Ignition and Managing Unforeseen Wind Conditions

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What happens here

After saturating the pile with diesel fuel, a small amount of 'lighter starter fluid' is used to ignite it. The farmer expects the fire to start slowly due to the nature of old pine branches and the strategic application of fuel on the back side of the pile, allowing the wind to draw the flames inward. He initially expresses satisfaction with the slow burn, hoping it will avoid producing 'giant embers' that could spread. However, as the wind unexpectedly picks up, the situation quickly deteriorates, with 'debris and embers' blowing 'out into the woods.' The farmer mentions having 'nine fires going right now,' all of which need close 'babysitting' due to the dry conditions and increased wind. He also states that a 'North Carolina Forest Service Fire Burning Permit' was obtained and the 'sheriff's office' was notified, although this doesn't prevent fire department responses or concerns.

Goal: Ignite the burn pile and manage the fire under changing wind conditions.

Tools and materials

Lighter Starter Fluid — Igniting the diesel-soaked burn pile

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lit boy this bucket of diesel fuel was really really old and black now as you can see just the tiniest flame here is really gonna take this thing and roll here in about Oh five minutes or so this thing will be a raging fire if you guys like fire this is a good vlog for you so guys what we wanted was this to catch up really slow we didn't really want it to take off like boom now for films sake we wanted to show you it goes whoof take off but it's not taking off like we want it to for you it's taking off like we want it to for us so this will slowly burn and basically as the wind comes over it'll create a little bit of a vacuum I guess of vortex and suck hot flaming air into the pile here and let it burn up we don't want it to burn too fast because we don't want a huge flame with giant embers flying all over and catching the forest on fire the wind picked up and it's really really blowing a lot of debris and embers out into the woods so we're just having to babysit we have nine fires going right now huge huge fires and with this wind and the dry weather we've had we're just praying for rain right now we just want I mean if it rains an eighth of an inch it'll stop anything in the woods from catching on fire that's the biggest drama with this okay and the fire that we lit the first one we lit is the one you see smoking the most right back over there it's doing pretty good taking off like it should we have one more fire that we're gonna light and it's a huge huge fire it's the biggest fire that we have now I don't know if I've told you guys in the past of what we have to do is we have to fill out a North Carolina Forest Service fire burning permit and we have to call the Sheriff's Office and let them know that we're burning now most every time we burn even though we call the Sheriff's Office we start hearing sirens and here comes the fire department it's kind of disappointing we're wasting tax dollars like that but I guess it's better safe than sorry we got a babysit a lot of babysitting guys we're gonna say bye-bye and I appreciate you may be here at the end of the video after the credits we might show you lighting the great big fire if it's not raining too hard I imagine what's gonna happen is the storms gonna come in I'm gonna be out here just getting covered in mud and soot and lighten up some fires and they will burn though it's raining all right thanks a lot guys we'll see you next time on

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