Stumps, Salt, and a little help from our friends

[bcp]

Maryland probably requires a burn permit, an EPA permit, contributions to the Fire Department, 3 bribes, and hiring half a dozen illegal aliens to stand around watching it.

Build your fire, but also have a chair, a beer, and a hot dog on a stick. Then you don't need that other stuff.



Our county:
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Permits are required for burning yard debris and land clearing - in areas where burning is allowed. Outdoor burning is not permitted from July 15 through September 30, when the fire danger level tends to be high.

Recreational and cooking fires up to 3'x3'x2' are still allowed in all of Clark County without a permit. Only charcoal or seasoned firewood (not lumber) may be used as fuel for a recreational fire.
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Bruce

 

[dmccarty]

Maryland probably requires a burn permit, an EPA permit, contributions to the Fire Department, 3 bribes, and hiring half a dozen illegal aliens to stand around watching it.

Sounds like MD needs to change the name of the state to Eastern California. :laughing::laughing::laughing: Pretty soon you will need a purchase permit to get matches. :shocked:

Later,
Dan

 

[DrRod]

I hear that. But actually, my farm is in rural south central PA and we don't have rules for anything. Its essentially a 16 mile dead end valley [although you can take a few adventure roads over the mountains at the end] in a county that has exactly one stoplight. It was a last holdout of moonshining and deer season runs 365 days a year. We have a guy who drives a pickup with no windshield so he wears goggles. Now that is a redneck paradise.

 

[KYErik]

Diesel would only help if you plan to burn it.

Drilling holes and filling with a high nitrogen fertilizer and then covering it with mulch/leaves will keep it moist and help the fungi to decompose it faster. Even with this treatment, it will take several years.


Off topic:

We have a guy who drives a pickup with no windshield so he wears goggles.

This guy surely has a nickname: Orville? Wilbur? Baron von Richthofen?

 

[Sparks45]

Maryland probably requires a burn permit, an EPA permit, contributions to the Fire Department, 3 bribes, and hiring half a dozen illegal aliens to stand around watching it.

We bought 5 acres last fall in Carroll County, Maryland. We're still working on getting building permits. Holdup is for a driveway bridge across a stream. We've lived in "Maryland, The Free State" (what an oxymoron this is) since 1986 and I figured Dr Zinj had missed a couple more requirements until I did a quick search. Turns out, it isn't too restricted. Here's a link to the State regulations:
http://www.dnr.state.md.us/forests/fire/pdfs/openairburning.pdf
and here's the State Fire Marshall's info:
Maryland Open Air Burning and Burn Ban Questions Answered - Southern Maryland News
This latter page says, in part:
"The MDE open burning ban is in effect annually between June 1 and September 1. This burn ban involves the following counties: Anne Arundel, Baltimore, Calvert, Carroll, Cecil, Charles, Frederick, Harford, Howard, Montgomery, Prince George痴 and Baltimore City. The ban does not affect backyard barbeque grilling or open fires for recreational purposes, such as campfires."
Personally, I can live with this. I just wonder how long it'll be before the "greenies" get a complete, year-round ban in place.
Charlie

 

[KENSFM]

Maryland probably requires a burn permit, an EPA permit, contributions to the Fire Department, 3 bribes, and hiring half a dozen illegal aliens to stand around watching it.

Don't forget the paid Police detail!

 

[DrRod]

Actually, I have had success with a related approach -- the raised flower bed. I had a big but low spruce stump in the front yard and I covered it with a nice hill of dirt. Then I planted flowers in it for ten years. It looked nice but be aware that a raised bed dries out faster because it evaporates from the sides as well as the top. In any case, one day it sort of dropped a bit and so we ran through it with the FEL and sliced off the remaining the remaining rotten stump wood and moved the dirt to other uses.

Still, I'm facinated with trying to induce wildlife to gnaw them down. I take so many hits from the local flora and fauna that I'd like to get some practical benefit from their labors.