We (in The Netherlands) have a tradition: at Easter lots of villages in the east have a Paasvuur (Easter Fire). The burn piles of wood stacked up to 120 feet high. When the wind is right you can smell them all over the country. This year one village had to cancel: there was a bird's nest in their wood pile.
That's so cool I love traditions like that. In the UK we celebrate Guy Fawkes night on the 5th November to commemorate the time that Guy Fawkes tried to blow up parliament. He was convicted of treason and burnt at the stake. So now every November we build huge bonfires all over the place and watch fireworks. Also kids make a "Guy" by stuffing newspaper into unwanted clothes then fixing a head on top and before you light the fire the Guy goes on top. If you have seen V for Vendetta that's a Guy Fawkes mask, a little nod to a real man who tried to topple a government
My man, you said what I was thinking. Thanks for your useful video that included info on the slat tracks I got a dealer to send me a quote on them today
Lived most of my childhood and teen years on a 5 acre area that someone had gone "Arbor Day Crazy" with about 30 years ago. Mass amounts of 50-70 foot pines grouped far too close together. Many were less than 3 feet apart. Several were dead, but most concerning was the proximity of them to the house. My father, friends, and I cut down at least 30 while we were there. Some we chipped, but most we burned in big brush piles. Chipping is useful if you need the wood chips, but nothing is as quick, easy, and practical as burning.
I have struggled to get an old brush pile lit before. I finally figured out to use a chain saw and cut a V notch to the center of the pile, or as close to the center as possible, then make and light a small fire deep in the notch at the bottom. The pile will light from the bottom. But I don't have a drip torch.
At work, we once burned about 10 years worth of packing crate wood. The pile was larger than 2 large houses. The fire department was there to control it. When that baby got going good, you could not stand less than 100 yards from it or the heat would hurt you. Even some of the firemen got quite nervous about the building which was more than 100 yards away and they sprayed water on the roof and sides. It burned late into the afternoon and when it was done there was nothing but a foot deep of grey ash and some charred wood at the edges. It was a fun time!
Thanks Cody, there is something therapeutic about watching a pile burn, We used to do It all the time on mum's place, so much trash timber so little time. Plus it was a good way of disposing of expired marine flares, I used to gather from the shop I was in. Much the same as a small fusee.
We burn ~600 acres of brush piles a year at work and the best way we have found to light piles is a propane weed-burner torch shoved deep into the dry center of the pile. Easier to get going that way and less of a chance of it 'flashing over' and just burning the outside of the pile.
Cody, I have been seeing a lot of control burns here in Minnesota. I'll be making my yearly pilgrimage our West to Wyoming for the summer here very soom, and this video got me excited to get back to spring time in the mountains. Thanks for sharing as always, Brad
A firefighter concerned about a giant pile of dry kindling burning very hot. Makes no sense to me. And besides, you wasted a lot of good firewood and kindling. That pile could have kept a stove going for months.
I make bundles of kindling out of that small "sh*t". That pile also had some normal sized wood in, which is usually used in stoves, that is why I think he wasted a lot of decent firewood.
He has something many of us would dream...plethora of good burning wood. Some wood is really poor for your stove. He said invasive species so this is my assumption by the looks of it. Many of us use everything because we don't have the timber problem he does.
I do not have a firewood problem either, my family has a patch of mixed species forest the size of about 5 acres (2 hectare). There is oak, beech, black oak and some other species. We have always used pretty much the whole tree, without much waste. I even gather the dry branches, that fall of due to wind or snow etc.
Why in the world would you wear Filson tin pants, cotton and wax (basically a candle) with fire? Working on wildfires, you should know to wear Nomex. I don't understand? I worked 26 seasons on wildfires and never saw anyone wearing tin pants.
well is he at a wildfire right now? cos by the looks of it hes making a bonfire which to me is contained and its winter or a colder season where he doesnt need to wear his full gear for a bonfire
Here in the UK we just use a match and some kindling to get a fire going - its more environmentally friendly than flares and petroleum based fuel. The size of the wood stack makes absolutely no difference at all !!
First make sure you have an adequate buffer with no brush or dry grass that might carry your fire out of the controlled burn area. The space needed varies by humidity/temp and wind. If you have high winds cancel the burn to another day, check forecasts. Ascertain wind direction, set starting kindling at point wind is coming from, use map torch to start and then sit back and wait. After pile burns down push sticks and logs that fell outside the central fire into hot coals so everything is completely reduced to a white ash. No need to use a dripper or flares.
