5 trailer loads and I'm getting a decent size burn pile
If you're perplexed, look under the seriously speaking section, thread titled "prayers"
And yes, no gas this time
No gas... Your use of the leaf blower is good; I have been doing that...
I would note, especially after your accident, that out here a legal burn pile is only 4x4x4'.
I usually get mine going, then keep adding brush from another loose stacked pile. Or, I have a few piles near each other, and, when one starts to burn down, I'll push the next one over on top of the coal with the tractor.
I use diesel or charcola lighter fluid as a starter... less volatile, lower vapor pressure.
We can not burn out here right now; it is sooooooooo dry in Northern California right now. Some of the worst fires have started about this time, at the final stages of a long long dry season.