Boll Weevil
5 year old buck +
I thought maybe we could learn from each other...experiences whether our own or others can be a great teacher.
Burning a dried down brushpile in the middle of a completely disked field about 80 yards from the nearest trees; what could possibly go wrong? Everything's going great, we're just babysitting the burn, and I happen to see a dead snag on the edge of the timber that appears to be smoldering. I walk over there and sure enough about halfway up it was burning. A hot ember carried aloft must have stuck to that dried out snag and and lit it.
Grabbed the saw, felled it into the disked field, chunked it up, and dragged it away from the timber. Lesson learned that dry air, dry/dead wood, and enough wind to carry a hot ember can start a fire well away from a burn source. In this case having a saw to fell the tree was the remedy but if it would have kept burning unnoticed in the timber like that we could have had a problem.
Got any stories about the one that almost or did get away?
Burning a dried down brushpile in the middle of a completely disked field about 80 yards from the nearest trees; what could possibly go wrong? Everything's going great, we're just babysitting the burn, and I happen to see a dead snag on the edge of the timber that appears to be smoldering. I walk over there and sure enough about halfway up it was burning. A hot ember carried aloft must have stuck to that dried out snag and and lit it.
Grabbed the saw, felled it into the disked field, chunked it up, and dragged it away from the timber. Lesson learned that dry air, dry/dead wood, and enough wind to carry a hot ember can start a fire well away from a burn source. In this case having a saw to fell the tree was the remedy but if it would have kept burning unnoticed in the timber like that we could have had a problem.
Got any stories about the one that almost or did get away?