Hi Cody, great vid thanks for sharing. You may want to consider lighting only the upwind end of the pile as that will mean a slower cooler burn and less of a burn scar. Rake the embers into a smaller and smaller cone shaped pile to get a complete burn or you could put the fire out while there are still stick left and the plow them under for carbon sequestration. Many aboriginal camp sites have been found with charcoal many thousands of years old. Where possible I avoid lighting the drip torch wick directly with a fusee but instead drip fuel on the ground, light that fuel, then light the wick from that. Anyway now is the time to scarify and reseed as the fire has killed the seeds in the ground. Oh and of course a follow up video in a year or so to see if there is a scar.
In Italy we would NEVER control burn a fire that large because it's impossible to really control it, especially if wind kicks up. Plus we use green wood and green or damp leaves on top to smother the flames that still burn the wood underneath. It controls the oxygen flow and slows the process down. Makes more smoke, but that's a minor thing. You should be thankful it started raining. If it's a light rain that should have calmed the fire down.
I enjoy the videos. Maybe fewer videos with more in-depth content. All the "fire" videos probably could have been condensed and edited into one more complete video. More doesn't = better. My opinion.
It's a little sad to think about the several good collier's mounds that could have been had out of that. But it's more work. Especially if you don't have a good place to store it ready.
I think a lot of those below miss at least one point of the film- People, particularly many young men like fires, or at least pictures of fires; and this is the rare situation where a fire can be set, and burn, without significant danger or damage to the environment. It is not a emergency (as many to most such fire situations are) but it is a vital part of the field fire fighters tool kit. And this is a well handled film, useful explanation and then a fire to watch and understand. As to the concern, He explains that in the film, if you listen. It is an excellent film clip for people who work around wood, the gathering of fallen materials, and burning it- While I understand the comments about composting, that is rarely practical away form towns and cities that have equipment and frequent usage to justify the cost, the team working with that equipment, and the maintenance of the equipment (or rental, which is in many situations the same cost). Wish I had had this when my son was growing up, and will introduce my grandson (Age 21) to it as soon as practical. Thanks Wranglestar for a nice film, and discussion of the process.
Burning the wood releases the same amount of CO2 that decomposition would. The only different thing is that fire releases also PM10, that are pretty bad for your lungs, but it's not a big deal in place like that. Both decomposition and but burning leave on the ground mineral salts, that are the nutrients for the soil. The organic matter (cellulose and lignin) is produced by the plant through photosyntesys. Therefore, burning is not bad at all.
When I was a child in rural Oregon in the 50's, we had several brush piles that were likely 75' square, and well away from the woods. When the men burned them it was amazing. One even brought the fire chief out to see what we were doing.
Cody, thanks for the video. Tell your family thank you for sharing your lives. Thanks also for listing the musician. I am an old fart and don't get out enough to hear new music. I am shown great things by you.
I bought a chipper to take care of my brush piles. I border National Forest and I don't want to burn the forest down like the Forest Service does out west.
I'm surprised you didn't split the trunks as firewood and used the branches as kindling for a wood stove or fire pit.. kind of a waste doing a bonfire burn off where what you had could of been used for heating and cooking...
I build the piles you often see in forestry operations. One year I hired on to burn them. It helps to build them with fine sticks and needles in the center and to make a cave in one side so you can get at the dry middle to light easier. Using the prevailing wind to drive the fire into the pile is nice. We burned in tho snow tho so mainly we watched the venting and let it rip.
Using a Fusee to light a drip torch seems like overkill. We just use a match (drip a little fuel on the ground, light that, then light the drip torch), or instead of a match a flint and steel spark striker. (Some sparkers use steel and magnesium, thousands of lights in every unit). I understand the advantage of the Fusee in damp/rainy conditions, but I have not ever seen one issued or used (I'm in Australia).
You all are so lucky that you are allowed to burn brush where you live. Here the county will not allow control burns so we have to truck all brush to the local land fill where they turn it into mulch. Keep up the great work.
Ponderosa pine trees are tuff when it comes to fire. I've cooked them pretty good where all the needles turn brown. They come back the next year. Don't get in a hurry to cut them down.
What an example of a real f'ing family man! I'd get he's thought his boy more in the first ten yrs of his life than 99.9% of most kids today! Great fathering good for you seriously!
