About 10 years ago I went down to the family farm in Arkansas, they had cleared a bunch of trees for pasture with a bulldozer. 3 piles, one was about 200 yards long 30 foot wide and 15 foot high. The second was maybe 50 yards shorter in length and the third was small in comparison. The plan was to burn the big ones and leave the small one because it was too close to a property line. We notified the fire department just in case and so if anyone reported the smoke. I light 2 cedar trees on the big pile and one on the other with a big lighter and no accelerant, thinking it would burn from one end to the other…..nope.Be safe Greengoodness I used to love burning brush, but I do not think so much anymore.
Inferno.. the heat lit the third pile and anything combustible within 200 yards, the flames had to have been 50 foot high. It didn’t take 20 minutes and we had a fire the size of 2 football fields. It was amazing!
Nothing spread outside our prepared area and in the end all went well but, it was pretty terrifying and awesome. Absolutely no desire to do it again… lol