We usually get about a half dozen days or so each spring like this. You can almost watch the ends of the fresh splits start to crack. Forest fires can become problematic though as the news announces it to everyone so you can guess what ideas pyromaniacs get. The last photo was taken 8 years ago yesterday. The fire was about a mile from my moms house.
Sure was a nice day for drying wood with a good breeze and dry air. Give me a whole year of this weather and no complaints. Imagine now "seasoned"wood would be?
We had a few dry spells with no burn warnings this spring and the Hickory split stacks tumbled again.
Been going through a bit of that here last week…actually hosed down the yard, house and firewood piles including the shed. That was pretty weird. Then we got the order to evacuate. The fire got close but didn’t reach us. It’s under control now and life has returned to normal. I’d say 97% started by some careless/negligent human, so don’t anyone start in on that global warming crap or I’ll bite your head off. Seriously. Plus the authorities had almost two days to put it out but wanted to “monitor” it. Fools! And I know because I was one of dozens that called it in—three times over three days! It was less than an acre for a day and a half…. But that’s another topic and a whole other story…Let’s just say heads need to roll.
Glad the situation is under control and you're not reporting more disruption and damage. Veg in pics looks super dry. Is that "normal" for this time of year? Curious as to what type of land the fire started on (ownership)?
Stupid jackholes...I'm sure you guys had a burn ban on, but then a pretty decent sized fire gets going (however it started) and they just wanna watch it...makes sense to me!
No burn ban before that. In fact I would bet it was some out of town jack-wagon that didn’t extinguish their camp fire or it was a logging company that started it by accident like they did last year (they were up in that area) There were absolutely no clouds in the sky. There was no lightning, nothing from nature. It was only high 60s. Everything points to humans. They continued to “watch it” until we had a super windy day—which happens in this area every spring.
Day 4 of the extra dry air. I’m not complaining. Can’t say the same thing for my brother though. He’s a cranberry and blueberry farmer. Once the sun went down and the wind stopped blowing, the temperature dropped 15 degrees in 15 minutes. Eventually bottomed out at 18 degtees in the bogs. Meanwhile, it only dropped to 34 at my house less than 5 miles away.
Timely thread! I was just thinking the other day that the low humidity and steady wind was great for drying out the firewood.
Wow....man, all the best out there in AZ. We here have seen above freezing and dry and windy here in CT too. We had three small brush fires in my town on friday afternoon. And man is the wood drying!!! In a matter of days fresh wood is checking, even wood sitting solid all winter is drying faster than in the last year. We had a very wet summer last year (2021), so a good drying year is sorely welcome. Course now we'll need to stock up on water... Sca
We had a fire in the area today. Only about 100 acres. Humidity was still fairly low but little to no wind. Forest fire service was on it right away
