after tips for brash burning

[Steve Bullman]

can someone please tell me why they are saying outright no petrol?

[shavey]

I was wondering that as well or maybe Aspen is ok

[csservices]

can someone please tell me why they are saying outright no petrol?

 

Due to the vaporising nature of petrol it doesn't take long to create a cloud of fumes above the and around where it has been poured which will ignite in the presence of a naked flame before you get near the fire itself which can cause a fireball and potential injury, similarly if poured from a container onto a lit fire the fire can jump up the vapour trail potentially igniting the stream of fuel back to the container with the added risk of explosion, basically it comes down to petrol being much more volatile and unpredictable than diesel.

[Mull]

Not sure about this thread! Can a grown man light a fire??:-)

But the pic in scotspines post, I've never seen such a hellish looking mish-mash of Windows in one building in my life:(

Was the planner a schizophrenic?

[Steve Bullman]

Due to the vaporising nature of petrol it doesn't take long to create a cloud of fumes above the and around where it has been poured which will ignite in the presence of a naked flame before you get near the fire itself which can cause a fireball and potential injury, similarly if poured from a container onto a lit fire the fire can jump up the vapour trail potentially igniting the stream of fuel back to the container with the added risk of explosion, basically it comes down to petrol being much more volatile and unpredictable than diesel.

i think all these things can be controlled with a little old common sense, but maybe thats just me. Is this a firestarting for dummies thread?

[Mull]

[Steve Bullman]

I was wondering that as well or maybe Aspen is ok

too expensive to put a match to

[Steve Bullman]

Do you all remember the story a few years ago about the guy who was dismantling a conifer? They lit a fire at the base of the tree, he was dropping stuff straight onto the fire to burn. All clever stuff, till the tree caught on fire and he died.

[shavey]

too expensive to put a match to

 

Ha ha

[openspaceman]

Due to the vaporising nature of petrol it doesn't take long to create a cloud of fumes above the and around where it has been poured which will ignite in the presence of a naked flame before you get near the fire itself which can cause a fireball and potential injury, similarly if poured from a container onto a lit fire the fire can jump up the vapour trail potentially igniting the stream of fuel back to the container with the added risk of explosion, basically it comes down to petrol being much more volatile and unpredictable than diesel.

 

That's right, in fact the story goes that Daimler (or was it Benz) first heard about petrol as a fuel to replace town gas in his engines from reading about a lady who was removing stains from her husband's clothes with it in a room with an open fire when the lot went up.

 

The danger to my mind is if there is a delay between pouring the petrol and sparking it off. worse case is pouring it on a smouldering fire, blevie ensues.