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When we moved in here we inherited a pallet-built fence that lasted approx 1 day before the wind took it down (allegedly it had lasted 30 years. Uh-huh.) and a rotting wooden shed, which we took a lump hammer to to make way for shinynew shed (had I known that in just over a year I'd have an allotment I'd have saved it - rotting shed's better than no shed).
Sometime over the past year, I swear they've mated, and no matter how many evenings we spend out fuelling the incinerator, the pile just isn't getting any smaller - we still have 2 small hippo bags full.
We had the brainwave the other day of hiring a wood-chipper and just chipping the lot of it. Some of it's been treated, and we don't know what with, none of it's in good condition (hence not using it for raised beds or anything like that), but we figure we have enough back-of-shed gaps that could use woodchips, where it won't matter if the wood's been treated with stuff. Basically, a hippo or two of woodchips'll be easier to deal with than a hippo or two of wood.
Before we go ahead and do this - does anyone have any inspired ideas as to what else we could possibly do with that much shoddy wood?
Person with the best suggestion wins a prize
(the prize might be wood)
Sometime over the past year, I swear they've mated, and no matter how many evenings we spend out fuelling the incinerator, the pile just isn't getting any smaller - we still have 2 small hippo bags full.
We had the brainwave the other day of hiring a wood-chipper and just chipping the lot of it. Some of it's been treated, and we don't know what with, none of it's in good condition (hence not using it for raised beds or anything like that), but we figure we have enough back-of-shed gaps that could use woodchips, where it won't matter if the wood's been treated with stuff. Basically, a hippo or two of woodchips'll be easier to deal with than a hippo or two of wood.
Before we go ahead and do this - does anyone have any inspired ideas as to what else we could possibly do with that much shoddy wood?
Person with the best suggestion wins a prize
(the prize might be wood)
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