Interesting idea. Your son plans to build a home on a large rural acreage that includes low lying swampish land, trees in the high area which might be a marvelous home site, except that it also lacks a driveway down to the road, and the property also has trash left over from the previous owners use of the property as an active farm.
An Ontario government website has some practical ideas about how to handle this sort of situation, at
https://www.ontario.ca/law-and-safety/how-burn-grass-and-woody-debris-safely
It has many pointers, including directions for:
How to build a safe incinerator
Consider chipping or composting brush or grass before burning. If you must burn, make sure you know the rules. If you burn forest litter or woody debris often, build and use a good incinerator.
- select a site at least 5 metres from anything that could catch on fire (e.g. trees, overhanging branches, buildings, piles of debris)
- clear an area 2 metres around the incinerator down to mineral soil
- use a metal barrel in good condition
- monitor any fire burning in the incinerator
And, of course, be on hand to make sure the fire is finally out.
You already have the chipper. Good. However, on this large property, building a stationary incinerator will mean that DM (or whoever) has to haul all the debris from the various corners of the property and stay there to continuously monitor the burning. What's needed is a portable incinerator that can be dragged from place to place and the incineration can be monitored at the same time that brush is being cleared.
Sounds like a good plan to me. MOO. IMHO.
Hopefully, if instead the incinerator was used to dispose of murdered bodies, the prosecutors have reliable evidence that the farm was not accessible to anyone other than DM and MS and that the incinerator was also kept under lock and key.
MOO. IMHO.
