For those of you that practice open-burning of leaves/brush..

[hks003]

Im also looking at prices for homes in Arizona... I want to move back to 'Merica.

I was confused for a second because your profile says California. Then it clicked... Should have clicked sooner, since in my part of the world, California is another country!

 

[deezler]

I actually just dug a big hole on Sunday afternoon - to put my bonfire ash pile underground.

Had been burning massive brush and debris bonfires in this spot for the last 6 years or so. Shared the spot with my neighbor so we often had 15 ft diameter piles of stuff to burn. Well after many of the bonfires including crappy furniture, busted pallets, and old timbers, etc, the pile was full of semi-toxic leftovers and small nails, etc. I didn't want to burn big junk fires in this spot anymore, so it was time to bury the ash and move on.

 

[Frankenkubota]

Yes and I will withhold editorial comments.

In my area, central NC, (27 degrees!) various govt agencies will do a prescribed burn on your property if you qualify. In my case I bought a tree farm, had to have a forestry report done, applied, waited.

Finally, I paid a private forestry guy to do it because I知 gonna die someday and was not sure how long the govt would take, still waiting.

55 acres, I had burn lines put in on the outside boundary痴 with dozer so as not to burn neighbors land. The guy burned it at nite and no offense, burning mans got nothin on me! It was very very cool.

Maybe $6K all in but Uncle Sam keeps promising they are going to reimburse me. I知 not holding my breath. If you know anyone working in the govt office that controls this stuff in your area, it will help, unless it痴 your ex!

In the end, all the baby trees are dead but still standing and their offspring have already grown 2 ft in 6 months. Basically provides food for wildlife I guess.

At nite it was a site to see!

 

[orezok]

I'm not interested in burning and they closed the fire department in JT. The only thing I want to burn on my property are the Joshua Trees! They're not trees, they're not attractive, provide no shade.. you cant even touch them. Worthless weeds as far as I'm concerned, but the Desert Karen's seem to think they need to be protected, even on your own private property.
Lately, I've been clearing and leveling a corner of my place in order to have a new shop/office/mancave erected for when I retire next year. This place was a barren hillside years ago, The owners actually paid a landscaper to put in irrigation and plant (get this) creosote bushes! crappy worthless bushes right below tumbleweeds on the desirability scale, they got over 15 ft tall thanks to being watered. I shut down the irrigation and have been removing them - 26 of them so far. Cut the branches down to ground level, then dug out the root ball (with my LS MT125 backhoe) and hauled them to the 29 palms transfer station (no cost for greens) where they get picked up and recycled into mulch for the county. I never considered burning them since a 30 minute trip to the transfer station gets them out of my life much faster but wondered what people who burn routinely have to go through..
Recently I got a love-letter from the county informing me that now creosote bushes are protected, and it's now illegal to do ANYTHING within a 40' radius of a joshua tree, unless it's dead. The area I cleared has a tree 21' away so now I'm waiting to see if they're going to let me build, and I'm running an experiment to see if peeing on them kills them.... err, I mean if dogs pee on them..

Im also looking at prices for homes in Arizona... I want to move back to 'Merica.

If you do not love and respect our desert, you do not belong here. Please get on I10 east as soon as possible.

 

[Diggin It]

I'm just glad I can pull, spray, cut, trim or burn whatever weeds I want to at my own discretion.

 

[JTMachineDesign]

I was confused for a second because your profile says California. Then it clicked... Should have clicked sooner, since in my part of the world, California is another country!

Aint it the truth.. I'm born and raised Californian but this isn't the state I was born into. San Diego is Mexico Norte, San Fransisco is a cesspool and Sacramento is unbelievably crazy. If it wasn't for stuff beyond my control at the moment I'd have left years ago.

If you do not love and respect our desert, you do not belong here. Please get on I10 east as soon as possible.

OK Karen... kiss your tarantulas and say high to the scorpions for me...

 

[orezok]

Aint it the truth.. I'm born and raised Californian but this isn't the state I was born into. San Diego is Mexico Norte, San Fransisco is a cesspool and Sacramento is unbelievably crazy. If it wasn't for stuff beyond my control at the moment I'd have left years ago.



OK Karen... kiss your tarantulas and say high to the scorpions for me...

City flatlanders just amaze me.

 

[Diggin It]

 

[mred2]

And I thought most of the desert was flat.

 

[orezok]

And I thought most of the desert was flat.

Nope, high elevation, 3500 MSL at my place and mountains over 11,000’