after tips for brash burning

[woody paul]

Best fire lights I have found are old work gloves the builders/ gardener ones just spray a bit of WD40 on the back material and set it a light then stack with dry smal wood .

[flatyre]

old pallet with the brash stacked on top and a good glug of diesel. The pallet burns well but also allows the air to get under the fire.

[TreeswingerPerth]

We get old engine oil from the garage and mix some red diesel with it , fairly keeps the fire going , also find the odd tyre goes well , but not close to houses !!

[openspaceman]

old pallet with the brash stacked on top and a good glug of diesel. The pallet burns well but also allows the air to get under the fire.

 

I see why your monica is Flatyre

[kev7937]

Has anyone mentioned to make sure the smokes not blowing towards the climber cause that's a right pita.

 

Using diesel soaked tyres and old oil's a bit 1970 for me, any black smokes a bit of a no no and petrols ok if in small amounts but doesn't really set a good example if the trainee's watching and thinks it's a good idea to chuck a bit more on when your backs turned.

[tree-fancier123]

Threads like this really piss me off.

If you don't know how to start a fire you shouldn't be trying to do it commercially.

And those that do shouldn't be giving advice.

 

thanks for taking some of your precious time to make a comment, maybe the question did demonstrate a poverty of thought. It is a tremendous privilege to be able to interact with highly skilled timber fallers such as yourself.

[Pro Gard]

if it's realativly dry then a bucketful of dry timber off cuts or brocken up branches, a rag and a splash of something combustable, usually diesel. If it's conifer then you can get a fire going starting it with the dead branches from the middle very easily.

 

If wet and away from houses then an old tire with diesel poured into the rim and a rag as a wick, always works but remember to rake up and bury the wires the next day.

 

I don't believe all those who say no tires, no need at all in the spring summer and autumn but in the winter when you've got 3 days of rain soaked brash to burn, jobs stacking up and pouring rain then it works. No one would use them near houses or even burn near houses I'd always chip.

 

Out in the open were no one can see tires work very well.

[PeteB]

We burnt for years before we had chippers. Ball of newspaper, match and some dry stuff. Light it and add more dry stuff. If it is raining, make a shelter with a newspaper. Keep adding until you can add brash, look at an Ash tree for some dead wood to bolster the "bottom". When adding brash, keep the butt ends into the wind to allow the heat to blow through. Keep adding your brash in a tidy manner with the butt ends at the same point and when the bottom is doing good, pull out the butts and through on top, similarly, fold over the tops on to the burn. Finally, rake all the sticks, twigs, butts ends on top of the coals and nowt should left.

 

Do they teach this stuff at Arb school?

[peatff]

One of those gas powered burners for weeds, they have them in Aldi and Lidl on offer sometimes. You could do flambés to go with your gourmet lunch as well.

 

[woody paul]

As for burning near houses check your insurance mine has a 30 metre exclustion.