(4) Parts Diesel to (1) Part Gasoline
"well, propane isnt ideal if your broadcast burning as im sure youll know, however, it is the preferred method for piles (IMO)."
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Depends on the pile.
How its made and how dry things are.
If things are dryer then propane can be the cats meow.
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In that study back in the seventies on several national forests they found that the drip torch was like a pocket on a shirt filled with sliced bread.
Meow to boot. The drip torch got the most done when burning conditions were averaged.
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However; the drip torch does not go Pllooooocccchhhhh.
Anybody use a mixture of liquid dish soap and gasoline for burning piles?
Anybody use a mixture of liquid dish soap and gasoline for burning piles?
I thought powdered Tide was used? We had people mixing something, along with packets to make it into a more politically correct named stuff than Napalm. The lowest people in the caste system mixed it because that was a very nasty job. Fumes and all. I had enough seniority to escape that duty. They baggied it up and we packed it out to get fires going in piles--Eastern WA dry.
"...........turn it on and stand back for 10 minutes........."
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On the district I just retired from last fall they had over 16,000 hand piles and just a hundred or so landing piles.
Spending a minute (on average) to lite a hand pile is too much.
The economics of 10+ minutes on a landing pile is fine. Bulk (size matters) discount.
However, we couldn't waste that amount of time on all those hand piles.
And broadcast burning....whats that? We haven't lite a block up full scale since the early 90's....too much liability (ie: over achievment - although it was ok when the forest service let them go...). Its all mechanical site prep and piling for us now.
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