Back at home, we burn our trash, and a couple times a year burn a large pile of tree limbs and such. Of the many memorable incidents, three stand out:
1) Putting a wad of dry paper stuffed with pine cones (about 3ft diameter) onto a fire makes 30 foot flames hot enough to burn the leaves off the tops of the ~60 ft trees nearby
2) Sulfur really does burn as hot as the inside of the sun, but it smells like rotten eggs in the microwave (Hot enough to crack the burning slab, at least)
3) A 3x4 foot section of plastic bathtub siding, when burned, makes noxious green smoke that drifts about 2 feet off the ground and covers over half an acre
I also learned that once you burn sulfur in a fire, it makes the hot dogs taste really nasty. And also, once you burn something, it goes on the "banned" list, and you can't do that any more, no matter how cool it was. |
