… The food tasted better on real wood, even better since i was possibly expressing my right of freedom to BBQ … Kinda pisses me off being we are getting treated like 6yr olds. They basically shut me down in my busy bundle wood season. (the way i put food on the table ,then tell me how to cook my food?) … the smoker and BBQ were on a concrete patio, the water spigot/with hose= 10 feet away.
As far as my wood lot i have a 200 gpm trash pump that will go into the river 30' away with 300' of hose. (there is also a fire hydrant in the corner on my land, the only one for miles around) …
Wow man, so you take the state burning ban personally? Yeah, they probably put that ban into effect while only thinking of you, and how they can make you miserable. C’mon!
Cripes man, they ain’t treating you like a 6-year-old… they put those bans in effect because there are a lot of adults with less commonsense than many 6-year-olds. By the way, rights and freedoms are two separate things, and government has the constitutional authority to temporarily to suspend certain freedoms in the interest of public safety and/or property protection. So really, all you did was spit on the Constitution, the very thing you (falsely) believe gave you the “right of freedom to BBQ” during a fire ban.
You ever seen a wild fire get started during extreme dry conditions? Ever noticed at night how sparks from a fire get carried straight up in the heat column… up maybe 50, 75, even 100 feet? If one of those sparks remains live it could come back to earth several hundred yards from your “concrete patio”. By the time you noticed the resulting fire, especially in conditions that dry, it’d be way too late for your silly little “spigot/with hose”... and by the time you got your “200 gpm trash pump” in action and on site it would like peeing into the ocean.
We were placed under a burn ban last fall, and we weren’t near as dry as you are. During harvest the heat from a combine exhaust ignited a 330 acre corn field just across the mile from me… and the whole damn 330 acres was totally engulfed in flames in less than five minutes!. The fire jumped the road before firefighters could get on the scene and destroyed a neighboring 200 acres of corn… the river finally held it back long enough for firefighters to get it under control. Only luck and the grace of god kept it from taking a barn, or worse yet, a home.
You wanna’ believe you have the “right of freedom to BBQ” over a wood fire during a burn ban... well fine, believe whatever you want. Personally, I believe you were acting like one of those 6-year-olds…