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Growing => Grow Your Own => Topic started by: pwgun on March 08, 2007, 21:56

Title: burning stuff
Post by: pwgun on March 08, 2007, 21:56
My council contract states that i cannot have a bonfire on my plot.  Is this common for most allotments. Is an incinerator(looks like a metal bin) a way around this rule as i have seen a couple on site, or are they just pushing their luck? :D
Title: burning stuff
Post by: richyrich7 on March 08, 2007, 22:11
We can have them but not too big or smokey and can't be left unattended, etc. I guess the others on your site are just pushing their luck, but done right an incinerator makes very little smoke  :wink:
Title: burning stuff
Post by: shaun on March 08, 2007, 22:21
we can have fires but theres a time limit you cant have one between 10 am and 6 pm
Title: Re: burning stuff
Post by: WG. on March 08, 2007, 22:25
Quote from: "pwgun"
My council contract states that i cannot have a bonfire on my plot.  

Probably setting myself up here .... I reckon a bonfire is a big waste of fertility.   I'll concede that I don't have brambles or waste wood but almost anything else can be composted, or drowned, or dried, or mulched and the fertility retained.
Title: burning stuff
Post by: shaun on March 08, 2007, 22:27
so you compost brassicas with clubroot dave or blighted spuds or toms  :?
Title: burning stuff
Post by: WG. on March 08, 2007, 22:33
Quote from: "shaun"
so you compost brassicas with clubroot dave or blighted spuds or toms  :?

I wouldn't no.  Lucky enough not to have clubroot, don't grow tomatoes and blighted spuds go in the scaffy bucket.
Title: burning stuff
Post by: shaun on March 08, 2007, 22:36
and all those letters with your bank details etc get burnt with the clubroot  :wink:
whats a scaffy bucket dave ?
Title: burning stuff
Post by: WG. on March 08, 2007, 22:39
Quote from: "shaun"
whats a scaffy bucket dave ?

Slipped into the vernacular, sorry.  The dustbin.  A large plastic vessel emptied at irregular intervals by the municipal authority.  :D
Title: burning stuff
Post by: shaun on March 08, 2007, 22:40
arrr a wheelie bin thingymjig  :lol:
Title: burning stuff
Post by: WG. on March 08, 2007, 22:40
Quote from: "shaun"
and all those letters with your bank details

Shredded for my composting worms.  They don't seem to mind the red ink.
Title: burning stuff
Post by: shaun on March 08, 2007, 22:42
dont trust those shredders i have a image of all these russian sticking your bank statements back together  :lol:
Title: burning stuff
Post by: muntjac on March 08, 2007, 23:03
bonfires are open fires not closed in an incinerator folks
Title: burning stuff
Post by: shaun on March 08, 2007, 23:10
our council letter just says fires
Title: burning stuff
Post by: muntjac on March 08, 2007, 23:16
in it a pain in tha ass when councils allow something other nimbys dont . real jerks must run the councils
Title: burning stuff
Post by: shaun on March 08, 2007, 23:19
you can have a barbi though
Title: burning stuff
Post by: DD. on March 09, 2007, 06:56
We are not allowed to have fires on our site. The council provide a skip, but the sub-contractors are not very good at emptying it.  I'll inform the council by email when it's full, they let the sub-contractors know straight away, a week later it gets taken away when it has about 3 time a normal load in it. I try and anticipate a week in advance now!

They've recently written to all the plot holders asking if it would be a good idea if they emptied the skip themselves, shredded the contents and then brought the shreddings back for composting, as this would save them money.

I pointed out to them the inherent problems with club root, blight etc. as mentioned earlier. Not heard a thing since!
Title: burning stuff
Post by: pwgun on March 09, 2007, 12:00
Muntjac, you are thinking on the same lines as i am.  Play with the wording of the letter  "BONfire"  and i will have good argument if any complaints.

The thought of Barbecued couch grass is just setting my taste buds on fire??!!!!????!!! :D