Really seems like Brian is helping take the video load off your shoulders. Glad to see that. Simple content, easy editing, good videos. Well done sirs!
Strange to think that all that heat was the energy from the sun that the trees used when they were alive to join together the water and Carbon dioxide to make the cellulose in the wood.
My dad used to have an old refrigerator with a heat lamp wired to the inside. There he would store his fuzees and welding rods and any other item that needed to have the moisture content low.
Cody, I've been in law enforcement and firefighter/paramedic going on thirty years and a the flares are the same. Road flares drip also because they are made in the same way and they are mostly sulphur and it STINKS. I don't know how many times I've had small holes burnt into my uniforms while using flares to direct traffic. I've seen a lot of drivers that did not pay to flares on the roadway when we closed lanes and used the flares with road spikes in them that would puncture a tire, then stop and have the audacity to complain, quit a few were arrested for DWI's or had a suspended license. The only reason a company states they are specialized flares is too get more money for them and that about it. Also in my school district while growing up the band boosters and sports boosters along with the local FD would have an OX Roast with rides and fireworks every year. The school district was 90% farmland and/or rural with an excellent FFA program. A wide bucket backhoe was used to dig a deep trench with sand being poured in the bottom. A large amount of clean burnable wood would be brought in and put into the pit and set on fire. Wood was continually added until a nice bed of coals were made and it usually took six hours or more to build up. Then sheet metal was laid on top of the coals. Then the meat was tripled wrapped in heavy duty foil was placed on top of the metal, then covered with sand and then dirt. This meat stayed in the ground until about 10 am Saturday morning start with the end that was put in first, the fire pit was started Friday evening. Once the meat was out it was cleaned of the sand by removing the first layer. Then it was opened over a container so the juice would go into it, it was then thinly sliced on a slicer sitting over a container to collect the juice running off. This beef was so tender and juicy it wasn't funny, we also buried the cutup leg bones for the cooked bone marrow. The juice was sold in pint jars, the meat was sold by the sandwich with the top of the bun dipped in the juice. The trench was over 100 feet long and the meat was sold out by 4:00 pm, every scrap of meat, every leg bone and every last drop of juice was sold, the juice used by people for beef stock to make stews, soups etc.. When I saw Cody light that brush it reminded me of the Ox Roast and I would like to see Cody do that with his next burn. Dig a pit down, put the brush in, light it, wrap up some beef or pork and let them cook. Invite over family, friends and neighbors and maybe he could get his sister The Fresh P to brink the pizza oven, sounds like a good meal to me.
You and you're family seem so happy, god bless and thanks for the videos. I live in the city and probably never going to do any of this but I find all your videos facinating
Why not mulch that up and use the larger limbs as firewood? Just seems like a waste of material. I realize it would definitely take some time, but still...
The exclusive wild Brain made was captured for the 1st time on film. Side note I like the way you started the fire lot more safe then a gallon of diesel and a match, no giant swoosh or the oh S@#&.
I can recommend watching "STOP BURNING BRUSH!, Make Easy Biochar, Every Pile is an Opportunity!" on the SkillCult channel. You can get a lot of excellent biochar from a pile like that! :)
Where's the hot dogs and marshmallows? Out on the farm we always had weenie roasts in the springtime burning all the brush piles we'd made from cutting firewood. Invite family and friends, let the kids make their own spits out of a forked branch with a pocket knife, set some potatoes and cans of baked beans in the coals, indulge in some adult beverages and let the brush fire keep you warm in the early spring night. Good times.
Used to use a LOT of fusses at night working on the railroad.............inhale a little of that sulfur from the fumes and you'll do some serious coughing.
What knife is that Mrs. Wranglerstar carries? When you are having trouble with the first fusee, (spelling?) she pulls out a belt knife with a beautiful wooden handle. I would expect nothing less from a member of the Wranglerstar clan.
in my country we have easter tradition to make huge fire like this one but bigger and burn in at night the whole village starts a month previous to hoard all the wood and trees and other stuff to a field it is very fun! the little kids take burned sticks form fire and make coal warpaint on their faces and sing songs!
Hi, Wranglerstar just letting you know that there are adds back on your channel so I hope you're still getting paid for them. Love your videos so if you can please keep doing them. It would be nice to see what you're doing to do with that barn you pulled fence posts from and where talking about converting or modifying it a few months ago about when you got the tractor.
