Disposing of waste

[Mark Bolam]

Your relatives can't burn it legally mate, even if it was fresh timber, which fence panels clearly aren't.

Feel your pain, like.

 

 

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[eggsarascal]

Someone's got to pay for it.

[headgroundsman]

It seems that waste is getting harder and harder to dispose of now.

I took 6 old fence panels to the local waste site, and they wanted £140 to get rid of it!

I was told I cant stack it in the yard and wait till i have a load, as thats classed as a waste transfer station.

I thought of shredding it, but then what do I do with the shreddings?

I have relatives on a farm whk can burn it, but its a 110mile round trip, so not viable

the only hope is a roll on roll off on permananet hire.

Legally farms can only burn what has grown there I believe and then they should apply for a licence to do that.

[IRE David H]

composters will take chips, leaves etc

 

 

try freecycle or other free sites advertise it as free wood

[woody paul]

It seems that waste is getting harder and harder to dispose of now.

I took 6 old fence panels to the local waste site, and they wanted £140 to get rid of it!

I was told I cant stack it in the yard and wait till i have a load, as thats classed as a waste transfer station.

I thought of shredding it, but then what do I do with the shreddings?

I have relatives on a farm whk can burn it, but its a 110mile round trip, so not viable

the only hope is a roll on roll off on permananet hire.

 

6 fence panels 1 sledge hammer = kindling .

[dig-dug-dan]

6 fence panels 1 sledge hammer = kindling .

Ha. Yes. Can I then give it away as kindling.?

btw regarding my relatives, they burn it in a straw burner to heat hot water.Which then is used to heat their swimming pool? Does that count?

[Vespasian]

Legally farms can only burn what has grown there I believe and then they should apply for a licence to do that.

 

They'd have to prove it didn't come from their farm wouldn't they?...

 

Seems like to much trouble for anyone to go investigating a thing like that...

 

I burn what I get every once in a while, but wait for the right conditions, strong windy, cloudy days... even then the firemen turn up once in a while..

 

Last time they threatened to give me some order or other... I've now come round to phoning them up if the thing looks like it might be a problem..

And I also try to burn waste before it gets to much like a bonfire...

 

I have considered pushing the woodchip that I produce, not much to be honest.. near the river banking... a good flood might take care of it then...

[White Noise]

My old boss used to have fires all the time .

 

 

His motto was ( little and often )

 

 

A big old smoldering burn is going to attract lots of attention

 

 

He did once hire in a large tub type grinder / shredder . This cleared all of our old hedge trimmings and sweepings ...including a few stumps and the old timber pile which was part rotten .

 

We were left with the pile of shreddings ..which on the whole were fairly decent .

 

An Estate nr to us had most of the shreddings and the rest was just left to rot down .

[Thesnarlingbadger]

Wait till bonfire night, get a huge pile made up and sell tickets ;-).

 

 

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[s.varty]

My old boss used to have fires all the time .

 

 

His motto was ( little and often )

 

 

A big old smoldering burn is going to attract lots of attention

 

Good advice:thumbup1:

As for burning fence panels, start a small fire on top of them instead of under them and let the fire burn slowly through the pile hence no smoke.