Just recycled the Christmas tree in the backyard. :thumbsup:

http://s176.photobucket.com/albums/w167/Out66Cast/?action=view&current=ChristmasTreeFire.flv

Nothing like a little Boy Scout Fluid !

The video was shot by my kid up on our 2nd storey balcony, you can see the swing set to the left of the recycling. It's about 7 ft high.

Thought you all would get a kick out of it. :yes:

Hee, Hee, Hee...

I think I hear the sirens now.

Yes I've had my days raked up a pile of leaves splashed some 115/145 AV gas on it and to be safe took the container away threw a match on the leaves .......and had to rake up the pile again:clonk: with some hair missing from my legs:p

use enough gas?

I just threw my tree in the burn pile today... Never burned before, but I know I have about 30 trash cans worth of leaves to gather up and add to the pile...

Whats the normal procedure here.. normally I just see slow smoldering piles of leaves.

Big D

nice job there, contributing to global warming and all :)

Big D, I used about a pint of gas and sprinkled it on the Christmas tree, which was pretty much bone dry from a month in the house. Then I lay down an ignition lane with a trickle of gas for about 20-30 feet. Seal the gas can, and put it far away, put on the gloves and safety glasses, fire extinguisher at the ready, strike the match, and....KA-BAM. :thumbsup:

Vince, I don't know about global warming, but it sure as heck added to neighbourhood warming. :D

That's a nasty carbon footprint in the ecosystem, Buster! You bring tears to Gia Earth's delicate eyes. Don't worry though, she'll snort a few lines and be good as new.

nice little fire there John. :thumbsup: Happy New Year! All you need now are some hotdogs, marshmellows and a 300 ft stick to cook them with.:D Couldn't help but notice that you're a no snow having SOB ;). we've only got about 8" but it's getting cold again for tomorrow.

I'd bet you'd have the same fire with NO gas. Nothing goes up as fast and hot as a dry christmas tree...

Nice video. :thumbsup:

#1 pyro checking in right here :yes::D.. GREAT video, I love the way you can see the fumes ignite around the fluid :hurray:

#1 pyro checking in right here :yes::D..

If you're #1, I'm at least #2. I mixed my first batch of gunpowder when I was about 10 years old, together with my cousin. Had about a pound or so in a jar on his desk, and happened to set it on fire. Good thing it burned slowly and that the window was open. I still got some scars on my hands from that incident though. :D

LOL, I still like to play with gun powder..I reload my own shotgun shells so I keep about 20 lbs of powder on hand at all times :thumbsup:

Big D, I used about a pint of gas and sprinkled it on the Christmas tree, which was pretty much bone dry from a month in the house. Then I lay down an ignition lane with a trickle of gas for about 20-30 feet. Seal the gas can, and put it far away, put on the gloves and safety glasses, fire extinguisher at the ready, strike the match, and....KA-BAM. :thumbsup:

Vince, I don't know about global warming, but it sure as heck added to neighbourhood warming. :D

Well okay.. I was speaking in general though. In the house I just moved to we are outside of city limits and are allowed to burn leaves, branch, etc. Didn't know the best way to go about it. Whenever I've seen others burning as I drive by there is just a lot of smoke.. I don't see huge fires. Didn't know if there was anything special other then just setting it ablaze.

Big D

Well your were having fun john
I would not lite a recycle fire unless I could keep it going all day. Flames 20 to 30 ft in the air. On Monday at work people would tell me I know what you did this weekend you pyro. smoked out the road down from your house had to shut my windows to keep out the smoke.
I take a drink can half to three quarters full of old motor oil, finish up with gas or kerosine or if i have a quart of old motor oil top off with gasoline, nice heat to get old wood burning. some of my recycleings have last for a week I have melted glass beer bottles down to a puddle in the past. Remember Hugo what about 16 years ago. :yes: it was a blast cleaning up from that storm. I lost 30 trees in the yard took about a year to get all the stumps and limbs burned up after the pulp wood was cut out of it. Those where the days !!! beer and fire :thumbsup:

If you're #1, I'm at least #2. I mixed my first batch of gunpowder when I was about 10 years old, together with my cousin. Had about a pound or so in a jar on his desk, and happened to set it on fire. Good thing it burned slowly and that the window was open. I still got some scars on my hands from that incident though. :D

Up north we used to collect all the neiborhood trees after X-mas and use them for target practice with flare guns.:eek: We would stand them up in a snowbank spaced about 4 paces apart in front of the field. We also used to shoot off fireworks in the backyard of a neighbors house. Behind him was an old gas station. that was a little scary.

used to Mix Gasoline with a bunch of styrofoam. Made a interesting goop we calle napalm. Sling that stuff on a tree stump and it would burn forever.

Up north we used to collect all the neiborhood trees after X-mas and use them for target practice with flare guns.:eek: We would stand them up in a snowbank spaced about 4 paces apart in front of the field. We also used to shoot off fireworks in the backyard of a neighbors house. Behind him was an old gas station. that was a little scary.

