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Somerville, Indiana | Here step on is call Sheriff and tell dispatch we burning.
then in order:
take the trees down, stump on one end which will be in the field, tops always facing the edge of the field, important to keep the mess of 'hay' small as possible.
push closer to the pile with Cat. keep the almost to the pile, pile loose so can cut up with 362C with 20 or 24 inch bar and chain from Mr. hoosier farmer...shorter the better when cutting, pile needs to be good and close, with no ends sticking out 20 feet past the far, we burn as we clear so we need the heat from the easy burning parts to dry the sap and water out of the harder to burn stumps...EPA tried to help us three different times as we were clearing along Indiana 57, which was on his way from one wasteful spending fed building to another...He was a girly sort of a guy, least I accused him of being turned to the wrong toilet room, so we didn't get off to a good start...Second time, Ralph didn't see him for fifteen minutes as he was falling and piling trees back and forth, R said, Dad, he almost ran out of breath trying to stay out of my way, so I decided that I best stop and recognize that I saw him...That time he told us stumps have a lot of sap in them, reason why they put off a cloud of white smoke=and smoke is the number one reason the California Girly Folks bitch about us burning junk timber instead of letting the US grow up into an American African Jungle...We take that as an educated hint, not to use any accelerant that doesn't need to be burned, don't import anything to burn the piles unless it can be contained in an Impala type trunk=don't use any more smoke than absolutely nessissitary.
when loose pile is cut up quit taking out trees with excavator and pile loose cut up pile on burning dry easy to start burning dry rotten timber [easy to lite with dry leaves, Evansville Courier and Press, Manerds junk mail, etc.}
pile the stumps on top as the easy to burn tops are making coals to sustain the far...NEVER let any dirt get on the coals, femine headache memory required...Keep a good supply of sumps on the burning pile, use tree tops only as necessary, but keep them close to the heat so they will burn more easy...Another important remember is to heat up the stumps by keeping on top of the pile, they will dry the first day of clearing, disappear on the second and third, the longer the clearing takes the easier the stumps are to burn...I don't like to use a burning pit, its more dangerous to humin life than a high school teenager without a gurl friend...A fan is almost as bad a habit as tars, as it causes the easy to burn tops to get used up before they can provide enough heat to dry out all the stumps, close to bad county Zoning Committee a fan is necessary to keep the smoke in the brush pile...Remove the larger stumps from the burning pile to split them with bucket teeth and keep more dirt out of the coals---do not let any dirt fall into the coals.
Some of yall already know that clean clearing is probably my biggest habit.
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Burning brush piles with silage blower?
