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At least that proves he's not a Muslum pervert😁

Who would you put your money on?

Most folk start out doing risk surveys, I did, over 20 years ago. You then work up to planning, subsidence, mortgage, decay detection, etc. Then eventually expert witness if that’s your thing. I actually like doing risk surveys again now so kind of come full circle. 5837 is good but if you do it properly it’s pretty time demanding. Most companies churn out generic rubbish though. I don’t know why, they take time but they are not rocket science. I assess them for an LPA as an external consultant as they don’t have a TO. Most of the ones I see are pretty shocking, not all. I worked as planning TO for 13 years as well and that was the same story. If you do them right you will get a steady flow of work as you will get a reputation of being no hassle. I.e. you don’t get objections from the LPA. That is good news for architects and planning consultants. If you have any questions, feel free to ping me an email. Cheers Chris

He's matched up against a smaller and less experienced guy, who is still a knockout machine, I'd like to see him (fury) win. I don't think he'll ever get the upper hand on Usyk if it ever comes round again.

I'm not so sure, he's looking fit.

for his fight on the 11th yes as it be a easy one for him to start with,,

I think not. Usyk took his soul. He should quit while he's behind.

OK, I'll ask again, is he good enough?

Yes 11th i think,,

Isn't he fighting in April?

He’s a very good businessman. He’s spent his career dodging AJ though (who apparently whooped him when they were amateurs).

Exactly this. Most publications are easy to find in a digital format online. (xxxxxxxx.pdf) When I started surveying/consultancy I found a local firm and mostly did the data capture for them while soaking up what happened afterwards. Then I adapted it to my own business model.

Thanks I'll check out West Berkshire website. Yes I felt the course left me with a lot still to learn. Was only 1 day I'm going to have to try to get involved with other arb surveyors and try to get some experience that way. I work as a tree inspector for a county council currently, but it's all just risk assessment, no planning stuff.

This probably doesn't belong in this thread as I didn't cook it. Duck, fat and some beans in a tin. Well I hope thats what it was as my Polish isn't that good.

good enough for what ??, he will have a few fights and possibly get another shot at a tittle, but i think if he meets Usyk again i think the result will be a repeat of the first 2, i would like to see a Fury v Joshua fight or Fury v Dubious, so far i think Dubious has put on the best show with Usyk, others may say different,,

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I saw two large squabs this week, must have hatched in January! We left them alone but it was a surpise even tho pigeons are at it all year round..

Think you'll find Chester is more down to it's local availability of oak, places like Delamere and the earl of Chester owning lots of it. Bricks were a later material mostly at sea/harbour areas especially as empty ships needed ballast and bricks were cheap.

“cage work” which I’d never heard of before, seems to be a specifically Irish usage. I don’t think Dublin’s much wetter than Chester. Is the survival of timber buildings lower in places of later economic booms? The wool towns of east Anglia have wonderful timbered houses built during the greatest prosperity of those towns, whereas Dublin and london were great commercial and administrative centres and were rebuilt. Paris knocked down its medieval city in the 19th century. And london had a fire of course.

OK. To break it down, Natural England grant funding for this year currently stands at £13.52/metre. That doesn't factor in bought-in coppice material like stakes and binders because Natural England field officers don't know the first thing about hedgelaying and they're just government quango employees with degrees and final salary pensions, Kermit the frog wellingtons and a factsheet from the NHLS (who dont know that much about hedgelaying either, except for how to promote the NHLS) which they've downloaded off the internet. If you're working purely for grant funded money you need to lay an absolute minimum of 20 meters a day. I work on 25-30. By the time you've taken off travel diesel and saw fuel (in my case currently running at £100 per week for the two) plus wear and tear and chainsaw spares you're lookiing at about £200 a day gross, which is hard to earn a living from. If you add in stakes and binders for SoE at four sticks per metre at a bare minimum of £1.50 each (and that's now very cheap) you're looking at £20 per metre price. That assumes you will lay 20 metres per day every day on average for the season. If you can't command that price as a working minimum or produce the output, or your stakes and binders are costing more than £1.50 each to purchase and deliver to site, you're basically just doing it for the love of it. And your client, if he's a landowner on a grant scheme, is just getting his hedge reduced in height and tidied up for a few years (because that's how they see it) for free courtesy of the tax-payer.

I was in Cornwall recently and the damage was localised but widespread if you get my drift? Massive in some areas yet a hundred yards away, similar trees left standing! The AONB by Falmouth suffered bad!

Wait for a space with Treelife would be my advice. Their principal, Dave Dowson was one of the top consultants in the country. He is semi retired now but still oversees things. I did the old Tech Cert and Level 6 with them and they are miles ahead of any other trading provider that I have been to other than maybe Bond Solon. Bond Solon only do expert witness trading so not really your thing.

Google BS5837 PDF. You will see west berks council have put it up online which I am guessing breaches the copyright but nevermind ay! You won’t learn to do them by reading the standard though. It will give you the guidance but you then have to come up with a way of doing it yourself. Which AA course did you do? The categorisation thing? That is just part of the surveying. The real work is in the impact assessment. It helps to work in a planning dept for a while as you see loads of different reports and approaches. Treelife do a decent 5837 course but it’s only a day. I did it as part of my level 6 dip with Treelife and you spend a lot of time working on it.