Daydream thread... without the rose-tinted specs

Rummer

Hmmm, well still worth popping it on at the time then if no takers you have lost nothing.

alfie_1

EVENING FOLKS

well it has piddled and drizzled all day here...:(

not moved grumpy mabe yet.. next couple of days.

i got mr postie to collect all the tree trunk/logs .they stacked a 14ft trailer... he will return me a trailer of logs..
SO if/when the estate turn up asking where the wood is ..... "dont know officer" :rotfl:

seems to be the trend for these big estate owners to do the dirty on thier tenants ! my best friends hubby has been working for one at the marina for 40yrs. he is now harbour master with a house that apparently the rent was a reduced amount deducted from original wages so he actually doesnt know what the amount equates to . he was assured the house when he retired ....nope :eek: they want £1250 per month from him :eek::eek:
so hes told them to go look where the sun dont shine ...

what is with people... £££££s is thier god.......
id rather be poor and homeless with a clear conscionce than be on the same shelf as that lot..

im ready to hit my lot squarely between the eyes soon and ive built up an arsenal of weapons to use...:mad:

no water repairs as yet and im gonna enjoy getting waterboard back out AND im gonna bill mr BUHA for fuel used for pump, cost of rodding drains and get envoironmental health out too.
im so fed up i dont care. im sick of a swamp for a garden, the smell and the constant having to check everything....

sorry folks im having a grump...:o

RAS

Rummer wrote: »

Freecycle them?

Agree - someone will take them as eventual firewood.

ukmaggie45

lostinrates wrote: »

Really, would people want old leylandi stumps??

Surely anyone with a wood burner would be interested?

We'd be glad of them on the lottie as we have huge amounts of couch grass and bindweed that need getting rid of - old stumps would be good as slow burning (?) and we could chuck the wet stuff on, enough stumps would make a conflagration big enuff to get rid of it! At least I think it might.

Shame you ain't near Liverpool!

lostinrates

ukmaggie45 wrote: »

Surely anyone with a wood burner would be interested?
!

Hmm,

Maybe I'm not clear about the size of some of these stumps and the number of them

You'd have to deal with before taking, and you cannot deal with in first year because they are full of soil.


There are about seventy of them. Some are normal sized. An idea to the size of the others is that the Dutch barn was about two thirds the height of the trees. :eek:

I will put on free cycle though to see what the uptake of the three we have out already is as a tester. They are well seasoned and some one dedicated and equipped could process them and used them after stacking them and drying them out.

I_have_spoken

Since moving house last Oct, I knew my DD for gas/lecky was crazy high. Now power company has agreed and credited £100s of pounds to my account. Result!

Davesnave

ukmaggie45 wrote: »

Surely anyone with a wood burner would be interested?

But how would this person with a wood burner cut them up first?

Lir and I have explained, a chain saw isn't an option. We have wood burners and we're not interested, because these stumps are not worth the bother they would cause processing them, assuming we could find a way.

But yes there is no harm in Freecycling, or trying to. Could be a bit like cockerels to Hatherleigh though! :rotfl:

You have every right to grump on here Alfie, and to force your landlord to give you decent conditions in which to live. :A

Unfortunately, the cuteness factor of your home probably works against you, as said landlord might expect to re-let easily, should he wish to.

COOLTRIKERCHICK

Alfie, I am prob totally wrong, but are they trying to wear you down, so you find somewhere else to live on your own accord???

LIR re tree stumps, could you place them around the edges of the fields and make some sort of nature 'thing' where hedghogs, beetles and wotnots live????

edit... LIR didn't realise there were soooooo many... if you put them on freecycle might be just saying recently uplifted tree stumps, don't mention fire wood, etc leave the collector decide what they will use them for...

lostinrates

Davesnave wrote: »

But how would this person with a wood burner cut them up first?

Lir and I have explained, a chain saw isn't an option. We have wood burners and we're not interested, because these stumps are not worth the bother they would cause processing them, assuming we could find a way.

But yes there is no harm in Freecycling, or trying to. Could be a bit like cockerels to Hatherleigh though! :rotfl:

You have every right to grump on here Alfie, and to force your landlord to give you decent conditions in which to live. :A

Unfortunately, the cuteness factor of your home probably works against you, as said landlord might expect to re-let easily, should he wish to.

Thanks dave, I thought maybe I was wrong! I think you could saw the three clean ones, (tbh, not sure how you'd get into them, because they are so massive, it would be sawing like a chipmunck, but there you go, definitely possible, but probably not time effective for us with everything else that always needs to be done,

but I don't really want the rest sitting around for a few years to get rain cleaned like a battalion!

lostinrates

COOLTRIKERCHICK wrote: »

LIR re tree stumps, could you place them around the edges of the fields and make some sort of nature 'thing' where hedghogs, beetles and wotnots live????

Its a lovely idea, but just not really that practical. If we had some woodland I'd certainly consider that, but its not really a practical solution here, where we are open fields and have clients and horses and contractors' tractors using land, essentially something like that would be a pita.