Burn piles of this nature are dead trees and branches that accumulate on our property, in many cases brought on by severe drought conditions such as we experienced this summer. Pecan trees also have the tendency to prune themselves and it is not uncommon to have to pick up their fallen branches on a regular basis. We don’t generally like to wait for our burn piles to reach this size. Unfortunately due to the extremely dry conditions this past summer it has been too dry to burn it. The month of September brought us some much needed rain and the opportunity to fire up the pile before it got any larger. The wind was light on this day which made it even more promising for a safe burn.
More Heat On a Hot Day
It wasn’t but six weeks ago that forest area less than a mile from our property got fire and burned up quite a a large chunk of acreage and threatened homes in the process. Helicopters had to be brought in with water to aid in the battle and as always our volunteer fire departments were right on top of things.
A burn pile of this size generally takes about 3-4 hours for burn down or the point where we feel safe in leaving it. The burn went according to plan on this day. A new pile has already been started.
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Sep 28, 10:04 AM by Timothy Stark Raisbeck
