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Living in Nebraska I have only seen it once in my 74 years . It was a hay in a field.
We had mountains of sawdust piles in the logging woods where iv hunted. They made great deer stands. Once while on top of one right at sun up i climbed up had a seat, thats when i smelled the smoke. All of a sudden more than half the dome collapsed into a volcano of heat. I literally rolled off the pile to distribute my weight. Never climbed back up on one after that.
Spontaneous combustion.
love the coat on you
Don’t park, or idle your vehicle over fallen leaves. Catalytic converter is HOT enough to set the leaves ablaze.
Great reminder about spontaneous combustion. You would think that the moisture would keep it from getting hot however, it aides the decomposition which generates heat. As a reminder, keep any oily rags you have in a special fireproof can for the same reason. Many shops are required to have these special cans for this reason. Greasing farm and other heavy equipment can produce many oily rags. These cans are great and will give you peace of mind until they can be disposed of.
That's so scary, I had no idea.
I never knew this wow thanks so much for the info
Thanks for the heads up. We had a brush fire at my property Sunday. I learned a lot about how far in the sticks my property is. It took 2.5 hours for responders to start coming. Firefighters from all over 3 counties responded.
Thank you for sharing! Knowledge is power! Love learning from your videos! Happy fall!
Thank you for the warning here on the wood chip piles. Last thing we need is a garden fire that turn into a structure fire.
When we lived in the country we had our composting thermometer in it at all times. We turned and watered our compost pile. We never had an issue. That being said, we tended to them regularly. Our pile was about 7 feet high.
You need to keep your piles rotated so it breaks down but not catch on fire.
The size of the pile depends on the moisture in the product being piled. If it is dry the pile can be pretty high. If it's fresh wood, hay, cotton, etc or has been rained on smal piles. We live in dry place and make big piles in open area but check the heat often.
Thank you for the info we have 2 piles and no idea it would happen. We have wood area and neighborhood!!! Yikes
I live in suburban NJ. I have twice seen wood chips start smoldering after they were spread out in a garden. Once in landscape areas in a bank parking lot. You could see the red edges as it burned across the garden areas. The other time was after a homeowner's gardening service spread the wood chips in gardens right up against the house. It must have smoldered a while before it traveled up the side of the house and started melting the homes siding. This stuff I'd dangerous even in small amounts so everyone please be careful with it.
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Love your jacket! Great information and something I did not know. All the best!
Thank you Patara for this vital information. I love that you're wearing your new jacket.
I appreciate this video. You "can" teach an old dog a new trick. But, I wouldn't put the wood chips in gardens if they are that combustible to not loose my crops. I would think if anyone is a pro with these chips I would only use them in a bonfire.
Wow, that is worrisome. I made 2 piles of wood chip's last yr or yr b4, but never had that issue (thankfully). But do they know why it got that hot? And wouldn't watering create the potential combustion problem as it dries & decomposes?
Thanks for the warning. 😲
So odd. I have had 5 foot piles of wood chips on and off for years
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Great information thank you!
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A local bank had a fire in their landscape mulch of woodchips. It happens more frequently than you think. Also we had a field fire her last week. Dry corn stalks and combine. Local farmers plowed around a newly built house because of high winds. Luckily 2 fire trucks responded and put it out,covered about 2 acres.
I've got fire breaks cut around my property to prevent a fire from going places I don't want it to go…
I also do control burns every February…
I was always taught when I was a young man living on my Dad's Tobacco farm that compost and wood chip piles etc should be turned every 2-3 days and kept wet, not soaked but wet.
Oh yeah, I know that smoke! 😬
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In my firefighting days we responded to a stack fire where the farmer put hay away when it was not dry enough. He lost most of his barn and all of the hay when it combusted and started a huge barn fire. It took a long time to put it out because the barn was full of the hay. It was a huge learning lesson for me that has pretty much been life long. I even really watch my compost piles.
Wow thanks for sharing, definitely great information for everyone.
retired district fire chief here . during my time on the job we had a number spontaneous combustion fires. its a real thing. weather conditions have to be right. in our area southeast louisiana humidity levels played a part in conditions being right for fires to start. we would have at least 1 large barn fire per year. the parish/ county collected woodchips in large piles and they did burn a few times. they started to turn the chips to prevent ignition. my advise is do not put chips near any combustibles especially not inside a structure. keep piles small so you can easily turn it if it gets to hot. also oily rags can spontaneously ignite so keep your shop barn ect. clean.
Oh, you are wearing your new furry coat! Looks great.
I get my composted chips from the county road maintenance. It's already gone through the heat cycle.
Another thing. If you're having problems starting that wood stove… try a hand full of dry wood chips and some shaved candle on top.
Oily rags will smoke and eventually catch fire. I have seen that happen at a yacht factory.
I was planning on getting a composter which is like a plastic drum that you can rotate. Should I worry about something like this catching on fire? I would think that heat would build up in this as well.
On our small urban 3,400 square foot lots my next-door neighbor started a fire when burning weeds with some weeding torch tool. He was doing this during a county wide high fire risk warning in the Pacific Northwest. Well, they were right. It was put out without anything being destroyed thank goodness. Thank you so much for this video and bringing awareness to this danger.