Let's talk about Country Living

NH, {edit: Sorry...meant NA, but NH is OK, too!} you betcha!! One of the joys of country living = huge bonfires.

We accumulate all the stuff that we don't wanna put through the woodstove in the house into a big pile our the back 40. Old hay tarps, raccoon poop(just kidding), wood fulla nails, old furniture, stumps, land clearing brush, you name it... When the pile is about 40 feet around and as high as we can push it with the Cat, and there's snow on the ground, we burn it.



Great fun. Any metal left over gets picked up and put in the shred pile.

Sometimes a couple of old tires are "accidentally" left under the pile to help start it. Maybe even a little waste oil helps it get going, too.

In BC, the Ministry of Forests wants a phone call before a "machine piled" fire is started, = anything over 1 meter in diameter by 1 meter high. They give you a (free) registration number and if the time of year is such that they are still patrolling for fires a plane may fly over, checking you out.

Great fun. But keep a hose and fire tools handy.

Jon.