Our grandsons spent a few days with us earlier in the week and in addition to fishing, learned how to do a controlled burn.
I had cut fire lines a week or so back before the last rain and was ready for the boys to help me do the burn. As it ended up, they did all of the burn by themselves, under my watchful eye.
Tuesday morning it was very foggy, so we waited till after dinner and my nap to do the burn. We had a fairly steady southwest wind when we started the burn on the northeast side of the tract of pines. The wind changed on us, so we moved to the south side and fired it from east to west, going counter clock wise around the pines. I think the boys learned a little about controlled burns and why it is important for the safety and health of the planted pines and to improve the deer habitat.
Here are a few pictures of the project.
Treefarmer
Nice job
I've got a few more pictures that might be of interest to this on going thread concerning the controlled burn.
When we burned the pines, I almost forgot to remove the camera from the woods as it was actually on a tree that was surrounded by lots of flammable dry weeds and there was also a scar on the back side of the pine that was bleeding pine resin. We drove in and rescued the camera as the fire was closing in on the camera from two directions. All this said, we returned the camera to its' mount within an hour of the fire being mostly out.
I was almost surprised to see deer back at the feeder only a few hours after the fire had gone through the stand of pines, check the time and date on the pics.
Treefarmer
Them girls like them golden kernels. they just seem to never get enough.
Yeah they do, Bossman! That feeder is set to run once a day during the off season. It runs for about 3 seconds. The older does have learned to lick the spinner plate for the corn, enough falls on the ground for the little ones to know where the feeder is located. It has been in this spot now for quite a few years.
Treefarmer
