Trail maintenance

[injinji]

I burned 15 piles today.


We had a thunderstorm after lunch. The wind picked up the rest of the afternoon. Two piles were kind of close to woods and they did cause me some concern. But even when it was blowing the worst, no sparks were flying. And the wind did make for a better, faster burn than yesterday.

 

[StonedGardener]

I burned 15 piles today.

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We had a thunderstorm after lunch. The wind picked up the rest of the afternoon. Two piles were kind of close to woods and they did cause me some concern. But even when it was blowing the worst, no sparks were flying. And the wind did make for a better, faster burn than yesterday.

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How do you ignite those piles, I'm seeing black smoke......that is quite the campfire to start..........just curious......?

 

[injinji]

How do you ignite those piles, I'm seeing black smoke......that is quite the campfire to start..........just curious......?

You mix a pint of gas per gallon of diesel, then use as little of it as possible. Yesterday I used about three gallons to do 5 piles. When I did the math on how much that was going to cost, I figured I had to use less. Today I spent a little more time stacking smaller limbs over the newspaper, and used 3 soup cans of fuel per pile. The trick is to hit it with the leaf blower once it's burning. It does the blow torch effect. Really heats up in a hurry.

 

[injinji]

My neighbor stopped by on his way home from work. He repiled until it was too dark to see. Glad he came by. Now they will mostly be burned up by morning.

 

[StonedGardener]

You mix a pint of gas per gallon of diesel, then use as little of it as possible. Yesterday I used about three gallons to do 5 piles. When I did the math on how much that was going to cost, I figured I had to use less. Today I spent a little more time stacking smaller limbs over the newspaper, and used 3 soup cans of fuel per pile. The trick is to hit it with the leaf blower once it's burning. It does the blow torch effect. Really heats up in a hurry.

Now this is very,very wrong, but nothing works like a touch of petrol and an old car tire. That's bad, well maybe in an emergency it's not very, very bad.

 

[StonedGardener]

Now this is very,very wrong, but nothing works like a touch of petrol and an old car tire. That's bad, well maybe in an emergency it's not very, very bad.

Now this is very,very wrong, but nothing works like a touch of petrol and an old car tire. That's bad, well maybe in an emergency it's not very, very bad.

That f'ing diesel is super foul shit , one truck can stink up a square mile,

 

[injinji]

That f'ing diesel is super foul shit , one truck can stink up a square mile,

I refined my method today. Burned 27 piles and used just over 2 gallons of fuel mix. The trick is applying the leaf blower at the right time.

 

[injinji]

My old shooting house came through the hurricane in good shape. Just the front and back walls and the roof got a little damage.

 

[injinji]

Two more 25 pile days and I'll be done with it.

 

[StonedGardener]

I refined my method today. Burned 27 piles and used just over 2 gallons of fuel mix. The trick is applying the leaf blower at the right time.

The new age bellowd

 

[StonedGardener]

Bellows ! ......notbellowd.

 

[injinji]

Burned 16 piles today. Wind shifted on me and an ember lit a standing dead oak in the fence row. Lots of fuel removal then waiting around watching for falling fire. I cleared all the leaves and limbs and let everything that had caught fire burn. That's mostly burned out now. I'll pour water on it before I go to bed.

The piles burned good though. No problem with any of them.

 

[StonedGardener]

Burned 16 piles today. Wind shifted on me and an ember lit a standing dead oak in the fence row. Lots of fuel removal then waiting around watching for falling fire. I cleared all the leaves and limbs and let everything that had caught fire burn. That's mostly burned out now. I'll pour water on it before I go to bed.

The piles burned good though. No problem with any of them.

Surprised your not an arsonist (that's a joke.).

 

[injinji]

Surprised your not an arsonist (that's a joke.).

This is my first time burning this kind of piles. I grow longleaf pines, so I'm used to burning them every three to four years. And pastures are burned off every year. But I've never had this amount of debris to get rid of before. There is so much fuel on the ground due to the hurricane it's really scary when you get fire outside the lines. It burned a few bushes but I caught it in time to get it stopped. If it had got going it could have burned 1/4 mile of that fence row and might have got across the road into Sister's pines.

I soaked it all down last night, but this morning when I checked on it, there was still coals under the ashes. I poured about 20 gallons more water on the tree and the ground around it.

 

[StonedGardener]

This is my first time burning this kind of piles. I grow longleaf pines, so I'm used to burning them every three to four years. And pastures are burned off every year. But I've never had this amount of debris to get rid of before. There is so much fuel on the ground due to the hurricane it's really scary when you get fire outside the lines. It burned a few bushes but I caught it in time to get it stopped. If it had got going it could have burned 1/4 mile of that fence row and might have got across the road into Sister's pines.

I soaked it all down last night, but this morning when I checked on it, there was still coals under the ashes. I poured about 20 gallons more water on the tree and the ground around it.

That's a shit-ton of work ! Work hard , play hard dude ! FLAME ON...

 

[injinji]

We had four hours of really bad thunderstorm last night. The river was flowing into the slough this morning when I got up. But tonight after work we went down and the driveway was still not underwater. The level is 18.7 now, with the crest just slightly higher in the next 12-18 hours.

 

[injinji]

I'm pretty sure there is a pot of gold down at J & D's beach.

 

[injinji]

The river has fell 1.8' since the crest, but the slough started getting in the driveway yesterday. I turned down the flow of water, even though I said I wasn't going to do it next flood. The patch on the well seemed to be holding.

 

[injinji]

My neighbor had a scheduling issue with his helper, so he spent most of the day repiling the burnt piles and moving the ones too close to the woods to burn. They piled the remains of 2-3 piles into 1, then I set them afire.

 

[injinji]

The first of July is when the state's pine tree nursery starts taking orders. Last year I sent my order in September and they were out of trees. So I got it in the mail this morning. I requested two shipments of 2K improved long leaf seedlings to be delivered two weeks apart in January. Cost of 95 per plus 10 for shipping. So some quick math would show that my order came to 420.