I am not firmiliar with the cp-33 program...enlighten me please
now i am going to vent, lol...we've done a couple of timber harvests(thinning of the pines) and the old bio. we had said that the timber company wouldnt take it if it was burned, so we spent a month climbing over /through saw palmettos painting trees.....i wonder why we couldnt of burned first, it would of made life alot easier and safer, lol....i fell several times, i mean SEVERAL hundred times, lol......but i'm like a weeble wobble, i fall,but i get right back up, lol....tumbleweed is one of my nicknames, lol...the next time we took the tree cutter and made some roads through it to make it easier to get to everything, but burning would of been great.
you know , up until this year we used a big ol disc to do the fireline butthey make a mess and are hard to drive/walk on......so i took the tractor and a blade,shaped them like the roads so the water didnt sit in the middle of em, then when the grasses grew , i took a roto-tiller and did my lines with that...talk about sweet....doesnt chew the soil up like the disc....the only fall back is you can't throw the dirt towards the inside of the line, but if you have a nice slant on the road/line ,you dont have to worry about it screwing up the shape...with the disc, you could shape them to some degree....but it wasnt worth the mess....we've done some planting of millet and rye, but not on any of the firelines....the rye as mainly for the road itself, it was real sandy and we were always having to close it, so it was cheaper to plant rye than buy some shell....2 miles of rye or shell, that was easy choice seeing our budget, lol...i believe we're going to plant millet there next....
we try to burn the marsh every other year, we tried every year , it just didnt burn well....we get out on the airboats and away we go.....talk about fun....we have a terra torch and a home made airgun that shoots ballsfor the easy stuff, then for the hard to reach areas, he drops us off, lol...the first time i was dropped off, i was completing my end of it,i turned the corner and this huge gator jumps into the water, i take 2 more steps and a ball of snakes seperated and snakes went everywhere, i was torn, do i go towards the snakes and gator or stay there until the fire got to me and i would have no say but to go forward, lol, bout that time, the airboat showed up, thank God, i really dont mind the gators, but them snakes suck, lol....
on mom's day of this year , we ended up having 4 lightening strikes fires and another on the other side of the river...only one was an issue for us though, took out 200 plus acres....looks beautiful now...forestry broughtin the dozers, tore it all up, but then they came in and repaired it as much as possible.....never did a night burn, i mean , i have ended up being there until midnight at time or two,and when we had the wild fires last year, i was out late, but we never intenionally did a burn at night....i think it would be awesome....folks just dont realize how important burning is...the wildfire last year was insane....we spent weeks battling that bad boy and the bad thing about it is the area it had burned, most of it already burneda fe w monthsbefore, but the intensity of the fire just took it all out....it even burned a cedar area that would never burn, destroyed it, historically it burned every 80 yrs. , or so i am told....i was the lucky one, i was theonly one there when a helicopter came down right over me and created enough winds to make it jump the road, then it jumped the river, all hell broke loose i tell ya.....heres a couple of pics...this is right after the news helicopter left.....

this is it about an hour later, maybe 2.....


and this was the end result......devastation.