First of Many Burn Piles & Seeding

This weekend, I started my first burn pile.  The pile consisted of two tree trunks, two old root balls from the field, and a large amount of cedar bows.  The pile lit quick and burned fast.  Once the cedar burned fully, the burn pile reached a much more controllable size.  We then added more brush to it over the next two or three hours.  

The brush we added to the pile came from another nearby pile.

We burned nearly the entire second burn pile except for several really large stumps.  We will use that for the base of another burn pile.  The stumps in that pile are much larger.  They will require a full weekend of time at the land rather than just a day trip.

When done, we put the burn pile out with water and covered any slight hot spots with sand.  

At the end of the burn, we stopped adding wood and just let the stumps burn for a while.  Since it had no risk of spreading, I added grass seed to a few of the areas in which I spread out dirt piles with the skid steer.  Specifically, I did the three spots on the east side around the entrance to the feeder trail and in two spots along the south side trail to the feeder.  I would have done more but it was hot and raking a little sand over the seed afterwards got old quite quickly.