Waiting for a pile to burn down so i can go to bed.
DROID won't let me upload a pic:-/
You've got the carbon footprint of a Sasquatch.
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Loads of fun. Looks like a good size fire.
I got a burn permit about 10 days ago and made so much smoke the road agent called the fire department on me. (The road agent lives about 1 mile away from the fire.)
http://vid6.photobucket.com/albums/y235/perryW/Slabfire2.mp 4">don't know if this works?
Re Carbon Footprint... Oddly enough, burning biomass does not increase your carbon footprint (according to the experts)
I find it odd that you need a permit to burn. I routinely burn off my 70 acres and I call the fire department (as a courtesy and since I'm on the FD) to let them know, but I'm not, in any way, obligated to procure a permit.
That's terrible.
> ... but I'm not, in any way, obligated to procure a permit.
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> That's terrible.
Live Free or Die
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No wonder you guys have all those massive fires!
> I find it odd that you need a permit to burn. I routinely burn off my 70 acres and I call the fire department (as a courtesy and since I'm on the FD) to let them know, but I'm not, in any way, obligated to procure a permit.
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> That's terrible.
Probably no good timber to lose in Texas just because your neighbor is an idiot.;-)
Course, No permit required when there is snow on the ground
(it's never benn called that before, but......) that's what she said 😛
No wonder you guys have all those massive fires!
Perry, it seems you've been reading Kent's posts a little too closely and formed an opinion of timber in Texas based on his pictures. In fact, East Texas is known as the "Piney Woods" and we have MILLIONS of acres in pine plantation and old growth natural regeneration.
It is said after the fire of Chicago, the lumber used to rebuild Chicago, came from East Texas and their saw mills.
I personally had all of the pines cut off of my tract in an attempt to help in clearing it for cattle and hay production. Sweet Gum is a resilient (stupid) tree that I can't see is good for anything other than stifling my clearing progress.
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Live Free and Burn Free! 🙂
Interesting Perry, last I checked fossil fuels come from biomass. Very odd.
Naw Kris
I've seen a few pictures of your land so I know you have trees, but I couldn't resist knocking Texas.
This is the texas I know...
Naw Kris
Oh hell no! We're lucky to see 3 and 400 feet (unless you're looking down a road). However, out absolute best was 1900' through the woods on one hub in the Sabine River bottom in the fall after the leaves fell. I wouldn't EVEN try to recover those hubs now. 🙂
Naw Kris
Yeah, but if you turn around the other direction in that first picture you can see a forest of hardwoods including oak, Bigtooth Maple and Ponderosa Pine. Did you hike into McKittrick Canyon?
burning brush - what it looked like this morning.
I'll re-stack the nubbins and burn them off sometime this weekend. Last time I burned a good sized pile, the wild turkeys came to it all summer to dust themselves.
> Re Carbon Footprint... Oddly enough, burning biomass does not increase your carbon footprint (according to the experts)
That just doesn't make any sense. Do you want to elaborate?
The purpose of burning permits is to prevent forest fires. Last time I got one there was no fee. They just want to make sure you know the fire conditions and have the resources to deal with it if the fire gets out of hand.
Merlin - carbon neutral
I watched a show on PBS comparing the energy usage of 4 families around the world and figured their carbon footprint. The family in Africa used Firewood to do their cooking. Since the firewood is renewable carbon, they considered this to be Carbon-neutral. THe other families who used electricity from coal or gas which had a large carbon footprint (especially coal).
I'm still not quire sure why biomass burning is carbon-neutral. Maybe becasue plants grow to replace it and suck back up the carbon.???
Fossil fuels came from a super greenhouse climate 150 million years ago. The fossils are from tiny sea animals that died and floated to the bottom of the ocean.
We pump all of that carbon back into the atmosphere at our own peril.
Merlin - carbon neutral
It makes sense to me. You grow a tree which pulls carbon out of the atmosphere then later cut it and burn it putting the same carbon back into the air.
Fossil fuels were laid down from an atmosphere with much higher levels of carbon and a much warmer earth.
The best carbon sequestration is to leave the oil, gas and coal in the ground.
The Chinese are getting out ahead of us on carbon sequestration from coal burning plants. We will see over time if they can do it on a large scale. They are doing it on a very small scale right now but just selling the carbon for things like soft drinks which simply puts the carbon into the air anyway.
