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  1. squisher

    Fires stared from chipping brush, and ideas for prevention.

    It's from making the pile to big. The center gets really really hot and then if it gets pushed up or turned over again and oxygen gets to that heat. Fire. The pile I saw go was pushed up with a huge loader, over and over. It was massive and stacked tall.
  2. squisher

    Fires stared from chipping brush, and ideas for prevention.

    There's lots of info on the interwebs about it if you google it.
  3. squisher

    Fires stared from chipping brush, and ideas for prevention.

    Silly? The huge pile they made lit up, the fire department had to come to put it out. Green chip piles can certainly light up when piled to big.
  4. squisher

    Fires stared from chipping brush, and ideas for prevention.

    The ranch I dump at had a pile light up spontaneously from composting. Now they're super paranoid about it.
  5. squisher

    Fires stared from chipping brush, and ideas for prevention.

    It was a selective crown raise(on a weeping willow lol) and deadwooding, so there was a fair amount of dead stuff that was still almost whippy, the real small dead that can accumulate in weepers. I figure some of that dead musta got wrapped around the disc at the bearing. No sh-t it was a...
  6. squisher

    Fires stared from chipping brush, and ideas for prevention.

    Odd the timing of this thread. Today some willow whips got wound in around the disk, and we're sharp with a sharp adjusted anvil too. Lit on fire. Smoke like mad out of the chute. Opened the feed rollers and sparks were flying around in the disk area. Never had this happen before, like...
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