• ikidd@lemmy.world
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    1 day ago

    Hay is flammable if you try hard enough. Had a neighbor that caught a tractor on fire next to a stack of 500 bales (large round bales, about 1400# apiece). They all burned and nobody tried to put them out, it was a hellfire.

    Hay is normally put up at about 12% moisture. Wet bales catch fire because they rot and spontaneously combust.

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      14 hours ago

      Bingo. That’s why you usually see hay bales left so far apart in fields to dry. Stack them together and they will catch themselves on fire.

      Any way, to OCs point, a well placed Molotov (or even just good ol gasoline) could fix the current flammability issue.

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        12 hours ago

        They cure dry in the fields to a certain moisture content and then they are stored in a hay barn with proper ventilation and room. That shit in that picture won’t light but sure, any dipshit can add enough accelerant to something and it will burn.