I spent most of the weekend working in the yard, and hauled four or five truckloads of logs, branches and brush out to a sink hole in my father-in-laws field. I was thinking about putting a jug of gasoline in it, and then use 9mm tracers to set it on fire. But a flare gun sounds like a nice option... or maybe I need to buy a large amount of gunpowder and build a radio controlled ingnitor... or maybe just use a Molotov cocktail... Decisions, decisions. :D

no radio controlled ignitor, just go to Radio Shack and get a cehap R/C truck (elCamino?) and start a small fire on a piece of metal in the bed, then drive it Kamikaze style into the pile. You could get crative and make a little garage area and opening to drive into with the "roof" being kindling and stuff. RC Airplane could dive-bomb it too.....

Or light a bottle and heave-ho the damn thing, but that seems so simple for a southern boy. Whatever you do, get it on tape, and I wanna see your face to make sure it's you!

no radio controlled ignitor, just go to Radio Shack and get a cehap R/C truck (elCamino?) and start a small fire on a piece of metal in the bed, then drive it Kamikaze style into the pile. You could get crative and make a little garage area and opening to drive into with the "roof" being kindling and stuff. RC Airplane could dive-bomb it too.....

Now we're getting somewhere ! :yes:

Ah.. Just get a beater throw a rag in the tank and drive it into the pile.. just be sure to jump out.

Build a trevashe(spelling?) and launch a fire bomb into there.

I'd bet you'd have the same fire with NO gas. Nothing goes up as fast and hot as a dry christmas tree...

Nice video. :thumbsup:

:confused: i've burnt quite a few things and pine is fast burning, but when i moved out west, i put some large dry tumble weeds in a pile and touched them off. it was just short of a mushroom cloud for about 45-seconds and HOT.
WOW.
i will agree Nice Video:thumbsup:

I wanna see your face to make sure it's you!

How would you know? ;) :D

That knock at the door ??

It's AL GORE !!!!!

Uh... that would be Girl Scout water you used!! :p:p

(Me and a few other adults were in charge of the opening night "ceremonial fire" at a Camporee a few years back. It was in a natural amplitheatre of sorts (a big "bowl" in the earth), ringed by 30 - 40' trees. We had a BIG pyre of old pallets, tinder (and a healthy dose of lighter fluid) in the center. What nobody (the "planning committee" that is) knew is that earlier in the day when no-one was around we strung a 1/2 dozen 50lb. test lines from the base of the pyre out into the trees on each side (not over the crowd) about 20 feet up. On each of these lines was a bottle-rocket. We had adults up in the trees, and at the signalled time, the bottle-rockets where lit and a dozen "tracers" zoomed in from the trees and set off the main fire!! It was awesome!!.... funny thing though, our "crew" wasn't asked to set up the fire at future events.. hmmm.)

Am I member of the pyro club??

Hmmm...Good job!

We had a little Christmas Tree lighting ceremony this last weekend. We had uh...65 Christmas trees though. I have a video of them lighting up, 5 gallons of gas and 65 trees causes a concussion like a bomb! I have to edit the video because right now its too big. But here's some pictures....

This is me with the trees before the lighting...
http://i157.photobucket.com/albums/t43/Bad66Chevelle454/NewYears028-1.jpg

This is about a minute after the lit up. You can get an idea of how tall the flames are with those guys standing there.

http://i157.photobucket.com/albums/t43/Bad66Chevelle454/FIRE.jpg

Uh... We had adults up in the trees, and at the signalled time, the bottle-rockets were lit and a dozen "tracers" zoomed in from the trees and set off the main fire!! It was awesome!!

Am I member of the pyro club??

Oh yeah, you're definitely in the club. :thumbsup:

Hmmm...Good job!

We had a little Christmas Tree lighting ceremony this last weekend. We had uh...65 Christmas trees though. I have a video of them lighting up, 5 gallons of gas and 65 trees causes a concussion like a bomb! I have to edit the video because right now its too big. But here's some pictures....

This is me with the trees before the lighting...
http://i157.photobucket.com/albums/t43/Bad66Chevelle454/NewYears028-1.jpg

This is about a minute after the lit up. You can get an idea of how tall the flames are with those guys standing there.

http://i157.photobucket.com/albums/t43/Bad66Chevelle454/FIRE.jpg

:yes::hurray:now that looks like a small tumble weed fire, hey you on the right your pants are on fire..........LOL.

How would you know? ;) :D

doh!

I have my ways.

i took this photo about 2 months ago. this photo is for a bands cd that is coming out here in the chicago area so please dont copy and use this photo thanks http://www.kivaka.com/chevelle/kivakafirechevelle.jpg

i took this photo about 2 months ago. this photo is for a bands cd that is coming out here in the chicago area so please dont copy and use this photo thanks http://www.kivaka.com/chevelle/kivakafirechevelle.jpg

Which band?:)

there out of lockport called "Gentian", kinda an emo/kiddy/pop/screamo style, they are ok for the most but im not into all the screaming, good bunch of kids i have been piercing them for about 6 years now