Damn, seeing nomex and the string from your compass in the chest pocket makes me wish I signed on for another year of wildfire instead of getting a "real" job... I love fusees, and drip torches, and fire...
here in central BC ive seen between 20 and 30 all lit off at the same time at night looks like armegeddon me and my buddy cruised into the cutting and wandered around drinking beer for a few hours.
Looks like a complete failure to get rid of the deadwood. Just swapped it for a massive pile of cinders instead. Would've been more useful as actual firewood.
If you have much brush to burn it really is easier to start with a propane blow torch. Just speaking from experience but there's always more than one way to skin a cat
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It's great to see the family working together on these projects and having a great time! Thanks for sharing the video!!
Project farm. Your channel and this channel are 2 of my favorites! Both of you guys please keep up the great work!!!!
Dunno if anyone cares at all but I wipe back to front.
@@ph3nology so you got 2 butts
@@ph3nology that’s illegal
We (in The Netherlands) have a tradition: at Easter lots of villages in the east have a Paasvuur (Easter Fire).
The burn piles of wood stacked up to 120 feet high. When the wind is right you can smell them all over the country.
This year one village had to cancel: there was a bird's nest in their wood pile.
Noeraldin Kabam not east but west
That would look awesome
Vuur is leuk
That's so cool I love traditions like that. In the UK we celebrate Guy Fawkes night on the 5th November to commemorate the time that Guy Fawkes tried to blow up parliament. He was convicted of treason and burnt at the stake. So now every November we build huge bonfires all over the place and watch fireworks. Also kids make a "Guy" by stuffing newspaper into unwanted clothes then fixing a head on top and before you light the fire the Guy goes on top.
If you have seen V for Vendetta that's a Guy Fawkes mask, a little nod to a real man who tried to topple a government
Save the Bird. But eat a Turkey for Christmas. People are nutty. 😄
1:15 bottom left corner dog goes into the brush
Noticed exact same thing
Porter Christenson at 6:19 you can see a dog not sure if it’s the same one
Hes there at 10 41
I noticed!!!!
Rip doggo
A 12 minute video on burning brush? Genius 😃👍
My man, you said what I was thinking. Thanks for your useful video that included info on the slat tracks I got a dealer to send me a quote on them today
The patience that a mother has for her children (husbands inc.) deserves a silver star Mr Wrangle. Happy mothers day to your better half.
Getting concerned about what?
Read the description.
fires to hot loosing trees
Well kinda, read the description as has been mentioned above, the fire was burning too hot and he was concerned about nearby trees.
Consider pines tend to be flammable but only needles not wood.
if you leave it alone it becomes a fire hazard
We use flaming arrows and gasoline to start our bonfires!! : )
Too cool man!
@@nolydyrav4686 I don't think its just the arrows that are flaming hahaha
i personally prefer dragons breath rounds and a LOT of flammable liquids (not necessarily gasoline)
Flaming arrows don’t work
A Viking burial
Hi Cody, can we get a video introducing Brian your new cameraman?
krmould I agree!
Love the sound my drip torch makes when I open the valve andstart laying down some fast line!!!
It's like it's singing to you faster, faster, faster!
How long did the stump square end up burning for?
Some say it's still burning to this day
Just roasted some marshmallows over it last night.
Just heard it is nowburning at the heard of fukushima
Still burning!
@@frog273 He never bothers to reply to anyone's messages :(
Lived most of my childhood and teen years on a 5 acre area that someone had gone "Arbor Day Crazy" with about 30 years ago. Mass amounts of 50-70 foot pines grouped far too close together. Many were less than 3 feet apart. Several were dead, but most concerning was the proximity of them to the house. My father, friends, and I cut down at least 30 while we were there. Some we chipped, but most we burned in big brush piles.
Chipping is useful if you need the wood chips, but nothing is as quick, easy, and practical as burning.
I have struggled to get an old brush pile lit before. I finally figured out to use a chain saw and cut a V notch to the center of the pile, or as close to the center as possible, then make and light a small fire deep in the notch at the bottom. The pile will light from the bottom. But I don't have a drip torch.
1:29 Look at the bottom left corner! your dog is going into the fire pit.
RIP doge
Hot Doggy
At work, we once burned about 10 years worth of packing crate wood. The pile was larger than 2 large houses. The fire department was there to control it. When that baby got going good, you could not stand less than 100 yards from it or the heat would hurt you. Even some of the firemen got quite nervous about the building which was more than 100 yards away and they sprayed water on the roof and sides. It burned late into the afternoon and when it was done there was nothing but a foot deep of grey ash and some charred wood at the edges. It was a fun time!
first sighting of Brian in this video, for me anyway. Cody you should introduce him onscreen if he's willing as he seems to be part of the team now.
Paul K right,?!
his name is actually george. and he's curious.
Check out the last few videos, he shows up, he also is in the fro Livestream.
Thanks Jane, I saw those too :)
Dru 86 haha best reply ever
Thanks Cody, there is something therapeutic about watching a pile burn, We used to do It all the time on mum's place, so much trash timber so little time. Plus it was a good way of disposing of expired marine flares, I used to gather from the shop I was in. Much the same as a small fusee.
You should let the camera run and we can use the footage as a "yule log" for those of us that don't have a fire place.
We burn ~600 acres of brush piles a year at work and the best way we have found to light piles is a propane weed-burner torch shoved deep into the dry center of the pile. Easier to get going that way and less of a chance of it 'flashing over' and just burning the outside of the pile.
8:16 the suspense was killing me :)
Cody,
I have been seeing a lot of control burns here in Minnesota. I'll be making my yearly pilgrimage our West to Wyoming for the summer here very soom, and this video got me excited to get back to spring time in the mountains. Thanks for sharing as always,
Brad
A firefighter concerned about a giant pile of dry kindling burning very hot. Makes no sense to me.
And besides, you wasted a lot of good firewood and kindling. That pile could have kept a stove going for months.
With that small sh*t you'd be better off burning the saw gas in the woodstove!
Ivan S.Lipnica or chipped for mulch
I make bundles of kindling out of that small "sh*t". That pile also had some normal sized wood in, which is usually used in stoves, that is why I think he wasted a lot of decent firewood.
He has something many of us would dream...plethora of good burning wood. Some wood is really poor for your stove. He said invasive species so this is my assumption by the looks of it. Many of us use everything because we don't have the timber problem he does.
I do not have a firewood problem either, my family has a patch of mixed species forest the size of about 5 acres (2 hectare). There is oak, beech, black oak and some other species. We have always used pretty much the whole tree, without much waste. I even gather the dry branches, that fall of due to wind or snow etc.
The meet up was awesome Mr.W! Loved your family. I'm considering taking you up on your offer to fight the fires out west!
Why in the world would you wear Filson tin pants, cotton and wax (basically a candle) with fire? Working on wildfires, you should know to wear Nomex. I don't understand? I worked 26 seasons on wildfires and never saw anyone wearing tin pants.
Randy Warock I think they're the steel pants or something. He has a video on it.
well is he at a wildfire right now? cos by the looks of it hes making a bonfire which to me is contained and its winter or a colder season where he doesnt need to wear his full gear for a bonfire
Here in the UK we just use a match and some kindling to get a fire going - its more environmentally friendly than flares and petroleum based fuel.
The size of the wood stack makes absolutely no difference at all !!
He’s using firefighting equipment bc that’s the point of the video
I use my Stihl blower to control/speed the burn and it helps reduce the time I have to jack with these things by 75%.
Thanks for taking us along on today's adventures.
Is it me or did the thumbnail look like a burning house
When that fuzzee sends a spark straight back into your eye the material sticks to your eyeball and keeps burning
Cody without a knife on him? Oh the shame!
I've burned a pile of brush just a bit bigger than that before and it's amazing how hot a 60ft flame is. You can barely stand it 80 yrds away.
"I cringe. I really cringe."
*rarely cringe he said
Thank you for supporting our wonderful Australian musicians! Great video 👍
We're are they from?
Oregon.
First make sure you have an adequate buffer with no brush or dry grass that might carry your fire out of the controlled burn area. The space needed varies by humidity/temp and wind. If you have high winds cancel the burn to another day, check forecasts. Ascertain wind direction, set starting kindling at point wind is coming from, use map torch to start and then sit back and wait. After pile burns down push sticks and logs that fell outside the central fire into hot coals so everything is completely reduced to a white ash. No need to use a dripper or flares.
Why do you wear all the safety gear all the time and your family doesn't. Just wandering?
greg molinari probably just habit when he goes outside
Probably cuz he's handleing all the gasoline
Possibly, in case of an emergency, he could send the family away from the fire and he would be prepared to take care of the situation.
I’m glad you didn’t edit out the flare part to show that it even happens to people that are usually very organized
Noticed there has been a cameraman of late. Neighbor? Friend? Going to be in any videos?
