Thanks! I remember sitting in the corner in 4th grade with an old paperback of Ripley's Believe it or Not, and 2 stories stuck with me. One of them was about spontaneous combustion. I have a secret fear of it.
I've heard of hay combustion but never witnessed it first hand. I've heard it's from fermentation in the center (if the hay's not fully dry)....the alcohol produced is what ignites the hay.
Did the folks where you grow up roll up their hay or do regular bales? I wonder if it's more common in round bales or silage...🤔
Both round and rectangular bales, my understanding is that either can combust. Mainly because the smaller rectangular bales tend to be stacked so that negates any upside to having a smaller bale. But yeah, you don’t want to bale green or wet hay.
As for silage… idk, I feel like I hear more about the other dangers of silage IN silos, like drowning in it, the anaerobic environment, plus NO2 production. Would be interesting to do some research on fires.
But my uncle used to keep huge piles of pea silage in piles out in the open air on his farm. Smelled awful, but was never a danger as far as I remember. Of course we were warned not to play in it. I remember being a little insulted that grownups would think I’d go near anything that stunk so bad😂
Fun facts…my high school mascot was the Haybalers (and yeah I didmy fair share of bucking hay on to the back of a truck); also we used to play touch football on the tops of the big stacks of hay bales; it makes for one hell of an out of bounds!😂
A plant that removes salt out of overused land. But when dry and catches fire wind blows to create a torch; spear the fire. Ashes return to earth. All part of the great round.
Oh this I have an answer for. Dickens, along with the rest of Victorian England, was obsessed with spontaneous combustion. Dickens based the death of Krook on the account of Countess Cornelia di Bandi, who died of supposed spontaneous combustion in 1731. Dickens studied her case thoroughly and was convinced it was genuine, despite the fact that she regularly covered herself in the highly flammable substance “spirit of camphor” when she was feeling ill. Basically slathering yourself in alcohol and then catching fire isn’t what I’d call spontaneous, but the Victorians loved a gruesome, mysterious death 🤷♀️
hayloft home, gasping
hot oxygen-fed demise
critters run and hide
The hay ignited,
And it burned, while we wondered,
Who would get the blame? 😎
Ooo nice! A little sabotage🖤
Haha! Yes! Let your pyromania run wild, and then say it was all spontaneous combustion! 😎
Wait! I thought of another one in the shower...
Red immolation
Cold fear to fiery dread
Burned out empty bed
🔥Excellent use of shower time🖤
Smoldering secrets
Blossom into fierce bonfires
Bitter dust remains.
Oo so good! I love the parallel you’ve drawn🖤
Thanks! I remember sitting in the corner in 4th grade with an old paperback of Ripley's Believe it or Not, and 2 stories stuck with me. One of them was about spontaneous combustion. I have a secret fear of it.
It’s a wild thing. But honestly… we all have to go sometime, it would be pretty epic…
It’s farmyard semtex:
Bugs and mould and sun and boom.
Up without warning.
Terrifyingly accurate comparison! I love the middle line, like a fuse leading up to the boom🖤
Spontaneous, they
Called it. But we both know who
Set Grandma alight.
Intrigued, love the hint of a sinister story here, want to hear more🖤
I've heard of hay combustion but never witnessed it first hand. I've heard it's from fermentation in the center (if the hay's not fully dry)....the alcohol produced is what ignites the hay.
Did the folks where you grow up roll up their hay or do regular bales? I wonder if it's more common in round bales or silage...🤔
Both round and rectangular bales, my understanding is that either can combust. Mainly because the smaller rectangular bales tend to be stacked so that negates any upside to having a smaller bale. But yeah, you don’t want to bale green or wet hay.
As for silage… idk, I feel like I hear more about the other dangers of silage IN silos, like drowning in it, the anaerobic environment, plus NO2 production. Would be interesting to do some research on fires.
But my uncle used to keep huge piles of pea silage in piles out in the open air on his farm. Smelled awful, but was never a danger as far as I remember. Of course we were warned not to play in it. I remember being a little insulted that grownups would think I’d go near anything that stunk so bad😂
Fun facts…my high school mascot was the Haybalers (and yeah I didmy fair share of bucking hay on to the back of a truck); also we used to play touch football on the tops of the big stacks of hay bales; it makes for one hell of an out of bounds!😂
I used to buck hay with my uncle for the sole purpose of proving I *could* buck hay at 5’2” 100lbs. I may be a little stubborn😂
It’s technique more than strength!😁
Ha! Yep, just need some momentum!
Heated hay, dead grass,
Bursting into bright cinders...
If it burns, it burns.
My does it burn! So scary🔥
Spinal Tap drummers
Bursting into piles of ash
Still makes me chuckle.
😁
Omg! I haven’t seen this in forever! Completely forgot about that😂
Well up within me
Surge and roil and explode fire
Relief comes and gives rest
Love this🥹 It does feel like that sometimes🖤
Balls of high BTUs ,Russian thistle,
Combustion engines constrained
Ukrainian matches spontaneous lit.
Oo yeah, that stuff is bad news! There is tumbleweed all over where I used to spend my summers.
In spring new growth is edible. The I go. Food on the brain,
Oo interesting! I’ve never seen any around where I live, but I’d imagine if I drove south a bit there’d be some.
A plant that removes salt out of overused land. But when dry and catches fire wind blows to create a torch; spear the fire. Ashes return to earth. All part of the great round.
One of many plants mentioned in my book “0ne green thumb and nine sticky fingers “
I burn in protest
at the ordinariness -
my life that won't burn
A familiar feeling, that blaze is always on the horizon where the next project sits🖤
Charles Dickens has the character of Krook spontaneously combust (for no obvious reason) in "Bleak House".
Oh this I have an answer for. Dickens, along with the rest of Victorian England, was obsessed with spontaneous combustion. Dickens based the death of Krook on the account of Countess Cornelia di Bandi, who died of supposed spontaneous combustion in 1731. Dickens studied her case thoroughly and was convinced it was genuine, despite the fact that she regularly covered herself in the highly flammable substance “spirit of camphor” when she was feeling ill. Basically slathering yourself in alcohol and then catching fire isn’t what I’d call spontaneous, but the Victorians loved a gruesome, mysterious death 🤷♀️
Dickens was serious about getting his facts straight- probably had to do with him starting out as a journalist....
Tbh, I respect that.
When he first kissed me
Spontaneous combustion
Fired up my cold heart ⁴❤️
That is amazing! Very nicely done... 😎
Ooo 🔥 Love it!