Thread: No car show but we had the flames

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Great time with the grandson, he loves to come to our place in the country. We had pizza, {beer not} but ginger ale, all of the junk food we could eat for two days, no rules. It's nice to be a grandparent. His Mother my Daughter will pick him up this after noon, and I can rest until the next time. We have three grandsons but we are only able to keep up with one at a time until they get a little older. Could have gone to a car show but that can be another time.

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Richard

Yup, that looks like a lot more fun then any old car show!!!!

Richard do that here also . Flames in a large form at nite . If its not nailed down it will burn . Neighbor had this sitting beside there house of course they wanted to get rid of it .

What was it? I'm always careful, I have a garden hose close by and even with that sometimes it gets a little scary. The grandkids love it. They do not realize it is a continuance job for us trying to keep the falling, and dead trees cut up. I usually try to burn after a rain or just before it’s going to rain since we have pine trees all around us. Over the years we have cut a lot of trees.

Richard

looks like a hell of a good time! Wish i could do that in my yard, i have a few tree`s that need a good fire!

Hotroddaddy, if you were not so far away you could bring your family for a big old bon fire, we have the wood!!

The grandkids love it, we have so many trees falling, and dying it's something we have to do pretty often. I like to wait for a day when it's either going to rain or we’ve had a small rain so it's doesn't get out of control. We have a garden hose to keep it from getting to high. The grandson said we should have had marshmallows. I told him the next time we have them for sure. I asked if he would rather being doing this or playing video games? He said he would rather be outside. I think if kids had the choice they would rather be doing something with their parent's or grandparent's instead of sitting in front of the T.V. The middle grandson asked me when and I going to teach how to build cars? I need help before I can teach him, maybe we can learn together!!

I want to put a Mustang 11 under one of the project cars as soon as I can get one on the credit card.


Richard

Picnic table was the topper we thru it on after the fire burnt down . I allways have a hose right there my shed is about 50 feet away and trees about thirty i keep them cool with water .


I have a comtained portable pit for smores and marshmellows

Better to be safe then have to call the fire department, It's great when you can have a controlled fire. Sometimes at night when I’m leaning against the rake or shovel I can think of all the cars I’m building, and I’m not even asleep. It's funning how nice they look!!!!

Richard

yeah if it gets too high i wet it down and keep it lower . Well being the fire keeper here no time to dream just poke fire grab hose LOL

we do a bonfire down here from time to time , my kids (teenagers) have a bonfire almost every weekend and a few kids do show up , i just try and keep the fire not to big but other than that i leave them alone , they dont want (old folks) pestering them , its nice when the heathins can have some fun , and i know EXACTLY where they are!!

When we lived in Pennsyvania we had a big old concrete block burner in the backyard because we were remodling a 100 year old house and had tons (literally) of torn out walls and floors to get rid of. My Sons loved it and I couldn't keep Don out of it. Dan would come to me when they were about 7 and tell me "Don's in the fire again!" so I would go back and there he would be with a stick or something, poking around in the fire. No amount of butt whooping would keep him out of there.

Nice to see places where you can actually light a fire and not go to jail.

Don

If kids have a place to go for fun like having a bon fire, or other safe activities, I think they would rather do that then play video games, or set in front of a T.V.

Richard

Bluestang67 wrote:

Flames in a large form at nite . If its not nailed down it will burn

Reading that reminded me of a time when I was a teenager and some friends and a bunch of other people got together for a bonfire on a beach. A beach bonfire doesn't really work unless you've got a half keg. About midnight, I and a couple of other friends left because we had to work the next day. After we had left the fire started to weaken and a couple of people when about searching for wood, to freshen the fire. Next day I had heard where someone had torn up a row boat and used it for the fire. Owners were none too amused. Glad I left when I did.

Itoldyouso wrote:

Nice to see places where you can actually light a fire and not go to jail.

Don, people in my PA township nearly all still have burning barrels. Even the fire marshall who lives behing me. Some also do open burning, like trash, old wood, and brush. Some have bonfire fire parties during the year. Most of the new people who have moved here in the last 10 years are usually apalled by sight of a burning. Guess they think their homes are in jeopardy. They would have really been upset about 15 years ago when the KKK used to burn their crosses on a nearby farm.