MY local fire department has STUPID policies.....

[smstonypoint]

You must be 18 or older to purchase the burn permit

So, how much does a permit cost?

Permits are free in NC and SC,

Steve

 

[dave1949]

In Bill's (OP) defense if the local burning process is that you apply and they say someone will inspect, then that's what should happen. If the township/whatever can't make their own process work, they need to amend it or just flat out say they don't approve burn permits.

I think any citizen has a right to be concerned when the folks who say they are making the rules don't carry out their end of the process. That's Third World incompetence and there is no reason to just suck it up; your reward will be more of the same.

My :2cents:

 

[MarkF48]

"Dang it all, I came out of the house and saw the brush pile on fire and a couple kids running down the road. Nope, didn't get a good look at the kids, they were way too far down the road."

 

[dave1949]

So, how much does a permit cost?

Permits are free in NC and SC,

Steve

$7, good for a 48 hour period. $2 of that goes to the local municipality.

You can still go directly to your town Fire Warden (usually Fire Chief) and get a burn permit, I think that's $2.

 

[Sprinklerman]

Easier to beg for forgiveness than ask for permission.

 

[daugen]

Lots of flying embers will come off that pile and go hundreds of feet with the lightest of wind - a pile that size will create it's own. Those green cedar trees and dead weeds in the background burn quite easily. Our VFD does not issue burn permits. The decision to burn is the owners and so is all the responsibility. If they give you a permit will they be standing by while you burn?

In about 10 years it will be a mulch pile anyway.

Pics if you burn.

I have to agree with Don on this one; that's a fine pile but once it gets going the heat of the fire will naturally lift the embers and with wind they go a long long way.
JD, I even built a two foot high concrete block firepit, well my paid fireman helper did, a serious fire pit, and something hopped over it, and we looked up and fire had traveled really quickly over the top of the field grass for thirty feet.
I had a hose charged and ready and thank goodness for that. And this after previously hosing down the entire area.
But my point is crazy stuff happens particularly on windy days and chunks of stuff can get lifted and then smolder a long way off. Even though there is snow on the ground, which is good for sure locally, it makes putting out distant fires very hard. want to run through three hundred feet of snow to put out a tree on fire? and with what?
You actually need to be more careful in the winter if you are even remotely near other burnable stuff.

You aren't going to like to hear this but I think you should rent a chipper from now on. Your area just isn't friendly to burning. At my last home I couldn't burn at all. Zero. Here in NC, Beaufort County, I was told NOT to call in a controlled burn ahead of time. Apparently folks don't start dialing 911 as soon as they see smoke here. Other than that, burn away, don't create a public nuisance I'm sure.

JD, I'm sorry the window is so short for you, hard to clean up that mess.
You know what, take some nice pastries down to the firehouse, remember, best defense is a good offense, and
play nicey nice and ask them if they want to do a fire training exercise on your pile, say when it's mostly burned down.
See if they bite...they may want something to burn and practice on. Never hurts to ask, but geez, as a past active volunteer fireman, I can sure tell you that yelling at volunteers is really a bad idea. You want to yell at municipal employees, go at it. Volunteers may be your friends who come to save your butt.

 

[MossRoad]

Why so? The FD doesn't know the OP do they? He lights it up, someone calls it in, and more trouble starts. Why would anyone want that hassle?

It was meant in jest.

 

[MossRoad]

In Bill's (OP) defense if the local burning process is that you apply and they say someone will inspect, then that's what should happen. If the township/whatever can't make their own process work, they need to amend it or just flat out say they don't approve burn permits.

I think any citizen has a right to be concerned when the folks who say they are making the rules don't carry out their end of the process. That's Third World incompetence and there is no reason to just suck it up; your reward will be more of the same.

My :2cents:

How do you know how long they'd say it would take?

 

[dave1949]

How do you know how long they'd say it would take?

I don't, but given the fact that safe burning is very weather dependent, and weather changes constantly, it wouldn't make much sense to have delays involved. The process either works or it doesn't, that's not on Bill.

Chipper is a great idea too. I haven't needed to burn brush since I got my 6" chipper.

 

[dragoneggs]

Here is a copy of my permit. We have several options. I elected to go for the 'small residential' size but in reality I burn a bit bigger pile. I just noticed the last permit I got expired end of 2013! :shocked: Oops! If I want to go bigger the permit lasts two weeks. Then of course we have to work around burn bans (usually July to October).



I think the stumps I was putting on the burn pile were bigger than the regulation for the size of the dang pile!