An update on my neighbor's massive 3+week-long bonfire

Because I know you're all just dying to know. This is the neighbor who, last Christmas, knocked down every pine tree on his 3+ acres and stacked them all up, rootballs and all, in a huge pile. I know some of the hippie-types disagree with clearing the pines, but the hardwoods alone are so much less likely to snap off halfway up the trunk in ice storms, or blow over onto the power lines in wind.

The pile must've been 14 feet high, at least that wide, and 40 or 50 feet long. That pile sat there all winter, all spring, and all summer, and then on October 13th, he sparked it with a huge fireball of diesel fuel.

It has burned since then, surviving several rainstorms. There's a mound now where the pile used to be, still prolly 3 feet high, with those wiggly heat-line thingies rising off of it, and some smoke poofing out when the wind blows the top layer of ash away. I wonder how long it's gonna be before it's cool enough he can doze it into his yard? Hot fire.

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the manhattans here are all sipped, not taken in through their inexplicable visceral impact. Much as I love the city, I think I kinda like fire better. ;-)

Even crappy ones gor for $50 a pop down here in Duh Big City.

Hope he didn't start a peat fire underneath it.

only orange clay once you get down about 3" or so. It's been a spectacular fire. I almost hate to see it die out. It rained for a solid 24 hours here Wednesday into Thursday, pretty hard, too, and that thing's still just smoldering away. Didn't lose much height in the rain, either. It's fucking well impressive.

I like fire.

we have a bunch of old cottonwood trees that are dropping huge limbs as they die from old age and drought (plus natural behavior of the dang things anyway) we make a huge pile over the year including other trimings and scrap lumber then torch it on New Years Eve around 9 or 10 so its going good by midnite - have had them go for a couple days but not weeks.

Makes a huge fire you can see from Interstate 10, lights up the side of the mountain and burns HOT as hell.

the yard and surrounding area of old farm house i once rented. big pile of stuff- a really big pile ,everything was going well until the wind changed...nothing burned down but the newspaper put the fire fighters pictures on the front page...the landlord wasn`t impressed