Being a pyromaniac.....

[Guest Richzx6r]

It's not Rhododendron is it ? If it is , these things are virtually fire proof . I once tried to make a campfire out of them and gave up eventually . Even when bone dry this stuff just won't burn .

 

No idea what it is, but I'm guessing it is something pretty fire proof

[Guest Richzx6r]

Heat is your problem, you need to start a good fire with really dry wood to start, get a proper fire going and the heat will take care of the rest, just keep feeding it with the garden foliage.

 

This!

You need to get it going first and some heat in the fire!

it takes ages for the wood to dry out properly around a year!

Look I'm all for big fires and big booms, but this sort of thing is more hassle than it's worth.

In fact, recently @Saddlebags did a massive cut back of our Garden (recently moved into a rental, where the garden had been left to go wild) and he's been throwing as much as he can into the green bin each week but also at the weekend bought:

To which he hauled the main amount of it and took it to the local tip.

No irritated neighbors, no fire burning for days on end, no fire department call outs, no burnt hole in the middle of the grass...

If you don't have a car, just buy a mate a pack of beers for the afternoon.

Don't get me wrong, I'm def a pyrohead, but this is more effort than it's worth

 

I'm very tempted to take it all to the tip it's just not burning even when iv coated it liberally with turps and torch oil

[Richard1985]

I know that this might sound ironic but what about good old fashioned unleaded in the drum burner

[dynax]

I know that this might sound ironic but what about good old fashioned unleaded in the drum burner

 

burns too quick,

[Richard1985]

Would get the heat up quickly though

[elizabethf]

is it perhaps toooo wet with turps etc?

[Guest Richzx6r]

Not sure according to my dad he reckoned it gets anything going but now I'm not sure

[old-timer]

At a biker meeting they were calling for more dry wood for the fire.

Someone left, then came back saying that he found some.

He threw it in the fire and we all had a really good laugh.

And then I had a really cood cry when I realized whose "dry wood" it was...

The fire went well though...

 

[skyrider]

well it looks like your winter fuel has just been burnt