Garden Bonfires

[rich p]

Bung a Pope on it.

 

[Over The Hill]

Every building site used to have a giant bonfire towards the end of the contract. Where did they go? In comparison, skips are not exactly a 10 are they?

I think they are often banned from doing so as part of the conditions on the planning consent. They have things like this, hours they can work, protecting any trees and all sorts.

My sister has a bit of land next to her house that she has consent to build a couple of houses on, having knocked down an old shed. Ground is saturated and any hole just fills up with water. Building work is held up for 3 months as the council archaeology bloke cannot inspect the site if too wet. There is nothing there but the man has to check it.

 

[Archie_tect]

Buy him a snorkel and insist he uses it.

 

[asterix]

On a scale of 0 to 10, how Manly did poking a stick in a bonfire make you feel? (10 = very Manly).

When my brother bought his first house the downstairs floor was pretty rotten and we ripped it up. It was a very cold day so we then decided to get rid of the stuff by burning it in the hearth. It was a long job and having done a good day's work we had a beer or two; hell, we deserved it!

As the evening wore on we put more and more flooring on the fire and it seemed to burn more and more fiercely. Eventually we had a knock on the door from a worried neighbour who asked if we knew our chimney was alight. Sure enough viewed against the night sky it was as good as a blast furnace and with the draught from the open front door, the flames and sparks increased by the minute. An appreciative crowd gathered and it soon occurred to us we had better invite the fire brigade along too.

The lads arrived promptly and started to pump water all over the place. It was amazing how much water a red-hot chimney can handle simply by vapourising it. At the end of the proceedings our new friends from the fire brigade very kindly advised us on filling in the insurance claim, not just for the fire damage, apparently the kind of water they used was also extremely destructive.

 

[Archie_tect]

Pine wood like most evergreen timber is very resinous and can start chimney fires pretty quickly.

 

[Accy cyclist]

Sad to see that some posters find the pollution of the atmosphere a humorous subject! What's next laughing at fly tipping?

 

[slowmotion]

What's next laughing at fly tipping?

Stop talking rubbish...

 

[asterix]

Sad to see that some posters find the pollution of the atmosphere a humorous subject! What's next laughing at fly tipping?

Are you trolling?

 

[Archie_tect]

Is this thread still smouldering....

 

[welsh dragon]

There seems to be a lot of dead wood on this thread

 

[JoeyB]

I've had two fires down the end of the garden in the last couple of weeks. Both were well behaved for a majority of the time, until I had to burn some old paperwork and the sheer quantity of it all choked the fire and caused a massive amount of smoke!

I'm not fussed though, my neighbour chucks car tyres on his! Our gardens are also very long so the smoke has dispersed a fair amount by the time it reaches the houses.

 

[AndyRM]

There seems to be a lot of dead wood on this thread

Get it burned.

 

[welsh dragon]

Get it burned.

oh believe me we do. We have a lot of land so we can go mad when it comes to setting fire to things.

 

[Salad Dodger]

All this talk of bonfires makes me want to get the chimnea out, and get a nice little blaze going......

 

[threebikesmcginty]

Not having one today, we've got our own washing out, wouldn't want to make it smell.