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I doubt that you would get a very good burn this soon without adding a LOT of additional fuel. I generally let my brush piles sit for a year before I burn them. And I do my burning in the very late fall or in the spring and try to do it when there is a light rain forecast for that day. I don't want to have the slightest risk of the fire getting away from me. That can be incredibly costly. When I am building up a burn pile, I cover part of it with one of those cheap blue plastic tarps and then pile more brush over the tarp. That makes some of the pile stay dry even if it rains a bunch and that makes it easy to get it to catch fire just using a weed burner propane torch. Once the dry area is burning fairly well, the rest of the pile will be dried out by the fire and will burn up. The burning rules in my area require a significant fire line around each pile, down to what they call mineral soil. They also require that the fire be started fairly early in the day and that the information about the controlled burn and the information on the fire permit be reported to the fire department when the fire is started. We also have to check with the state DNR about burning conditions that day and if there are other environmental restrictions. If you burn other than in the very wet part of the year, you have to have a water source near the burn, like a tanker or a charged garden hose. But to stay out of trouble, I follow the rules. Dozer piles present some extra problems, depending on how much dirt is mixed with the burnable material. When I tried burning some dozer piles on my property years ago, they burned extremely slowly and were still hot months later. I ended up needing to spread them out and actually had to repile some stumps that hadn't burned well, since they stayed too wet from the soil around them. They did fine the next year though, after I got the dirt away from them. Good luck, and stay safe. But if there was any way to do so, I would wait a year to let the material get dried out.
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