With the amount of field fires around here must have been at least 20 so far that we have seen this year it really is or has got to the point where people should only cut at night or very early mornings . Had a big one down here yesterday started by claydon straw rake jumped a main A road and took 100 acres of chopped stubbles . Today neighbour at 12 sh had a fire lost4-5 acres of standing barley and trees and wood on fie . Just take care people fire can be nasty thing .
Fires getting musr be getting to the point of calling of day cutting
- Thread starter tw15
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- Location
- leics/warks border
This is first day in 5 that there's not been smoke visible from here. Farm where 2nd son is working has knocked off combining today for that reason.
They're starting again later this evening.
They're starting again later this evening.
- Location
- Berkshire
I’ve stopped everything apart from the essentials - harvest !
Now the cereals are cut and we are down to the beans, this will be a nighttime/early morning activity
Hopefully the pressure will ease off next week…
Now the cereals are cut and we are down to the beans, this will be a nighttime/early morning activity
Hopefully the pressure will ease off next week…
- Location
- South Wales UK
Why is there not more public message alerts on TV.
nutters around here by coast apparently had a garden fire and lit up fields of straw??
Also thought pigeon boys were out and in distance before dark was a firework display???
WTF
nutters around here by coast apparently had a garden fire and lit up fields of straw??
Also thought pigeon boys were out and in distance before dark was a firework display???
WTF
yes ,if we are to get drier times fire risk and how to deal with it when/if it arises , will have to be part of peoples education or else even more huge resources are going to be wasted .
not sure which is worse to deal with fire or flood
not sure which is worse to deal with fire or flood
farts are fine its the ignition source you want to worry about.
bloke on another thread worrying about his direct drill causing sparks ,well he will have to plough in some fire breaks wont he
bloke on another thread worrying about his direct drill causing sparks ,well he will have to plough in some fire breaks wont he
Shrewsbury flower show have had the good sense to cancel the fireworks display, which must’ve cost them a bit and folks used to flock to see it . Some idiots in our village, let some off just as the winter barley was ripening with a burnt patch found in the next grass field .
- Location
- leics/warks border
Spoke too soon. Field fire 2 miles away and a big one near houses at Tamworth.
Spencer
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- Location
- North West
Good for tidying up bad blackgrass fields 
- Location
- leics/warks border
Oh you saw the Tamworth fire on Arsebook (I can't believe the filter allowed me to put that). Apparently the field was "fallow".Good for tidying up bad blackgrass fields
- Location
- South Wales UK
Speaking to chap down Blandford Forum way the other night and big fires that way too, smoke closing roads etc.
Farmer/contractor Baler outfit started a fire as allegedly a stone caught in the chamber and as ram struck it sparked and lit bales up???
Farmer/contractor Baler outfit started a fire as allegedly a stone caught in the chamber and as ram struck it sparked and lit bales up???
Wonder how they load them with no tyres
Put slave wheels on maybe our senator was pushed on with a matbro many yrs ago they were worried about the damage it caused loading itWonder how they load them with no tyres
Old man always said if you set one on fire go and have your dinner before ringing fire brigade
- Location
- Cirencester
That's mental but could believe it, yesterday was the first day this week I haven't seen a fire, a lot around here are finished or almost, but fields and fields of chopped straw sat there, tinder dry.
Apparently a big local fire near here was caused by some idiots having a barbecue on the side of the road, stubble fields had bales in them, all went up.
The farmer would feel like chucking the feckin' eedjits onto their own BBQ!
I would be tempted to run a set of discs round all roadside fields at the moment...
- Location
- Cirencester
It would depend if the fields in question have a bad BG problem.........!! I have two that I wouldn't mind going up!!