Field burning trick I use.

[Wheat47]

I have couple borrow pit/fence lines I like to burn every couple years or so. Most of it is steel fence post, so no problem there.
BUT there are a few wood corner posts and, of course, two REA power poles. I usually sweat blood as I burn around the posts,
especially the power poles. I keep them wet down, but I still worry!! I tried something a little different this year. I took the weed eater and weed eated right down to the dirt for about a foot around the posts and about two feet around the power poles. Then I took the leaf blower and blew the area clear
around the posts and poles. I still stand close buy and watch close around each of the posts and poles. I have a 200-gallon water tank on a small trailer
and a PTO roller pump on my Kubota for fire suppression. I stand by each post and pole as the fire passes, then I wet it down around the posts and poles.
A lot less stressful for me. I don't want to go fight forest or range fires with my little outfit, but as I burn, I watch really close and if I think something
is going to flare up or get away, I can give it a quick spray and slow it or stop it. I also carry a rake, a hoe, a shovel, and a fire flapper I built.
Haven't had a fire get away, yet. As a rule, I keep my fires pretty small.
Anyway, that's what works for me. Jon

 

[joeysmith]

Another trick that works well
If you have a decent sized leaf blower you can put out a lot of fire fast

 

[Wheat47]

Another trick that works well
If you have a decent sized leaf blower you can put out a lot of fire fast

Yes, I saw an article about that a few days ago. I tried that when I was burning, but you gotta be careful which way
you point the blower!!!

 

[joeysmith]

Ha
Yea it goes both ways
Can start a heck of a fire with one as well

 

[Ray,IN]

Anyone can start a field fire, keeping it contained takes brains and training. Many years ago our volunteer fire dept. was called to a field fire, we finally got it out, then searched for the origin. We found the source, a property owner had lit a brush pile and left it. The area DNR officer was already on-scene and agreed that was the fire source. He radioed his HQ and they furnished him the property owners name and address. The DNR officer drove the 60 miles to the property owners house, arrested him and drove him back to our county jail. The charge was arson, because the fire burned onto others property.
I never knew the result.

 

[showcrop]

Our Fire Dept. used to burn fields for training and donations. We would do it only in the evening after any wind had subsided. We would start along one edge, around ten feet out from the fence line or woods line. The fire would burn both away from and towards the edge, so once it had opened up sufficient width, we would walk along behind the starter, extinguishing the back edge. The guy with the lighter would then make a another lighting pass parallel to the first about 30-40 feet out this made it so that it could not get out of hand.

 

[Mike(NEOhio)]

My dad used to burn off a section of grass/weeds on his place with a small hand sprayer with kerosene or diesel. He's light a little patch and just wet ahead of the burn a little at a time. Probably OK if it's not dry or windy but I still thought it was risky.

 

[wjytexas]

We stay under burn bans most of the time. It may get lifted for a week every now and then. A lots of people ignore them though and wildfires are common.

 

[1948CaseVAI]

We stay under burn bans most of the time. It may get lifted for a week every now and then. A lots of people ignore them though and wildfires are common.

Burn bans are the reason for the huge wildfires in Oklahoma and Kansas thre last few years as the fuel load from dried vegetaion builds up and gets out of control. Burn bans have also led to the invasive cedar infestations in pastures over the past several years. Fortunately the ranchers in the Kansas Flint HIlls told the government to pound sand when they tried to stop them from annual burning and their terrific grasslands are thriving as the result.

 

[wjytexas]

Burn bans are the reason for the huge wildfires in Oklahoma and Kansas thre last few years as the fuel load from dried vegetaion builds up and gets out of control. Burn bans have also led to the invasive cedar infestations in pastures over the past several years. Fortunately the ranchers in the Kansas Flint HIlls told the government to pound sand when they tried to stop them from annual burning and their terrific grasslands are thriving as the result.

control burns are a proven wildfire reduction tool. what I'm talking about is someone burring trash or brush in their back yard and wind blows embers into a pasture and starting an uncontroled wildfire. two very different things.

 

[joeysmith]

Burn bans are the reason for the huge wildfires in Oklahoma and Kansas thre last few years as the fuel load from dried vegetaion builds up and gets out of control. Burn bans have also led to the invasive cedar infestations in pastures over the past several years. Fortunately the ranchers in the Kansas Flint HIlls told the government to pound sand when they tried to stop them from annual burning and their terrific grasslands are thriving as the result.

The burn ban here is for anything but range management
Enacted to help with air quality during range burning season in the flint hills

 

[Vito]

Anyone can start a field fire, keeping it contained takes brains and training. Many years ago our volunteer fire dept. was called to a field fire, we finally got it out, then searched for the origin. We found the source, a property owner had lit a brush pile and left it. The area DNR officer was already on-scene and agreed that was the fire source. He radioed his HQ and they furnished him the property owners name and address. The DNR officer drove the 60 miles to the property owners house, arrested him and drove him back to our county jail. The charge was arson, because the fire burned onto others property.
I never knew the result.

I'm living proof of anyone can start a field fire. When I was young we were playing with matches in a dry field. Thought we put it out but by the time we got home the fire trucks were heading up the street. Felt pretty bad about that one.

Vito

 

[37chief]

I'm living proof of anyone can start a field fire. When I was young we were playing with matches in a dry field. Thought we put it out but by the time we got home the fire trucks were heading up the street. Felt pretty bad about that one.

Vito

I almost burned our house down playing with matches, when no one home. I got it out, just some scorched paint in the kitchen. Lied my way out of that one. Stan