Beachs, a great source of firewood (and other goodies).

Jimmy Garlic

It is that time of year again for me, every time I go to the beach I fill up a few bags with driftwood to let it dry out over the summer so I can use it in my wood burning stove come wintertime. Suprising how well the stuff burns when it is dry. Beaches are a source of other goodies too, for example I always pick up tyres when I find them, they have dozens of uses. Another thing I look out for is fishing net, great as a backing for climbing plants like peas and beans to grow on. Any other beachcombers out there?. What do you look out for?.

mountainy man

Beachcombing is great found two garden chairs and a scaffolding plank once and made a garden hammock outa some fishing net, I love that realy thick rope

NecroSteve

I remember after my debs, a load of us went to the beach and made a bonfire out of garden furniture from posh people's holiday homes. Hahahahaha!

Macha

Gentle reminder that this isn't AH

gnu

I've read that burning driftwood is a bad idea because it releases dioxins - a google search throws up a host of links on the subject.

Jimmy Garlic

gnu wrote: »

I've read that burning driftwood is a bad idea because it releases dioxins - a google search throws up a host of links on the subject.

Something to do with the salt content of the wood.. Most of the salt leeches out if the wood is found high on the tideline or if you leave it outdoors for a while after collecting it (salt in a stove isn't a good idea, plays havoc when you are not using it) and in any case I am guessing dioxin release would be negligible.

Jimmy Garlic

mountainy man wrote: »

Beachcombing is great found two garden chairs and a scaffolding plank

Dragging stuff like that can be a pain if it is not near somewhere you can park a car, good exercise though.. I found a huge piece of hardwood plank last year, made a great garden bench.