Burning bush piles.

woody84

What's the story with burning bush piles on land these days? Cleared some land at the start of the year and its well dried out and ready for burning.

jimini0

woody84 wrote: »

What's the story with burning bush piles on land these days? Cleared some land at the start of the year and its well dried out and ready for burning.

I burnt a few small piles yesterday. It was so dry it was completely burnt down in 2 hours. I have a river beside me in case anything was to go wrong. Also told the neighbours near by I was going burning. The breeze was goin the opposite direction so they had nothing to worry about.
You are supposed to inform the local fire station. Time you are lighting it and location.

Keepgrowing

woody84 wrote: »

What's the story with burning bush piles on land these days? Cleared some land at the start of the year and its well dried out and ready for burning.

Phone council to alert fire officer and burn away

Cavanjack

You can’t burn bushes during the closed hedge cutting season as far as I know. I understood You could be docked On your bfp if caught

Ten Pin

https://www.npws.ie/news/restrictions-burning-and-hedgecutting

Section 40 of the Wildlife Acts restricts the cutting, grubbing, burning or destruction by other means of vegetation growing on uncultivated land or in hedges or ditches during the nesting and breeding season for birds and wildlife, from 1 March to 31 August.

Burning piles of dead bushes from tidying up a field etc is considered burning of green waste and the local authority environmental dept have rules to follow in that regard (notifying them and fire services).

There's a forest fire warning in force until next week so maybe hold off until the day before next rain is forecast if there's forestry nearby.
https://www.agriculture.gov.ie/forestservice/firemanagement/

ganmo

Cavanjack wrote: »

You can’t burn bushes during the closed hedge cutting season as far as I know. I understood You could be docked On your bfp if caught

Once the bushes are cut during the cutting season you can burn them later. Your local coco will have their own rules on how to notify them

Say my name

And if ye have to and it's dry enough..burn from the top down.
At least ye won't be polluting the country with smoke.

Better still put it out with the slurry tanker before it turns to ash and use the char.

Or give the pile to me. Free gratis.

ruwithme

Council round here won't fill pot holes and or make some landowners cut road side hedges with years of growth , even though there
contacted multiple times about.

i personally won't be contacting them when I've a few bushes for burning

burn away op.

50HX

ruwithme wrote: »

Council round here won't fill pot holes and or make some landowners cut road side hedges with years of growth , even though there
contacted multiple times about.

i personally won't be contacting them when I've a few bushes for burning

burn away op.

Agree with you but you could be left with a fire brigade charge if someone phones them

Say my name

Just watched a fb clip from an orchard in Kilkenny.
They cleared an orchard in 1983 and put it into tillage. There's dark patches of soil today where they piled up the trees and burned them in 1983.

tabby aspreme

The way to go about it and not get into trouble is, you ask council permission to burn on certain dates, when you get clearance back from the council, you contact the fire service before you burn each day and after you finish each day, the fire service will have been made aware by the council that you have permission to burn

sonnybill

50HX wrote: »

Agree with you but you could be left with a fire brigade charge if someone phones them

Always call it in, 999 and fire service please.. keep your mobile on you and fully charged and you will get no bill from anyone as camp will always call you before they dispatch your local fire station

woody84

I was talking to one of the lads from my local fire brigade. He said I'm better to wait till the dry spell is over. They've been called several times over the last few weeks where fires have gotten out of control.

Keepgrowing

Cavanjack wrote: »

You can’t burn bushes during the closed hedge cutting season as far as I know. I understood You could be docked On your bfp if caught

Not so

Just on a side note, there's no point asking the gardeners.
Am I allowed cut through a domestic hedge into a field at the moment.?

Say my name

SouthWesterly wrote: »

Just on a side note, there's no point asking the gardeners.
Am I allowed cut through a domestic hedge into a field at the moment.?

Is it your own field?

Say my name

Say my name wrote: »

Is it your own field?

Yes, wouldn't have asked if it was someone else's. Its not like I'm a jackeen.... O wait... I am