John Gillette Cody hired a farm hand kinda guy to help with work and filming
Hi Cody, great vid thanks for sharing. You may want to consider lighting only the upwind end of the pile as that will mean a slower cooler burn and less of a burn scar. Rake the embers into a smaller and smaller cone shaped pile to get a complete burn or you could put the fire out while there are still stick left and the plow them under for carbon sequestration. Many aboriginal camp sites have been found with charcoal many thousands of years old. Where possible I avoid lighting the drip torch wick directly with a fusee but instead drip fuel on the ground, light that fuel, then light the wick from that.
Anyway now is the time to scarify and reseed as the fire has killed the seeds in the ground. Oh and of course a follow up video in a year or so to see if there is a scar.
how did mrs w do on her run in Boston
I wish I'd known they were coming. I'd have made a "GO MRS W !!!" sign and kept a lookout.
roach she said she ran it slow but she finished. They had some more info on Instagram.
that's what we did
well, a marathon isn't a race. so slow is okay...
In Italy we would NEVER control burn a fire that large because it's impossible to really control it, especially if wind kicks up. Plus we use green wood and green or damp leaves on top to smother the flames that still burn the wood underneath. It controls the oxygen flow and slows the process down. Makes more smoke, but that's a minor thing. You should be thankful it started raining. If it's a light rain that should have calmed the fire down.
So, Heartracer has learned to handle a camera?
Brian/Bryan
yes, lol...
lies! 1:30
😂😂😂
Love the big burn piles. We use a leaf blower when it's wet to get the fire going real good. Like a giant forge!
I enjoy the videos. Maybe fewer videos with more in-depth content. All the "fire" videos probably could have been condensed and edited into one more complete video. More doesn't = better. My opinion.
ElPasoTom as this is his job and he gets money from every ad view for him to do that would be reducing his income drastically
What a rude comment. I don't think you'd stand in front of a stranger and say stuff to his face.
What a waste of wood. Makes me sad
#DripSomeLearning
It's a little sad to think about the several good collier's mounds that could have been had out of that. But it's more work. Especially if you don't have a good place to store it ready.
Put marine flares in your bug out bag, there plastic!
Where plastic?
I think he meant they're, LOL.
Yep typo. I'll commit suicide if that makes your ego bigger if you like
They have a waterproof outer shell. Just made to be in a damp environment that's all.
Nah, it's really just a joke. Ever seen Young Frankenstein? Is that your bus in the picture?
I think a lot of those below miss at least one point of the film- People, particularly many young men like fires, or at least pictures of fires; and this is the rare situation where a fire can be set, and burn, without significant danger or damage to the environment. It is not a emergency (as many to most such fire situations are) but it is a vital part of the field fire fighters tool kit. And this is a well handled film, useful explanation and then a fire to watch and understand. As to the concern, He explains that in the film, if you listen. It is an excellent film clip for people who work around wood, the gathering of fallen materials, and burning it- While I understand the comments about composting, that is rarely practical away form towns and cities that have equipment and frequent usage to justify the cost, the team working with that equipment, and the maintenance of the equipment (or rental, which is in many situations the same cost). Wish I had had this when my son was growing up, and will introduce my grandson (Age 21) to it as soon as practical. Thanks Wranglestar for a nice film, and discussion of the process.
Why didn't you shred the pile of wood instead of burning. It would have made good compost in 2 or 3 years and have been good for the environment..?
Peter Allen Renting big enough equipment to chip it and load it into the chipper costs an absolute fortune.
Ash from the fire also releases nutrients into the soil and is great for the environment
I compost all mine, but it takes years. it seems like he has way too much there to compost.
Burning the wood releases the same amount of CO2 that decomposition would. The only different thing is that fire releases also PM10, that are pretty bad for your lungs, but it's not a big deal in place like that.
Both decomposition and but burning leave on the ground mineral salts, that are the nutrients for the soil. The organic matter (cellulose and lignin) is produced by the plant through photosyntesys. Therefore, burning is not bad at all.
Peter Allen
Ashes are also good for the environment.
When I was a child in rural Oregon in the 50's, we had several brush piles that were likely 75' square, and well away from the woods. When the men burned them it was amazing. One even brought the fire chief out to see what we were doing.
Who else wants to meet Brian?!?!
Wesley Aring NOP
Cody, thanks for the video. Tell your family thank you for sharing your lives. Thanks also for listing the musician. I am an old fart and don't get out enough to hear new music. I am shown great things by you.
