Stone Branch

[Stone Branch]

6:00 and I started down the west side crack, east wind,

a steep crack,

a hot crack.

Back up top my fire petered out.

Had some fire cross a fire break that I scratched out this morning but choose not to use.

I lit up the upper edge

and went home while my escapee found fuel in the form of mountain laurel and blueberries.

As of 9:00 i still had me a forest fire working up on the hillside.

10:00 it started raining, damn.

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[Stone Branch]

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[keeruss8]

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Good work SB. That'll probably be looking good in a couple months

 

[mcbuck58]

Looks good Stone Branch. That’ll kill some of those seedlings and small saplings. Turkeys love burned areas. That area will probably become some of your turkeys daily routine. You did say that you can burn any of your work plan areas before or after you cut. Correct? Can you burn during bat season since you can’t cut?

 

[Stone Branch]

Good work SB. That'll probably be looking good in a couple months

Looks good Stone Branch. That’ll kill some of those seedlings and small saplings. Turkeys love burned areas. That area will probably become some of your turkeys daily routine. You did say that you can burn any of your work plan areas before or after you cut. Correct? Can you burn during bat season since you can’t cut?

Thanks guys, this is work area A where I will be hacking and squirting. No stipulations in regards to burning other than the burn ban.

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[Feedman]

SB,
Looks like the female is gaining weight.

 

[Stone Branch]

SB,
Looks like the female is gaining weight.

7lbs, up to 77lb. Spike is 35lbs.

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[Drahts]

Looking good SB!

 

[Stone Branch]

Stuff was burning up there this evening.

I lit some strip uphill head fire

that proved to be a bit too hot.

I went over to the other side of the ridge from the wind and lit it up down the ridge line

I then burned off my raked out fire line back down to the bottom.

The last pictures were taken at 8:00, I had about 600 yards of fire line working down pretty good till about 10:30.

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[mcbuck58]

Stuff was burning up there this evening.

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I lit some strip uphill head fire

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that proved to be a bit too hot.

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I went over to the other side of the ridge from the wind and lit it up down the ridge line

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I then burned off my raked out fire line back down to the bottom.

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The last pictures were taken at 8:00, I had about 600 yards of fire line working down pretty good till about 10:30.

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Looking good. Nice pictures.

 

[Stone Branch]

Looking good. Nice pictures.

Thanks mc, the fire did it's thing in the night, backing all the way down on the west and north slope. It wasn't my intention to burn off the hemlocks on this slope but I may have. I awoke at 3:45am to a fire about 10 yards from my wooden storage building, by the time that I got my clothes on and was out the door, it started raining heavy enough to put the fire out. I can't wait to see the rest of the damage done.

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[mcbuck58]

Thanks mc, the fire did it's thing in the night, backing all the way down on the west and north slope. It wasn't my intention to burn off the hemlocks on this slope but I may have. I awoke at 3:45am to a fire about 10 yards from my wooden storage building, by the time that I got my clothes on and was out the door, it started raining heavy enough to put the fire out. I can't wait to see the rest of the damage done.

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Over here start fire at 6pm. By 8pm humidity making cold fire on hillsides and ridge tops. Doing small areas so I can finish by 8 or 9pm. Had a couple creek bottoms wanted to burn couldn’t hardly get the leaves going even though no rain for five days. You mentioned hemlocks on the slope. I got some really big ones but they are all down in creek bottoms don’t go upslope very far. Take care.

 

[Stone Branch]

Over here start fire at 6pm. By 8pm humidity making cold fire on hillsides and ridge tops. Doing small areas so I can finish by 8 or 9pm. Had a couple creek bottoms wanted to burn couldn’t hardly get the leaves going even though no rain for five days. You mentioned hemlocks on the slope. I got some really big ones but they are all down in creek bottoms don’t go upslope very far. Take care.

No more head fire in crop trees, it wasn't a big area but I toasted 3 oaks. Sending it through trees that you want cooked is good.

Rolling down the nose,

some hemlocks didn't

some did get burned. I was concerned about canopy fire in the hemlocks.

Heading around the east side, the fire petered at the hemlocks.

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[Stone Branch]

West slope, good burn.

Top

East slope

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[Stone Branch]

I did a couple of hours of prep yesterday. I wanted to burn more but I drew a compromise with the woodcocks. This unit was where I originally started my habitat work by hinging red maples about 1-2 acres in 2019, first fire through the area.

South wind backing down the hill fire. A good bit of multiflora rose and honeysuckle to burn.

I then wrapped around the east end which

set up for some head fire. I went back in a raked out my crop trees better while the fire was working.

The unattended end.

Looked like a good burn.

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