GarethM
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Try asking for that down your local suppliers, I dare you, I double dare you. They'll probably come out with a jar of that blue stuff from the barbers.
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You were simply rolling everything into a bucket, different chemicals do specific things. A weedkiller isn't a biocide, weedkiller isn't a fungicide or a insecticide. Probably with the exception of DDT, that's just liquid napalm to pretty much anything and anyone. Farm weedkiller is generally used after you've ploughed or encouraged the weeds to grow. This kills them off early, in the hopes it burns them out in the longer term. Pre-mergerant sprays are like a surface seal to also stop weeds whilst a crop establishes, once at a certain height they can outcompete weeds meaning less spray. Arable farming is not about sterilisation and scorched earth.
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Erm, shifting the goalposts there. From weedkiller to insecticide then to biocide. They were trying to rely more on seed dressings than regular spraying, that got a knocking back. Even though it was short term whilst the plant was most vulnerable, so now they want you spraying more to sterilise the soil effectively.
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When in doubt @Jase hutch
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Well, it's obviously going to be it metabolic variants as farming doesn't really output into the local sewage system. Plus chemically a metabolic is just as bad as it not ?. Same with chlorine, chloramine, bromine etc as they do funky things to the atmosphere. In all honesty the levels of agri weed killers and sprays are so small it's laughable, can't remember the ratio per acre but with the cost of 360/480 and diesel it ain't being wasted.
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Sodium hypochlorite it's much more effective. And Dave doing his driveway once in a blue moon compared to three times a week washing types. A bit of weedkiller isn't the end of the world in comparison.
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I'd be more worried about the washing powder than the weedkiller. Most of the glyphosate in European rivers may not come from farming, researchers suggest PHYS.ORG A research team at the University of Tübingen has found that most glyphosate that ends up in European rivers likely...
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Remove any low stumps, drag it down the banking and run a saw through as much as you can to compact it down. Either burn it or just let nature do it's thing providing it stays wet the bugs will do their thing over the next 12-18 months. You could chip whatever you can but it's obviously been chucked over a wall in the past into a tangled mess.
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Prescribing nature for human health. Trees, green spaces etc.
GarethM replied to sime42's topic in General chat
I'm wonder if you could lock them in a dog field for an hour?. -
Seen it use to centre the nut in a hole, acts like a inbuilt washer in a couple of instances as the use was very particular about the Nm torque. You'll probably find the hole diameter either larger than the thread width so it rattles if you didn't use their nut.
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And another half arsed, half thought out argument. I'll just take my blue bin of cardboard and plastic, burn it in the garden and call it biochar then. Maybe I'll get the ones from the village, it's giving me money making ideas of bulk biochar.
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The point was quite clear cut, plus as the self titled resident eco hippie you should be against all wasteful garden burning.
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A soil amendment would be plain woodchip, not with half the stuff burnt away and usable by the microbial life. I use the mindset, that fire ash makes a great slug repellent. Why ?, not because it's dry as it soon gets rained. But, because of the accumulation of things poisonous to slugs.
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When you burn anything incompletely it leaves accumulated trace elements, metals etc. Charcoal on the other hand cooks them out of the wood, so you're left with almost pure carbon. A woodchip boiler effectively does the charcoal step at 1200c and spits out the trash and ash, something ridiculous like 1kg a ton.
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I always thought proper biochar was effectively charcoal, burnt to remove the nasty stuff and leave almost pure carbon with the cell structure popped or opened up like activated charcoal. Half burnt woodchip never seems to rot particularly well, same with bonfire ash in my designated burn spot.
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I understand what you're saying, but legally them's the rules. You could plant some grape vines and argue you're creating a temperate microclimate to prevent frost damage ?. That's what they do in France if there's a frost at certain times of the year
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Burning isn't accelerated composting tho is it, with the heat just being "Waste"d. If you incinerated it, you gain usable heat for say heating the local swimming pool, house etc or co-fire for electrical generation. Using your logic, if I take my uPVC window and wood frame it would be organic because it's natural, sand and a bit of wood.
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The definition of waste is something that can't be reused. What use is burning trees and plants in a field, other than being Waste ?.
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The real question is what did you ask them. Oh we have an old women down the road from the farm complaining about fires, or did you actually say were burning garden wastes we get paid to take away from a field my mate Terry knows down the dog and duck ?.
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Commercial probably also has an impact, as what happens when you take your waste to the top ?. It's technically classed as a holding, so whatever land you rent/own or borrow generally gets lumped together.
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That's correct, as a farmer I have about all the exceptions minus a few for sheep dip so know the rules. I have a if it's chipped or in timber form rule on site, if a tree guy wanted to pay for green waste shredding than that's a different matter as that's allowed under the EA rules.
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Technically it's illegal, as it's not the farmer own stuff he's burning. Whilst he may have a waste exemption that applies to him, it won't apply to brought in waste. Woodchip rotting in a field isn't really a problem as you can argue that is beneficial, burning however isn't and burning in a boiler might be a whole deeper quagmire. The EA rules are pretty clear, from memory it's D7. No excuse for illegally burning waste ENVIRONMENTAGENCY.BLOG.GOV.UK News and updates from the Environment Agency
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Chipper Drum Stuck Need Help & Advice On Chippers
GarethM replied to handymidi's topic in Maintenance help
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