Anyone want some free wood?

[Vatican Citys No.2 Keeper]

with a brush and some creosote

Not Mr. Creosote from Monty Python.

"It's just a wafer thin mint"

 

[brighton rock]

going to take a long time to clear up i spent 5 hours with seven other chap clearing wood from the harbour entrance and we collected about a pack (about a ton) and it was very heavy after soaking up lots of sea water

 

[Lord Bracknell]

Last time I called the police to report an attempted break-in, there were two officers at my door before I'd got off the phone to the station.

I called the police when a kid threw a stone at my car. They took FIVE MINUTES to turn up.

 

[1066familyman]

I'm after as much 6 be 2 type stuff for my allotment as I can lay my filthy....I mean thrifty..... hands on ; quality unimportant.

Winds have been Westerly I do believe so I might just get a result. Have to take a stroll as soon as this Mali v Benin game is over.

 

[1066familyman]

Oh well, Mali got lucky there with dodgy pen. Personally hoping for a draw from this one to do Super Eagles a favour after the Kalou debacle (

Here goes. Hat and scarf on, borrow a mates dog in case the filth are about asking akward questions, and lets see what lovely timber awaits.

Can't wait !........

 

[Lady Whistledown]

I called the police when a kid threw a stone at my car. They took FIVE MINUTES to turn up.

And you pay their WAGES too.

Lazy bastards. Probably eating lunch or something.

 

[csider]

What sort of SAD BASTARD wades into the freezing cold sea for a bit of WOOD? If you want it that much, whip yourself down to B&Q.

Its on the prom, not in the water......!

 

[csider]

One day they will make a MOVIE about this, with Tom Cruise playing the part of the wood.

Thought Edward Woodward would be the man for the job!!

 

[BRIGHT ON Q]

Look at the pictures, it's all knotty pine - Not good quality at all - good for an AGA and thats about it..

Oh no its not.I have just been down for a gander.It is sawn joinery timber.Not the shite you buy in B&Q which is fast grown crap.This is joinery quality.I worked in a joiners shop for 8 years and this is the sort of stuff we used to buy in by the pack load.naturally it has some knots in it.from what i could see it all looked like it was pretty straight still too!.must be worth millions!.

 

[Collar Feeler]

It'll all warp though once its dried out. And laden with salt you will have to use rust resistant fixings to put it together.

I patrolled along from Brighton to Shoreham today, loads of wood everywhere with not a contractor in sight. I gave words of advice to a few people clearly in the process of taking the wood with the info that what they did once I'd gone was up to them. In my opinion they are helping the clear up since at the next high tide a lot will be washed back out into the sea creating a hazard again. Mind you I'm not measured on detections, I have heard accounts of some of my detection driven colleagues giving out cautions for 'Theft by finding' jjst to bump uo their statistics, sad really and not very good PR in my book.

 

[Brixtaan]

Arf...!

Just what i expect from a trainee chippy - if you can't see that it's shite timber that going to be f***ed and twisted by the time it dries out all that salt water, then best you change career - better still, i'm looking for a bod to help out, pass the left handed screwdriver please kiddo..!

Yee-haa, stick to metal pipes you cowboy!

It's clear that this is quality sawn joinery timber,not the shite that you attempt to bodge bathrooms with from B+Q.Theres obviously going to be knots so when you've got me the skyhook from B+Q can you fetch the striped paint from the van.

 

[perseus]

What sort of SAD BASTARD wades into the freezing cold sea for a bit of WOOD? If you want it that much, whip yourself down to B&Q.

Buying wood is dangerous:
http://www.adur.gov.uk/news-releases/2008/nr-08-010.htm

Best to collect for nought. It is an inalienable right to fossick on the seashore for what gets washed in.

 

[perseus]

PS: Some of the timber is of such poor quality, I would suspect fraud. What nationality were the crew? Not blaming them, but it might be a rust bucket on its last trip and everybody but the crew knew it.

Captian Pugwash

 

[1066familyman]

May I say what an absolutely marvellous phenomenenenemumn Long Shore Drift is !

Will do for my raised beds a treat thank you very kindly.

I can appreciate blocking off beaches to the resourceful when there's tons of the stuff and machinery about, but when there's no safety risk it's fair game in my book.

 

[The Clown of Pevensey Bay]

It is an inalienable right to fossick on the seashore for what gets washed in.

No it isn't, matey. Ask the Merchant Shipping Act 1995.

 

[perseus]

No it isn't, matey. Ask the Merchant Shipping Act 1995.

Inalienable right means before the Government got in. The right to moor boats/ships for the purpose of unloading (24 hours) and the collection of winkles and other sea food and to fish from the beach without a licence. Well, that is the defence.

I like this pic:

http://www.flickr.com/photos/11631912@N05/2209724750/in/set-72157603765492524/

 

[The Clown of Pevensey Bay]

Massive great hulks of timber are not "winkles and other sea food".

http://www.mcga.gov.uk/c4mca/mcga-e...s_row_receiver_of_wreck/mcga-dops_row_law.htm

 

[1066familyman]

Massive great hulks of timber are not "winkles and other sea food".

http://www.mcga.gov.uk/c4mca/mcga-e...s_row_receiver_of_wreck/mcga-dops_row_law.htm

Thanks for the link TCoPB. The following is from that link :

>Finders who report their finds to the Receiver of Wreck have salvage rights. The Receiver of Wreck acts to settle questions of ownership and salvage.<

Seems to me then that so long as anyone...... "report their finds"..... they are quite entitled to hold onto it until....."The receiver of Wreck acts to settle questions of ownershio and salvage."

Now ask yourself this. Who do you think The receiver of wrecks is going to grant ownership of, say, a roof rack full of sodden washed up broken planks to ?

 

[perseus]

Massive great hulks of timber are not "winkles and other sea food".

http://www.mcga.gov.uk/c4mca/mcga-e...s_row_receiver_of_wreck/mcga-dops_row_law.htm

Thanks for the link. What is the difference between a winkle and a plank, Judge?

 

[perseus]

Going down on my bike to pick up a plank. Its the principle that counts. It is common land and common property.

Worse case of fly-tipping on common land since the Torrey Canyon. Even worse than the South Downs Conservation Board fencing off and contaminating Telscombe Tye.