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Bonfires

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hannahsaunt · 12/09/2006 10:51

We have been pruning trees in our garden quite heavily and now have a very large pile of loppings and we don't really know what to do with them. Part of the problem is we have an entirely enclosed back garden and the only access to bins in through the house and there is really too much to transport. There is also too much to fit in the bin. We don't have any soil space (just grass and paved area - some trees are fruit and espaliered across the wall and the other trees are the enormous confiers that actually grow on the other side of the wall and I have to confess to tipping a large number of branches over the wall into the carpark where the trees grow In my defence it's the carpark for a block of flats and they are supposed to prune the trees annually and it hasn't been done for three years...).

Should we have a bonfire? How does one have a bonfire? Presume the wood is too fresh to burn. What do we do???

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Bramshott · 12/09/2006 11:08

I think that to have a bonfire you would need clear ground (eg. a veg patch to have it on) - it will spoil the grass or paved area. And probably better to wait until the spring when the wood has dried out a bit. If I were you I'd hire one of those shredder things and shred the whole lot up into a nice mulch.

hannahsaunt · 12/09/2006 11:14

Tell me more about shredder things? We are planning to get a composty thing for kitchen waste but with several trees worth of branches it wouldn't really cope. What would we do with the shreddings?

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hannahsaunt · 12/09/2006 13:46

Shameless bump for afternoon gardeners

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southeastastra · 12/09/2006 13:49

naughty you shoving them over the fence haha! you could save them for a big bonfire night fire

mooshy · 12/09/2006 20:58

We bought a special bin for burning just that sort of thing. Spent an afternoon chopping and burning branches and such.
Alternatively my friend haS a lovely patio heater and uses dried chopped wood in it.It was lovely to looK at and the kids were warm AND got to toast marshmallows 1

Bramshott · 13/09/2006 09:34

Hi Hannahsaunt.

this is the sort of thing I was meaning. It chops up all the branches for you, and then you can use the resulting chippings anywhere you'd use bark chippings - on your borders etc. I think you can get bigger ones too if your branches are over 50mm thick. Places like Travis Perkins also hire them out.

Wolfgirl · 27/03/2007 13:37

Hi, if you have a bonfire, it might be a considerate thing to warn the neighbours - we had a neighbour move in recently. It is a bungalow at the bottom of our garden, so his back garden meets our back garden. He lit bonfires about 4 times in as many days without warning. 4 lots of washing needed re-doing, and my house stunk of smoke - as did the neighbours. Turns out they are lovely people, very approachable, and really hadnt thought about the damage the smoke would do, or inconvenience etc.

Just a thought for you hun xx

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