Sorting out someone else's mess.

[jfc]

Got a call to look at a tree that someone else had started then left halfway through (even left his ladders in the tree!).

 

Horse chestnut has been half topped. The remaining half much of it is over rail lines. The stems have some decay in and the other half of the tree has been topped so there's a fair risk if it fails of it going on the railway.

 

Anyone know under what circumstances network rail would do the work on safety grounds?

 

 

Cheers,

 

Jan.

[WesD]

Just WTF! Those pics should make @Steve Bullman ladder thread 

[Shane]

Shooting fish in a barrel springs to mind.

That is just wrong in so many ways.

Did the previous 'people' say anything to the owners as they departed?

 

This should be a caption competition.

 

 

[jfc]

Aye, proper ratchet strapped into the tree - his bow saw is hung on a peg high up too - classy operator.

 

He took £600 off a granny and left all the brash - the ladders have been there for months apparently - must be hundreds worth of ladders. 

 

 

[Graham]

13 minutes ago, jfc said:

Aye, proper ratchet strapped into the tree - his bow saw is hung on a peg high up too - classy operator.

 

He took £600 off a granny and left all the brash - the ladders have been there for months apparently - must be hundreds worth of ladders. 

 

 

Probably nicked the ladders anyway.

[Gary Prentice]

I seem to remember that Kevin Johnson had some dealings with Network Rail, after making some sort of enquiry he became the 'notifier' and then they decided that he was responsible for everything thereafter.

[jfc]

I wondered if contacting network rail might open a can of worms, I think it might need a line closure to do the tree work. If she is liable to pay that the cost would be horrendous.

The tree is nr Dundee, on the main line to Aberdeen.

Jan.

[Mesterh]

As above, be careful contacting network rail, get the homeowner to do it. They might insist one of their guys stands guard iirc it's the best part of £700 a day which they usually make a business pay for but not usually a homeowner.

 

Sad to hear she was ripped off in the classic way these thieves operate. 

[benedmonds]

I am not sure if the email is regional, but fill in the form send it to Network rail and make sure your client is sitting down before they see the cost..  In the past Network rail waved fees for private clients who were unable to pay the silly figures required.. from my recent encounters this is no longer the case. Hence the unintended consequence that the work does not get done or cowboys do the works as contractors doing it by the book either can't be bothered with the hassle for a small job or cost at least 10 times as much.

 

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[Mick Dempsey]

Purely looking at the pics, I reckon you could easily rope that back over the fence without issue.

 

Just make sure your knots are good, collect the money and get the ladders for free.