Why has the ground started burning on an outback cattle station?

A remote cattle station in the Northern Territory is experiencing an unusual problem with its stock yards.

The ground is on fire and it is proving very difficult to put out.

Terry Martin from Mt Denison Station said after weeks of extraordinarily hot temperatures, smoke started to rise from the yards and he cannot work out why.

“We saw the smoke and went to have a look and there’s this burnt ring on the ground and it’s smouldering around the edges,” he said.

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Tau.Neutrino said:

Why has the ground started burning on an outback cattle station?

A remote cattle station in the Northern Territory is experiencing an unusual problem with its stock yards.

The ground is on fire and it is proving very difficult to put out.

Terry Martin from Mt Denison Station said after weeks of extraordinarily hot temperatures, smoke started to rise from the yards and he cannot work out why.

“We saw the smoke and went to have a look and there’s this burnt ring on the ground and it’s smouldering around the edges,” he said.

more…

Spon-com sounds like a more than reasonable explanation.

Michael V said:

Tau.Neutrino said:

Why has the ground started burning on an outback cattle station?

A remote cattle station in the Northern Territory is experiencing an unusual problem with its stock yards.

The ground is on fire and it is proving very difficult to put out.

Terry Martin from Mt Denison Station said after weeks of extraordinarily hot temperatures, smoke started to rise from the yards and he cannot work out why.

“We saw the smoke and went to have a look and there’s this burnt ring on the ground and it’s smouldering around the edges,” he said.

more…

Spon-com sounds like a more than reasonable explanation.

Professor Bowman said spontaneous combustion was mostly associated with hay bales, and that the event at Mt Denison was like nothing he had ever seen before.

“From the video that I saw, there’s a surface fire burning in a stockyard, and what I think that tells us is that there is a lot of cattle, there is a lot of excrement, which is very rich in organic matter, it’s very combustible material,” he said.

Hot shit.

I’m going to call shenanigans on this one.

Less than a month ago:

https://www.abc.net.au/news/2017-01-16/mount-denison-cattle-station-under-water/8185892

lot a shit compacted, + urine, cattle can be in yards for days, drying out too for transport or whatever.

add some heat, and someone probably dropped a smoke, or branding iron or whatever, or spontaneous, no big deal.

maybe some spilt fuel somewhere also.

it’s not a sign of the end days, the wrath of God.

Woodie said:

I’m going to call shenanigans on this one.

Less than a month ago:

https://www.abc.net.au/news/2017-01-16/mount-denison-cattle-station-under-water/8185892

Um, you mean two years ago :)

This is a bullshit fire, but not in the way Woodie means.

Bubblecar said:

This is a bullshit fire, but not in the way Woodie means.

:)