Burnin the night fires

What were you burning? I've got a huge pile of scrub I need to burn. I'm just waiting for some snow so I don't set the rest of the field on fire. Lesson learned from a good friend:flame:

Mostly pigeon berry, thorn apple, locust, ash and elm. Had it all stacked tight and no dirt mixed in, the beauty of of a good brush rake and knowing how to use it. There is a local kid around here trying to clear with an excavator and a D8K with straight blade and a D9H WITH A FRICKEN "U" BLADE!!! to pile brush and stumps. He gets more dirt in the piles than anything then tries to burn them with oil and tires!!!! stupid!!!!!! I rake the brush out let it dry a day or two then stack it and burn and the next day the piles are down to nothing. Like they say "cant fix stupid". Then after the farmer says i wish i would have hired you.

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Hello Bruce! thought that was you.

Sounds like the same guy up here!

Quote "There is a local kid around here trying to clear with an excavator and an old D8 with a cable blade to pile brush and stumps. He gets more dirt in the piles than anything then tries to burn them with oil and tires!!!! stupid!!!!!!"

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👋 Happy Thanksgiving Gary. A good lesson on brush piles. Ours was built over the last several years so when it goes up, it will be fast. All of it has been transported in small bites with the wheel tractor, so there is no dirt in it at all

Too bad you couldn't separate the locust. I've been burning it in the Woodstove. It makes a good hot fire.

Lots of good firewood in new piles here. Unfortunately takes too long to cut it between pushing the trees over and piling them. Now there's some nice sized ash trees I would like to cut buried in among lots of mock orange (hedge) .

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That is a real nice rig. Been piling with our 9U and a pin -on rake, but in our clay it's hard to leave the rootball dirt behind. Much easier to separate it when the pile has weathered a few months and then burnt. I think your rake has a lot wider spacing than the pin -on version we have.

We will wait until summer now since we have planted wheat all around the piles. No time to wait even a few days right now. Sprayer operator is going to have fun going around all that until we get them burned.

Burning regulations vary from place to place--on Long Island there is no brush burning, and if you have a barbeque pit or camp fire you need a mesh screen over it to catch the sparks. In Ma i can burn all my brush piles from January to April 30 as long as its not too dry or windy. Sure wish i had a brush rake for my D3B--have been using the teeth on my 941B bucket to roll out brush into a pile.