonfire! I do keep a water hose nearby. Have to admit though there is a little pride in letting your pile burn to the ground without dowsing with water.

 

[TomSeller]

Hey a tractor is great for loading a fire as well as leveling one. Fun but a bit scary shoving the FEL into a bonfire! I do keep a water hose nearby. Have to admit though there is a little pride in letting your pile burn to the ground without dowsing with water.

I try to start mine early enough that the pile is in the reduction phase by nightfall where the stumps and chunks burn up. I try to get a push to the middle before sundown to burn up the remains. If burned on a stump, the smoke could last a few weeks. The FD here says they don't worry about the smoldering ones in the off season, but that probably differs by location.

 

[dragoneggs]

I try to start mine early enough that the pile is in the reduction phase by nightfall where the stumps and chunks burn up. I ry to get a push to the middle before sundown to burn up the remains. If burned on a stump, the smoke could last a few weeks. The FD here says they don't worry about the smoldering ones in the off season, but that probably differs by location.

A long weekend for me is golden. I let my pile burn down on Friday night and Saturday morning I start piling small stuff then bigger gauge and magically the pile starts again. :thumbsup: Sunday morning the same thing. By the time NFL is done so is my fall weekend burning. Yes some of the stumps are there for a seeder for the next weekend. I like spring burning better. Not so much a baseball fan. Go Hawks! Go M's... see what I mean.

 

[Coyote machine]

I try to start mine early enough that the pile is in the reduction phase by nightfall where the stumps and chunks burn up. I ry to get a push to the middle before sundown to burn up the remains. If burned on a stump, the smoke could last a few weeks. The FD here says they don't worry about the smoldering ones in the off season, but that probably differs by location.

I agree with that process. In my area we're required to keep someone on site while the fire is burning. I start mine with a hay bale and allow the prevailing wind to push the fire into the pile of brush, trees, etc as the pile burns. I use the tractor with log grapple on the FEL and push and rearrange the fire as it burns, while adding more logs, etc. to it. My avatar shows my most recent fire in progress, mostly full size trees from cutting I did with my new tree shear. That thing is AWESOME!:thumbsup:

Where did you say that was you're burning Tom? Which town/FD?

 

[tbrooks26]

I just recently learned the hay/straw/diesel trick and man that works nice, like a giant fire log. Even in the pouring down rain. Around here, I usually try to get about 10 or so people, a hot grill with meat, and some alcohol to burn my piles. Only had the FD called once or twice, more likely to have the PD called, back in my younger days. They would normally come and shoot the bull for a little while, and say keep it down please. This is me and my youngest at my last one, fire is about 40 feet behind us