Environment Agency madness i guess!!

[Andy Collins]

Another problem with burning is insurance, my policy states that any fires should be watched over until burnt out, and that,s nearly impossible.

 

Good point, I did mention using common sense, and be aware that fire can jump around if its dry! Its not always ideal to burn stuff, thats why we have chippers, but a fire CAN be used as the right tool for the right job.

[Mesterh]

I really don't understand this

 

It is and has alway been perfectly legal too burn stuff on the site on which it has been produced.

 

You can't, during the cause of your business, create "dark smoke", cause a nuisance, of burn plastic and crap.

 

You also cannot move material too a different site and burn it, I believe.

 

 

Oh right I understand now, the peeps I know that have been "told off " by the EA were burning on brash logs etc that they had taken back to there yard.

Didnt realise you could burn on site, I thought it would depend on the restrictions in the area smoke controlled or smokeless etc, never looked into since we never get the opportunity to burn on site anyhow.

 

Another new thing ive learned from this site

[Andy Collins]

Before you take a match to your piles of brash, do a web check for any local bye-laws on burning too, to be on the safe side. A nuisance has to be recorded, and is not a one-off occasion, but one that occurs several seperate times. Use common sense on this, if you see a line of washing out in the direction the smoke will blow, then have a word with the owner that you will be having a fire, same goes for open windows.

You can burn up to 10tonnes of brash in any 24hrs, so long as it originates from the same site, do NOT transport it from elsewhere.

Heres Defras pdf on the matter, just so you can keep inside the law.

http://www.defra.gov.uk/environment/localenv/nuisance/smoke/pdf/bonfiresmoke-report.pdf

Edited January 19, 2009 by Andy Collins

[Stephen Blair]

a courtious knock on a few doors makes the world of difference and another excuse to pass over some cards, before you know it, you are doing work for them too.

happy days.

[Mesterh]

Do many of you on here often burn brash in customers gardens?

[Andy Collins]

I dont, but my fires are usually on hedgerow coppicing jobs, or woodland, not on the domestic stuff.

PS if you do need a fire in a garden, lift the surface off first, have the fire in a slight pit, then when you finish up, replace the sods you've removed, prevents leaving an unsightly burn scar on site.

Edited January 19, 2009 by Andy Collins

[Stephen Blair]

i had a bonny in a big garden last month, the drag was massive, so stuff chipping.

it was huge laurels and a bigish ash. the job would of looked terrible lying in a big pile because the house looked down onto it.

gardeners had dumped loads of brash right under the ash years ago so was ideal for a fire. so felled ash onto it. mash mash lit fire then through the laurel straight on. job done. but usually only in fields and woodlands.

it all depends on the job mate imo

[Mesterh]

I dont, but my fires are usually on hedgerow coppicing jobs, or woodland, not on the domestic stuff.

PS if you do need a fire in a garden, lift the surface off first, have the fire in a slight pit, then when you finish up, replace the sods you've removed, prevents leaving an unsightly burn scar on site.

 

 

I was hoping to just throw a match on it and disappear with the cheque jk.

 

 

I can see that with everyone trying to save a few quid it could be an option in certain circumstances, never know might give it a try, well if the phone rings that is

[Treenurd]

Does the engine on your chipper not get hot?

 

The ash left from the fire is also full of nutrients.

 

Wood ash may have the elements but don't forget decomposition provides food for all the benificial soil organisms necessary to keep a soil healthy as well as improving soil structure.

[skyhuck]

Wood ash may have the elements but don't forget decomposition provides food for all the benificial soil organisms necessary to keep a soil healthy as well as improving soil structure.

 

True, and wood chip depletes nitrogen from the soil.