These are piles of tumbleweed my dad and I cleaned out from in front of our fence after a windy day. The fire department was notified and we had a few other people watching it as well.
After a certain height, a fire can become very unpredictable. Given that tumbleweed is very light and can be carried by the wind if a gust is strong enough it can pick up them up and hurdle fireballs in any direction
they are calling it "uncontrolled wildfire" ironically in response to people who say you should not burn it because you can start wildfire, obviously there are people watching this fire in case something go wrong thats the point
Not really a good idea. That wind picks up and you got a real problem on your hands man. Rolling fire balls. Looks like alot of fun though. I think everyone has a little fire bug in them.
really interesting seeing how the tumbleweed burns so quickly that it kind of peels itself away from the fire, essentially limiting the fire unless they take action to force the tumbleweeds in large bunches
I mean, I think the bigger danger here is that tumbleweeds are still fairly dense yet dry and when you have a prairy fire going on or one of your fields is burning, the weeds just take the fire and carry it somewhere else. So, if you have a trench to stop the fire from spreading, tumbleweeds can carry it over.
Add in a dash of wind and you suddenly have a problem.. with no wind yeah it burns so fast it burns itself out... but with some side wind and you can quickly have an problem
"Tumbleweed" No tumbleweed was left behind To roll in wind they are designed Prairie winds blow them in kind To fence line where they are lined Where they're entwined they bind #rt #PoemADay
Hey, would really like to suggest using the leftover biochar. It has tremendous fertility and water holding capacity for gardening in arid climates! That is, if it's not left to burn into ash :)
@@Browncoyote typically biochar is made by burning wood until it's charcoal status....then stopping the process with water or dirt or if in a vessel, shutting down the air so it won't become ash.
@@sethlievense8371 Nah you can pelletize it and feed it into a continuous char oven. Or shred it and bake it in a batch system. Needs some scale, true. But feasible.
Since this is a big problem I was wondering if someone would build a container shredder on a truck it could be down sized and used as heating chips be burned in a wooden stove. Woodash is good for a garden.
0:51 How bad should your boy scouts skills be to miss at lighting up that amount of tumbleweed with the first match and paper! 12 years ago.. you pretty much invented the clickbait title. Congrat, it worked for me! Thank you for sharing that nice video Have a nice day.. and a thumbs up from Montréal!
Imagine a big gust of wind blows away the tumbleweeds and hits a house and spreads and then fire tumbleweeds will just he flying that's basically what u said
thats danger! dont do this! it is very upsetting to watch this! please take out the fire! you are not fireman! are you going to kill everyone? please dont do this
Just NO. I don’t care when you did this, just don’t do it again please. Rent a chipper, capture the chips and dispose of it correctly - I have no idea if that would even work, but fire is definitely NOT the answer. If you did this in Australia, you would be in BIG trouble. Not cool, not funny and definitely not safe - regardless of the outcome. Someone else might see this and decide to copy you, and if they are kids or it’s windy and they don’t have any kind of plan, it could go seriously wrong.
