How do you light your bonfires?

[PHPaul]

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.

Most fun I've ever had tho, I belonged to a fledgling gun club. Lots of "work days" clearing brush for the firing range. We had a pretty good pile of brush stacked up and decided to have a little fun burning it. We placed a couple of gallon milk jugs about 3/4 full of used oil and thinned with a bit of gasoline.

Then we duct-taped tannerite targets to them, backed off 25 yards and started plinking at them with .22 pistols. When someone finally hit one, it was pretty darned impressive!

 

[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

 

[oosik]

Interesting - that tannerite must be fairly wild stuff. We had a major wildfire(Watermelon Hill wildfire) just miss my property last summer. It was just by the graces of the gods that the wind blew the mile and a half front just beyond the SW portion of my property.

It was determined that the fire was started by three men shooting at tannerite targets with high powered rifles.

 

[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.