after tips for brash burning

[Wood wasp]

Diesel and chain oil over paper.

 

If you are doing multiple fires when you arrive in morning poke off the grey ash from existing fire till down to the glowing embers, then use a shovel to carry them to site of new fire. Couple shovels and you'll have heart of your new fire ready to throw smaller branches onto.

[headgroundsman]

Once the fire is going well feed it as quick as you can always throwing in the burnt halves back into the heart of the fire. Remember when loading the fire that the hottest part will be where the smoke is. On a windy day this may mean the fire moves with the wind

[Steve Bullman]

One of these always helps

 

[Vespasian]

One of these always helps

 

 

That my friend is a winning idea, never thought to do that!!!.. don't the tires melt?...

 

Oh just a heads up, if your gonna be having a big fire, sometimes its a good idea to phone the local firebrigade..

tell em wot your doin, saves em comin out on account of phones calls to the station about a mysterious fire down the way...

 

Nothin worse than standing at the fire, turning round and ten hefty firemen bearing down wanting to know whats goin on...

[Steve Bullman]

That my friend is a winning idea, never thought to do that!!!.. don't the tires melt?...

 

Oh just a heads up, if your gonna be having a big fire, sometimes its a good idea to phone the local firebrigade..

tell em wot your doin, saves em comin out on account of phones calls to the station about a mysterious fire down the way...

 

Nothin worse than standing at the fire, turning round and ten hefty firemen bearing down wanting to know whats goin on...

Wasn't mine, but I do recall the owner telling me once it did indeed get so hot that the tires melted

[treequip]

One of these always helps

 

 

 

That's the way to go, we made a similar one by taking a plasma cuter to a wrecked vac tank. Sensitive site where even the ash had to be carted away, it had a hand held blower, air forcing it and got a bit too hot for its own good, lived a short but glorious life

[Mark Bolam]

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.

 

 

To be fair mate my post came across a bit harshly.

What I was getting it is that the dark art of firelighting is best learnt on site, preferably under the supervision of someone with a massive beard.

It's hard to pick it up from a computer .

[dan494]

to be fair mate my post came across a bit harshly.

What i was getting it is that the dark art of firelighting is best learnt on site, preferably under the supervision of someone with a massive beard.

It's hard to pick it up from a computer .

 

 

[csservices]

Find an old bit of dry wood, cut along the grain with chainsaw and hey presto you get loads of long shavings to use as tinder.

 

I've been chogging up some knotty old lleylandii recently and the long stringy shavings off that are ideal for lighting fire bung some in a bag and they will light straight off no need for paper etc.

[Farmer Tom]

Well, I always have a couple of those supermarket boxes in the back of the car,

once they get a bit to raggedly I use them as a firelighter.

I find a hayfork is a useful tool for stacking and rearranging the brash.

Nice and long too so I don't get too hot.