Rheghead
22-May-05, 18:40
I am interested in cutting peat for fuel, well just to try whether it is worth doing. I live in Reay and there are a lot of old banks on Drumholliston that seem to have a lot of life in them yet but don't seem to get cut. I also need those cutting tools, I don't know what the correct names are for them, I am such a greenhorn :D
Does anyone know if you need rights to cut peat, if so how does one go about getting rights to do it.
I have bought the precut stuff and though I realise that it doesn't burn as good as wood or coal there is still something really 'wholesome' about the smell of peat. I guess if I get a peat bank to go at then there will be something therapeutic in it as well as the useful heat source. Like good exercise, fresh air, good scenery and thousands of midgybites :lol:
When I first came to Caithness in 1982 there were lots of peat banks being cut, now there are very few. It is a shame in a way that peat is not cut as much as used to be for domestic use. Now it seems people are much happier to buy it in rather than go out and cut it (which I perfectly understand).
Does anyone know if you need rights to cut peat, if so how does one go about getting rights to do it.
I have bought the precut stuff and though I realise that it doesn't burn as good as wood or coal there is still something really 'wholesome' about the smell of peat. I guess if I get a peat bank to go at then there will be something therapeutic in it as well as the useful heat source. Like good exercise, fresh air, good scenery and thousands of midgybites :lol:
When I first came to Caithness in 1982 there were lots of peat banks being cut, now there are very few. It is a shame in a way that peat is not cut as much as used to be for domestic use. Now it seems people are much happier to buy it in rather than go out and cut it (which I perfectly understand).