Tree officer gone mad

[Mike Hill]

Had a Tree Officer when I first worked in London,he used to say "give it a decent 17% reduction and a 5 to 10% thin"

 

Errrr......Ok then.

[skyhuck]

all they would have needed was a crown reduction and thin,

 

Why did they "need" this??

[Patchwork]

ok to be fair they didnt need any thing at all, but i think he has been realyl freaking out about wind or somthing, and concil home dwellers complaining about the shade. keeps putting on the sheets "make wind tollerent reduce to 4m"...

[Zenfordinner]

Do you think he is a not so secret tree hater? Perhaps, as child he ran into a tree and got a big bump and has hated trees ever since- thinks upon them as his arch enemy....

 

If you stab him in the eye with a pencil, it will not help him see the error of his ways. No, it will only encourage his enmity of trees, after all, pencils are made of WOOD

 

I about fell out of my chair reading about being required to remove the flowers from Horse Chestnuts, and acorns, too! I have never heard of such a thing! If asked to do that I would visibly twitch, look volcanic/murderous/outraged, mention the absurdity of such a decision, go on about it some more, and then I would be unemployed! But righteous in my indignation, which can help stave off the hunger pains concumbent with unemployment! Still am muttering strings of blasphemy and swearwords....

[TheTreeWiseMen]

you think thats bad, we have had a couple of apple removals recently, and a pear! but the best is apparently we have an acorn removal on a mature oak!!! council policy gone mad!

 

Reminds me why I left the UK.....well, one of the reasons anyway.

[Xerxses]

Can you make my appletree flower more intensly but take away all the apples?

 

:ohmy:

[Foord]

 

I about fell out of my chair reading about being required to remove the flowers from Horse Chestnuts, and acorns, too! I have never heard of such a thing! If asked to do that I would visibly twitch, look volcanic/murderous/outraged, mention the absurdity of such a decision, go on about it some more, and then I would be unemployed! But righteous in my indignation, which can help stave off the hunger pains concumbent with unemployment! Still am muttering strings of blasphemy and swearwords....

 

Nearly fell out of my chair reading that!

:lol:

[nuggsy]

me thinks typical council waisting money again for no real reason, idiots

[kevwrenn]

apparently dropping fruit are trip and slip hazzards!!

[Zenfordinner]

Patchwork, is there not a way in which you can attempt to thwart this travesty of a tree officer?

 

I was thinking that if you were shy to approach someone in a senior position to the TO, then perhaps media publicity could help. Obviously depends on how strongly you actually feel about the situation. One can be an anonymous source for the media, if you wanted to draw local attention to the matter.