EddieWalker
Epic Contributor
That is an impressive amount of burn piles!!!!
Around here we would have to burn those plies one at a time unless you have a land clearing permit, a special study done, big fans to fan the fire, etc.
We have had an entire month of 90+ degrees and no rain, so it will need to rain good and hard before we burn any piles. We will probably burn just a few at a time since more makes me nervous.
What I do to work around the regulations a bit is start one fire and get it going good. Then as it burns down a bit, feed it from another pile with a grapple. Do not let it burn down much, you want it hot. You might be surprised at how much you can burn this way with a small regulation size pile. I cannot say that I have had the number of piles you have at one time though. I would guess around 5 days of burning doing it that way.
I drop in front of the burn pile and then close the lid and push into it.
About the only thing I might change is spread out the pile of ash sooner (e.g. when the outer layers have cooled enough to walk on), as the core of the ash pile was still smoldering hot a week (or two?) later when I finally did get around to spreading the ash. This was also after a few rain storms had come through and further soaked, and partially washed down the ash pile. There was no real risk that the pile would have started an unintended fire as wet as things were (and how finely everything had burned); it's just that I don't like leaving hot things unattended (even if they are contained, and completely safe)....