Night shots!?!

[dragoneggs]

Burning the last many burns of stumps, limbs, scrub trees, etc. finally got a good burn going and as always, don't have the heart to dowse so I'm on fire watch. Time to kill... I know... TBN... Hey what about posting a challenge? Who works their tractors at night? Bigger challenge... Pics please!

 

[PhysAssist]

Burning the last many burns of stumps, limbs, scrub trees, etc. finally got a good burn going and as always, don't have the heart to dowse so I'm on fire watch. Time to kill... I know... TBN... Hey what about posting a challenge? Who works their tractors at night? Bigger challenge... Pics please!

Hi DE,

BTDT, I hate putting out the fire too- I'd rather sit up alone and watch it- as long as the skeeters, etc don't get too bad.

How about pictures of bonfires or campfires instead [or in addition]- but only where there is no burning ban or drought.

Thomas

 

[dragoneggs]

Hi DE, BTDT, I hate putting out the fire too- I'd rather sit up alone and watch it- as long as the skeeters, etc don't get too bad. How about pictures of bonfires or campfires instead [or in addition]- but only where there is no burning ban or drought. Thomas

Man! You are up early or... I'm out on my deck watching over the fire 200ft away sipping something that definitely won't put the fire out! No skeeters either. Better half kept saying (until she fell asleep) "thought you were a Boy Scout, aren't you suppose to put it out?" She has guilted me into a very late nighter... And yep, solo!

 

[newbury]

Man! You are up early or... I'm out on my deck watching over the fire 200ft away sipping something that definitely won't put the fire out! No skeeters either. Better half kept saying (until she fell asleep) "thought you were a Boy Scout, aren't you suppose to put it out?" She has guilted me into a very late nighter... And yep, solo!

Thread title made me think of night shots of Glenlivet.

 

[Tomtint]

Out here we can't start a brush fire until 10am and we are supposed to have completely it out by 4 pm. I spent a few nights watching over the pile burn down to a ash pile. Once it was well burned down, I pushed rocks around it and went to bed. .. Slept with 1 eye open.

 

[oosik]

Nice night shots. Back in the day, when I use to work(ugh-4 letter word), I would plow snow at night. Snow falling off the pine trees that line the driveway would ensure that I never fell asleep. Nothing quite so chilling as a shot down the back of your neck.

Now that I'm retired - any plowing is a daytime thing.

 

[Zebrafive]

We are not allowed to burn after sunset. They worry about what will be thrown on when it's too dark to see the smoke. Fire department WILL come and put it out!

 

[countrybumpkin]

Looks like fun, we don't have any local burn regulations, burn when and how often you want.

 

[PhysAssist]

Man! You are up early or... I'm out on my deck watching over the fire 200ft away sipping something that definitely won't put the fire out! No skeeters either. Better half kept saying (until she fell asleep) "thought you were a Boy Scout, aren't you suppose to put it out?" She has guilted me into a very late nighter... And yep, solo!

I am almost always a late night owl- unless I have to be at work in the AM, and since I worked the w/e, I was off in the AM.

I do have some of those nights and enjoy a libation while on fire watch, but I'm an exclusively high end beer drinker and usually eschew spirits, especially the type Newbury thinks of.

Glad that you had a peaceful night- your pictures gave my mind a focus for some great meditation about that- so I had one too.

Thanks for that too,
Thomas

PS: We are really set back in the middle of our 8 acres which are further isolated in a larger parcel, so we only loosely follow burn restrictions here, but we strictly follow common sense ones- we have the garden hose hooked up, run down to the fire pit, and turned on at source, have Class A fire extinguishers [water propelled by compressed air] immediately at hand, don't burn when there is any significant breeze at all, and keep things well controlled by having precreated fire breaks.

Finally the fire pit is directly upwind of our pond, so sparks generally don't get past it.

 

[Tractor Seabee]

Burning the last many burns of stumps, limbs, scrub trees, etc. finally got a good burn going and as always, don't have the heart to dowse so I'm on fire watch. Time to kill... I know... TBN... Hey what about posting a challenge? Who works their tractors at night? Bigger challenge... Pics please!

