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can you not get hold of any old telegraph poles - never seen one rot, other than on the inside and even then the surrounding wood is still structurally supporting.

does anyone know who is doing the ash tree felling (200 trees) on the A420, nr Chippenham next week? Thanks.

We need a few loads of wood chip for mulching. Very easy site to tip and go. All hard-standing and only a few metres from the main road.

Looking for local arb waste supplies. Ideally we would like a regular drop and could arrange for access code to come in and drop as needed.

Hi, I havn't been online for a while but did someone set up a directory of tip sites? If so, i am trying to add my site: suitable for all types of chipping/ shredder waste yew, conifer etc Just outside of Chippenham towards Bristol: SN14 7AA Thanks

The trick being that when you hit a bump or pebble that jams it up, you drop the pallet and then pull the forks out by about a foot and then repump and off you go; rather than trying to haul it over. I shift 1 tonne pallets over a rough old flor and even a packed gravel pathway. Pallet trucks do vary a lot though, perhaps the older varities work better.

Most often successful people are successful because they didn't realise that they had to ask permission to be successful. Or, they are the sort of people that have an obnoxious streak, that are motivated by reactance, ie tell those people they can't do something, limit his options and he'll bloody well do what he wants. You can use that method with the car space. Imagine a car space and then some idiot, stealing it from you, just about pulling into it, then in the corner of the picture you image a small postcard of you nipping into that space just before the other car, with a zoom pfft you imagine that small card instantly magnified to overwhelm the big picture. It's a method that works especially well with job interviews. The reactance comes from the righteous indignation of having your options limited by the assumption of someone else. That is powerful motivational stuff. Righteous indignation is not negative, or maybe it is, but very powerful and the sort of thing that countries are built from.

You mention 'extending it' the LA would assess that differently to the development rights or usual planning on a non agric condition property; when permission was originally granted it would have been the minimum size needed to house a family, you would have to prove a need as to why it should be bigger. You don't get the usual permitted development rights. Also, how far you need to prove that you work in agriculture or are getting your income from the tied land depends on the clause in the original planning permission. A lot depends on the LA and also any neighbours with an agenda to hold over the buyer and that might include the seller; stranger things have happened. So less said to the agent/seller the better. One last thing. To get the clause lifted the seller needs to prove that they attempted to sell as agicultural, but there were no buyers forthcoming, about 4-5 years or so. Often, even if you make an offer it won't be accepted because the seller is just going through this process with the agent, most often, complicit in this deceit. I say deceit because it can waste a lot of potential buyers time. It did mine:thumbdown:. Good luck.

I can use a few loads of wood chip (free), easy access: 07434 518481

Hi, Is anyone available in the Devizes area (Wilts) my parents need someone to lop 20 foot off some 50ft conifers, about six of them. Too much for me. I'd guess quotes over £1000 mark for the work. Start asap. pm me if interested/available.

bump^ Site is near to SN14 7HR

Another option is to get a jcb in to to scrape off some of the top soil to make banks around the edge of the land; if you have bunnies in the area they'll soon move in and establish themselves thereby keeping the edges grazed low. The other option is to burn small sections off in January. I do this on a 9 acre site - burning about 1 acre per year; keeps the fertility low and kills off any small trees that are starting to grow. Not possible near to main roads and worth letting the firebrigade know before hand - otherwise someone will give them a call while you are doing it.

I'd take issue with the landlord; he leased you the site knowing full well what you intended to use it for even though the site only has agricultural use. Is it a particularly cheap rent? If not, i'd start looking for a site with industrial use and seek damages from the landlord to cover the cost and inconvenience. The only other thing would be for the owner to use the new permitted development rights; enquire whether any barns (under 50 sq metres) have been in existence for the last 10 years and used purely in agriculture, then go for automatic permitted development right from agriculture to B2 you only need to tell the council that you are making the change; a letter with a plan is enough. Then do the processing inside one of the barns , - assuming that they are large enough to deal with ventilation etc, if not, then the curtilage of the building is a grey area in planning that would still allow you to use the permmitted development in the area surrounding the building to B2 use, grey enough to stump a planning officer.

I wouldn't think it would do you any good. If you farmed on limestone and wanted to grow rhododendrons, then lining the hole that they are planted in with wood chip would lower the PH. That is about as useful as it gets... I'm guessing that you are on a gley type soil and adding too much wood chip would mess up the current soil ecosystem and create an increase in anaerobic environment, the soil microcrobes would utilise the only available o2 in the soil by breaking down any NO3 into NO2 to gain the oxygen the remain NO2 (ammonia) would disappear as gas, then the breakdown of the wood chip would be very slow and more bacterial than mycorrizehal, plus the acidification of the soil would mobilise some of the useful minerals and you would loose some to lower soil horizons. If you processed the woodchip in an oxygen rich environment, ie a heap that you turn regularly then eventually you'd get some useful microbes and organisms and then useful compost, or you could biochar it - ie turn it into charcoal, that might increase the cation exchange capacity of the soil and therefore enable greater availability of nutrients to plant roots, or not.

Just check that the person that you were dealing with had the authority of the organisation to make contracts, ie accept your quotation, also, did he hint at anything conditional (his legal side will argue that he did - something like, ' we informed you in a phone conversation that the offer was subject to confirmation of start dates, the type of tea to be consumed,...' etc, or that, 'it was subject to our usual trading conditions'- which will invariably say that contracts are conditional on a purchase order ref. being given etc.) That said if he is high enough up in the organisation then you would probably have a case, ie a director, or business owner. Regardless of that i would invoice them for the loss of earnings and follow up with threats and then move on. These large organisations are getting very focused on shaving off 1% here and there.

20 ft poles go for about £10 each. Next time you are driving past some blokes replacing poles just pull up and ask to buy for cash, many won't, but a few will and some will drill and drop them in place for you - which makes life a whole lot easier.

Some breweries just add water to the standard brand, then call it IPA:laugh1:

Clean tip site Nr Chippenham/East Bristol/Bath, M4 junction 18, in exchange for a spare logs..

It was the reason that i scrapped my D22. Got £1000 for it as scrap.

It might be worth looking how far you are from a 3g transmitter: i use 3 dongle and get speed much faster than my dad does, who is with BT. Costs me £8 a month and i'm online about 4 hours a day:blushing: Combine that with getting rid of a land line and just paying for calls through asda mobile - you can get a lot of calls for the cost of just the line rental!

Sorry for your loss. I would get a detailed valuation of the ‘shared’ assets, terminate the business, pay her half the share, give her the details of previous customers etc. document and get everything witnessed. Then start up as a limited company under a totally different name. The potential for a future claim on the current business is always going to be a threat - and grief has strange ways of finding a focus. If you start again through a ltd and a new name - then you start with a totally new legal entity.

Can you 'borrow' a few more acres - you only need to say that you rent them and they don't have to be adjoining (even better if they are in a different councils area). If not, forestry land doesn't have to have any trees on; just intention that that it will be forested. Also, the building can be for a future assumed need - it doesn't need to be a current need. All the info. is out there - you just need to search!

Hi, I need to move an artic load of cordwood in the North Wiltshire area. Could anyone suggest a haulier in this part of the country? Thanks:001_smile: