Originally posted by corvettedad
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Should've soaked it with diesel fuel first. 
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Ok, I get that. Sort of, in concept. If I had any idea that's a kind of asbestos plant that just won't burn, we'd be out some coins in diesel fuel as well. I've got a few gallons of 20-year-old kerosene I don't know what to do with. That would have been a prefect place to put it. Dadgum it Perry, where were you last week? -
That was great fun in slow motion. Slight drama, what "could have happened" with the laws and all, but it was perhaps the most boring way ever to spend a day, watching a stump not burn. I'm not sure what I learned from all of that. Whatever I learned, I'll soon forget it anyhow.Originally posted by RockJustRock View PostLeave a comment:
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I came across a DIFFERENT approach to yard work. It was a 4 acre ranch in rural Texas. He LETS a farmer bale it 2-3 times a year.Leave a comment:
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Why do I suspect this is going in the direction of dynamite? I liked the part where you called out and said "I just started an illegal fire and I'm calling you in case it goes out of control". NICE!Leave a comment:
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Well SM came home at the end of the day and summoned me up and his big question was, "Did the fire department ever come?"
No, they did not. But my big concern is a little kid or a dog wanders into this open fire pit and falls into it and... He held his hand over it, it's only making a little bit of heat now.
But down inside, it's still plenty hot. Real dadgum hot. I convinced him into agreeing, let's squirt some water on this and just put it out, it's not gonna burn the stump anyhow. We've proven that. Okay, let's wash all of this down and see what we didn't accomplish.
SM stood back. I shot it with the water hose and it made a lot of steam but about three seconds later......STOP. I just recalled....when you put water on hot ash it makes concrete. Ash is a primary ingredient of concrete.
Years ago, there was a problem in the powerhouse at the paper mill, they had to dump a bus-sized pile of ash on the ground. The wind was blowing hard and everybody working outside was raising hell about all of the ash blowing around, and it WAS. So a manager took it upon himself to go out there and completely hose down the ash mountain with a fully charged fire hose. That worked, and three days later a whole giant team of contractors were out there with jackhammers tearing down the mountain.
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I was begging Superman, let's burn that stump. C'mon, c'mon! (My tail wagging.) He said ONE day this week. He's beyond busy.
Here's the protocol as presented on the Cleveland.gov site: The city does not issue burning permits, you must call Cleveland FD to get Approval to Burn. I gave SM that phone number.
He called me this morning - "I've lit your fire, I've gotta go to work." I asked if he'd called the fire department and he said no, not too worried about that.
Well I'm worried about it when I'm standing there watching it, and it's already lit. He had 20 pounds of charcoal on top of the stump, lit....I called FD, they said no, you cannot burn inside the city limits.......they said call 911 and they'll dispatch somebody out. I said, but that's not what it says on the website....FD said call 911 and tell them it's not an emergency and tell them what's happening.
So I did, 911 said you cannot get approval to burn inside the city limits unless you have 10 acres or more. We'll send out a unit to take a look at it. So I'm sitting there in SM's front yard in a chair with a water hose, watching.....waiting.....they never came. 20 pounds of charcoal is not affecting this stump. Unit finally said, "Put some more charcoal on it, FD ain't coming."
So I went and got 40 MORE pounds of charcoal and dumped it on there. SM came home for lunch and personally squirted more lighter fluid on it and lit it. More watching, fire watch. All day, all of that, and that stump did not burn or even reduce, not a bit.
What kind of wood will not burn at 2000 degrees? I've googled it, I can't find out. But whatever it is, it's that kind of wood right there in Superman's front yard. Some kind of a shrub, used to be. I never would have believed it. I sold them on the idea and now they've got a minor amount of money tied up in charcoal ash for nothing.Last edited by pdub; August 23, 2018, 04:06 PM.Leave a comment:
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Mrs. Superman and Superman Junior in particular are really pumped up about this upcoming project, they want to cook marshmallows over the fire. I've warned them, when that stump starts cooking, it might taste like....real bad. we don't know what kind of giant plant that was.Leave a comment:
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Did it go like this...
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explosives. I've mentioned this before - when I was like 12 or so, we were clearing a road to some property we owned. Already we had fallen the cottonwood tree (with the satisfying thump of it driving a 4x4 fence post 2 feet into the ground and also pulling out about an acre of field fence. Round 2 was with explosives. The guy blowing them kind of miscalculated - the stump was in a swamp in the bottom of a canyon that was 75 feet below the nominal level of land around it. He set off the explosives and put that stump on the flat ground (about 130 feet linearly from its launch spot). It cleared the top of the canyon by at least 20 feet. My dad was concerned, to me that was like the best thing EVER!!!!!
the stump was huge, the tree had a diameter of 6 feet at the base - but I think the issue was he didn't realize the swamp really wasn't holding the stump down..... that plus the wet soil created a perfect launch pad..... boom! was awesome!Last edited by SuperBuickGuy; August 18, 2018, 09:09 PM.Leave a comment:
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Upon further research, not much to worry about, but be ready for surprises.Leave a comment:
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As long as there's no coal in the ground. My first thought was this might have started with tree roots.
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