How do you light your bonfires?

[aczlan]

Typically, I use the forks on my tractor to make a cave in the pile, stuff a bale of hay in there, soak it good with diesel fuel and put a match to it.

I use a few flakes of hay spread around the pile, soak them with used motor oil and light them with a propane torch...

Aaron Z

 

[JSanders10]

I have a 20' high, about 30' diameter burn pile ready and waiting for a good damp weekend to light the pile.
All miscellaneous stuff, wood, carpet, trash from cleaning out an old farm house we're renovating.

All the family has asked me wait for an day they can be there, and we'll have a cookout and evening of it.

What whisky goes well with a bonfire?

 

[Industrial Toys]

Nothing but a big bottle of Jack would suffice, IMO!

Yes, carpet, foam rubber, and apholstered furniture is all good! Sometimes best done at night, otherwise people think a plane went down! For some reason those horrible white plastic chairs don't burn very well.

I save my cardboard too, but it can tend to create a hazzar when it flies away still burning.

 

[tcartwri]

I used Coleman stove fuel once thinking it was closer to diesel than gas. I was wrong.. lol.

 

[Dutch445]

FIREBALL!!!

 

[J_J]

Not like this.

http://youtu.be/3f4lPzxSm5A

 

[milligjg]

I use one of these hooked up to a 20lb propane pig. I light brush piles with it mostly.

Flame Weed Dragon Torch Kit — 100,000 BTU | Torch Kits| Northern Tool + Equipment

 

[xzcVAbc5]

Not like this.

http://youtu.be/3f4lPzxSm5A

On the bright side, this not so bright individual didn't catch the corn field on fire.

 

[MoKelly]

Not like this.

http://youtu.be/3f4lPzxSm5A

Question --- how many actually skipped the ad before watching the video?

MoKelly

 

[Xfaxman]

Question --- how many actually skipped the ad before watching the video?

MoKelly

There was no ad to skip when I watched it just now.

 

[Industrial Toys]

That video is priceless and HIGHLY educational. I have seen it numerous times before. But it begs the question. Why does my gasoline never have enough octane or omff, left to run my 2 cycle garbage, but will blow me to Mars if it gets the chance?

 

[NS Gearhead]

I use cardboard and newspaper in a pile. Add the driest branches I've got over to a modest size pile. Pour old motor oil over that pile and light the paper. Feed the fire as I go. I used to light the entire pile I had, but I like controlling how hot and fast it burns.

I usually burn a full day, three of four times a year... although my need to has been going down the longer we've been on this property. I used to burn old brush, branches, dead trees on the property in the woods... but found even in a clearing, the trees around the edge would have their roots burned and fall over with time. Now I just make piles. I figure it's a house for critters, so it's a win/win.

 

[farmer2009]

I use the fire starter bricks. Find an area with good starting material and then set a brick under it. Once it's going good then add some used oil or diesel fuel to make it spread. Then keep it pushed tight with the dozer. As it may take 3 or 4 days to burn a brush pile made with the dozer.

 

[Xfaxman]

I use diesel. The piles are dead trees and freshly pulled cedar trees. Doesn't take much to get it going! :thumbsup:

 

[DKCDKC]

I now just pile brush generally for wildlife. My Dad would build a huge pile in the middle of a field. He would take a huge old tarp and have us kids spread it over the center of the pile. Then he waited for a rain. Just after the rain he'd pull the tarp, get some hay bale sections soaked in kerosene and chuck them in, then light with a torch. Worked well. Never lost control and usually had nothing left but ash.

I am burning some old dead locust stumps this spring by covering them with tarps then, when I'm ready, filling them with some old scraps of lumber I have and pouring a bit of kero on them. I expect they'll take some time to burn. They are about 5 feet tall. Can't cut them further because they were used to hold a fence over a century and are full of nails.

 

[E/S]

I use a propane weed burner.

E/S