Burning Brush

[dragoneggs]

I start mine with a weed burner as mentioned previously. It's the only way to fly.

I pile during the year and wait for the county to lift the burn ban and light up the very next weekend. I keep the actual burn pile size w/in regs but stack more on with the grapple as fast as the fire can consume it and keep a HOT, fast fire. Did I say forget to mention a HOT fire? The fire needs to be HOT. I drop my piles at the edge and push in with the pile as a buffer because the fire is HOT. I can't get near it, because it is too HOT.

I agree... keep it hot! I can't remember the regs... 4x4 or 3x3... all I know is if the FD swings by I will argue I thought the flame size not the pile size was in question.

Hot means less smoke and complaints by distant neighbors. Tends to burns down to nice coals that I can regenerate the next day if I want. Always nice to get a good stump in the mix. My adjacent neighbor friends are with me... they benefit from my drive by tractor chores for them! The others... could be trouble makers although I don't know because I don't push it (well that is a matter of opinion). Do have one neighbor that would if they could just because they don't have anything better to do though.

 

[Xfaxman]

I start mine with a weed burner as mentioned previously. It's the only way to fly.

I pile during the year and wait for the county to lift the burn ban and light up the very next weekend. I keep the actual burn pile size w/in regs but stack more on with the grapple as fast as the fire can consume it and keep a HOT, fast fire. Did I say forget to mention a HOT fire? The fire needs to be HOT. I drop my piles at the edge and push in with the pile as a buffer because the fire is HOT. I can't get near it, because it is too HOT.

This is what happens when the fire is too hot: http://www.tractorbynet.com/forums/projects/313222-burn-post3787344.html#post3787344

 

[turnkey4099]

I torched off two piles this morning, both small but I kept adding to them. Breeze stiffened a bit and duff, bark, dry twigs, etc started about 10' away. I didn't worry as the fire couldn't spread past the limits of the small grove anyhow and the project is to remove all the trees. When I left a broken stub some 15' up a tree where another tree was also lodged was flaming pretty good. Didn't spread very far but did do me some good with the cleanup of probably 100 years of deadfall.

Got a good start on buiding another pile around two broken off snags. Proably won't get to burn that this fall as the weather is finally changing to seasonal and I won't be able to get in there except by packing the equipment in.

 

[japody]

One of the previous posts mentioned something about burning pressure treated boards. Don't do that if you have livestock with access to the burn area. Calves like to lick the ashes and the ashes from pressure treated lumber will kill them.

 

[MinnesotaEric]

This is how I burn slash piles.