Less than an acre of planted pines, never burned since planted ten years ago.
Lit right up, burned real nice.
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Less than an acre of planted pines, never burned since planted ten years ago.
Lit right up, burned real nice.
Here are some videos, and there are pictures below. Continue reading
What do you do if someboby else is using the firestarter? Spread the prescribe burn with a rake!
Gretchen and I burned some woods the last couple days. Here’s why we burn: longleaf pine unharmed, while small trees of other species (slash and loblolly pine, an especially oaks) are weeded out by the fire.
Click on any picture for a bigger one. -jsq
Scorched a bit in the prescribed burn a few months ago, and another that was outside the fire break:
Bushy:
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Fortunately these vines were mostly in
invasive exotics anyway
(chinaberry, mimosa, Japanese privet) that had grown up along the field edge.
After a few minutes,
here’s the result.
Most of the rest of the woods burned much more evenly, with flames only a foot or two above the ground.