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smelly......It is a simple question. You falsely claim diesel smoke is not burnt oil
What is tire smoke then?
smelly......It is a simple question. You falsely claim diesel smoke is not burnt oil
What is tire smoke then?
Can one imagine how many egg cartons it would take to prescribe burn a 1000 acres.Paper/newspaper, cardboard/egg cartons, and some seasoned brush. Easy-peasey!
I saw a video of foresters doing a burn using some kind of torch. Might have been posted to AS somewhere. It was pretty interesting to watch how they do that.Can one imagine how many egg cartons it would take to prescribe burn a 1000 acres.
Can one imagine how many egg cartons it would take to prescribe burn a 1000 acres.
I saw a video of foresters doing a burn using some kind of torch. Might have been posted to AS somewhere. It was pretty interesting to watch how they do that.
Yup, that was it.Drip-torch
I do not mind the smell of diesel but the tires are too much.smelly......
You would have to eat a whole lot of eggs.......Can one imagine how many egg cartons it would take to prescribe burn a 1000 acres.
Yep, Drip-torch, Foxfire, Helicopter delivery....Yup, that was it.
It was Timber Company land, I believe it was 4000 acres of a 35,000 acre preserve the State leased for a game preserve. It was mixed, about 2000 acres 2 1/2 year old clearcut that had been sprayed with chemical for to prepare for burning and replanting, about a 1000 acres of 14 year old loblolly pine, and 1000 acres of 25 year old loblolly pine that they were going to clearcut in 2 years.There is nothing on that scale up here. The largest I have seen is 70 acres but there may have been larger ones but still nothing whatsoever like that.
It was Timber Company land, I believe it was 4000 acres of a 35,000 acre preserve the State leased for a game preserve. It was mixed, about 2000 acres 2 1/2 year old clearcut that had been sprayed with chemical for to prepare for burning and replanting, about a 1000 acres of 14 year old loblolly pine, and 1000 acres of 25 year old loblolly pine that they were going to clearcut in 2 years.
We had to prepare the burns different for the different age trees. Real hot for the clearcut, cool for the 14 year old loblolly pine, hot for the 25 year old loblolly pine. Clearcut we would head fire to get the heat up, the 14 year old loblolly pine we would back burn and use hand torches and the foxfire to lay the fire line, and the 25 year old loblolly pine we would do a perimeter burn.
You can see in this video how a hot fire and updraft affects a fire, ofter a head fire will cause this.
The updraft will carry most of the smoke up at the site of the fire, the problem with the smoke will be downwind, maybe miles and miles from the fire. You can see how strong the updraft is by the debris it picking up, most of what you see around the firefighters is dust generated by the wind from the updraft.Crazy.
Those firefighters are amazing. I'm wondering why they don't wear respirators in all that smoke?
Me too.I find it refreshing we can discuss this without all the bull crap. I enjoy relating with others on experiences we have had and learned.
Most of my dangers were in mis-execution of the burn plan or not anticipating a problem. The folks that really are in danger is the Hotshots, where they have no control and have to establish control over a changing situation minute by minute.Me too.
I can't really "relate" to the dangerous jobs most of you guys have, but I find reading about what you do interesting and certainly can respect it.
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