Old Boat Disposal

[Old Thady]

Easy! Just donate the vessel to Northern Ireland's bonfire builders.
I don't know if this boat is wood or GRP. Either way, it seems tiresome eco-restrictions are put on hold for the celebrations around the 'Twalvth'.
Viking funerals are another possible use for defunct craft but I don't suppose the authorities would approve.

 

[Adios]

I'm picturing that boat on fire sliding off backwards into a crowd. But then the heat given off from that lot would keep people back. And strip the paint off those railings. Damn thats a huge bonfire. Will be able to see it from wales probably

 

[penfold]

Looks like a 1960s plywood kit boat; people are regularly injured and occasionally killed building these monuments to stupidity, it would seem churlish to object to the same things happening when they're set alight.

 

[LittleSister]

Isn't that a Caprice? Someone should rescue it and sail round the world a time or two (a la Shane Acton and Shrimpy) before finally giving up on it.

 

[fisherman]

Where tf is the ecologic in burning good pallets just for fun?

 

[ylop]

Where tf is the ecologic in burning good pallets just for fun?

Its almost impossible to get your head around what they do, why they do it, and how they get away with it. Hundreds of years of tradition is one argument (reinforcing religious bigotry is another!) but there's a much more complex "power" struggle involved.

 

[Aja]

I'm picturing that boat on fire sliding off backwards into a crowd. But then the heat given off from that lot would keep people back. And strip the paint off those railings. Damn thats a huge bonfire. Will be able to see it from wales probably

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Trust me. That's a small bonfire.

 

[Adios]

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Trust me. That's a small bonfire.

That's amazing I have to say. I'm impressed at the daftness there. I'd like to see the pile of nails at the end. Probably a skip full. I saw some blokes with a van full of scrap wood and pallets having a fire on my local beach recently and went back 2 nights later with a very powerful engineering magnet, type you can turn on and off, assuming they would have left a load of nails for kids to get stuck with. I was amazed how many came from one fire. The stones underneath were still hot 48 hours later. For scale they are on an old lid from a tumble drier that I use as a fire base to avoid leaving nails.

 

[Adios]

Good video here showing people scaling them with no safety gear. I guess they are more solid than they look but even still not for the faint of heart

The Twelfth: Why are bonfires lit in Northern Ireland?

 

[Poignard]

Are they planning to have someone in it when they set fire to it? Like 'The Wicker Man'?

 

[penfold]

Probably just effigies of Gerry Adams and Michelle O'Neill.

 

[RunAgroundHard]

That's amazing I have to say. I'm impressed at the daftness there. I'd like to see the pile of nails at the end. Probably a skip full. I saw some blokes with a van full of scrap wood and pallets having a fire on my local beach recently and went back 2 nights later with a very powerful engineering magnet, type you can turn on and off, assuming they would have left a load of nails for kids to get stuck with. I was amazed how many came from one fire. The stones underneath were still hot 48 hours later. For scale they are on an old lid from a tumble drier that I use as a fire base to avoid leaving nails.

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Well done cleaning up the hazard, a very civic minded act.

 

[waynes world]

So all this clean air restrictions going on and there burning all the rubbish from there homes in there. Tyres, i mean come on you clowns.

 

[ChromeDome]

Pallets are either heat-treated (heated to a high temperature in kilns to seal the wood) or treated with methyl bromide — a toxic pesticide that has been linked to human health problems and ozone layer depletion. Even commonly treated with chemicals to prevent rot, the spread of invasive pests and pathogens and make them fire-retardant!

 

[waynes world]

Pallets are either heat-treated (heated to a high temperature in kilns to seal the wood) or treated with methyl bromide — a toxic pesticide that has been linked to human health problems and ozone layer depletion. Even commonly treated with chemicals to prevent rot, the spread of invasive pests and pathogens and make them fire-retardant!

Not in my stove there not haha

 

[duncanmack]

 

[RunAgroundHard]

I wonder if they are wearing safety harnesses.

 

[Daydream believer]

What a waste of pallets. I love a good pallet or two on my log burner.

 

[AntarcticPilot]

What a waste of pallets. I love a good pallet or two on my log burner.

I have at least two friends who keep an eye open for decent pallets to use the wood in woodworking projects. One borrows my planer-thicknesser from time to time!

 

[Wansworth]

A new pallet cost 5 euros