Modern-day Ingles Family...
I bought a chipper to take care of my brush piles. I border National Forest and I don't want to burn the forest down like the Forest Service does out west.
I'm surprised you didn't split the trunks as firewood and used the branches as kindling for a wood stove or fire pit..
kind of a waste doing a bonfire burn off where what you had could of been used for heating and cooking...
Jack's voice is getting deeper and deeper. he's growing into a fantastic young man
good to get rid of the flares. i guess that's why you are better off burning when it's hard to light something than when everything is too dry
I build the piles you often see in forestry operations.
One year I hired on to burn them. It helps to build them with fine sticks and needles in the center and to make a cave in one side so you can get at the dry middle to light easier. Using the prevailing wind to drive the fire into the pile is nice. We burned in tho snow tho so mainly we watched the venting and let it rip.
We used 50/50 diesel gas mix
Using a Fusee to light a drip torch seems like overkill. We just use a match (drip a little fuel on the ground, light that, then light the drip torch), or instead of a match a flint and steel spark striker. (Some sparkers use steel and magnesium, thousands of lights in every unit). I understand the advantage of the Fusee in damp/rainy conditions, but I have not ever seen one issued or used (I'm in Australia).
You all are so lucky that you are allowed to burn brush where you live. Here the county will not allow control burns so we have to truck all brush to the local land fill where they turn it into mulch. Keep up the great work.
While they were talking about lighting the pipe on fire I spotted heartracer rummaging in the pile and was like "Get out of there safely!" Haha😂
Ponderosa pine trees are tuff when it comes to fire. I've cooked them pretty good where all the needles turn brown. They come back the next year. Don't get in a hurry to cut them down.
This is such a friendly,positive and educational channel......thank you a lot for making the effort to post all this.
What an example of a real f'ing family man! I'd get he's thought his boy more in the first ten yrs of his life than 99.9% of most kids today! Great fathering good for you seriously!
Really seems like Brian is helping take the video load off your shoulders. Glad to see that. Simple content, easy editing, good videos. Well done sirs!
Fire letmy son loves to play with at the cabin
WOW. That was a very family friendly video. It's great seeing all three of you working as a team to steward your land.
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How many rabbits or mice came running out of that? Burned leaves at a friends house last month and had about three field mice head for the hills.
Strange to think that all that heat was the energy from the sun that the trees used when they were alive to join together the water and Carbon dioxide to make the cellulose in the wood.
My dad used to have an old refrigerator with a heat lamp wired to the inside. There he would store his fuzees and welding rods and any other item that needed to have the moisture content low.
We're supposedly limited to fires no bigger than 4x4. It would take days to get rid of a pile that big!
That is right! 10' by 10'...precisely the size of all my burn piles!
Beautiful bed, Matt! You have a beautiful family too! Hope you are well! -Kelly Small
Tash Sultana, very nice. Love your taste in music.
A man and his tools and getting to set a huge fire-- and family by your side. What more could you ask for?! I enjoyed all the laughs in this one!
Cody, I've been in law enforcement and firefighter/paramedic going on thirty years and a the flares are the same. Road flares drip also because they are made in the same way and they are mostly sulphur and it STINKS. I don't know how many times I've had small holes burnt into my uniforms while using flares to direct traffic. I've seen a lot of drivers that did not pay to flares on the roadway when we closed lanes and used the flares with road spikes in them that would puncture a tire, then stop and have the audacity to complain, quit a few were arrested for DWI's or had a suspended license. The only reason a company states they are specialized flares is too get more money for them and that about it. Also in my school district while growing up the band boosters and sports boosters along with the local FD would have an OX Roast with rides and fireworks every year. The school district was 90% farmland and/or rural with an excellent FFA program. A wide bucket backhoe was used to dig a deep trench with sand being poured in the bottom. A large amount of clean burnable wood would be brought in and put into the pit and set on fire. Wood was continually added until a nice bed of coals were made and it usually took six hours or more to build up. Then sheet metal was laid on top of the coals. Then the meat was tripled wrapped in heavy duty foil was placed on top of the metal, then covered with sand and then dirt. This meat stayed in the ground until about 10 am Saturday morning start with the end that was put in first, the fire pit was started Friday evening. Once the meat was out it was cleaned of the sand by removing the first layer. Then it was opened over a container so the juice would go into it, it was then thinly sliced on a slicer sitting over a container to collect the juice running off. This beef was so tender and juicy it wasn't funny, we also buried the cutup leg bones for the cooked bone marrow. The juice was sold in pint jars, the meat was sold by the sandwich with the top of the bun dipped in the juice. The trench was over 100 feet long and the meat was sold out by 4:00 pm, every scrap of meat, every leg bone and every last drop of juice was sold, the juice used by people for beef stock to make stews, soups etc.. When I saw Cody light that brush it reminded me of the Ox Roast and I would like to see Cody do that with his next burn. Dig a pit down, put the brush in, light it, wrap up some beef or pork and let them cook. Invite over family, friends and neighbors and maybe he could get his sister The Fresh P to brink the pizza oven, sounds like a good meal to me.
