Prescribed burns spring 2025

This is what I'm trying to knock back and restart. First picture is 10-acre heavy timber thinning that is now all 8 to 10-foot blackberries mixed with 10 to 15-foot saplings. Second picture is an easier area; just 6 to 8-foot blackberries.
 

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@fulldraw said:
Your area forester is Pete Moditz (731) 645-3531.
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I have used TDF before, they were always pretty good. They were also over-worked and under-paid, and several left. When John Martens left, I tried to get Pete Moditz to burn, or give me a contact in our area. He laughed and said he was covering 9 counties. That was 2 or 3 years ago.
 
We burnt earlier in March at my place in south bama. Great slow, low heat burn through the bottoms. First it's been burned since the Indians. Did well for it being a lil wet and humidity in the 50s
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We burned well into Friday night. Created fire lines and then started the fire at 7pm. Very rare for this low humidity this late into the night, but conditions were right and winds (for the most part were low), but there were some gusts that made my butt pucker. Once black lines are made, I'm comfortable. We got the perimeter blacked enough, then we went back and ate dinner, then went back and did a perimeter walk and all was good.

Planned on doing most of our burning today, but RH humidity was LOW (23%) and very high winds, so we held off for today. My cousin really wanted to, but I said NO with the NWS saying "severe fire warning danger". Surprised they issued the permit on Friday candidly.

This was roughly a 7 acre unit and took about 2 hours to burn. About 1 hour on creating the line.
 

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BSK said:
This is what I'm trying to knock back and restart. First picture is 10-acre heavy timber thinning that is now all 8 to 10-foot blackberries mixed with 10 to 15-foot saplings. Second picture is an easier area; just 6 to 8-foot blackberries.
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You are in for a lot of work with those. With that "shrub" layer you are going to have a hard time getting a fire to carry with through. One that would carry might hurt your overstory.
 
squackattack said:
You are in for a lot of work with those. With that "shrub" layer you are going to have a hard time getting a fire to carry with through. One that would carry might hurt your overstory.
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Honestly, I'm not worried about killing the trees left in the cut areas. If we go with aerial spraying first, that will kill the trees in the heavily thinned areas anyways. We have more oaks than we know what to do with. Losing 30 acres of them is no big deal. We heavily thinned 110 total acres and only plan on turning 30-35 acres of that into permanent early-stage regrowth. The rest will be left to regrow into forest.
 
BSK said:
Wow JCDEERMAN, that's some hilly terrain. Very bold burning! Cool videos.
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Not nearly as steep as your place, but terrain is all we have for sure! No flat land at all. My legs were feeling it yesterday. Only 2 of us running this one, so extra steps put in for sure making sure all was good
 
If we could keep 10-15% of our property in early-stage regrowth, I would be thrilled. That would be 50-75 acres. We (actually, the TVA) keep about 18 acres in permanent early regrowth due to two power-line ROWs, but adding more would be a huge help. We plan on cutting more timber in the next year or two, and I want to add some of that as permanent early growth as well. Again, I would love to get it up to at least 50 total acres.
 
JCDEERMAN said:
We burned well into Friday night. Created fire lines and then started the fire at 7pm. Very rare for this low humidity this late into the night, but conditions were right and winds (for the most part were low), but there were some gusts that made my butt pucker. Once black lines are made, I'm comfortable. We got the perimeter blacked enough, then we went back and ate dinner, then went back and did a perimeter walk and all was good.

Planned on doing most of our burning today, but RH humidity was LOW (23%) and very high winds, so we held off for today. My cousin really wanted to, but I said NO with the NWS saying "severe fire warning danger". Surprised they issued the permit on Friday candidly.

This was roughly a 7 acre unit and took about 2 hours to burn. About 1 hour on creating the line.
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those days when the humidity bottoms out in the 30s around 11 and just stays there are too few.
 
Monday will be the dry out day but Tuesday should start several good days of burning this coming week if the wind lays.

It was too windy to burn and too rough to fish yesterday. I'm ready for a break from the wind.
 
MickThompson said:
Monday will be the dry out day but Tuesday should start several good days of burning this coming week if the wind lays.

It was too windy to burn and too rough to fish yesterday. I'm ready for a break from the wind.
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Wind is howling in Nashville right now, with this next front coming in tonight.
 
MickThompson said:
those days when the humidity bottoms out in the 30s around 11 and just stays there are too few.
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Yea I couldn't believe it. But surprisingly the wind picked up after dark which was odd, but our black lines were in and I wasn't worried. Did have to go back in around 11pm and cut a few dead trees that we shooting ashes out their tops at about 50'
 
MickThompson said:
Monday will be the dry out day but Tuesday should start several good days of burning this coming week if the wind lays.

It was too windy to burn and too rough to fish yesterday. I'm ready for a break from the wind.
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I HATE the wind!!! It's not good for anything but pollinating and cooling you off when it's 95 degrees. That's it
 
JCDEERMAN said:
Yea I couldn't believe it. But surprisingly the wind picked up after dark which was odd, but our black lines were in and I wasn't worried. Did have to go back in around 11pm and cut a few dead trees that we shooting ashes out their tops at about 50'
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They are definitely easier to see after dark- like candles on a cake
 


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