Bonfire stackin' that is! Been building that pile for about 8 months. Added a sycamore and a highly valuable black walnut tree today. There will be more wood to come. Anyone and everyone in the FHC family will be invited when we set the date. Should be just before Thanksgiving. Keep an eye out for the notice.
I wanted to cut the logs in 8' lengths but that was too long for me and my U.L.A.V. to handle alone. The center is small ash and a few pallets. Should light off nicely.
Looking good. We were down there fairly close earlier this summer when the wife and I when to the Ark Encounter and Creation Museum. If I knew that pile was there then, I might have stopped and lit it for ya...
Not really, I do this every year. The west boundary of my property is a tributary to the Ohio river so I get a lot of large floaters when the river comes up. The sycamore and highly valuable black walnut were victims of bank erosion.
Never made a bonfire that big before. Back in the mid 90's during my H$%L raising drinking days, a friend of mine lived near an orchard. After bars closed we would go back there, make a bonfire out of pallets and drink beer. Sometimes there was no wood and id wander out into the orchard (half in the bag) and return with an arm full of wood. My friends were always amazed at my wood finding ability. Even in the dark! Once i remember with snow on the ground.
we would have made a great team. I was the fire walker. One way or the other I always ended up in the fire LOL
Yes I am kicking them in from my place on the Indiana side. A tradition that dates back to 1810. Indiana pioneers were known as “log kickers” before Hoosier stuck. It prompted the Kentuckiana driftwood skirmish. It’s in all the history books. Okay I will put down the bourbon glass.
Ralphie Boy , you know that I love you brother, my first secret santa buddy. But I have to tell you, up here in NH, we would call that pile of logs, kindling.
That's pretty good buZZsaw BRAD , where ever it was. But this is what we do in my town on the 4th of July in the "Live Free or Die" state. Right in the very center of town. It gets a little hot close to it.
Why burn the Taurus though? Those one's were 300k+ vehicles, with minimal upkeep. The Vulcan v6 (3.0 ohv)was slow, but was near bullet proof, the duratec 3.0 ( dohc) was a lot spunkier, but was a little more fragile, but still a great engine. Maybe that one was at 350k and gave up?
