I live in the boonies and most of my neighbors around have 2 to 5 acre tracks. You could maybe do it here, but folks would still see a lot of smoke.....and smells do carry.
And didn’t NC have a burn ban going? I mean, it must have just ended, but we couldn’t burn out of doors here for the longest. I bon fire in the back yard would have been an attention drawer.
Looks like the burn ban wasn’t lifted until about the 2nd.
http://www.rrdailyherald.com/articles/2008/01/03/news/news3.txt