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Demonstrating Burn Pile Management with Bulldozer

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15:15
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ROLLING FIRE WITH THE CAT 963...LAND CLEARING ADVICE TO SAVE TIME/MONEY...AERIAL FOOTAGE AND MORE!

What happens here

Josh explains that the bulldozer operator will 'stir the pile up and get air in there,' which helps the fire burn faster. The video then transitions to footage of a yellow Caterpillar 963B bulldozer with a six-cylinder engine. The bulldozer is shown repeatedly pushing large quantities of brush and debris onto an active fire. This action stirs the burning material, creating large plumes of smoke and increasing the intensity of the flames, demonstrating the technique used to stoke the large burn piles. The operator carefully maneuvers the heavy machinery to manage the burning process effectively.

Goal: The video shows a bulldozer (CAT 963B) actively working to stoke and manage a large brush pile fire by pushing and turning the debris to introduce air, making it burn faster and hotter.

Tools and materials

  • CAT 963B Bulldozer
  • Brush/Tree Debris

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you look back here just behind that fire you really can't see it but there's another hillside that we're going to be clearing off probably in the fall or in next spring guys we're going to get you a little bit of footage of how we burn these piles basically he'll take the bucket on the loader and just stir the pile up and you get air in there and it helps it to burn faster so we're going to ride over here real quick and we'll show you some of that too it's pretty cool to watch all right folks so we got a little clarification with the machine operator here so currently he is just cleaning up this area and then when he gets done with his final drag he's gonna drag it against the grain so that it doesn't wash that was already in his plans and I jumped the gun kind of thinking hey man you need to do it this way you know when you get a professional doing this kind of stuff you kind of just need to let them roll with it and just trust that they're gonna do the right thing and then at the end come back and look over what they've done and tell them to adjust this or that so just lessons learned working with heavy equipment you guys are going to be clearing land on your farm or your place we're just clearing a spot for your house this is all good food for thought what you're seeing here is he's basically rolling this pile in order to get that fire stoked up he'll turn it and let a little more air in and turn it in let them a little more air in eventually and it'll just start to burn everything away [Music] all right this is going to be a good one he's going to come around the backside and roll all the stuff that isn't burning over on to the flame here you'll see this is gonna be really cool these are some heavy heavy machines this is a caterpillar 960 3 B it has a six-cylinder caterpillar engine in it you can see it already starting to smoke up I don't know if you guys like this kind of thing but if you do click that like button let me know what you're thinking I sure enjoy watching heavy equipment go to work especially when I'm paying $100 an hour for it now you see how it's starting to flame up pretty good that's the goal we got to keep the fire hot by turning it just like stoking a campfire kind of can tell how rough it is through here the Gator so he got in there and he stirred that fire and look at the puffs of smoke that went up huge [Music] now this one's burning really good here we go with the biggest fire right here you guys are gonna love this drone…

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