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Mark,

Here in South Kitsap County we are not allowed to burn at night. I cheat sometimes when the flames have died and no wind forecast. I have 3 piles started for 10' Diameter burns. I always wait for rain, my woods are too close.

Ron

 

[oosik]

Over on the "dry side" - Spokane County - I only burn in the winter or early spring. Just too much chance of things spreading into the dry underbrush & trees.

 

[KWRB]

Here in NY, we have the DUMBEST new law. About five years ago, because some clowns near NYC burned down part of their town, the state enacted a burn ban in the spring. It lasts until June 1. They say it's so all the dead stuff can green up and thus be less susceptible to burn. So, we're allowed to burn -in fact legally encouraged- in the dry summer but not at all when the ground is sopping wet from snow melt in the spring. It's an unfortunate result of being in the same state as NYC. We get 10+ feet of snow in a season, and our ground is saturated for months every spring, but can't burn.

Add to that, that by the time I can burn the limb piles from the winter timber, birds are trying to nest in them and rabbits have set up camp. I really hate burning animals out of their home.

As for that night shot, here's one I love. I had to buy R1 tires to replace the turfs that came on my Deere 4610 when I bought it used. I had made do with the turfs for several years, but when I wanted to turn a sod field, the turfs didn't have the traction. I sold some stuff (like my 3 pt snowblower) and saved for quite a while and bought new wheels and tires. I was so happy to have a tractor that looked like a "real" tractor, that I worked into the night and when they were on I didn't wait to take the picture.



By the time I was able to plow that field, there was snow on it. Thank God for the late winter this past year!

 

[CCWKen]

I don't much care for doing things at night. The days are long enough as it is. I'm not afraid of the dark-It's because there's things out back that will eat you if given the chance. If I have to go to the barn or move a tractor after sunset, I take a dog and carry a sidearm.

 

[dragoneggs]

Mark,

Here in South Kitsap County we are not allowed to burn at night. I cheat sometimes when the flames have died and no wind forecast. I have 3 piles started for 10' Diameter burns. I always wait for rain, my woods are too close.

Ron

Hi Ron... you got me thinking (and sweating a bit too) trying to be legal so I went and reread my permit. Says you can't start a fire before sunrise and you can't 'add material after sunset'. I haven't been adding but I admit I have pushed the pile together. I'm on my third day and haven't had to relight it... just stir up the coals and then add a few more. This should be the last night of active burning. I do have a four huge stumps that are too big to get to the pile so they will sit in my newly created stump garden.

 

[DT86]

Here are a few from early 2014 when I had 65 heifers calving. They're of the RTV, hope that counts.









This week, Saturday afternoon ran into Sunday morning. Happened to look down at just the right time to catch the tractor rolling 1600 hours while mowing hay.

 

[Tractor Seabee]

Hi Ron... you got me thinking (and sweating a bit too) trying to be legal so I went and reread my permit. Says you can't start a fire before sunrise and you can't 'add material after sunset'. I haven't been adding but I admit I have pushed the pile together. I'm on my third day and haven't had to relight it... just stir up the coals and then add a few more. This should be the last night of active burning. I do have a four huge stumps that are too big to get to the pile so they will sit in my newly created stump garden.

Mark, Down here they also ban stumps from burn piles so sweat again. I cheat on that also for ones my BX will lift. I have had stumps burn for days.

Ron

 

[dragoneggs]

Here are a few from early 2014 when I had 65 heifers calving. They're of the RTV, hope that counts. <img src="http://www.tractorbynet.com/forums/attachment.php?attachmentid=473224"/> <img src="http://www.tractorbynet.com/forums/attachment.php?attachmentid=473225"/> <img src="http://www.tractorbynet.com/forums/attachment.php?attachmentid=473226"/> <img src="http://www.tractorbynet.com/forums/attachment.php?attachmentid=473227"/> This week, Saturday afternoon ran into Sunday morning. Happened to look down at just the right time to catch the tractor rolling 1600 hours while mowing hay. <img src="http://www.tractorbynet.com/forums/attachment.php?attachmentid=473228"/>

DT! That's what I'm talking about! Low light photography. Not easy.