A good portion of Dan's time is spent tending to pasture. Fixing fences in pastures, mowing pastures, removing logs, rocks and stumps from pastures. The previous owners only had a couple of horses and didn't use most of the pasture for grazing, so it needs to be tidied up. Dan has been removing rocks and stumps so he doesn't have any obstacles while brush-hogging. And he's been cutting scrappy trees and making large burn piles - about 40 of them all over the property. The problem is that we had such a wet winter, the wood is just now dry enough to burn. Which is what we did Saturday morning.
Dan lit about 8 piles on fire and with a hoe managed the edges so our whole pasture won't catch fire. Ideally you want it to spread a little... burning off the old grow is a great way to let spring grasses come in. You just have to be carefully that you don't start more than you can handle in the even the wind picks up.
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