What suggestions do you have for those who don’t send their trash to the landfill? If we let our trash accumulate on the farm we are going to have a major mouse/rat issue.
I didn’t want to be a jerk but my thoughts are they should just buy some garbage cans and stick them out by the barn or otherwise away from the house and save the trash until things green up a bit. Or dig a hole and bury the trash for now. Most farms have tractors with buckets and plenty of manure to bury things in. You can always dig it up later and have a big bonfire. Big controlled burns are a lot of fun. Or listen to the greenies by recycling or taking it to the transfer station to reduce the amount of waste you have to store.
It’s also not farms don’t already have rats around silos and barnyard – they love to eat spilled feed and burrow in manure piles. But you certainly don’t want to encourage them around your homestead by leaving trash as they can be quite destructive to property. Burying might me a good way too temporarily to keep bears out of the waste.
🚨Fire is super dangerous, especially in the spring. 🚨 While I certainly have fires when I camp in the spring, it’s always in existing fire rings away from brush or grass. And if there is leaves around I make sure to clean up around them. When I own land, I’ll make sure my farm trash incinerator is fully enclosed and screened and away from anything burnable and just store the trash during high fire season and just have a bigger bonfire when the burn ban is done.
In 12 of the 13 experimental tests, the doors did not “meet the acceptance criteria” to pass the rigorous fire test, regardless of gap size; only a double set of steel doors with a three-quarters-of-an-inch gap were able to meet the criteria to pass both tests required in NFPA 252, Standard Methods of Fire Tests of Door Assemblies. The tests generally showed that larger gaps increase airflow, which seemed to make it more difficult for doors to meet the acceptance criteria to pass, the report’s authors noted.
This year’s wildfire season will be just as intense as last year, forecasters predict.
AccuWeather forecasters are predicting an “above normal” wildfire season this year which typically runs from May to October. By early May, wildfires had already burned more than 1.1 million acres, more than twice the number burned by that time last year.
Senior Meteorologist Paul Pastelok told Changing America that early predictions for this fire season point to there being between 68,000 and 72,000 wildfires with total land burned peaking at around 8.1 to 8.3 million acres.
But those numbers could change depending on human activity, Pastelok added. Nearly 85 percent of all wildfires are set by humans, according to data from the National Park Service.
Why Daytime Burn Bans Make Sense during the Brown Season
Virginia and Ohio have various state laws that ban outdoor burning and fires during the day time Brown Season which usually is like sometime between October and May depending on the state. This actually makes a lot of sense from a weather related perspective.
At night as the temperature drops, usually the dew point drops far less if at all. The effect is the relative humidity increases, which often leaves frost in cold weather and dew on the warm weather. Things are generally damper at night, less risk of fire spread.
At the same time when the sun goes down, the breeze often slackens of not becomes completely calm. Especially in the spring, much of the breeze is caused by strong sun angle during the day which heats the air, stirring up air currents.
A fire that spreads at night is likely quickly spotted and extinguished. Flames are much more visible at night. Likewise fire brands from burning paper garbage or even sparks from wood are much more visible at night and steps can be taken to minimize them and quickly put out anything they ignite.
People who are burning things are much more likely to be home and watching their fires at night. It’s much more risky, especially in fire weather to light off a burn barrel before work then drive off to work while the trash is still smoldering, potentially allowing it to set grass on fire. A night time fire is much more likely to be observed until its out cold.
