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<blockquote data-quote="greybeard" data-source="post: 1727717" data-attributes="member: 18945"><p>Someone mentioned "fire went underground". I had never encountered that until the day we burned the piles you see in the picture. As you can see, there is not a whole lot on the surface to support a ground fire. Just some new growth after clearing, pushing and piling. About an hour after we had light the first piles, my wife came and told me there was a fencepost on an old fencline flaming away. I found it odd, as it about 200' from the nearest pile. Anyway, I went over with a backpack sprayer and put the fire out but 30 minutes later, it was burning again, and so was the next post down the fence and smoke was coming out of the ground between the posts. The whole fenceline ended up burning underground, fueled by what I would imagine peat is like. Decayed/decaying pine needles under the ground. Since the fence was no good anyway, I just let it burn all night and the next morning, there was a long trench about a foot deep under the fence where all that had burned out. I spent the day and the following night out there watching it. </p><p>Next morning most of them had burned down pretty good. It took a couple weeks tho, of smoldering, then raking them out and repiling to get em done completely. Before it was over, I got real good at getting them to burn completely. </p><p>[ATTACH=full]12406[/ATTACH]</p><p></p><p></p><p>I didn't just set the piiles to burning without advice or knowledge of the Forest Service or local VFD. I had called both about a week ahead and the NFS came out, looked everything over and said I was good to go but they would drop a dozer off nearby just in case and for me to call them again the morning I was going to light it up. They gave me the go ahead that morning but told me humidity was high enough they decided not to bring the dozer but they always had a standby crew ready anyway. They had at that time, a facility about 8 miles away so it wouldn't take them long to get here. Not for me, since I really didn't have anything to 'save' at the time, but to keep it out of the nat forest. I had also notified the sheriff dept and the 911 lady in case someone called my fires in as a wildfire. Lit them on a Friday morning.</p><p>Looking back, it was fun times. </p><p>I was in good physical shape back then, not afraid of tackling anything, just full speed ahead.</p><p>Caption on this picture said "4pm Saturday evening. I had not slept since 6am Friday morning"</p><p>[ATTACH=full]12407[/ATTACH]</p><p>Dang, 14 years and a lot of water under the bridge since then but I just realized, I still have the same phone, the same truck and the same hat. (IDON'T tho, still have that big growth on my back. Had it surgically removed in 2016. Weighed 7 1/2 lbs. non-cancerous cyst)</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="greybeard, post: 1727717, member: 18945"] Someone mentioned "fire went underground". I had never encountered that until the day we burned the piles you see in the picture. As you can see, there is not a whole lot on the surface to support a ground fire. Just some new growth after clearing, pushing and piling. About an hour after we had light the first piles, my wife came and told me there was a fencepost on an old fencline flaming away. I found it odd, as it about 200' from the nearest pile. Anyway, I went over with a backpack sprayer and put the fire out but 30 minutes later, it was burning again, and so was the next post down the fence and smoke was coming out of the ground between the posts. The whole fenceline ended up burning underground, fueled by what I would imagine peat is like. Decayed/decaying pine needles under the ground. Since the fence was no good anyway, I just let it burn all night and the next morning, there was a long trench about a foot deep under the fence where all that had burned out. I spent the day and the following night out there watching it. Next morning most of them had burned down pretty good. It took a couple weeks tho, of smoldering, then raking them out and repiling to get em done completely. Before it was over, I got real good at getting them to burn completely. [ATTACH type="full"]12406[/ATTACH] I didn't just set the piiles to burning without advice or knowledge of the Forest Service or local VFD. I had called both about a week ahead and the NFS came out, looked everything over and said I was good to go but they would drop a dozer off nearby just in case and for me to call them again the morning I was going to light it up. They gave me the go ahead that morning but told me humidity was high enough they decided not to bring the dozer but they always had a standby crew ready anyway. They had at that time, a facility about 8 miles away so it wouldn't take them long to get here. Not for me, since I really didn't have anything to 'save' at the time, but to keep it out of the nat forest. I had also notified the sheriff dept and the 911 lady in case someone called my fires in as a wildfire. Lit them on a Friday morning. Looking back, it was fun times. I was in good physical shape back then, not afraid of tackling anything, just full speed ahead. Caption on this picture said "4pm Saturday evening. I had not slept since 6am Friday morning" [ATTACH type="full"]12407[/ATTACH] Dang, 14 years and a lot of water under the bridge since then but I just realized, I still have the same phone, the same truck and the same hat. (IDON'T tho, still have that big growth on my back. Had it surgically removed in 2016. Weighed 7 1/2 lbs. non-cancerous cyst) [/QUOTE]
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