Brushcutter Diary 2022
March 20th, 2022Start the bund before end of May each year: North end?
2022
- September 20th Used strimmer around wagon and veggie area 1T
- August 20th Used 2 bladed cutter across the triangle filed and into the small one clearing the ferns 1T
Second run cleared half the path north 1T.
Third run finished the bund north. 1T - August 2nd Used 2 bladed cutter along the track around the wagon and the veggie area 1T
Second run finished to breach but tide too high to cross to the marsh.
Third run finished the bund north. 1T - July 26th Used 2 bladed cutter along the bund north east, approaching the breach 1T
Second run finished to breach but tide too high to cross to the marsh.
Third run finished the bund north. 1T - July 22nd Used 2 bladed cutter along the bund to boat and east 1T
- June 20th Used strimmer along the main track and around the eastern boundary of the inhabited area. 1T
- June 12th Used 2 bladed cutter to finish the track north in triangle field, around apple trees, area east of veg, some little along the track 1T
- June 8th Used strimmer to clear along the track, around the wagon, the veg plot, the ALP and tent area 1 T
Used 2 bladed cutter to clear across the triangle field some 100m+, up the triangle field some 120m and with odd bits probably managed 230m on 1T which is a first, I think - June 7th Used 2 bladed brushcutter to clear finish clearing the bund to the northern boundary 2 T
andthe repairseems fine. - June 4th Used 2 bladed brushcutter to clear the bund. Didn't quite reach the broken drain. Some used on track side to Trekensa 2 T
- June 2nd Use strimmer to clear the sides of the track to wagon, around the wagon and north to the montbretia patch and around the veg area. had the stalling, like the carburettor maybe dirty :( 1T
- May 19th Use strimmer and 2 bladed brush cutter from south east corner of far field up to the gate and down to the marsh. Also cleared through the small triangle filed and maybe 60 metres coming back across the triangle field. 2T
- April 27th Whilst cleaning the harness today I noticed the clip to hold the brushcutter is breaking through it's holding tag. See comment 1.
- April 26th Used 2 blade brushcutter, north continuing from yesterday 2T
- April 25th Used 2 blade brushcutter, down to the boat and north to within about 45m of the breach. 2T
- April 19th
Used strimmer around veg plot and locales 1T - April 17th
Cleared some to the north, east across triangle field and bit more to the north at the eastern end where the permaculture people dump old metal that was used for fencing. 2T One with shredder one with blade. - April 7th
Walked the north bund and around back via the triangle field. There was no obvious sign of hogweed or knotweed and I will check again in approx two weeks 19th to 23 April. - March 21st
Used shredder on outskirts of growing area, bramble patches near the wagon, the path up to and including the montbretia patch. 1T - March 20th
Used strimmer around garden and wagon 1T
Total 25 tanks (18.75Lt)
Recycling
September 20th, 2022Sadly there is no 'best' way. It's a consumer industry despite the name recycle. Different business will use whatever sells their service to collect and pass 'waste' on.
Then there the second recipient who will either dispose of it, or pass it to people or machines that can separate and clean parts well enough to be sold as raw material, like , plastics, various metals. No doubt a lot of circuit boards are not easily recycled and are burnt just to get the metal from them.
Then of course you have batteries in mobile devices that require another path the extract valuables.
The issue isn't around the 'best' options for the environment, which is what someone may tout but about money.
If it's cheaper to recycle than land fill then recycling gets a go ahead, no matter how efficient in actually retrieving 'raw' materials.
Alternatives may be that 'rich' nation don't want to have piles of rubbish on their doorstep and sell equipment to poor nations and then it's up for grabs
So I would question : Why recycle
There's no more room to hide the waste
It's getting too expensive to hide the waste.
There's concerns for how the environment looks
There's concern that the damage to the environment in terms of toxicity is unacceptable in some areas.
People feel good as they think they are creating a sustainable environment in terms of material consumption
It just doesn't end.
So it more that it may be perceived as better for some, at the expense of others in the short term to have electronics broken up and recycled
In the medium term it prolongs the extraction of raw materials and generates the consumer notion of a cyclical consumer indulgence.
It the long term it makes very little difference to the overall benefit to the biosphere as the newly generated waste goes on to new waste and keeps the industry on tap.