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09-25-2018, 4:42am | #1 | ||||||
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Anybody ever done a controlled burn on their property? [acreage question]
I've got 40 acres in a FL panhandle county about two hours' drive away. It's acreage that was part of the 100+ acre tobacco farm where my Mom grew up. For the first ten years of her life they had no indoor plumbing and no electricity.
It's got a mixture of hardwoods and pines. Basically nothing has been done to the property for many decades. There are several inches of pine straw, pine cones and other junk all over the ground. The mosquitoes are thick as thieves. I'd like to get a forester out there to do a controlled burn to get rid of the debris, skeeters and help promote some new growth to encourage more deer and other flora/fauna to come to the property. Eventually I'd like to get someone with a bulldozer to make a little campsite for my fifth wheel so I'll have a private spot to get away from it all for a few days / weeks / months. Any ideas on cost? Do you have to stage firetrucks nearby to keep from starting a wildfire? What about neighbors having to put up with living in thick smoke for the duration of the burn? How long does it take? |
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You have a myriad of agencies to go through to get that accomplished, local, state, and maybe even federal, most likely all tied in with the EPA, forestry service, animal control, Dept of Ag., DNR's, etc..............or not.
Good luck with that, or course there is the other option...........might involve jail time.
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Plus I won't have to do all that gun cleaning. Where's @OddBall? Seems like he has some acreage. |
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Are there any paper mills/tree cutting operations in your region?? 40 acres, they may come in and cut it for the pulp, at least the trees would be felled/gone down the coast a ways is Rayoneer sp? a large paper mill, a buddy does lots of welding down there, they own thousands of acres of trees they harvest for the mill......so I wood expect some similar operation in your region too.....
maybe just a local logging company selling wood to the BBQ joints, like they did a large oak in my front yard..... |
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That is an option, mrvette. We get letters on occasion asking us if we'd like the pines to be harvested.
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Well there you go, problem solved, and you can make some $$$.
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It still won't get the pine straw off the forest floor, which is where the mosquitos are breeding.
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Negotiate with the company cutting down the wood, see if they can do what you want, give them a percentage of your take, of course there is the other option..........
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it's really good exercise, and the faster you go, the less time you'll be eaten by the skeeters. if you are really talented, you can use a rake in each hand. |
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Pornography companies are always looking for outdoor locations to film, maybe negotiate with one of them? Florida has a pornography industry I think? Then you can laugh when one of the 'stars' gets a tick or bit by a skeeter.
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I would contact the local fire department, they will have the answer to the questions in the OP.
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but you might wait until the fire has been going for a little while or your efforts would end up getting snuffed out, and on top of that you could end up with more puddling seeing that the fire dept loves to drown anything they come up against
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The correct term is "Prescribed Burning", and it's not likely something you want to do with just 40 acres. One gust of wind, and the fire immediately becomes uncontrollable. Remember that about 40 homes were lost not long ago in Florida during a Prescribed Burning.
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We usually make numerous piles of limbs, debris, brush, etc...and then burn them individually.
Have someone come in and scrape it into multiple piles. If that's not an option. You will have to look at doing numerous small sections over time. |
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Here in Georgia pine straw is a cash crop. Call a local who advertises pine mulch and ask if they want to harvest your area. They will likely send out a crew of illeg...um... undocumented workers to bale the stuff. You win twice; the nuisance goes away and you will probably get paid for the trouble.
BTW, your mosquitoes are not breeding in your pine straw unless it is floating... skeeters lay their eggs in standing water only. |
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