Homeowner | Tree Risk-Benefit Management Strategy (it's free!)

[Acer ventura]

1 hour ago, Sutton said:

or, alternatively, if you don't like forms and you're a homeowner and you'd like to know if your tree is safe, why not get a few no obligation quotes off some tree businesses? ? They'll visit, assess your tree with you and give you free advice. Always get more than one and never tell the second what the first said

I when I'm asked to quote for tree risk assessments, and clients baulk at the price, I tell them that they can get a free tree assessment and advice from some tree businesses. I then caution them that the advice will seldom come without some tree work being recommend ?.

 

To be fair, most tree work has little to do with risk management.

 

A quick word of caution.  I'd strongly advise not using the 'safe' word.  I've written a short piece explaining why here.

 

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[Sutton]

25 minutes ago, Acer ventura said:

To be fair, most tree work has little to do with risk management.

I meant no disrespect to the business of liability/responsibility of the profession regarding insurance etc. The ? I put in my previous was simply echoing two other posters who had advised, in different ways, to keep it zipped up. Humour can be very subjective, I know. For instance, some might think it funny, that using a film in which an actor pretending to be nazi asking everyday questions of safety in a menacing way somehow helps. Yes, consultancy is serious. Now please have the last word and draw a line under it ?

[Khriss]

@Sutton are you out of yr mind??? 

 

Theres a good few pages left in this one!!  Telly is shite n just finished series on Netflix. 

 

K

[openspaceman]

@Khriss go and join David Cropper on the naughty step

[Khriss]

He takes up too much space that @David Cropper ? K

[tree-fancier123]

2 hours ago, Acer ventura said:

To be fair, most tree work has little to do with risk management.

most tree work seems to be more aimed at risk removal, 'don' want my grandchildren playing under that' etc, which is fair enough. If you want to see a big tree, go to the tree museum (and stand well clear).

Edited May 31, 2020 by tree-fancier123

[Sutton]

19 hours ago, Khriss said:

@Sutton are you out of yr mind???

Just making a point.

To survey trees using the App has merit. No doubt. But do we need specialists yammering away on finer details in General Chat?

Who doesn't like notifications from their feeds?

Well, one group. Some of us resist being force fed the obvious when we want something more appetising. Not all bad marketing campaigns are good just because they still stimulate a buzz or boost a trend. Perhaps the people behind this App need better creatives?

[daltontrees]

On 26/05/2020 at 21:18, Jcarbor said:

Blimey it’s been years since I did my qtra training, you were bitching between each other then, nowt much has change in the intervening years then. May be it would be better if you all got together and had a few beers and a nice chat about it all, in reality it’s not really worth getting so wound up is it? There’s a lot more pressing issues to worry about in these trying times. Peace and love gentlemen.️

 

I'm not particularly wound up. I won't be meeting up with Mr Evans any time soon, I've never met him, probably just as well because if he spoke to me face to face the way he does on here and UKTC it would end abruptly. Plus as he has demonstrated on here and UKTC he seems to be a bit of a creepy pervert, and if he came near me or my family I probably wouldn't stop to ask why he was there. To me he lacks the dignity to be an ambassador for our industry.

[daltontrees]

20 hours ago, Acer ventura said:

I when I'm asked to quote for tree risk assessments, and clients baulk at the price, I tell them that they can get a free tree assessment and advice from some tree businesses. I then caution them that the advice will seldom come without some tree work being recommend ?.

 

That's my experience too. There's some good contractors who give good advice (including if appropriate doing nothing) for all the right reasons, but there's also a lot of chancers who hide behind the mystique of tree surgery to sell owners unnecessary and unwise tree work. Free verbal advice often isn't worth the paper it's written on.

[daltontrees]

22 hours ago, Sutton said:

ideally, if there is the space at the bases

I did a survey for a large organisation a couple of years ago, a few thousand urban trees, updating a survey from 6 or 7 years before that by someone else. The organisation had in the meantime lost about 30% of its tree stock, mostly young and semi mature. The most common cause was strimming at the bases, the second most common was overpruning or pruning at the wrong time of year. Only a couple of percent had been windthrown, and all that died of pathogens could have this attributed to human damage. The best trees were in shrub beds.