just put on 75 miles, one traffic light
(each way) & zero deer even spotted...
stayed right on the 60 mph speed limit,
but navigating some twisty roads sucked.
très bizarre
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You know you live in the country if......
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just put on 75 miles, one traffic light
(each way) & zero deer even spotted...
stayed right on the 60 mph speed limit,
but navigating some twisty roads sucked.
très bizarre
you drive me cwazy!
you drive me cwazy!
thanks S4L, one of the good things about living in the country is that there's plenty of time to safely smoke and enjoy a fatty while driving to your destination! 
you drive me cwazy!
thanks S4L, one of the good things about living in the country is that there's plenty of time to safely smoke and enjoy a fatty while driving to your destination! 
If you can walk out to the road in winter and find dinner laying there.
You know you live in the country if.......
You know you live in the country if.......
You know you live in the country if.......
You know you live in the country if.......
You know you live in the country if.......
You know you live in the country if.......
St. Phatty
Active member
Spontaneous combustion ... "Pyrolysis" ... I thought it only happened with specialty chemicals like aluminum powder.
BUT there was a news story about it happening in Spain, so I looked it up.
https://www.wired.com/2016/08/manure-fire-new-york/
"A manure fire in Southern California burned 6,000 acres in 2009, and a 2,000 ton pile of manure in Nebraska burned for three months in 2005.
In each of those fires, the accumulated heat within a manure pile didn’t kill all the bacteria. Microbes sometimes survive temperatures of several hundred degrees. Davis Hill, who works on agricultural safety and health at Penn State, has investigated some poultry manure fires like this. “We were seeing temperatures of probably five or six hundred degrees in certain spots,” he says. Other kinds of manure can combust at far lower temperatures. That’s why Rick Koelsch, a livestock and bioenvironmental engineer at the University of Nebraska, recommends tearing apart a manure pile if the core temperature exceeds 180° Fahrenheit."
Folks that live in the country - have you ever see this happen ?
I've seen piles steam when they got wet. But nowhere near catching fire.
I heard of this happening once in a natural setting, without the manure, just an area where leaves and sticks had accumulated about 20 feet wide, 15 feet high, and maybe 50 yards long, and then got wet. The exact wrong chemistry of plant debris. The soil science professor that described it, was called out to help deal with the situation.
BUT there was a news story about it happening in Spain, so I looked it up.
https://www.wired.com/2016/08/manure-fire-new-york/
"A manure fire in Southern California burned 6,000 acres in 2009, and a 2,000 ton pile of manure in Nebraska burned for three months in 2005.
In each of those fires, the accumulated heat within a manure pile didn’t kill all the bacteria. Microbes sometimes survive temperatures of several hundred degrees. Davis Hill, who works on agricultural safety and health at Penn State, has investigated some poultry manure fires like this. “We were seeing temperatures of probably five or six hundred degrees in certain spots,” he says. Other kinds of manure can combust at far lower temperatures. That’s why Rick Koelsch, a livestock and bioenvironmental engineer at the University of Nebraska, recommends tearing apart a manure pile if the core temperature exceeds 180° Fahrenheit."
Folks that live in the country - have you ever see this happen ?
I've seen piles steam when they got wet. But nowhere near catching fire.
I heard of this happening once in a natural setting, without the manure, just an area where leaves and sticks had accumulated about 20 feet wide, 15 feet high, and maybe 50 yards long, and then got wet. The exact wrong chemistry of plant debris. The soil science professor that described it, was called out to help deal with the situation.
TychoMonolyth
Boreal Curing
Damp hay has burned down more barns than anything else.
CannaRed
Cannabinerd
I remember reading a story in high times about an Australian guerilla grower who harvested his bush grow, and put it all in a big bag in his car. On the long drive home he had to keep pulling over to separate and let it air out because it was heating up like wet hay.
Not plant related but..
I have seen polyurethane dust from sanding hardwood floors spontaneously combust when left on a pile.
Not plant related but..
I have seen polyurethane dust from sanding hardwood floors spontaneously combust when left on a pile.
TychoMonolyth
Boreal Curing
The guys building a friend's house gave me a bucket of sawdust to throw in a firepit. It went up like rocket fuel and burned my eyebrows. Lol
You know you live in the country if......
You understand that any kind of dust particles, if concentrated enough in suspension in the air,
will burn in a fireball, or even explode if exposed to a source of ignition or high heat..
As a teenager, I used to make pyrotechnic gun powders, and discovered that a large handful of iron filings would burn in a rapid ball of flame if thrown over a small fire...
Grain silo explosions are an almost frequent occurrence when everyone isn't careful..
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You understand that any kind of dust particles, if concentrated enough in suspension in the air,
will burn in a fireball, or even explode if exposed to a source of ignition or high heat..
As a teenager, I used to make pyrotechnic gun powders, and discovered that a large handful of iron filings would burn in a rapid ball of flame if thrown over a small fire...
Grain silo explosions are an almost frequent occurrence when everyone isn't careful..
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TychoMonolyth
Boreal Curing
I always wondered why wood shops had such huge exhaust fans. I figured my woodshop teacher was anal. I see now he was terrified of a room full of dumb teenagers so those fans were on Turbo.
It also has its benefits: For example, in certain areas like the south of Spain, you can usually grow in winter, but there's always a risk of a cold batch, freezing the ground and killing the roots of plants. This is avoided by mixing the soil with hay, and while it degrades it produces enough heat for keeping the roots alive.
Like nuclear power, if you put a lot inside a bomb, there's always risk of explosion killing everybody, but used in little bits can produce electricity to light up the room! ...quit looking at me, you're making me nervous
Like nuclear power, if you put a lot inside a bomb, there's always risk of explosion killing everybody, but used in little bits can produce electricity to light up the room! ...quit looking at me, you're making me nervous
Easier to milk the goat for your coffee than drive for hour to get cow Milk, Unless you got a cow, I only got a steer Longhorn
TychoMonolyth
Boreal Curing
Always have a cow man.
St. Phatty
Active member
How many bales of hay, or cubic yards of hay, does a person need to get a flame started ?
From doing hot composting, it wouldn't heat up unless I had 4 cubic yards of the right mix, and 8 cubic yards worked better.
Maybe 24x 3 string bales ?
Obviously I would only do the experiment in the wet season.
I guessed that hot compost would make a good source of heat for residential plumbing, out loud, and the soil science guy said they actually do that in Europe. Run pipes through hot farm waste etc. to get hot air or hot water.
From doing hot composting, it wouldn't heat up unless I had 4 cubic yards of the right mix, and 8 cubic yards worked better.
Maybe 24x 3 string bales ?
Obviously I would only do the experiment in the wet season.
I guessed that hot compost would make a good source of heat for residential plumbing, out loud, and the soil science guy said they actually do that in Europe. Run pipes through hot farm waste etc. to get hot air or hot water.
not sure, but barns burn down regularly around here if you bale it when it is still damp & put it in the loft...
