Jagmandave,
I have a pile the size of a two story house. And not everything is in the pile. If we put everything in the pile it would like a three story house. /forums/images/graemlins/blush.gif
I have burned some big piles when we did not have water on site. I just waited until it was very wet , usually the winter time, and when there was no wind. I think I pulled 3-6 burn permits for every actual fire I had. If the conditions were not right then no burn.
I'm thinking we will have to bring in a big drum
chipper to handle our pile. I talked to a contractor who has the
chipper one day. I talked to him for about 15 minutes. He was running the drum
chipper and feeding it with two excavators. They reduced the pile in half while I was standing there. The pile he was working on was about the same size as what I have. I figure he could drop the equipment, do the job and load up in one day. He was iffy on the price, something like $2-3,000. Expensive but it would be done in one day and I would have a heck of a pile of wood chips! I just paid over $800 for 46 yards of wood chips which puts things in perspective.
Couple thousand dollars to clean up the mess in one day leaving me with a pile of wood chips would be a good deal. Burning takes DAYS on the pile I have.... /forums/images/graemlins/blush.gif
Later,
Dan