its great that your bag is vinyl and is waterproof but the closure is not. get a dry bag and you won't have to worry about moisture!
You and you're family seem so happy, god bless and thanks for the videos. I live in the city and probably never going to do any of this but I find all your videos facinating
So when you do a big burn pile like that, do you report it to your fire department so they are aware? In case someone calls in reporting seeing smoke.
Why not mulch that up and use the larger limbs as firewood? Just seems like a waste of material. I realize it would definitely take some time, but still...
The exclusive wild Brain made was captured for the 1st time on film. Side note I like the way you started the fire lot more safe then a gallon of diesel and a match, no giant swoosh or the oh S@#&.
I can recommend watching "STOP BURNING BRUSH!, Make Easy Biochar, Every Pile is an Opportunity!" on the SkillCult channel. You can get a lot of excellent biochar from a pile like that! :)
I want to be Brian for a day. He gets to hang out on beautiful property and start huge burn piles with the Wranglerstars.
Where's the hot dogs and marshmallows? Out on the farm we always had weenie roasts in the springtime burning all the brush piles we'd made from cutting firewood. Invite family and friends, let the kids make their own spits out of a forked branch with a pocket knife, set some potatoes and cans of baked beans in the coals, indulge in some adult beverages and let the brush fire keep you warm in the early spring night. Good times.
You both are like the best couple man like you both and adventurist and like outdoor in general
That is the most Manly campfire I've ever seen!
what happens after? what do you do with the charcoal and the ashes?
Used to use a LOT of fusses at night working on the railroad.............inhale a little of that sulfur from the fumes and you'll do some serious coughing.
My dad basically taught me how to do this with malinovka, he would drink a beer, pour gasoline in it with a rag, light it on fire and chuck it
What knife is that Mrs. Wranglerstar carries? When you are having trouble with the first fusee, (spelling?) she pulls out a belt knife with a beautiful wooden handle. I would expect nothing less from a member of the Wranglerstar clan.
StoneAge 132 she have a Swedish knife called "morakniv"
in my country we have easter tradition to make huge fire like this one but bigger and burn in at night
the whole village starts a month previous to hoard all the wood and trees and other stuff to a field it is very fun!
the little kids take burned sticks form fire and make coal warpaint on their faces and sing songs!
Love, love, love your videos ... I really hope you find sponsors to keep your channel going. You are so real and down to earth.
I'm curious to know what you do after the fire and with all the remaining pieces of burnt wood
Hi, Wranglerstar just letting you know that there are adds back on your channel so I hope you're still getting paid for them. Love your videos so if you can please keep doing them. It would be nice to see what you're doing to do with that barn you pulled fence posts from and where talking about converting or modifying it a few months ago about when you got the tractor.
Thank you Corey. Yes - more projects to finish....
Damn, seeing nomex and the string from your compass in the chest pocket makes me wish I signed on for another year of wildfire instead of getting a "real" job... I love fusees, and drip torches, and fire...
here in central BC ive seen between 20 and 30 all lit off at the same time at night looks like armegeddon me and my buddy cruised into the cutting and wandered around drinking beer for a few hours.
Did anyone else notice the cats that were sheltering in the pile?
Looks like a complete failure to get rid of the deadwood. Just swapped it for a massive pile of cinders instead. Would've been more useful as actual firewood.
MInus the pollutants, look at all that great ash for the Garden. Wood Ash is an outstanding source of carbon plus minerals for healthier food.
If you have much brush to burn it really is easier to start with a propane blow torch. Just speaking from experience but there's always more than one way to skin a cat
why is there a green pine adjacent to this huge pile of brush and could it not have been 3 smaller piles to avoid 40' flames