When burning brush piles I also like to use a leaf blower to get the fire going. By using one you can get a fire going hot fast, also cuts down smoke for those tree hugging neighbors you may have lol.
I love a leaf blower when you are burning something, a small one is a great addition to any fire starter. I have both a gas and an electric one. If I am close enough I use a small electric one aimed at the fire and it does make it dance, wet leaves on top of a hot fire, no problem leaf blower to the rescue.
It is a matter of pride to be able to start the fire without dumping a lot of gas on it. I usually start a bonfire with some newspaper, twigs and one match. Much more satisfying.
Best things about your channel are the composition and sound. I can always hear you and the music doesn't blast me away. Lots of work achieving that, and I for one appreciate the effort. Thanks for sharing.
Why do I like this channel? Matt explains why he's doing something and shows the difficult steps. A lot of channels don't record the difficult steps. I don't know if he knows this, but Matt is a very good teacher.
Per comment in the video about wasting good firewood, from what I saw of it, the effort to sort it out isn't worth trying to save it for good firewood. The waste would be the effort to separate and save it. Not like you have a shortage of good firewood supply around you if you 'need' firewood.
Suggestion: When using propane or propane accessories, I recommend that you play the theme music from "King of The Hill" especially when the video goes into high speed while piling up the wood with the excavator.
really appreciate you doing the right way because it's going on the internet. I cringe when I see some youtubers doing stuff and teaching people to do reckless stuff (without showing them the things they're also doing to make it "less reckless").
Matt, I don't know what it is about a fire out in the back twenty but for me, a form of relaxation. I took a rake for a tractor and drug it behind a old four wheel drive ford truck I had, hard to tell which was the nastiest, the brush raked up or the truck but it did a good job and then hauled it into a huge pile and once it was getting dry enough, built me a squaw fire near it. Once I knew that fire was really serious about burning, got behind the pile with the rake truck/now plow truck and just kept bumping that pile till we kinda met and it started spreading into the pile. In two days, it was down to a memory and felt so good to see it look clean. What was surprising was the hole down in that muskeg it was burning on... it went down more than three feet of moldering ash. I eventually used the dozer to make it all finished looking and the best part was using the heat for coffee and a ash flavored hamburger cause it floated in the air everywhere. You done really good with that hoe arm dragging the trash off the top of the ground where the limbs fell over the years. Never enough equipment when you need it/LOL
Much appreciated, Andrew and I both take on some big projects that’s for sure, this is just a fun random chore for me, And actually I think Andrew is older than I buy a few years
Fantastic work. Its great to see the machine in fast forward, as its like ballet for excavators. The precision really shows through. That's man and machine working in harmony right there. A baked spud, bacon and beans with coffee, that's a good evening to my mind. All the best and thanks for giving an insomniac something righteous to watch and enjoy.
I find that a leaf blower helps for getting fires going 'Good and Hot' as well - also helps to restart a brush pile that you've accidentally smothered out with a heavy load of cold fuel...
Agreed! I had a 6’ piece of concrete pipe (culvert probably) about 8” in diameter. Set that with one end about a foot from the fire and put the leaf blower in the other end at a high idle. Left it running for the first 30 minutes or so and it made a big difference. Also, a little kerosene in a garden sprayer works really well to spread the fire around. (Use at your own risk)
Glad it rained last night, i have a brush pile about 12’ high and 30’ wide im going to light off tomorrow night. Will be cold but once it burns down i will stay warm being the human excavator picking and stacking the outer portions back in the middle.
Howdyyawl from the land down under. Yep. Sometimes you gotta get rid of the dead wood. Clean house. The ash thats left behind is good for crabon to the trees & grass. Good job.😊
You might look into getting an industrial chipper shredder, (up to 10" logs), and burning sawdust in your wood stoves, 1/3rd sawdust in cardboard boxes or bags, and 2/3rds wood. Cut your wood needed by 1/3rd.
I kept looking at the trees in the background expecting to see Smokey the Bear to come stomping into scene to trample your fire. I do a bit of woodturning and have to admit to having a bit of a weep seeing some of those stumps go on the pile mate. Cheers Eric
I'd recommend ' Dayco ' brand belts . I used to be a diehard Gates man but they're made in Mexico and aren't worth nothing anymore . Dayco is all I use now . Worth a try at least once and hope you have as good of luck as I have . Great video , big fire looks so relaxing .
My favourite method to get a big fire raging fast is to use a leaf blower ! Blown embers can be an issue in hot dry conditions though so it's worth bearing that in mind.
Matt, you have a couple of gullies on the farm where you've mowed. Another option would be to just place the branches/stumps into the low areas and let them slowly turn into soil.
We had a guy clear our property years ago and when you said doing it right for video reminded me the pile he started with 2 old tires and oil. He also had a big fan blowing on it to burn it faster. Someone called the fire department on him but it was almost gone anyway by then. We weren't home at the time and when I drove up the long dirt road to the house I drove over the firetruck water hose that was flat to drive up to our house and they yelled at me. What a cluster😁
In Oklahoma we love us a great brush fire, especially in the fall, with friends and chill.love your channel keep up the great videos and hopefully you and your family stays safe.
A small shallow can with a 50-50 mix of diesel and used crankcase oil makes a good fire starter. Light it using a wick draped over the side, place some small dry material on it and then continue adding progressively larger material. The diesel/oil mixture insures the fire will not go out.
When I saw the oven mitts on your hands at the beginning, I thought you were going to hand feed the fire. haha. Nice camera angles to include fire with bucket work. Placing the stump one fire with dirt side up very good idea.
I hope you put in a spare conduit for your gantry crane extra one wouldn’t hurt makes a lot easier to put in additional circuits in future. I think I was just excited when you got hummer and deuce and half thanks really enjoy your channel Ed
What a coincidence. I was burning brush down here in Greene County yesterday. Was a good day for it calm and the ground was pretty wet from the snow melt. Thanks for the content.
I think you have a really nice piece of land there, nice and secluded! Plus a nice creek too! I like your container shop too, Andrew Camarata has his containers double stacked and a nice shop/ castle! Check it out brother! It’s really cool!
The comment on getting a wood chipper is worth thinking on, and if you do not need to burn it after chipping then you could bury it to avoid un needed co2 release and improve the soil stability.
One thing we do to get burns piles nice and hot is use a backpack blower to add lots of air to that fire triangle. Burns hot, faster and down to ashes.
The best or at least biggest burn I saw was when they were building a series of warehouses south of me. The cleared the trees from something like 20 acres easy. The hauled away all the logs, but piled all the brush and stumps into one area. It was at least half the size of a football field and 2 feet high. It was in the middle of this massive dirt field they had cleared and leveled. You could see the smoke plum from 20 miles away easy. It was all gone the next morning when I drove through. The only other fire I have seen that was bigger was when a large warehouse almost packed to the rafters with huge rolls of paper from the local paper mill went up. I burned for about a week.
TIM from Canada suggestions for your bonfire if you come across an old steel tube 4 to5 feet long you can tape your leaf blower to one end of this and put the other end into your fire this way you can control what you were doing.. The longer the tube will depend on how big of a fire ball you want to burn distance will be your only back fall it will depend on where you are and how far away you want to put your leaf blower contraption
I've said it before but it's quite the life you have there. I'm sure you have your difficulties like most of us but hey, if I didn't have a family I'd trade lives with ya!
Thanks for the content, I have some debris to get rid of and gave me great ideas on how to do it. Its a great feeling to get done at the end of the day what you set out to do, Thanks Again, Keep up the good work
You should get a chipper and run your brush through it and either make a big compost pile or if you have a mill nearby they might even buy it for MDF type stuff. Also don't compact your fire pile, leave the stuff loose so it gets airflow, it'll burn a lot faster that way. Bucking those logs to short lengths would also help keep the stack small and easy to move around. Something else you can do to make it burn faster is to cut little trenches under your pile and put down logs across them and then build the pile above it. It'll act as an intake and suck cold air into the base of the fire making it burn faster and hotter.. kind of like a "rocket stove". When you almost got the saw stuck, something you can do is just cut it part way and then break it with your excavator.
Once you get it started you get a leaf blower and put on it and start piling on! The leaf blower will get it really hot quick! Just a suggestion brother! You can just set the blower on the ground a little distance away and pile on!
There's still a lot of exercise for Matt though in making the videos when it comes to camera setup. Think of how much he has to walk around to take a shot of himself driving past.
LOL! I helped a friend burn remnants of several outbuildings from his property that got blown up by a tornado. We spent an entire day stripping tin and, for lack of a better word, yeeting chunks of cedar decking onto the fire. No excavator there!
When burning brush piles I also like to use a leaf blower to get the fire going. By using one you can get a fire going hot fast, also cuts down smoke for those tree hugging neighbors you may have lol.
Yes yes here here.
I love a leaf blower when you are burning something, a small one is a great addition to any fire starter. I have both a gas and an electric one. If I am close enough I use a small electric one aimed at the fire and it does make it dance, wet leaves on top of a hot fire, no problem leaf blower to the rescue.
Nice clean up of your property! Burning all those stumps and brush is the way to go over an expensive time consuming wood chipper.
It is a matter of pride to be able to start the fire without dumping a lot of gas on it. I usually start a bonfire with some newspaper, twigs and one match. Much more satisfying.
Maybe go to a Ritchie Brothers Auction for a woodchipper. You could do videos on fixing. 😁
And the battle goes on . to keep it clean, but your wining.
Best things about your channel are the composition and sound.
I can always hear you and the music doesn't blast me away.
Lots of work achieving that, and I for one appreciate the effort.
Thanks for sharing.
I do spend a lot of time working on my sound as it’s the hardest part to get right
Agreed 100%. Much appreciated‼️👍🥰
I know some channels the music is way too loud even really big ones
THE CHEAPER NEWER SKIDSTER-THE CHEVY BOX TRUCK-THE SIZZER LIFT- AND THE DUCE N A HALF, TO MAKE A SUPER DUMP OUT OF IT. THAT WUD BE SUPER KOOL DUDE.
I've grown so used to belt squeals, that I didn't even notice till you said something!
I find the fire extremely relaxing thank you.
Why do I like this channel? Matt explains why he's doing something and shows the difficult steps. A lot of channels don't record the difficult steps. I don't know if he knows this, but Matt is a very good teacher.
Per comment in the video about wasting good firewood, from what I saw of it, the effort to sort it out isn't worth trying to save it for good firewood. The waste would be the effort to separate and save it. Not like you have a shortage of good firewood supply around you if you 'need' firewood.
Suggestion: When using propane or propane accessories, I recommend that you play the theme music from "King of The Hill" especially when the video goes into high speed while piling up the wood with the excavator.
Should have wrapped some potatoes in foil and put them in the coals, nice lunch.
Yes
Was tryin to think of something worthwhile to use the fire for. I like that idea. Brush fires aren’t real useful otherwise
Always nice to just sit and watch bush TV. Thanks for showing bro. Safe travels
Nice fire. I do burn nasty weed every chance I have and recycle the wood and leaves into the ground by shredding.
I like to add the stumps early .
Thanks for this video
really appreciate you doing the right way because it's going on the internet. I cringe when I see some youtubers doing stuff and teaching people to do reckless stuff (without showing them the things they're also doing to make it "less reckless").
Matt, I don't know what it is about a fire out in the back twenty but for me, a form of relaxation. I took a rake for a tractor and drug it behind a old four wheel drive ford truck I had, hard to tell which was the nastiest, the brush raked up or the truck but it did a good job and then hauled it into a huge pile and once it was getting dry enough, built me a squaw fire near it. Once I knew that fire was really serious about burning, got behind the pile with the rake truck/now plow truck and just kept bumping that pile till we kinda met and it started spreading into the pile. In two days, it was down to a memory and felt so good to see it look clean. What was surprising was the hole down in that muskeg it was burning on... it went down more than three feet of moldering ash. I eventually used the dozer to make it all finished looking and the best part was using the heat for coffee and a ash flavored hamburger cause it floated in the air everywhere. You done really good with that hoe arm dragging the trash off the top of the ground where the limbs fell over the years. Never enough equipment when you need it/LOL
OMG, I could watch this for hours. I may be a 40 something year old man now, but we are all 15 year old kids at heart. Fire is cool.
Good point thank you.
