I live under Staffordshire Borough council's umbrella. Not only has it one of the lowest rates in the country but our "brown" bins, garden waste, are free. I refused mine when first offered and composted everything, however through change of circumstance that is no longer possible, so I asked for one. I am amazed at how much it holds. We also have an excellent "tip" fairly near, which is where I take anything too large to go in any of the three bins. Have you not got one near you?
If its still green you will struggle to light it and it will produce a lot of smoke when it does get going. You could offer the thick bits on freecycle as fire wood.
Diesel is the best accelerant to get it going but soak an old rag or newspaper in some and light that first. Pile on the driest first until you get some heat going, then feed on the green stuff. I burn everything that wont compost and this method works well for me.
Mike
In message , Martin Brown writes
You must have a hot centre to burn relatively green wood.
Start small with all the dead/dry bits you have. Then feed on other stuff.
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Agreed and a hot bed of ashes. It is better to leave it all to dry for a fortnight or so in the sun. Faster burn *much* less smoke and smell.
Anyway it is caning it down with rain so I can't see anyone but a complete idiot lighting a bonfire today.
I compost more than it permitted in the green bin on three large hot heaps. I have even had one up to smouldering inside once. North Yorkshire green bins and blue box recycling are supplied free.
NYCC also run excellent recycling and waste sites with everything from hardcore, old fluoro tubes to double bagged asbestos waste accepted.
I use my green bin for making leaf mould every year.
Amusing fact: Salford's green bins are *shocking pink*. (and homes all have four full sized wheelie bins).
A BBC special effects man once told me the standard "exploding car" in films or TV is done with a gallon of petrol and an ounce of gelignite in an oil can.
Oh, yes. Like another poster, I poured cupful of petrol into an oil drum filled with flammable rubbish, lobbed a lit taper at it and expected it to just go 'whoomph' as it had done so many times. This time, the delay between petrol and lighting, plus it being warm day, had resulted in the vapour being really rather good inside. No whooph, but a bang and the contents of the drum resembled a trench mortar.
A few years ago a neighbour tried using petrol to burn a tree down. He ignored me. The Fire Officer was not pleased with him.
It stings a bit
that's roughly how I looked.
The 3rd video in shows the problem
One bonfire night, my cousin says, "do you want to light the bonfire?" then mentions that he put a blanket in the middle of it, dampened with some petrol!
Muggins here decides that that this sounds more than a little dodgy, and so I made a small torch of screwed up newspaper, lit it and then threw it the last six or seven meters to the fire (what I thought would be a safe distance).
The ensuing fireball engulfed me even at that distance, and in spite of being ducking down and being far enough away to not actually get actually burnt, I still managed to end up with singed hair all up my arms, on my head and eyebrows etc somewhat shorter than they were.
That would cost a fortune at current petrol prices! :-)
Great way to get a Darwin award or seriously singed.
The exploding bonfire? I prefer the later ground vapour flash burning garden rubbish and much closer to what the OP might end up with.
That's the one (number 4) - I just cannot correctly count beyond 2.
I had the same effect with a cup full of petrol and I had the flames a few feet in every direction from where I was standing at the time.
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