If you have not burned

mcbuck58 · Mar 27, 2024

Video worked for me. Yes wind look like it was kicking pretty good. Just got done setting up a 15.8 acre woods burn. Was gonna fire up tonight but I'm gonna wait for tomorrow night. My farm is in KY and it is a hard state to burn in cause they have a two season burn ban. October 1st to December 15th and February 15th to April 30th. During those two times no fire within 150' of a woodland from 6am to 6pm. So during that time need to have small fast fires cause humidity rising when it's getting dark. Kind of sucks.

Quailman · Mar 28, 2024

mcbuck58 said:
Video worked for me. Yes wind look like it was kicking pretty good. Just got done setting up a 15.8 acre woods burn. Was gonna fire up tonight but I'm gonna wait for tomorrow night. My farm is in KY and it is a hard state to burn in cause they have a two season burn ban. October 1st to December 15th and February 15th to April 30th. During those two times no fire within 150' of a woodland from 6am to 6pm. So during that time need to have small fast fires cause humidity rising when it's getting dark. Kind of sucks.

Wow I didn't realize Kentucky was that restrictive, especially with their very proactive private lands efforts across the state!

And yes, the wind kicked up a few times on the early afternoon burns but died down of course later in the evening. This video is what it was like within another hour and a half.

BSK · Mar 29, 2024

Have I ever mentioned I don't like working with fire?

I was working on a project today where the property has several large pastures being converted to warm-season grasses. I was working in one of those fields today when I get a call from the one of the ranch hands. "Are you working in the South tall-grass pasture?" Me: "Yes." Ranch hand: "Well, um... we just set it on fire."

And it was a head fire. Backed by a good breeze. I could hear the roar of it coming before I could see it. Eventually I could see a 20-foot flame wall with fire tornadoes spinning out in front of it. Damn. The ranch hands spent the rest of the day trying to put out fires that jumped the 20-foot-wide firebreaks. It was so hot, the tops of trees were bursting into flames.

JCDEERMAN · Mar 29, 2024

Quailman said:
Wind picked up a little on our second burn, lol.

Looks like it

. Those are exceptional fire breaks…but dang - that's a little too much wind for me to burn

JCDEERMAN · Mar 29, 2024

Quailman said:
Wow I didn't realize Kentucky was that restrictive, especially with their very proactive private lands efforts across the state!

And yes, the wind kicked up a few times on the early afternoon burns but died down of course later in the evening. This video is what it was like within another hour and a half.

That's more to my liking

JCDEERMAN · Mar 29, 2024

BSK said:
Have I ever mentioned I don't like working with fire?

I was working on a project today where the property has several large pastures being converted to warm-season grasses. I was working in one of those fields today when I get a call from the one of the ranch hands. "Are you working in the South tall-grass pasture?" Me: "Yes." Ranch hand: "Well, um... we just set it on fire."

And it was a head fire. Backed by a good breeze. I could hear the roar of it coming before I could see it. Eventually I could see a 20-foot flame wall with fire tornadoes spinning out in front of it. Damn. The ranch hands spent the rest of the day trying to put out fires that jumped the 20-foot-wide firebreaks. It was so hot, the tops of trees were bursting into flames.

Have they ever done this before? Did they not have a backing fire creating a black line before setting a head fire, especially a native grass field, on this windy day? If not, that's a recipe for a wildfire

BSK · Mar 30, 2024

JCDEERMAN said:
Have they ever done this before? Did they not have a backing fire creating a black line before setting a head fire, especially a native grass field, on this windy day? If not, that's a recipe for a wildfire

No backing fire. Head fire easily jumped a literal 20-foot-wide fire break. Got into the woods and burned off and on all day. While they were busy with the forest fires, I ended up having to put out numerous fires that got out of the field and into the leaves in the ditches along a public road. Those ditch fires were headed towards all the neighbors' properties and had nothing to stop them.

And I was just there mapping...