Gotta love a good burn pile,we here in Northern California are in a high fire danger the next few days,in December go figure,fun video man peace
You remind me of a guy if Andrew Camarata had an older brother! Nothing phases you two, you guys Just Do It. Love your vids!
I now approach problems with the mindset of "what would Matt or Andrew do in this situation?" Which boils down to get it done however it's possible!
Much appreciated, Andrew and I both take on some big projects that’s for sure, this is just a fun random chore for me, And actually I think Andrew is older than I buy a few years
@@DieselCreek Did you see the recent Idigit4 video with his impression of Andrew amongst others?
@@ahwootton5 is it a most recent update?
@@bighoss7603 About a week ago, his Happy Thanksgiving video.
The place looks great. When that area greens up in the spring, even better.
Yes in the spring I will grade it off nice and smooth and plant grass
@@DieselCreek
What about a few replacement trees? Any time now would be ideal for cheaper bare rooted stock (before the soil freezes over hard).
Fantastic work. Its great to see the machine in fast forward, as its like ballet for excavators. The precision really shows through. That's man and machine working in harmony right there. A baked spud, bacon and beans with coffee, that's a good evening to my mind. All the best and thanks for giving an insomniac something righteous to watch and enjoy.
I find that a leaf blower helps for getting fires going 'Good and Hot' as well - also helps to restart a brush pile that you've accidentally smothered out with a heavy load of cold fuel...
Agreed! I had a 6’ piece of concrete pipe (culvert probably) about 8” in diameter. Set that with one end about a foot from the fire and put the leaf blower in the other end at a high idle. Left it running for the first 30 minutes or so and it made a big difference. Also, a little kerosene in a garden sprayer works really well to spread the fire around. (Use at your own risk)
Amazing how burning a little brush just really helps a place look cleaned up.. good job man, good job.
Glad it rained last night, i have a brush pile about 12’ high and 30’ wide im going to light off tomorrow night. Will be cold but once it burns down i will stay warm being the human excavator picking and stacking the outer portions back in the middle.
Nice work matt
Howdyyawl from the land down under. Yep. Sometimes you gotta get rid of the dead wood. Clean house. The ash thats left behind is good for crabon to the trees & grass. Good job.😊
You are very efficient in how well you clean up an area and move the debris to the fire. enjoyed watching.
You might look into getting an industrial chipper shredder, (up to 10" logs), and burning sawdust in your wood stoves, 1/3rd sawdust in cardboard boxes or bags, and 2/3rds wood. Cut your wood needed by 1/3rd.
Nothing like a good burn up, noticed there are a few experts on here on how to light a fire. Great job Matt, you done good!
Great fun to watch! Tidies the land nicely. Leave the rest to be consumed by, as Robert Frost has it, “The slow, smokeless burning of decay.”
I kept looking at the trees in the background expecting to see Smokey the Bear to come stomping into scene to trample your fire.
I do a bit of woodturning and have to admit to having a bit of a weep seeing some of those stumps go on the pile mate.
Cheers Eric
The fire starter 10,000 operator needs to come over to east liverpool and have a drink with us someday. Great video again
loved the river in the intro show it more
I’m glad you burned all of that old crap. Great work. Now your property is a lot cleaner!!!!
There's something seriously mesmerizing about building a nice fire and watching her burn. Doing it with an excavator... even more satisfying ;D
It is watching something that grows exponentially that is mesmerizing. The bigger it gets, the faster it grows.
I agree. I used ally just get as close as I can and throw stuff on hot fires.
Here in Australia we call campfires, "Bush TV." Damn sight better viewing than anything on the actual TV!
I'd recommend ' Dayco ' brand belts . I used to be a diehard Gates man but they're made in Mexico and aren't worth nothing anymore . Dayco is all I use now . Worth a try at least once and hope you have as good of luck as I have . Great video , big fire looks so relaxing .
Cleaning up now just may save you later from getting bit by a fire your not controlling. Good job
You got that right!
Matt, Really great stuff. Useful content very well presented. Thanks. Simon T
when i burn i use my leaf blower to stoke the fire, works great like a forge.
Sometimes we just jump off our excavator and drag brush to the pile. Love your channel!! Keep vids coming!
I know we all have different ways, but i usually throw some trash bags on the first pile and burn it. Saves fuel and operating time.
