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I once said to a women with several huge roadside beech , do you have your tees regularly inspected by an arborist? she wrinkled her nose up and said NO why would I want to do that, in a sarcastic tone! I shrugged my shoulders and wandered off into the sunset.............

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One day a big tree like that will land on a bus load of commuters or similar and then these "duty of care " issues will be taken more seriously.

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Was one of my first days tree work yesterday and a small whitebeam out the front of the house we were working at back of blew over onto empty car and scooter.

 

Then on the way to the tip there were a lot of fire engines etc at Clapham Common, seems somebody wasn't so lucky and died when a tree landed on their van :sad: :http://galleries.thelondonpaper.com/clapham-common-london-gales-man-killed-crushed-tree/?id=10039

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seems somebody wasn't so lucky and died when a tree landed on their van :sad: :http://galleries.thelondonpaper.com/clapham-common-london-gales-man-killed-crushed-tree/?id=10039

 

Thanks for posting Grimpeur, I hadn't picked up on this one yet.

 

Obviously can not make assumptions as to the secondary cause of failure. But I am sick and tired of telling Transport for London and various London Boroughs to get their dead standing trees down.

 

I'm just supprised this doesn't happen more often. :mad1:

 

Diminishing Council budgets should definately not be used as an excuse, to bide time for paying for essential Tree works.

 

 

What's the state of dead standing trees in everybody else's neck of the woods?

 

 

 

 

 

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What's the state of dead standing trees in everybody else's neck of the woods?

 

 

 

 

 

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Shoals of them in Stockport, where i used to work, and Salford isnt short of them either.

 

One dead chestnut, by a busy main road, was started one morning. By lunch time the crew had stripped it to a pole, with just a tiny tuft of branches at the top. Call from the manager, had complaints about heavy trafic, you'd better pull off site. Two years later, tree was still there, half finished. And they expect you to take pride in your work?!

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