Tn_Va_Hunter · Mar 30, 2024

If I'm patient. Mine will eventually burn. So many brush frites and Forrest fires in our county lately. They have a burn ban on. No fires at all. Yet. There's 5-10 a day being fought.

JCDEERMAN · Mar 30, 2024

BSK said:
No backing fire. Head fire easily jumped a literal 20-foot-wide fire break. Got into the woods and burned off and on all day. While they were busy with the forest fires, I ended up having to put out numerous fires that got out of the field and into the leaves in the ditches along a public road. Those ditch fires were headed towards all the neighbors' properties and had nothing to stop them.

And I was just there mapping...

That's completely reckless. Jumping 20' fire breaks does not surprise me at all with not only a field head fire, but especially the wind we had yesterday.

mcbuck58 · Mar 30, 2024

Burned 3-28 15.8 acres.
Easy burn to set up. Surrounded by firelanes which were mowed last September. Same deal as before took JD riding lawn mower and made two passes to blow off leaves. One straight firelane is part of west boundary line about 1200' long. This fire had a monster head fire, for a woods burn lots of leaves and it ran up hill.

mcbuck58 · Mar 30, 2024

Burned 3-29 13.2 acres.
This burn was easy with no set up required. Kind of like a long triangle. Creek on one side. Dirt road on other side that goes down and crosses creek. Chestnut and fruit orchard on short side with short green grass.

Popcorn · Mar 30, 2024

BSK said:
Have I ever mentioned I don't like working with fire?

I was working on a project today where the property has several large pastures being converted to warm-season grasses. I was working in one of those fields today when I get a call from the one of the ranch hands. "Are you working in the South tall-grass pasture?" Me: "Yes." Ranch hand: "Well, um... we just set it on fire."

And it was a head fire. Backed by a good breeze. I could hear the roar of it coming before I could see it. Eventually I could see a 20-foot flame wall with fire tornadoes spinning out in front of it. Damn. The ranch hands spent the rest of the day trying to put out fires that jumped the 20-foot-wide firebreaks. It was so hot, the tops of trees were bursting into flames.

When pine trees start crowning

its time to be gone! Exciting and fearful all at the same time

but the fire master must remain calm and in charge.

BSK · Mar 31, 2024

Popcorn said:
When pine trees start crowning its time to be gone! Exciting and fearful all at the same time but the fire master must remain calm and in charge.

I was not calm, and thankfully, not in charge!

Popcorn · Mar 31, 2024

BSK said:
I was not calm, and thankfully, not in charge!

Did you make it out unsinged?

Our last burn for the season curled my eyebrows in a native grass field. Had to run from that one and I had the torch.

BSK · Mar 31, 2024

Popcorn said:
Did you make it out unsinged?

Our last burn for the season curled my eyebrows in a native grass field. Had to run from that one and I had the torch.

Luckily, I was on my ATV, which when need be, is pretty fast!

Quailman · Apr 1, 2024

BSK said:
No backing fire. Head fire easily jumped a literal 20-foot-wide fire break. Got into the woods and burned off and on all day. While they were busy with the forest fires, I ended up having to put out numerous fires that got out of the field and into the leaves in the ditches along a public road. Those ditch fires were headed towards all the neighbors' properties and had nothing to stop them.

And I was just there mapping...

Yeah, that's ridiculous! No doubt burning outside of prescription, if they even had one. And then to not know the locations of other people on the property prior to the burn??!

Sounds like winds were high with low Rh. That's a recipe for disaster. And no backing fire prior to the headfire? Even on the burns we did in Illinois, we had wide disked firebreaks and had burned at least 20-30 foot of black with a backing fire before we lit the headfire.

Glad you made it out unscathed!

BSK · Apr 1, 2024

At least I got to hear what a prairie fire sounds like! Pretty crazy really.

Boll Weevil · Apr 20, 2024

Got'er done…just now getting around to posting some pics.

BSK · Apr 20, 2024

Super nice!

mcbuck58 · Apr 20, 2024

Boll Weevil said:
Got'er done…just now getting around to posting some pics.

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Nice firebreak. Burn looks good.

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