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Congrats on a successful burn Chris!
The only time I have done it was when I was a kid with my parents and it didn't turn out well. lol Its not as scary as you think. Before I had done a burn I thought it would be like a wildfire but you don't burn on days were it could get out of control. You burn against the wind until you get a good blackline and then burn with the wind to speed up the process. We disk around the burn area as well and also shred 10-15' inside the disked line so that tall fuels are not right next to the firebreaks. I don't disk, (that would disturb the warm season grasses) but I DO back burn all the way to the woods. I shred with a brush hog on the perimeter of the back burn area (both sides of it) and I'm still on pins and needles until the back burn is completed. Shredding and back burning takes me all day for 7-8 acres. If it gets into the woods it could burn 200+ acres... Not good at all Here you cannot rely on the weather forecast. I call them weather guessers because they cannot get it right even 24 hours in advance. One year I had the wind do a 180° switch, and their predicted 0-5 mph went to 15-20 after a field was lit. Luckily it had already burned a good 300 feet sway from the back burn before the wind switched but I still was watching embers flying through the air and landing on non-burned combustible material. I had a pump up sprayer and shovel ready to chase after any sparks that turned into hotspots but that never happened.
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