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Originally posted by dhoward
 Intentionally burming leaves??!
Polluting the atmosphere while forcing others around you to absorb the ill-effects of your "tidying-up"?
Leaf-burners should be horse-whipped.
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In the town where I lived in central Wisconsin it was like "festival!" to burn leaves. Believe me-I was far from the only one. Sometimes the atmosphere was so thick with smoke that you'de swear we were down wind from a huge forest fire. Pilots flying overhead probably thought the entire town was on fire some nights. Ahhh, the good ole days. And yes-on those days we were sucking down smoke like being at a 12 step club.
The best part was coaxing the leaves to burn with gasoline! I lived on a large corner lot. I would rake everything to the curb line going around the house. Then I would take a jug of gasoline-maybe a gallon, and dribble it on the leaves for the entire perimeter. After letting it soak in a bit, I would light a bag with a rock in it and toss it at the leaf pile. Needless to say, it's not so much the liquid as the vapor. The entire pile, which ran about 300 feet total, would basically explode,sending unburned leaves everywhere. My wife (shaking her head) and kids would be standing in the house watching from a safe distance. They claim the fireball reached the 100 year old maples (over ten feet up)from whence the leaves came. Would have been a shame to light those babies on fire. Needless to say, after one or two of those pyrotectic displays, the wife put the ky-bosh on the gas thing. No friggin tolerance
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