Neighbour's bonfire

shaun_from_Africa

FreeBear wrote: »

Started stacking a pile which I will wait to put a match to later in the year - First week of November should see it dry out pretty well and reduce the amount of smoke. With everyone else around lighting bonfires at the same time, one more is hardly going to be a nuisance.

Don't forget to have a good look inside the pile before you light it as there may well be a family of hedgehogs in there by November.

Rain_Shadow

shaun_from_Africa wrote: »

Don't forget to have a good look inside the pile before you light it as there may well be a family of hedgehogs in there by November.

No point in missing out on a free roast dinner.:cool:

DaftyDuck

If you pour a little paraffin or diesel in the middle, the scent keeps them out for weeks. You ONLY NEED A LITTLE - half a coffee cup is plenty, and splash it around.

I do not recommend using it to light the fire on the 5th this way - the emergency services are busy enough then, but it will deter hedgies if you put a little in the heart of your fire as you build it.

Davesnave

I'm surprised no one has suggested that we're going to see an increasing number of bonfires as more local authorities begin to revise their policies on chargeable waste.

Nowadays, here in Devon, they'll only allow disposal of anything which looks vaguely DIY if one pays £3.50 a bag. So, if I filled my van with bags and took them up to Birmingham, I'd save a mint, even allowing for the diesel.

That situation won't pertain for ever.

Here, a 6m3 skip can cost £360, so when a local farmer was recently fined £6k for inappropriate disposal of others' waste on his own land, I suspect he was still smiling ito his beer. He'd been doing it for years. Huge columns of oily smoke still emanate from his woodland from time to time.

We have a problem, and bonfires at inappropriate times in urban areas are only the milder side of it. Just ask someone with quiet land near the edge of a city about fly tipping, to hear all about problems at the sharp end.

googler

Evidently the OP's council isn't as forward-thinking as mine - no garden refuse collection, apparently?

Dan-Dan

googler wrote: »

Evidently the OP's council isn't as forward-thinking as mine - no garden refuse collection, apparently?

We have garden refuse collection , but you have to pay for it (pembs) where we were (beds) it was done `free`

Needless to say bonfires aplenty here

Paradigm

FreeBear wrote: »

Started stacking a pile which I will wait to put a match to later in the year - First week of November should see it dry out pretty well and reduce the amount of smoke.

Why not just advertise it as free to good home....someone with a wood burner will gladly take it off your hands!

bouicca21

Am I the only person who takes garden rubbish to the council tip, pardon, recycling centre?

FreeBear

Paradigm wrote: »

Why not just advertise it as free to good home....someone with a wood burner will gladly take it off your hands!

It is a mix of brambles, woody weeds, and prunings unfit for any other purpose. If you want to come over and haul the stuff away for home heating feel free to do so at any time.

What you can't have is the six cubic metres of stacked seasoned logs that I intend to burn during the winter months.:p