Crop fire after Duxford fireworks

Pete,
It is baled afaik, and then stacked for use later. Some farmers send it to be burned to produce electricity
http://www.eprl.co.uk/assets/ely/overview.html

This might be why there is a shortage now.

Mind you, my cynical old mind had suspicions about all the stack fires we had after the stubble burning ban came in…

Does the IWM actually own the land that the crops are on. The field in question is between the old perimeter fence and the grass strip to the south of the runway, you know, the fence that the Buchons nearly hit at the beginning of the BoB film.
Also, beware, I’m sure the farmer reads the Forum. when I dashed up the lane on the off chance of seeing Liberty Belle arrive, he turned up to spray the field just before she got there, causing me to get out the way, then after piddling about, decided to leave at the precise moment that LB was doing her landing circuit, it seemed rather a bit of a coincidence to me.

As for stubble burning, well I don’t know what they do with all that straw, my missus couldn’t get any for the horses last weekend.

Friend of mine did that with a Range Rover (1977) but that is prosperous Cambridgeshire for you.
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Aquaintance of mine did it in Norfolk with a tractor: Dead of winter, colder than a well diggers behind, decides to “warm it up a bit” by igniting a bale of straw under the crankcase in the belief it “would thin the oil & make it easier to spin over” 😮 You can imagine the rest….:rolleyes:

…He wasn’t the brightest bulb in the chandelier….On another occassion he fell off the back of his brothers Triumph while using both hands to hold a truck battery…. he still had hold of it as he slid into the ditch..:D

Can we get back to stubble burning, please? 😀

O.K. All we need to know about straw and stubble burning follows!:D

http://www.netregs.gov.uk/netregs/sectors/1736703/1736798/1736884/?version=1&lang=_e

Can we get back to stubble burning, please? 😀

Still no interest in 3 Sea Furies then ah well…..

Yes please.

Back to subject. Not having attended the evening – can’t believe the fireworks would be set up next to a Barley field at this time of year. There seems a dearth of information on any of the local news sites.

Does anyone have any facts?

Facts:-
The fireworks were being set off behind the stage, which had been erected on the grassed area between the grass runway and the concrete taxiway (which runs along the crowd barriers), almost in line with Hangar 5.
There was quite a strong wind blowing from the NW.
Something started a fire.

…Can we get back to talking aeroplanes now?:rolleyes:

…it’s an aeroplane, Mr Bader, or an aircraft, not a kite nor a crate nor a ship…

Nah….discussion about stubble burning was far more interesting!

It’s a bit early for harvest and not likely to be stubble burning!

Harvest has been underway for over a week now.;)

TFC HAVE THREE SEA FURIES?!?!?!?!

Most of us older glider pilots I would imagine have slightly mixed feelings about crop burning :rolleyes:
The air quality and visibility was appalling during the burning.
However sometimes a crop burning derived thermal could either keep you airborne or occasionally ‘get you home’, but climbing in a crop fire thermal was very unpleasant 😀 😀 😀

cheers baz

Only those who have never engaged in it criticise the joys of stubble burning 😉

I concur :D:diablo:

Well it makes a refreshing change…..usually it’s that farmer who is having hocking great bonfires close to the threshold of Duxford’s runway! I suppose he will now get thousands in compensation (there goes the Proms profit margin then….:rolleyes:)

In my experience, the facts and news have but a nodding acquaitanship.

Hear hear!
That’s why I avoid the news.

Stubble burning was banned back in 1993 IIRC.
It was a real nuisance round here due to the high amount of cereal crops being grown. Some days the sky would be full of smoke and falling fragments of ash.

Thank god it was banned.

Yes, it was banned for the reasons you mention, not the present stupidity on carbon footprinting.

a great recreation of Manston in 1944 with FIDO operating.

Why Manston??? could be Carnaby, Woodbridge or a couple of other WWII Fields. Nice Photo though.

The enviromental impact of not burning stubble isn’t quite so clear cut – a large number of farmers choose to disc and drill at the same time now especially with rape seed with some of the kit now on the market.

In my experience, the facts and news have but a nodding acquaitanship.

…Can we get back to talking aeroplanes now?:rolleyes:

…it’s an aeroplane, Mr Bader, or an aircraft, not a kite nor a crate nor a ship…

Stubble burning was banned back in 1993 IIRC.
It was a real nuisance round here due to the high amount of cereal crops being grown. Some days the sky would be full of smoke and falling fragments of ash.

Thank god it was banned.