And this is why we are careful with fire…

[cbw]

Fire is scary for sure. We keep skid loader, 70 gal sprayer, backpack sprayer and tractor with disk handy when we burn. We’ve found found a good Stihl backpack blower with lots of eyes/helping hands most effective for keeping a fire from getting out of control.


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[jsasker007]

A few years ago I had peat burning underground just outside of my backyard. I never did any burning at all but I think maybe a spark from my excavator maybe caused it to catch fire. I was in that area doing some digging a few days before I saw any smoke and the excavator was doing a regen to burn the exhaust clean. During a regen the exhaust stack gets hotter than hell and runs like that for about 45 minutes before it's burned clean in the exhaust system. It's the only thing I could think of that may have started that peat on fire. It burned real slow and was smoking off and on for a few weeks but never really spread anywhere luckily.

 

[Catscratch]

Lots of burning going on still!
Viewe from the living room last night.

 

[hillrunner]

I burned about 15 acres this morning. There was a couple minutes of panic but overall went without incident.

 

[b116757]

I’ve burned a lot of pastures and brush piles over the years and had to call the fire department a time or two when things got out of hand. Last time the pasture fire jumped into cedar tops at my north line heading across the line towards the neighbors so I called to protect the cedars that semi act as a privacy screan between us more than anything hated to lose them.

 

[omicron1792]

Glad it all ended well Derek.

 

[Derek Reese 29]

Clover plot on the left and burned area on the right..it is recovering very fast

 

[buckdeer1]

Tmax,we sent 1 truck up to the lake area up there and they were there for 12 hrs. 4Wandering,I take it you are in a state that doesn't pay property taxes to the FD?Heck in Kansas the state can't even get dozers most likely.But I would say on the average 80 acres with a house you might pay 20.00 a year for fire dept.I know a couple of states you have subscription services also.