Getting ready for Spring……WHAT?????

[POSTON WIDEHEAD]

The corn has been picked and nothings left in the fields except Collard Greens.
The frost has took it's toll on the weeds......now its time to burn the fields and disk for next Spring.


  

  

  

  

  

  

 

[Holmes]

How are you involved in this? Do you do the permitting, oversee or start these fires?
  Around here this type of burning is not allowed.

[MrPete]

We do this IN the Spring! When the ground is still wet.

[POSTON WIDEHEAD]

How are you involved in this? Do you do the permitting, oversee or start these fires?
  Around here this type of burning is not allowed.

This is my real job Holmes. I'm with the Forest Service. We burn 100's of acres a year to prepare land for new Pine trees.
Every year I burn the farm off. After the frost kills everything, I wait on the right wind direction, the right humidity and the correct weather numbers where the smoke is going straight up.
I have to call my dispatch center like everyone else and get a number and also notify our 911 center where I will be burning and what I am burning.
If I don't......somebody will call a WildFire in,  and here come the Fire Trucks and Forest Service....ME.

This burn was 46 acres. I put my fire breaks around it with my Dozer/Plow and fired it up. 

[thecfarm]

We use to burn the fields here.Long before anyone needed to be called to let them know what we was doing. Than I got a job that I had to work 12 hours,just about 1 hour compute too. That just about put an end to burning the field. Only have a little time to do it,conditions have to be just right. When it was just right,I was working. Our fires was just small ones too. I don't think the flames got 10 feet high. And that would be out of the norm.

[moosehunter]

Do that kind of burning in NY and someone will be in hand cuffs
I used to see it often when I was a much younger lad. Not any more.

[sandhills]

I think I need you to come over and help out with some excess erc, the more I think about it you could take some home with you.....hmm....who knows what you could build!

    :D

[POSTON WIDEHEAD]

Sandhills....I believe I could make Deer Blinds out of those tops. 

[sandhills]

We do, they work good   ;).  Those are actually the full tree (mauled down by cattle) and that picture was taken from a tree stand about 15' up.  Erc makes a really nice windbreak but in pastures around here they're more of a weed than anything else.

[POSTON WIDEHEAD]

They do sorta look like TUMBLE WEEDS in an Old West Town. 

[sandhills]

Yeah they actually blow like them too once you cut them off  :D, isn't much fun cleaning them out of the fenclines though!

[m wood]

last burn I "helped with" like that was 30 years ago in Oregon.  It's a thrill!  I'm with Moosehunter, here in NY thats a big no no.  Between you and me (and now the WWW) I bootleg a good 'ol slash fire now and then anyway :D
mark

[POSTON WIDEHEAD]

I bootleg a good 'ol slash fire now and then anyway :D
mark

Ya DanG Bootlegger!  :D :D :D :D :D