What the hell is going on here then ?

[Dan Earp]

Also could have been sub contracted from council!

[humpo48]

I take it they are not Arb approved???

[Mark Bolam]

I take it they are not Arb approved???

 

Snigger....

[d-raittuk]

they must be handing street work out to anyone now. oh thats right they are lol

[Rich Rule]

No way is that a Council job, if it was it would bhave been done slowly.

 

It is a criminal offence to obstruct a road. These tossers should get prosecuted. They also could have ruptured a gas main. If I was the driver of that car that will have to wait while they clear the road I would have ripped one of the chainsaws out of their hands and slashed the tyres on both their trucks and chippers. See how they like being inconvenienced.

 

Hiviz on these guys is just for making it easier to find victims.

 

I think you should calm down a bit mate... You might rupture something.

 

Yeah it is a tree being felled, badly at that but it happens. As long as it is not you or your company doing it then what's the problem..?

[Stubby]

No way is that a Council job, if it was it would bhave been done slowly.

 

It is a criminal offence to obstruct a road. These tossers should get prosecuted. They also could have ruptured a gas main. If I was the driver of that car that will have to wait while they clear the road I would have ripped one of the chainsaws out of their hands and slashed the tyres on both their trucks and chippers. See how they like being inconvenienced.

 

Hiviz on these guys is just for making it easier to find victims.

 

Wow there ! Its not me doing it ! Tis a council job but obviously subbed out . Slashing tires with a chainsaw the way to go then ?

[treequip]

No way is that a Council job, if it was it would bhave been done slowly.

 

It is a criminal offence to obstruct a road. These tossers should get prosecuted. They also could have ruptured a gas main. If I was the driver of that car that will have to wait while they clear the road I would have ripped one of the chainsaws out of their hands and slashed the tyres on both their trucks and chippers. See how they like being inconvenienced.

 

Hiviz on these guys is just for making it easier to find victims.

 

That's as ridiculous as the non existent TM:thumbdown:

[daltontrees]

Sorry guys I have calmed down now. I wouldn't dream of doing what they did in the video the way they did it any more than I would slash their tyres. I will say again what the problem is. They broke the law by wilfully obstructing the road. Their traffic management is rubbish to non existent. It's not safe and it's not courteous and it's not professional. And anyone watching it on You Tube might think that this is how tree surgeons are allowed to operate, then imitate it. Then we will be reading about a fatality or injury somewhere and giving it the usual tut-tut-cowboys chat here.

 

I spec, price and do jobs properly. Most of the time the traffic management seems unnecessary but anything else is just gambling. I can't compete with guys like this that underprice and take chances and cut corners. Nor do I want to.

 

I have just spent the afternoon taking half a horse chestnut tree off a doctor's surgery roof. It snapped off at 10 metres and flew another 10m sideways and impaled itself in the roof. One limb went right through the slates, the sarking, the attic, the insulation and the ceiling and if you had been standing in the room it would have gone through your head. The whole thing was about the size of that tree those guys felled. I do not think it is ridiculous at all to foressee that a limb could penetrate 3 inches of tarmac and damage services. Or even not penetrate but crack a buried cast iron pipe. Do you think these guys assessed the risk of it and deemed it so small that they could overlook it? No, I suspect it didn't even occur to them in their haste to close the road and make a quick buck instead of doing a proper and considerate job using only half of the road and more than 3 cones.

 

There, I have let off steam. Back to business...

[Tree Man Tom]

Reckon that was filmed just after lunch break on a Friday. Fell it and be home for 3 climb it and be home at 5. We've all done it, as it's a Friday tomorrow, il probably doing it

[daltontrees]

You're right, it does have POETS day written all over it.