Thread: Got my first burn permit of the season

Maybe some chance for afternoon showers/T-storms this Friday. You have a better chance for rain this coming Monday/Tuesday.

Keep the beer cold

Originally Posted by jbrumberg

Maybe some chance for afternoon showers/T-storms this Friday. You have a better chance for rain this coming Monday/Tuesday.

Keep the beer cold

I can hope Jay, BTW all I need is enough moisture to keep * Those In Charge happy. Today their website is showing a "LOW" fire danger level. Normally that means it's okay to burn if you have a permit and you call a special phone number for an okay. I only have Saturday and/or Sunday for those chores.

* Connecticut D.E.P.

Will have to post the after pictures later. I really need to clean up the mess.
It rained dogs and ponies last night, everything was saturated this morning, but I did the burn anyway. This was the toughest fire to keep going so far. I finally got a good hot spot cooking, and was able to get almost all the brush turned into ashes.

I need to watch what I hope for, all I wanted was some sprinkles.. not the torrent of yesterday. I could see someone that hasn't done this before giving up at 10:30 this morning, but I knew if I could get a good bunch of coals going the rest would be easy.

Now for a productive Sunday.

On an unrelated note: When I moved into this house the main bathroom had one of those little round toilets.. I immediately got a big oval style and set it aside with a mental promise to swap them out in a week or two... Well I just finished installing it.. only 4 1/2 years late.

Originally Posted by Warren

For future reference. Logger friends of mine who lived over on the coast of Oregon Used a mixture of tire dust and diesel to build a hot fire when burning slash in those frog choker rains. They would get the tire dust from the local tire store, mix it with diesel till it was kind of a paste, and use it to build those hot spots you talked about.

Now I don't know if they still get tire dust build up in tire stores now days, and I don't know if a person can use diesel to start the fire. Just passin' along a little info.

I no longer use an old tire filled with a mixture of gasoline and diesel. Now I have a weed burner wand..but I start off with an old cast iron box with holes in the sides and bottom, it has no top. I use some dry wood, get a good fire going so there's a bed of coals, use the loader on the Kubota to lift a corner of the brush pile and slid the box under with a 2x4, gently lower the brush and use the burn wand to aid in getting a good start. Takes a little longer, but no black acrid smoke. I'm a good neighbor..

The days of the old tire with gas and diesel would create a large dirty smoke haze, especially when we had a low cloud ceiling, with no wind. but it worked even with the wettest mess, so does styrofoam mixed with gasoline, creates a white blob, sometimes called "homemade napalm"

Originally Posted by bindian

What's a burn permit?
hugs, Brandi

Something that is rumored to exist in the People's Republic of Taxachusetts... but try to actually get one.