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Post by Deleted on Oct 17, 2017 19:23:28 GMT
As it is getting a bit chilly now.
What's the general view on taking wood from the hedge to put in the fire?
Years ago when traveling around the English countryside on a narrow boat I would sometimes take dead wood from hedges. And other places.
Occasionally I would "take a fence" as there were a lot of old oak posts which had been decommissioned and replaced. Nice bit of firewood. So out came the WW2 wire cutters as there was sometimes a bit of heavily corroded barbed wire about.
Anyway are there any entrenched views on wood foraging?
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Post by Mr Stabby on Oct 17, 2017 19:34:49 GMT
We get given wood, more than we know what to do with. There are a couple of young blokes locally who have a business collecting unwanted used pallets from local factories and then re-selling them. Probably 40% of the pallets they collect are broken but the factories always say "You have to take the lot, not just the good ones". So they bring the broken ones here and dump them on the mooring, then we break them up and burn them.
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Post by Deleted on Oct 17, 2017 19:42:11 GMT
Cutting up and burning pallets is a bit of a ballache. I tend to do it with a jigsaw. My fire on the yot has a rotating grate which is allergic to nails so I bin the naily bits. Pain in the are but doable.
I did see a geyser cutting up a pallet with a chainsaw once but I think he was Irish so its OK.
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Post by lollygagger on Oct 17, 2017 20:06:05 GMT
There are pallets and pallets, some are impregnated with nasty shit and your neighbours won"t thank you.
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Post by Deleted on Oct 17, 2017 20:11:02 GMT
There are pallets and pallets, some are impregnated with nasty shit and your neighbours won"t thank you. This is true. I think the blue ones are the dodgy ones but I only use pallets as kindling before burning smokeless fuels in an urban envieonment. I suspect that on the rare occasion Mrs Tabby burns pallets on his boat there are not that many neighbours about to be thanking him. And anyway I would expect by now he has a fairly decent supply of dessicated "well killed" scrotes to burn.
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Post by Mr Stabby on Oct 17, 2017 20:23:00 GMT
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Post by Deleted on Oct 17, 2017 20:29:05 GMT
I noticed there is a bit of a craze for using pallets to make furniture.
So its a bit tricky. On one hand you have untreated pallets which will have had insecrsa rodents etc. On the other hand you have treated pallets so probably no insects but dodgy chemicals.
Why anyone would want pallets in their home (other than in the fire) is beyond me but apparently its quite popular.
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Post by thebfg on Oct 18, 2017 9:00:07 GMT
I am just waiting to see what else boaters can do with a hedge
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Post by JohnV on Oct 18, 2017 9:10:13 GMT
Why anyone would want pallets in their home (other than in the fire) is beyond me but apparently its quite popular. This is Sabina's wheelhouse during fitting out ...... the vertical tongue and groove below the windows is made from pallet wood img094 by mudlarker2, on Flickr and as can be seen from this shot it has lasted quite well (about 15 years or so since fitted) SAM_0665 by mudlarker2, on Flickr
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Post by Deleted on Oct 18, 2017 9:55:04 GMT
That's nice and a good use of pallet wood.
but I don't understand why people make beds and sofas from pallets. I suppose if you cleaned it well but thinking about what it was previously used for I would not really want to be sleeping on that sort of thing.
I have bits of pallet in my boat but. Using whole pallets which are awkward to clean is dodgy IMO.
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Post by quaysider on Oct 18, 2017 15:04:34 GMT
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Post by patty on Oct 18, 2017 16:30:08 GMT
It's a man cave .. a garden shed...must have necessity in every allotment
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Post by Gone on Oct 18, 2017 17:50:23 GMT
It's a man cave .. a garden shed...must have necessity in every allotment Men need sheds to sit in as it gives us that caveman feeling of defying the weather and surviving against all the odds - until it gets a bit chilly and we go home for a warm-up. Unless you have a posh shed with a woodburner..........
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Post by Deleted on Oct 18, 2017 18:52:23 GMT
It's a man cave .. a garden shed...must have necessity in every allotment Men need sheds to sit in as it gives us that caveman feeling of defying the weather and surviving against all the odds - until it gets a bit chilly and we go home for a warm-up. Unless you have a posh shed with a woman...... corrected for you just in case you misspelt the last word
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Post by bodger on Oct 19, 2017 7:50:18 GMT
WHen I had an allotment , I built a pallet shed... it was very good and strong.... not MDF then?
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