Watch out for that dangerous mulch/potting soil! We’ve have piles of chips from trees we had taken down - they’re out in the field in an area where nothing is around. They can get a little “hot” when decomposing, but we’ve never had a fire.
Spontaneous combustion of mulch and potting soil starts fire, destroys Virginia barn
https://www.wric.com/news/northern-virginia/spontaneous-combustion-of-mulch-and-potting-soil-starts-fire-destroys-virginia-barn/
Yep. Happens around here from time to time. If you put your baled hay in the barn and it’s not COMPLETELY dry, you can easily have BIG problems.
I know a dairy goat farmer and when he has a goat that passes (that they don’t butcher for some reason) he has been known to compost the goat because his compost pile gets that hot!
I also woke up one morning and there was a HUGE dead Billy Goat on the driveway. Turns out a local guy had one that passed and Beau wanted it for Coyote/Bobcat/Eagle bait. (No Eagles were harmed; they’re just for watching!)
Would’ve been NICE if ‘someone’ had TOLD ME, instead of me finding it on my way down to do morning chores. Ugh!