Complaint of chainsaw noise from my property from County council

[Rac man]

I got anice letter from County Council ref chainsaw noise from my property its used only for personal cutting usually on weekend you gotta love neighbor's can't even knock the door

[GarethM]

Noise complaints are an automatic letter and even the council admit neighbours use it as a means of getting a rise out of you.

 

Work within business hours, plus if you get another letter install CCTV.

 

Had one years back and i took great pleasure counting 14 hours of chainsaw one month at 16x speed, neighbours said it was 24/7.

 

Council lady almost laughed herself off her chair and never heard from them again.

[topchippyles]

I had this a couple of years back ended up buying an electric one just for weekend use. 

[Sviatoslav Tulin]

Ignore letter work after 22.00 for couple days let them feel the pleasure.

[Steven P]

Yup, assuming you are keeping sociable hours then nothing they can do - I think the advice was sort of after 9 in the morning, and before 9 at night Monday to Saturday and 10 in the mornings on Sunday.

 

Like your comment, I'd hope my neighbours would feel free enough to pop over to say if there was a problem, and likewise I'd be considerate to anything I know about them - for example a few years ago one of mine did night shifts so I wouldn't use anything too noisy till his curtains were open at the weekends, give and take.

 

However I also got a battery saw (it was half price, couldn't resist), and actually prefer that around the house any way - no ear defenders needed! and can use it in the garage if some of the firewood in there is oversized. Quite impressed with it - even though a domestic model, it took down a couple of tonnes of Alder the other week quite happily (measuring whether to cut a bit more depended on whether to charge again or not)

[Stere]

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buying an electric one just for weekend use. 

 

[woody paul]

I once got kept up by a party that went on till the early hours like 4.00 anyway got my revenge start sawing logs at 6.00 once most of the campers had nodded off. 

As others have said between normal working hours there is little they can do. 

[spudulike]

I now use an old Black and Decker mains saw for a lot of my personal firewood and keep the petrol saws for the bigger more knarly stuff.

Neighbours will be neighbours!

[adw]

Black and Decker! don’t tell me it has racing brushes in it, a lightened and tuned armature, go faster stickers, and a racing field coil, you will have to post pictures of this titan of an electric chainsaws.

[GarethM]

I'd probably be knocking on the door asking you to put away the buzzing marital aid and just fire up the petrol saw and get her done.