Day 95 - BURN DAY! 300ft Bon Fire

What a day! Sun up to sun down, it was a busy day. And man, did I sleep well that night! Those are the good days. The days that end with you being in the shower and looking down at all the dirt run off of your body. Evidence of hard work washing away.

We cleared 2 acres on our forever property and, unfortunately, we need to burn most of it. We are rushing this process a bit so because we are already a month behind schedule on the new shop built. If we want to move in before winter, we must push forward.

The burn pile is 300' long and contains mostly smaller trees and brush from our pine stand. We didn't have the time or weather cooperation to salvage all of the larger trees, so some of them had to go into the pile. Not all is lost, though; I'll talk more about this in the next video.

Every location has a different set of rules and regulations (freedom restrictions). In our area, it is recommended that you call the sheriff's office before a controlled burn like this. That way, if people call because they see a fire in the woods, the sheriff's office can let them know that it is a controlled burn.

Regarding fire containment, the 300' pile is in the middle of a 200' x 400' clearing with no vegetation on the ground surrounding the pile. That provides a fire break to mitigate spread. Our only concern was hot embers floating away from the pile and starting another fire elsewhere. For that reason, we waited until an hour before dark to start the fire. This lets the dew start to set in and allows us to better see the hot embers as they fly away.

Luckily, no other fires were started. In the event that another fire was started, we had multiple people watching the woods, 250 gallons of water, and a leaf blower. A leaf blower can be a great tool to stop the spread of a small fire if used correctly. Similar to blowing out a candle, blow the flames and hot embers from the fuel side into the already burnt side.

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