You've got to love English Heritage!

[TimberCutterDartmoor]

Been felling diseased larch for a couple of months now. 'Phone goes this morning from the agent - "stop everything you are doing...". Great, time and money and all that.

 

Turns out a few lumps of mud within the wood and this (pictured - it's 30 years old) constitute a SAM (scheduled ancient monument)! FC bows to EH. Hmmm.

 

Oh well, only had a 2.5 ton tracked chipper and forestry mulcher obliterate the "monument" last week!

[Brushcutter]

I've hurd that there a few site down in Devon that are covered in disesed larch that needs to be felled off but they're having problems with both harvest and extraction because of SAM and other important arceology.

[Tony Croft aka hamadryad]

ridiculous, 30 years is ancient now?

[Joy Yeomans]

am i being a bit thick here - or am i looking at a filled in cattle grid? what is it, cant believe thats a listed monument

 

joy

[TimberCutterDartmoor]

No, it's the cattle grid. Makes me prehistoric!

[Joy Yeomans]

red tape & beurocracy gone mad

[TimberCutterDartmoor]

I've hurd that there a few site down in Devon that are covered in disesed larch that needs to be felled off but they're having problems with both harvest and extraction because of SAM and other important arceology.

 

And these gov departments are fighting for power and the final authority on this kind of matter. I've heard EH will try to sue the FC (!!!) for trashing their sites an vice versa for resisting law!

[geoff]

Stunning,what a waste of time & money.

[tommer9]

That is way over the top. I am speechless TBH!!

[Lumberjack Pad]

Surley someone at EH has to have got the wrong end of the stick, or pulling your plonker???? That is barmey!