Brown said:
That's quite a severe restriction. My land would disappear under offcuts, brambles and fallen branches if I didn't have bonfires. Are you allowed to run a chipper?
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The law only applies to green garden waste so if it has dried it becomes the sort of stuff you could burn in a log burner anyway. So that's OK.
They weren't there when I went around so I had a good look and all they have been burning is cut and dried stuff.
But yes it is a bit severe.:(
The département does provide places where you can dump it and you are entitled to a free compost bin as well. But it is the carting it there which is a pain.
It has to be said that where we live there is a ton of trees, hence the name "Montagne noire" when you see it from a distance they do look black and that is because they are covered in trees of all sorts. Many times oaks.
So the risk of forest fire is very real.
You would be allowed to run a chipper or a chainsaw or anything you want as long as you stick to the legal times which is not before 8 I think, not after 5 and I think you have to knock off during lunchtime! I'd have to check. The times at weekends are more restrictive still.;)
What a lot of people do is just go up the road onto a forest track and dump it somewhere in there.:D:D:eek::eek:
 
Well just finishing a break as I have been sorting and breaking up firewood.
Decided to build a proper log store out of waste timber I have cluttering up the shed. but need to make room for it first, and have to decide the easiest way to make sure the legs don't rot!
Pain in the bum but better than plumberin again!
Have a nice day peeps!
:):):)
 
Stanleysteamer said:
The law only applies to green garden waste so if it has dried it becomes the sort of stuff you could burn in a log burner anyway. So that's OK.
They weren't there when I went around so I had a good look and all they have been burning is cut and dried stuff.
But yes it is a bit severe.:(
The département does provide places where you can dump it and you are entitled to a free compost bin as well. But it is the carting it there which is a pain.
It has to be said that where we live there is a ton of trees, hence the name "Montagne noire" when you see it from a distance they do look black and that is because they are covered in trees of all sorts. Many times oaks.
So the risk of forest fire is very real.
You would be allowed to run a chipper or a chainsaw or anything you want as long as you stick to the legal times which is not before 8 I think, not after 5 and I think you have to knock off during lunchtime! I'd have to check. The times at weekends are more restrictive still.;)
What a lot of people do is just go up the road onto a forest track and dump it somewhere in there.:D:D:eek::eek:
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I've got a battery chainsaw so I could enjoy the illicit thrill of cutting up wood in the evenings or early in the morning and no one would know.
In Wales, they've become very restrictive in terms of what they'll take at dumps. If your stuff doesn't fit a somewhat limited list of recyclable items they won't take it. Or if you turn up in anything that the local authority could define as a van, they won't even let you in. This is despite a lot of people in the area having a van as their only vehicle, as a lot of them work on farms or are self employed. So you see a lot of fly tipping. Fridges with a side order of plasterboard suddenly appear down farm tracks and in hedgerows for example.
 
Stanleysteamer said:
As for the rest of the day.....
Well yesterday the new neighbours spent most of it burning stuff. Which meant we couldn't do any washing.
It is illegal to burn garden waste anywhere in the Tarn so it depends on what they were burning, but we think it must be green stuff. you are supposed to take it all the way down to the "déchetterie" (dump) or compost it yourself. But when you have 6000 sq metres that is impossible.
I do sympathise, but we don't burn it and until they arrived we had no near neighbours.
I think I'll just have a quiet word and ask them not to do it without asking us first if we will be doing washing.
We'll see how that goes down. Last thing I want to do is to fall out with them.:rolleyes:
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I heard a rumour that Englandshire were gonna let stuff go to the tip for free to stop flytipping, not sure if that would help ...

In our borough they take green waste, grass trimming, hedge stuff and smallish branches and you are allowed to fill up two bags of top soil created by the composting on site ...
 
Hippo said:
What perennials would be good to grow from seeds in pots to plant in me garden. Eye would like flowers and shrubs.
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I always enjoy irises. They grow well in pots and in the open border, and are available in a variety of colours. At risk of activating the Monty Python reminiscences, lupins are worth having a go at, though I find the slugs are very fond of them. As well as the humble eating onion, you can get all sorts of alliums that have been bred for their flowers too - usually a spherical shaped flower on a long stalk. I'm trying to get red hot pokers to grow on my land but without success yet. They seem to flourish in large pots too.
 
Brown said:
I've got a battery chainsaw so I could enjoy the illicit thrill of cutting up wood in the evenings or early in the morning and no one would know.
In Wales, they've become very restrictive in terms of what they'll take at dumps. If your stuff doesn't fit a somewhat limited list of recyclable items they won't take it. Or if you turn up in anything that the local authority could define as a van, they won't even let you in. This is despite a lot of people in the area having a van as their only vehicle, as a lot of them work on farms or are self employed. So you see a lot of fly tipping. Fridges with a side order of plasterboard suddenly appear down farm tracks and in hedgerows for example.
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Roundour way they aren't too bad, although you can only dump a gallon waste oil a week which is pretty sh!t considering a lot of my vehicles take more than that for an oil change. But a lot of "trades" have taken to using estate versions instead of vans.
Mind you if you (or the customer) don't mind paying, the trade dumps will take anything.
 
Stanleysteamer said:
Roundour way they aren't too bad, although you can only dump a gallon waste oil a week which is pretty sh!t considering a lot of my vehicles take more than that for an oil change. But a lot of "trades" have taken to using estate versions instead of vans.
Mind you if you (or the customer) don't mind paying, the trade dumps will take anything.
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Just changed the oil in the JCB gearbox, which holds over 15 litres So that would be three or four weekly visits in your part of the world. I bet a lot of it just gets poured in a hole in the ground.
 
Brown said:
"A bobbin redbreast in a cage puts all heaven in a rage" as William Blake didn't quite write.

Can't he get his own worms? After all, he's an adult.
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Eye have been putting out deaded meal wurms to help him. Thought we were becoming friends. When he wanted food he would come closer to hint. Often landing on the floor. If he seen me go to the kitchen door and walk away frommit, he would go to our feeding point. Sadley not at the moment but eye will still leave him some wurms just in case. Hopefully he will return. Not sure what eye did to upset him. He seemed hesitent but ok with me watching him eat an arms lenf away.
 
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