Chainsaw Massacre

[Mac McLennan]

I can only see the vid up to the bit where he mentions 'trespass'.

 

Why would the owner or council not put a TPO on the tree to prevent this happening?

 

Then the roots could be pruned to prevent trespass and reduce tree?

 

[David Humphries]

Walking away? where to?

 

Conscientious Arb-jector

[Dean Lofthouse]

Maybe the AA should be working to stop dodgy consultants giving insurance company's what they need to carry on this slaughter instead of trying to say any one not in their approved system is a cowboy.

 

Well said, most of the "insurance company takendowns" I have priced have been given a green light by a consultant who should quite frankly not bow to the insurance companies demands.

[Bundle 2]

Damn its hard not to be thoroughly unimpressed by the industry as a whole when you see that s**t...I know I am being emotive but it is in a state of total disarray. Absolute B****X:cussing:

 

Oh, and that climber wants a kick in the crotch aswell IMO...what an arse!

[detritus21]

Subsidence claims and cutting trees down I thnk will come back and bite people. Cut down a tree and where does alot of the previously absorbed water go... into the soil which if its clay will expand then it will get warm and the clay will shrink and low and behold you get more subsidence not less. I ain't a professional and to be fair alot of people would probably class me as a cowboy as it stands presently but was it me or was there lots of bad practice in that there video

[MattyF]

I admire the guy for walking away from the job but i have adopted the attitude that if its coming down and theres nothing i can do about it to stop it or change i would rather be doing it ... as for reducing trees i dont know why people would want to do that either unless for mechanical reasons within the tree, but again i would rather be doing the work if it was a nice tree...any way it will be nearly impossible to fell trees in london in a few years time ...soon every tree visable tree from the road will be covered with a tpo,no saws will be allowed to start untill after 11am,and this bull sh!t about subsidance will be a thing of the past when insurance companys will have to pay for the amenity value of the tree...a hundred + year old plane is going to be worth a fair bit!

[skyhuck]

I admire the guy for walking away from the job but i have adopted the attitude that if its coming down and theres nothing i can do about it to stop it or change i would rather be doing it ... as for reducing trees i dont know why people would want to do that either unless for mechanical reasons within the tree, but again i would rather be doing the work if it was a nice tree...any way it will be nearly impossible to fell trees in london in a few years time ...soon every tree visable tree from the road will be covered with a tpo,no saws will be allowed to start untill after 11am,and this bull sh!t about subsidance will be a thing of the past when insurance companys will have to pay for the amenity value of the tree...a hundred + year old plane is going to be worth a fair bit!

 

Totally agree!!!!!!!!

[Log-ologist]

It is disgraceful that so called and self appointed experts allow a tree like that to be felled. The insurance industry should not be allowed to hold others to ransom like that. The tree is as old as the houses and has just as much right to be there. I have seen many good trees removed recently due to clay shrinkage problems round here. The council applies TPO's and the insurers threaten to sue for the liability and damages then the LA give in. Its not so much the removal than the threatening and bully boy tactics that I object to.