{"id":3604,"date":"2022-01-16T09:33:00","date_gmt":"2022-01-16T14:33:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.springfieldfarm.org\/?p=3604"},"modified":"2022-01-17T15:43:14","modified_gmt":"2022-01-17T20:43:14","slug":"burn-baby-burn","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.springfieldfarm.org\/?p=3604","title":{"rendered":"Burn Baby, Burn!"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Just as the snow started I started lighting up the four piles of brush. Three of them really burned well, the fourth not so much. I called the county EMS first to notify them in case any neighbors started calling 911. Three of the piles were mostly cedar trees and really burned well, after I splashed them with a bunch of diesel. Aside from making sure the fires don’t get out of control, the biggest task with brush piles this big is constantly pushing the burning pieces into an ever smaller pile to keep things nice and hot and maintain the burn. Even though it was snowing quite heavily and then ended up raining the piles were still smoking the next morning. I spent all day pushing the piles up. Temperature outside was 18f most of the day and by evening I was spent.<\/p>\n\n\n\n