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Rant warning!!!!

so this weekend the time came to replace the garden fence, 8 panels and 9 posts. i dug out all the old concrete (imagine a bucket size peice of concrete X 9!

loaded them on the truck and popped down to my local tip just about to unload when the guy says to me you cant put that in there! me thinking maybe coz its a pickup truck commercial waste etc etc but NO he said you can only dispose of 6 bags of hardcore.

After much discussion calling over of the guvnor etc etc i explained it was my garden fence and what sort of project creates 6 bags thats nothing and also if i cant put it in there now ill bring back 6 bags every weekend til its gone so ule get it one way or another! common sense prevailed and they let me put it in! needless to say i was very grateful and was worth every penny of my £120 a month council tax! (not)

i understand the issues with commercial waste but im an IT analyst and live 1/2 mile from tip!

rant over

Don't know what you're complaining about! They only accept two bags at a time here.

I bet he had a clipboard, and a HI VIZ, they all do...

Sounds like your local tips are a bit militant. mine let be bin a smashed up greenhouse, loads of garden rubbish a washing machine, dishwasher and fridge. £5 each to the two lads and they helped me unload and throw it in the correct skips.

I advertise all of my toxic and other waste on freecycle. It works and I haven't forked out any cash for having everything from a well-knackered old mattress to several PC cases taken away.

Rules exist for the obedience of fools and the guidance of wise men.

Much as it surprises me to say something good about our local council, our local "Tip", is a very useful facility and the staff there seem helpful. Whenever I go there and I have any building or garden waste, it always seems to fit into my 5 foot Caddy trailer, whereby I convert the Traveller into a pick up truck. I don't know how I would fare if I turned up in a van or pick up (When I was a child, lots of people drove vans, as they weren't subject to purchase tax; that would cause some confusion today).

The problem is, that if they make it too awkward, it leads to fly tipping. We have more than our fair share of cavemen locally, for whom, keeping coal in the bath, would represent an improvement. These must be the ones who fly tip an old TV or fridge on the rural fringes of the valleys (ie On the tops of the mountains between the valleys or to the north on the way to or in the Brecon Beacons National Park). Yes you see the odd bit of what is, quite possibly, cowboy builder fly tipping but much of what you see is most likely domestic. Given that I have always found it pretty easy to use the council tip, I am bound to ask why these morons apparently go to more effort, to tip stuff illegally

surely that promotes fly tipping? Thats what i did say to the guy who yes did have a clipboard complete with leaflets and a high viz! he was in all fairness helpfull and saw sense in the end, ive taken loads off stuff in there before they seem to hapily take metal as im sure they earn a fortune from it!

I like the idea of advertising on freecycle i didnt think of that maybe someone could have used the hardcore well worth thinking of in future cheers!

on the subject of getting rid of things I sold a knackered daihatsu with lots of parts missing for £75 which was cheap (im a beleiver in what comes around goes around) when 10 years ago i scrapped a very good citroen ax albeit with a head gasket failre and cracked head and had to pay £25 for them to take it even tho i drove it there and i had to take the tyres away! crazy how things have changed

I'd advise against advertising hardcore per se on freecycle. I did, when I had some work done in a cellar a couple of years ago. Naturally, being freecycle-minded, I assumed - as you quite reasonably did in the above post - that possibly someone would have a use for the truckload that the job threw up.
Well nobody told me then that there was another kind of hardcore, one that would bring in literally hundreds of messages from people wanting to take away a truckload of it for free.

Maybe describe it as rubble if you ever find yourself in that position again.

haha excellent! if i had a truck load of that kind of hardcore id be keeping it!

wish i had more land always seems i need to get rid of something one week then need some the next week! got ris of the rubble then need some for a greenhouse base next week! if only i had the power of seeing into the future