health and safety a controversial subject?

[Tony Croft aka hamadryad]

Yes your right on that historical background too. I think we have derailed the thread, was it not a H+S thesis we were supposed to be talking about?

 

I dont get upset over a derail!

 

its all good my friends!

[common lime]

Pollarding is an agroforestry system;

 

http://www.odi.org.uk/resources/download/648.pdf

 

The above link is for an Oliver Rack ham PDF.

[Tony Croft aka hamadryad]

Pollarding is an agroforestry system;

 

http://www.odi.org.uk/resources/download/648.pdf

 

The above link is for an Oliver Rack ham PDF.

 

Nice little piece, thanks for posting, my PDF library grows by the day!

[munkymadman]

To keep the regeneration away from grazing livestock.

 

thanks for that, how obvious when you think about it just didn't take it into consideration.

sorry i think i sowed the seed of derailment. trying to think of something controversial.... hmmm

what about regulations when doing tall hedges. i feel alot less safe at the top of hedge you have to break every rule in the book to get around the thing. only feasible to bring a strop up with you and half the time you can't use it anyway. are hedges a seperate catergory to trees?

[Doug Blease]

When doing tall hedges, I tend to still use a "hedge leader" as an anchor, work off an area, change anchor to another leader further along, fell the previous one.

 

Its a much more comfortable way of doing it.

[Doug Blease]

I am still sticking with the issue of unqualified workers employed full time for lengthy periods without any prospect of NPTC certification in the tasks they have to perform day in day out.

 

These staff members are often extremely keen and ambitious but are being taken advantage of daily in the name of annual profits.

[Tony Croft aka hamadryad]

I am still sticking with the issue of unqualified workers employed full time for lengthy periods without any prospect of NPTC certification in the tasks they have to perform day in day out.

 

These staff members are often extremely keen and ambitious but are being taken advantage of daily in the name of annual profits.

 

but I dont have any experience of it, proof, nor ability to get it. Nor would anyone appreciate it!

[Doug Blease]

But isnt that the point of a research project? To collect data and interpret it? Everyone who has to compete on price with bona fida Tree Surgery companies who do not invest money on the training and certification, yet advertise accredation freely, will more than appreciate it.

[Tony Croft aka hamadryad]

But isnt that the point of a research project? To collect data and interpret it? Everyone who has to compete on price with bona fida Tree Surgery companies who do not invest money on the training and certification, yet advertise accredation freely, will more than appreciate it.

 

This is something I think you need to PM AATECCIE about, seriously:sneaky2: