I had one of those large, woolly rats run INTO the fire from a nearby grass clump. It was disturbing.

That website has some AIDS to it.

I bought a box of these to try.

I keep a pile of those in the barn since the freeze of '21.

Rain put it out this morning. Going to have to keep working on the survivor. Refired a small bit of brush.



My brush fire tools. 60-40 mix.

That is what a lot of people don't realize, how long a brush pile will burn.

The worst example I saw was years ago in Kansas. The owner had cleared a 16 acre area that had a lot of big hardwood trees. He decided to start the pile as a bonfire for a party on a Friday night. I cautioned him that it would burn a long time. He said that's alright; he would be there all weekend. I said no, I mean it will burn a long time, like weeks, but he didn't believe me. 2 months later they had 10 inches of snow, and you could still see the orange glow from the burning logs where it had melted the snow off.

I'll have to try the leaf blower thing. I have three large piles I need to burn.

I will generally soak a section of the pile with diesel, light it and then use the leaf blower to 'feed' oxygen to the pile. It gets really hot quickly that way.

Makes a 'hot spot' that will catch the rest of the pile on fire. It also lets you stand back a ways as you force feed the burn pile and you don't have to be too near the pile and get too hot yourself.

Watch the wind. About 40+ years ago, neighbor was burning some stuff. Wind blew sparks and got on my place. Took about 20 years for everything to get back to normal.

They are not allowing any burning anywhere around this area.