Have you ever had a hard time starting a fire on a pit or a file of wood debris?

[jkk04]

Have you ever had a hard time starting a fire on a pit or a pile of wood debris?
Have you used a diesel for starting to burn the pile of wood debris?
This propane torch will give you an answer on how to start the fire on the pit or wood debris.
The full propane cylinder can start the fire about 4-6 times and is easy to refill .
No more pouring diesel
You should have this torch if you are living in the rural area.
Jkk

 

[2515R Dude]

It is how I do it for years

 

[LHF2019]

When starting brush fires I have diesel and oil mixed in a 2gallon hand pump sprayer. Works great and acts like a flame thrower being able to move the fire around.

 

[bmaverick]

Use DIESEL. It will ignite at a casual pace, unlike gasoline that is nearly spontaneous!

 

[Milo]

I cut down cardboard boxes into roughly 3' x 3' panels which I place under oil trays, diesel filters, etc., to absorb spills and splatter. When one becomes partially saturated it gets cut into strips for fire starters.

 

[etpm]

I burn green wood every year after cleaning up the small branches from trees that fall or are felled. My method is to make a pile, squish it down with the FEL on my YM2310, then apply the weed burner. After the center starts to burn I turn on a small squirrel cage fan and point it into the flames. This works quite well and involves no accelerants. Sometimes the core of the pile burns up and the rest of the pile doesn't catch. When this happens I just use to FEL to compress the pile again. Then the pile burns and I can keep putting on fresh wood. The piles are about 7 feet in diameter.
Eric

 

[tacticalturnip]

I have two, and I haven't used either of them... I'm something else.

 

[Rustyiron]

My Fire starter kit.

Diesel fuel, waste oil, propane torch and a gas or lately a battery blower. Of course there's waste cardboard and other easy to light stuff.

This one was a battle to get started. Last Thanksgiving day, freezing rain that turned into a wet snow. I got it going without burning that little car tire, it's a last resort type thing but always works.

This was towards the end of the day with just that little bit on the left to add in later.
While I'm at it I had 2 more big piles in other parts of my property.

December 1st, this one started well and I fed it all day long keeping it burning like this.
The snow cover makes a big fire worry free!

 

[jkk04]

Use DIESEL. It will ignite at a casual pace, unlike gasoline that is nearly spontaneous!

I used diesel for many years.
But diesel prices went up rapidly which is more than $5 per gallon now.
This propane torch with a cylinder refill is a lot of better option and no diesel waste.
Jkk

 

[WinterDeere]

I burn a lot of yard waste in my fire pit, which is a 7 foot diameter ring of stones. I've taken to laying an old pallet down first, before piling debris into the pit. It offers airflow sufficient to burn just about any green yard waste, thanks to forge/chimney effect created by allowing air space below, and also provides a little dry fuel at the bottom of the pile to help get things started.

I pick up pallets whenever I see someone leaving them out for trash, just for this purpose. No chemical accelerant required.

 

[not2old]

I use a leaf blower with the tiger torch and occasionally use some sawdust soaked with used motor oil.

 

[ruffdog]

Normally, I start my brush piles with a 8oz squirt bottle of waste oil with a small amount of gas mixed in. Squirted on shop rags in the pile it usally starts easily.

 

[RjCorazza]

Lots of good techniques posted.
I generally fluff up the pile with the loader, splash a gallon or so of diesel on the pile then light it off with a 15 minute road flare.

 

[LHF2019]

 

[Oaktree]

When I first moved here there was a big pile of old logs I wanted to get rid of. Those logs were so waterlogged that they wouldn't ignite no matter what I did. Finally just cut them up & pushed them into the woods with the tractor.
I don't typically burn brush, etc., just pile it in windrows around the edge of the fields and let it rot down while providing shelter for wildlife. Rots down pretty fast.

As far as firepit, newspaper/kindling/matches does the trick.