I don't live in a highly populated area but around here houses are burnt down all the time. Some guys will recover the cast iron from the ashes afterwards but that's about it. It'll cost you a couple of straw bales and a match to get it going and five gallons of diesel in your backhoe to bury it and your done with it.
Only you can decide what's right for your situation. Will the fire spread on your property to other buildings? Can it spread to the neighbors? Does your township or county have a burn ban? Do you have any trees nearby that you don't want to see dead within a year afterwards? Is there a specific direction the wind needs to be to burn without smoking out the neighbors? If your fire department won't burn it unless asbestos and asphalt are removed does that mean you can't burn it yourself? Meaning is this just a fire department policy, not necessarily a law you have to abide by? Most people here will call the local sheriffs office to report a controlled burn so people aren't freaking out when the smoke starts. If there's a chance the fire could get away they may also call the V.Fire Dept. just to give them a heads up and to be on call for a few hours just in case. Just remember that on the downwind side at full flame you won't be able to get within 50 yards of the house for the heat so do a walk around before hand and just know your not going to be able to put out grass, tree or building fires within that radius until the fire burns down. Figure about a half hour minimum that you won't be able to get close.
If you run into roadblocks on this, a nighttime thunderstorm is a good time to burn. Claim lightning strike and tell everyone to get over it. On the positive side, everything around will be wet and keep the fire from spreading and nobody can see the black smoke in the dark.
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Today's Featured Article - An Old-Time Tractor Demonstration - by Kim Pratt. Sam was born in rural Kansas in 1926. His dad was a hard-working farmer and the children worked hard everyday to help ends meet. In the rural area he grew up in, the highlight of the week was Saturday when many people took a break from their work to go to town. It was on one such Saturday in the early 1940's when Sam was 16 years old that he ended up in Dennison, Kansas to watch a demonstration of a new tractor being put on by a local dealer. It was an Allis-Chalmers tractor dealership,
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