its merely there to show an example of what is stupid. iam in no way having a go at you, what you do with your truck is your business. i was merely pointing out that overgrowth neednt be a barrier to enjoying ones truck out on the lanes.
and so far this thread shows most people agree that pruning is the sensible thing to do if you dont want to scratch ones truck, not leave it parked up on the drive.
 
What about a petrol chainsaw?

What if you knew the lane was blocked by a fallen tree and went home to get a chainsaw as your hand saw just wasn't big enough?
 
I'm sure the exact details are all very much of a grey area

Thing is with green laning must of us accept scratches so don't worry about it

If you don't want to get scratches it'll take you all day to make a lane passable

So you decide :)
 
I was only quoting advice that is part of GLASS's Code of Conduct....

If a tree came down on a main road would you go out with a chainsaw and cut the tree up? I think the elf and safety people would definitely have something to say about that......

However dragging a tree out of the way with a winch would probably be ok.....

So if you do use power tools don't get caught
 
I was only quoting advice that is part of GLASS's Code of Conduct....

If a tree came down on a main road would you go out with a chainsaw and cut the tree up? I think the elf and safety people would definitely have something to say about that......

However dragging a tree out of the way with a winch would probably be ok.....

Why would they? Say I had all appropriate PPE on? It's not like chainsaws are licences or restricted.

A tree came down down our lane, the farmer and a small group of us chopped it all up and moved it. Don't see what's wrong with that, we were stuck (dead end lane) and didn't want to ring the old bill or anything stupid like that so just got on and cleared it. Used the wood in the fire that winter.

Nanny state is what we live in.
 
Why would they? Say I had all appropriate PPE on? It's not like chainsaws are licences or restricted.

You can wear all the PPE you like, but the fact is you'd be operating a chainsaw in a public place, a public road no less, you're into working on the highway/road closure legislation, public liability ins and no doubt a whole ruck of elf & safetly bollix, before you look at permissions. It'd come under the same legislation if you wanted to trim hedges on a busy shopping highstreet, just the odds of getting caught are different :lol: I carry a silky for those awkward branches, great little saws.

to the OP, the reality is that if you plan a day out on the lanes pretty much anywhere in the UK, you are going to come across overgrown lanes. The real question is not about weather you're allowed to trim a few bushes back, it's about do you want to spend your day driving or hedge trimming? because the day ain't long enough for both!

If you join a group who go out regularly you have a much higher chance of having someone in the group with local knowledge so you can aviod the scratchy lanes, but even then you'll drive a new lane for 2 miles down a awkward narrow lane and discover it overgrown at that point for the next 1/2 mile, do you reverse the 2 miles to avoid scratches, spend the rest of the week hedge trimming, or go for it?

Maybe you could research your laning days via google earth to try to spot any problems on your planned route, but I think scratchy is par for the course in this hobby.

Vinal wrapping to protect the paint?
 
You can wear all the PPE you like, but the fact is you'd be operating a chainsaw in a public place, a public road no less, you're into working on the highway/road closure legislation, public liability ins and no doubt a whole ruck of elf & safetly bollix, before you look at permissions. It'd come under the same legislation if you wanted to trim hedges on a busy shopping highstreet, just the odds of getting caught are different :lol: I carry a silky for those awkward branches, great little saws.

to the OP, the reality is that if you plan a day out on the lanes pretty much anywhere in the UK, you are going to come across overgrown lanes. The real question is not about weather you're allowed to trim a few bushes back, it's about do you want to spend your day driving or hedge trimming? because the day ain't long enough for both!

If you join a group who go out regularly you have a much higher chance of having someone in the group with local knowledge so you can aviod the scratchy lanes, but even then you'll drive a new lane for 2 miles down a awkward narrow lane and discover it overgrown at that point for the next 1/2 mile, do you reverse the 2 miles to avoid scratches, spend the rest of the week hedge trimming, or go for it?

Maybe you could research your laning days via google earth to try to spot any problems on your planned route, but I think scratchy is par for the course in this hobby.

Vinal wrapping to protect the paint?

You are right, councils don't like folk using power tools on lanes, it causes problems with their insurance, apparently, though I don't really know why.

The subject of working parties has been discussed quite a lot in GLASS mag, there are legal organised parties in some places. And underground black ops in some others :D

As regards the scratchy stuff, I always thought it was a public service to other users to break back the growth with my vehicle. Adds to the landy patina! ;) Bull bar takes some of it off before it hits the body :)
 
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But but when I lived in a terrace on a high street in a town I often stood on the pavement and used a hedge trimmer to trim the bushes and no one said anything, I was 200 m from the cop shop and about 400 from the council offices.
And I did it in flip flops and shorts.
 
But but when I lived in a terrace on a high street in a town I often stood on the pavement and used a hedge trimmer to trim the bushes and no one said anything, I was 200 m from the cop shop and about 400 from the council offices.
And I did it in flip flops and shorts.

That is exactly what I don't understand either, why it isn't a problem for people to cut hedges etc. from the road outside their house, but it is a problem for people to do same on lanes.

Complete mystery to me, mate, but check out the GLASS mag or website, think yu will find it is frowned on officially. :confused:
 
That is exactly what I don't understand either, why it isn't a problem for people to cut hedges etc. from the road outside their house, but it is a problem for people to do same on lanes.

Complete mystery to me, mate, but check out the GLASS mag or website, think yu will find it is frowned on officially. :confused:

Seems a bit nanny state to me but I suppose GLASS are being ultra cautious and whiter than white so as not to come under critcism from the bobble hat brigade.

I better take the chainsaws, wood chipper and log splitter out the back of the car next time I go laning then.....
 
Seems a bit nanny state to me but I suppose GLASS are being ultra cautious and whiter than white so as not to come under critcism from the bobble hat brigade.

I better take the chainsaws, wood chipper and log splitter out the back of the car next time I go laning then.....

I don't think it is really to do with GLASS, they are just spreading the word. I think it is to do with the Highways dept at the councils, they have a theoretical duty to maintain the lanes, but they usually don't!

It is fine to carry a chainsaw. Yu might need it to abate an obstruction blocking the lane, like a fallen tree. That is perfectly legal! ;)
 
I don't think it is really to do with GLASS, they are just spreading the word. I think it is to do with the Highways dept at the councils, they have a theoretical duty to maintain the lanes, but they usually don't!

It is fine to carry a chainsaw. Yu might need it to abate an obstruction blocking the lane, like a fallen tree. That is perfectly legal! ;)



But isn't that a power tool? I is well confused now :confused:
 
There is a difference between what's written on paper and what is actually going to cause a problem

Of course bobblies will decide that trimming a road wide enough to pass a vehicle is "damage" because it was wide enough for their slender frames already

However I tend not to dwell on the finer details and just crack on

If you're a sensible, reasonable person and you don't feel like you are taking the mickey then it's likely that you aren't
 

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