European Arboricultural Standards

[kevinjohnsonmbe]

Anybody looked at these in detail yet?  Not sure if I've missed an already established thread??

 

European Arboricultural Standards

WWW.EUROPEANARBORICULTURALSTANDARDS.EU

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European technical standards on tree pruning, tree planting and tree cabling and bracing.

 

I'm just starting a scan through.

 

Interesting that they are (at least currently) open source and considerably later (2022 as compared to 2010 in relation to BS 3998 and 2014 for BS 8545) than the copyright UK variants.  Whether they stand up to muster is still open to debate and subject to comparison / review but it doesn't look too bad.

 

Open source, more up to date, seemingly authoritative - the UK BS system could come under significant threat of being classed as expensive, irrelevant and outdated if these stand up to a side by side comparison.

 

(for @Big J - this could be the long awaited, never anticipated (albeit fairly insignificant on the macro scale) example of a down side of leaving the EU 😜)

[Stere]

Never understood the sense of charging  £300 or whatever for the  BS booklets etc.

 

Hardly encourges best practice?

 

 

 

 

[AA Teccie (Paul)]

22 hours ago, Stere said:

Never understood the sense of charging  £300 or whatever for the  BS booklets etc.

 

Hardly encourges best practice?

 

 

 

 

Long been a bone of contention but it's simply BSI's policy and pricing structure (currently £254 non-member.)

There is a cheaper 'Plan B' option (but doesn't include the appendices which are quite useful) see https://www.treelifeac.co.uk/page/bs3998 

Regards,

Paul

 

 

[doobin]

On 18/09/2022 at 11:38, Stere said:

Never understood the sense of charging  £300 or whatever for the  BS booklets etc.

 

Hardly encourges best practice?

 

 

 

 

This x1000. It’s all bollocks. 

[kevinjohnsonmbe]

16 hours ago, doobin said:

This x1000. It’s all bollocks. 

Legend! 🤣

[danthemanwhocan]

Thanks for the post. I had never heard of this and a good find. Hopefully cheep hard copies will appear (just had a look and could not find) and the UK will use as like you said the BS one is a crazy price. Although I wonder how many on the tools would make the effort to read either. I feel the fact its an EU standard gives it weight however I wonder if that will be an acceptable standard for the UK to formally use now were not in it.