Installation of Kerbs within the root protection area.

[Tony Croft aka hamadryad]

I'd like to nominate myself for best derail of 2010 at this point. Kerb edges to King Solomons arithmetic without the need for superflous surrealism.

 

LMAO, defo gets my vote!

 

A man of religion? that explains the Jiosting!

 

who do you spell that? lol, jowsting jiosting joisting?

[arb culture]

I'd like to nominate myself for best derail of 2010 at this point. Kerb edges to King Solomons arithmetic without the need for superflous surrealism.

 

Gets my vote - I like the bible references you keep bringing up - very interesting.

 

To get slightly back on thread though.

 

Kerb edges are notoriously difficult to get right within the RPA. Highways departments are often averse to anything new, and they commonly demand that all adopted roads (and edges) be constructed using the tried and tested techniques they are familiar with. So any kind of 'no dig' technique is often refused, however good it might be.

 

On unadopted roads, minimal dig kerb edges within the RPA are usually based on pinned sleepers of one kind or another.

 

Examples of method statements can be found online with a bit of searching.

[Amelanchier]

LMAO, defo gets my vote!

 

A man of religion? that explains the Jiosting!

 

who do you spell that? lol, jowsting jiosting joisting?

 

Joshing? FTR, I'm a man without religion but with a passing interest in teasing fundamentalists...

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[Tony Croft aka hamadryad]

Joshing? FTR, I'm a man without religion but with a passing interest in teasing fundamentalists...

 

Ah ha jousting i should of known really, expected it to be french or something! hence the oi!

 

Nowt wrong with religion by the way, i think there are worse ways to be!

[David Humphries]

Crazy thing here is that the crew have tried to accommodate the roots by installing half kerbs yet still manage to significantly damage them whilst removing the original edging.

 

Probably a case of wrong species and size for the planting area, but an observation of an all to often seen disregard for trees during road/path works.

 

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[tree79]

Crazy thing here is that the crew have tried to accommodate the roots by installing half kerbs yet still manage to significantly damage them whilst removing the original edging.

 

Probably a case of wrong species and size for the planting area, but an observation of an all to often seen disregard for trees during road/path works.

 

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I see this a lot and unfortunately it's normally local authority contractor's.

The tree will probably recover from the root damage but what we find is that the damaged roots tend to put on additional growth normally cracking the new surface and pushing out the new kerb in a short time period.

 

We have looked at alternative methods for kerbs close to trees but not managed to find anything suitable.

[Taupotreeman]

I'll get some photos up shortly but I've been dealing with this exact same issues only this week. I think we might have caught the contractors just in time.

[treeseer]

Best to let the tree become the new kerb after it eats the old one.

 

Not uncommon to see this; 80ish year old quercus phellos.

Edited June 19, 2016 by treeseer

[Taupotreeman]

The steel waratah indicates where the new curb and channel was to go. They wanted me to "root Prune" the trees to allow the curbing to go in. Managed to get them to move the new curb 400mm out from the existing. Not sure why the photos posted sideways either, sorry.