A fun job and you're working for yourself!
Good job framing up some of these shots that show us the work plus the fire!
I LOVE watching you run the excavator and I LOVE big fires.... this is a great segment!!!
My favourite method to get a big fire raging fast is to use a leaf blower ! Blown embers can be an issue in hot dry conditions though so it's worth bearing that in mind.
@J Hemphill seems the facebook police comes under many names or do we need to bar, bear or bare it all for everyone/ have a nice day.
using a blower of any type is only the same as a forge master would use, but making life easier by using a powered source is fine with me.
@J Hemphill HA HA HA/ GO AWAY WITH YOU CHAP, GO FIND OTHERS TO TELL THEM THERE OH SO PETE TONG - LOL
J Hemphill
Thanks man, i should have looked that up first so duly noted & edited
ian burit
Yes, i know, you can even burn wet stuff in an incinerator using a blower as long as you don't mind a bit of ash flying everywhere!
Matt, you have a couple of gullies on the farm where you've mowed. Another option would be to just place the branches/stumps into the low areas and let them slowly turn into soil.
A nice mesmerizing fire! Great video. Thanks
Komatsu belts are known to squeal. Company I work for has about 10 of them and the older units always squeal
Great video Matt. Thank u so much. It is so much easier to start the fire like u did. That's how I do it all the time now.
Show us more of u burning.
We had a guy clear our property years ago and when you said doing it right for video reminded me the pile he started with 2 old tires and oil. He also had a big fan blowing on it to burn it faster. Someone called the fire department on him but it was almost gone anyway by then. We weren't home at the time and when I drove up the long dirt road to the house I drove over the firetruck water hose that was flat to drive up to our house and they yelled at me. What a cluster😁
Always liked it when people asked why I wore a Carhart when dealing with brush fires........ Blistered skin hurts
You've got the chain well sharpened, makes chunking those lengths up easy !!
Gotta love a big fire crackling away. Awesome video, eagerly awaiting the next.
Great video Matt, everybody loves a good wood fire, would have been a superb barbecue........
The belt squeal keeps you from going to sleep while operating the equipment. LOL.
In Oklahoma we love us a great brush fire, especially in the fall, with friends and chill.love your channel keep up the great videos and hopefully you and your family stays safe.
A small shallow can with a 50-50 mix of diesel and used crankcase oil makes a good fire starter. Light it using a wick draped over the side, place some small dry material on it and then continue adding progressively larger material. The diesel/oil mixture insures the fire will not go out.
A leaf blower is also good for burning brush piles gets them nice and hot!
Work work and more work there Matt. Looks to be a pretty big job there to keep you busy for awhile.
Nice fire but where's the hotdogs? More importantly, where's the beer?!?!?
beer / YOU MEAN "ROLLING ROCK" # 33 !? :);)
@canuckguy worried yup
cut Pairs well with rolling weed🤤
@@drunkdunc8738 lol.. never heard matt mention his views on that .. :)
cut He gets too much done in a day to be a choofer 😝
Great video to watch
When I saw the oven mitts on your hands at the beginning, I thought you were going to hand feed the fire. haha. Nice camera angles to include fire with bucket work. Placing the stump one fire with dirt side up very good idea.
I hope you put in a spare conduit for your gantry crane extra one wouldn’t hurt makes a lot easier to put in additional circuits in future. I think I was just excited when you got hummer and deuce and half thanks really enjoy your channel Ed
i hope we get to see some excavator fixes, or maybe some work on the autocar, love your channel
I love a good bonfire. I can watch them for hours.
I always do a big brush burn with my grandfather every year. I love doing it. Usually we also have a hose nearby to help keep the fire under control
Love a good bonfire brush burning.
A gas powered leaf blower can really really speed up the initial fire starting process!
What a coincidence. I was burning brush down here in Greene County yesterday. Was a good day for it calm and the ground was pretty wet from the snow melt. Thanks for the content.
I always use old motor oil to start brush fires, burns slow and steady, that with a leaf blower to keep it hot, so less smoke.
I think you have a really nice piece of land there, nice and secluded! Plus a nice creek too! I like your container shop too, Andrew Camarata has his containers double stacked and a nice shop/ castle! Check it out brother! It’s really cool!
Always great starting the weekend with a new video!
The comment on getting a wood chipper is worth thinking on, and if you do not need to burn it after chipping then you could bury it to avoid un needed co2 release and improve the soil stability.
So nice to have something to work with . Especially having a mini and a skid loader .
Good job for a cold day! Enjoyed
You make it look easy, Matt, using your excavator's arm and thumb jaw just like an extension of your hand. Well done!👍
Best brush burnin video Matt! Needs Brats an tater salad n kettle cooked tater chips.
I like to put thevstumps on pretty early in the fire.
Thank you for this video.
As someone already mentioned, you could make wood chips for foodpaths or to sell it. Or you could try making charcoal for selling.
One thing we do to get burns piles nice and hot is use a backpack blower to add lots of air to that fire triangle. Burns hot, faster and down to ashes.
You need a Brush rake/Stumper for that stuff, I had one on my 50 game changer for stuff like that. Think it was like $1400
The best or at least biggest burn I saw was when they were building a series of warehouses south of me. The cleared the trees from something like 20 acres easy. The hauled away all the logs, but piled all the brush and stumps into one area. It was at least half the size of a football field and 2 feet high. It was in the middle of this massive dirt field they had cleared and leveled. You could see the smoke plum from 20 miles away easy. It was all gone the next morning when I drove through. The only other fire I have seen that was bigger was when a large warehouse almost packed to the rafters with huge rolls of paper from the local paper mill went up. I burned for about a week.
TIM from Canada suggestions for your bonfire if you come across an old steel tube 4 to5 feet long you can tape your leaf blower to one end of this and put the other end into your fire this way you can control what you were doing.. The longer the tube will depend on how big of a fire ball you want to burn distance will be your only back fall it will depend on where you are and how far away you want to put your leaf blower contraption
I've said it before but it's quite the life you have there. I'm sure you have your difficulties like most of us but hey, if I didn't have a family I'd trade lives with ya!
There’s something pretty satisfying about clearing your land and having a nice big fire to burn off the debris.
Thanks for the content, I have some debris to get rid of and gave me great ideas on how to do it. Its a great feeling to get done at the end of the day what you set out to do, Thanks Again, Keep up the good work
If the fire starts to get cold, grab your leaf blower and give it some air! Propane torch, Harbor Freight finest.
You've accomplished much today. I guess your Mrs. had you a nice meal prepared after that long days work. Great video. Till next time. Be safe!
12:24. VOLCANO ERUPTING 14:08 burning TP
You should get a chipper and run your brush through it and either make a big compost pile or if you have a mill nearby they might even buy it for MDF type stuff. Also don't compact your fire pile, leave the stuff loose so it gets airflow, it'll burn a lot faster that way. Bucking those logs to short lengths would also help keep the stack small and easy to move around. Something else you can do to make it burn faster is to cut little trenches under your pile and put down logs across them and then build the pile above it. It'll act as an intake and suck cold air into the base of the fire making it burn faster and hotter.. kind of like a "rocket stove". When you almost got the saw stuck, something you can do is just cut it part way and then break it with your excavator.
Once you get it started you get a leaf blower and put on it and start piling on! The leaf blower will get it really hot quick! Just a suggestion brother! You can just set the blower on the ground a little distance away and pile on!
I usually do that but forgot it that day! 🤦🏼♂️
"Another day in the books and another job well done"
Solid quote, simple yet define haha
I would have a Bon Fire Party out there! Don't just go home! Enjoy it! :)
Gone are the days of physical exercise dragging twigs, branches, and logs onto a fire. Thank goodness.
Work smarter not harder
If only we all had a machine like that.
There's still a lot of exercise for Matt though in making the videos when it comes to camera setup. Think of how much he has to walk around to take a shot of himself driving past.
@@NSEasternShoreChemist I prefer not to. LOL
LOL! I helped a friend burn remnants of several outbuildings from his property that got blown up by a tornado. We spent an entire day stripping tin and, for lack of a better word, yeeting chunks of cedar decking onto the fire. No excavator there!
Wish I lived near by........lots of good free firewood going up in smoke.
great job as usual have a very merry christmas and happy new year!!!!!
I like your hold property nice land scape