Chipper Wire fence through big chipper?

[quicksandfarmer]

Cheaper to get a $10 permit than have a passerby call the fire department and pay a $150 fine. Make sure you have a good supply of water nearby, preferably from hose and not buckets. Learned that the hard way last year when the field caught fire and my 10' burn zone turned into a 50' burn zone in under 5 minutes.

Around here first offense is a fine, subsequent offenses are up to 30 days in jail.

Permit is free.

 

[oosik]

When I moved down here there was barbed wire, hog wire & chicken wire in many locations on the property. I "disassembled" my single bottom moldboard plow until I had - essentially - a single shank ripper. Going thru these locations with this unit on the 3-point and set around 6" deep soon brought volumes of wire up. The old boy who homesteaded here DID like his wire!!

Even with my pickup there was no way I could get all the mess to the dump - let alone afford it. So I dug a large burn pit out in one of my open areas and slowly but surely burned the piles. It took all of two years to get all the piles of wire burned.

I noticed that once a pile of wire was completely burned - rusting was immediate and the piles eventually "crumbled" down to an ashy mess. I left the burn pit open for an additional year before covering it and by then all the wire was almost completely rust - IE, very little structural integrity remained.

The biggest concern I had was keeping a sharp eye out regarding the old wire getting caught up in the tractor tires and wrapping around them. It did happen a couple times but I was able to catch it before any damage was done.

I have never heard of any type of implement that is designed to chip or grind fencing wire - at least not on the non-commercial level.

 

[TO_Bud]

As long as you have a good open area for your burn you could wait for a breezy day. Not windy but with a steady breeze. Light the fire on the downwind edge or a section of the downwind end. In my experience with burn piles the fire has trouble advancing up wind. As your first downwind section begins to burn down you could advance 20 or so feet up wind to start a second burn. Keep repeating the process as the sections burn down and you should be able to control the size of the burn at one time a little better.

 

[sixdogs]

As long as you have a good open area for your burn you could wait for a breezy day. Not windy but with a steady breeze. Light the fire on the downwind edge or a section of the downwind end. In my experience with burn piles the fire has trouble advancing up wind. As your first downwind section begins to burn down you could advance 20 or so feet up wind to start a second burn. Keep repeating the process as the sections burn down and you should be able to control the size of the burn at one time a little better.

This is the way to burn stuff and not get in trouble. The wind controls the flame and it's never a towering inferno. We have done it this way for years.