La Nino (15)

they can't operate in the forest once fire ban has been declared, likewise in Vic you can't bale hay or operate a tractor, welder once a ban for your area has been declared. But varies State to State

The consequences of an escaped fire can include loss of life and property. Penalties for inappropriate, negligent or reckless use of fire or equipment can be severe, including fines or imprisonment. Fire restrictions are actively enforced.

Fire restrictions are used to prevent bushfires. They apply to activities that may cause bushfire. Fire restrictions become more strict when the danger of bushfire increases.


Includes
(welding, grinding, apiary, catering, entertainment machinery, engines, chainsaws, motor-driven pumps, sawmilling, quarrying).

To find out what restrictions apply to you, see:





NSW

Total Fire Ban rules
No fires during a Total Fire BanA total fire ban means no fires out in the open. A total fire ban helps limit the potential of fires developing.
During a Total Fire Ban you cannot light, maintain or use a fire in the open, or to carry out any activity in the open that causes, or is likely to cause, a fire.
No general purpose hot works, such as welding or gas cutting can be done in the open.
The NSW RFS strongly recommends you reconsider activities such as such using a tractor or slashing, to help reduce the chance of a fire starting on your property. Under certain conditions, the NSW RFS may issue a Cease Harvest request.



SA

The following are for restrictions during the Fire Danger Season and on Total Fire Ban days. To find out what restrictions are in place in your area outside of these times, contact your local council.




QLD

Local Fire Bans are normally imposed over an entire local government area and prohibit the lighting of all or only certain types of fires, depending on the severity of the emergency. (Gas and electric barbecues may be used).

When fire bans are in place either as a local Fire Ban or during a State of Fire Emergency:

The lighting of fires in the declared fire ban areas are prohibited subject to any special conditions or exemptions
All open fires are prohibited;
All Permits to Light Fire issued in the designated area are cancelled.
Other special conditions (or exemptions) may be imposed.

We are not the only ones it seems:

Armed anti-government militiamen seize federal wildlife refuge in Oregon

The brewing standoff in the small rural town of Burns came after an estimated 300 people, including militia and local citizens, protested the prosecution of two local ranchers.
Dwight Hammond, 73, and Steven Hammond, 46, were to report to prison on Monday to face an additional four years after a judge ruled they had served too little time for setting fires that spread to government lands they leased to graze cattle.
The father and son argued they lit the fires to tackle invasive plants and prevent wildfires on their lands. The Hammonds have said the government has gradually tried to take away federal grazing rights, and through red tape and price hikes has made it difficult raise cattle.

universal emotion of governments is to hate farmers , if they ever push us back to the wheel barrow the same scum will blame us for the ensuing hunger .

In NSW we burnt off every year I was there, during winter local farmer (Fire Chief Doug) would light the bush along his boundary, and we'd all send one back, light line bracken then (only then) phone your neighbor tell him you had.
Done with feeling, and regard to the weather a slow cold burn would then wander along the ridges for a week or so, creep down into the gullies until the fire ran into damp areas...never a problem, the creatures had time to scamper to safety, soil was not baked, very little impact.
But that far to hard for academic townie clowns to comprehend.

I used to burn the sprayed blackberry every year where I was in Gisborne . Breeze got up one year , woofff . I had two Jet Rangers sitting in the creek bed over that . Kept my head down for a while after that .