County council doing firewood

[easy-lift guy]

Gnarlyoak,Derek: Our local, county,state, and federal or national governments run like

this. The local or city/town government generally has a budget to work with every physical year to take care of day to day opperations such as Fire, Police, and ambulance services. These funds are collected and in most cases are required to only run or operate with the monies available. Most local, county and State governments at least here in Florida are required to have a blanced budget in order to function. With the down turn of the National economy starting in 2007 under GWB 43 forward to the present tenant of 1600 Pennsilvania Ave. I have seen the near

utter destruction and nationalization of at least 6 private sectorindustries in this country. Unlike local, county and some but not all state budgets that have to live within their means the Federal or National government, at least the present one in power

has knowingly choose to continue to print and digitized the US

currency nearly into oblivion. The desire to continue to do this

beyond the point of no return or recovery is staggering, to say the

least. For my local county situation I am presently paying roughly

1/2 of what I was paying say 4 years ago in property taxes.

 

This is mainly due to the collapse of the housing and construction industry in this state. Funding is down across the board and all levels excluding the federal level., since they think

they can print currency with no regards to the short term results. The long term results are for another discussion. I am very fortunate to live where I do and living

within my means has been my way of life and doing business since I first

started work.

Alas this is not the case with many other of my country men/women that

have chosent the dependency route. It has not gotten so bad in my state

where the private sector has had to come in and help the local governments, but in some cases it is better and less costly than depending on the government employees to accomplish the same task.

The folks that want another bucket of chicken or another hamburger will always complain and moan about this or that.

They are this countries biggest looses and work very hard to game the system to their own needs 24/7 365 x multiple generations.

Hope this answered some of your thoughts from the other side of

the pond.

easy-lift guy

Edited August 12, 2012 by easy-lift guy
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[Matthew Arnold]

We are doing firewood out of our Dorchester base. We have a 26 acre woodland with alot of pre 1990 fallen timber that we are clearing up slowly but surely. The dangerous trees are being felled for firewood as well and we are getting a coppicing regime going in the severely overstood Sweet chestnut and Hazel coppices in the woods. The stacked Laurel and Rhody logs are slowly being sold on too. Sadly last winter a pair of the travelling fraternity turned up and bought two nets of logs. That night we were cleared out of about 80 ton of seasoned and semi seasoned hard wood. It was all caught on CCTV with faces, numberplates, vehicles and the logs being stolen. The police couldn't charge them through lack of evidence despite the police knowing 6 out of 8 by their first names. The logs are now stored in two well ventilated shipping containers which are locked down tight each night.

[Derek Trimblits]

What! Burnley council going for domestic trees!?? private sector??[/quote

 

Yep!

[Mesterh]

Heres an idea, why not work with some of the local firewood merchants to help them out rather than tipping it all in land fill in the first place!

 

The next thing you know some sneaky LA's will start pressurising the public into working on their 'dangerous trees and hedges'

[Johny Walker]

Heres an idea, why not work with some of the local firewood merchants to help them out rather than tipping it all in land fill in the first place!

 

The next thing you know some sneaky LA's will start pressurising the public into working on their 'dangerous trees and hedges'

 

i was under the impression timber doesnt & hasnt for a good few yrs gone to land fill ,

[face cord]

The local council makes compost: I got some free but it smelt of vinegar & has lots of plastic bits in it, people must mix a load of plastic in there brown food bins?

 

Anglesey households achieve 100% food waste recycling

 

Dunno what they do with council tree/arb stuff, I wish they did sell very cheap logs

 

Wood waste (construction timber etc) is seperated into skips in 2 different recycling centres not sure where it goes then.

Edited August 13, 2012 by face cord

[renewablejohn]

I didn't know Burnley had a team of tree specialists. As far as I was aware they have a one man band of a woodland officer who hires in the private sector when needed but also has a band of voluntary workers.

[djbobbins]

They emailed me back, including a link so you can all check the prices out. I don't think they are undercutting prices but I've never bought or sold logs...

 

Firewood and kindling for sale - Warwickshire Web