Removing tree tags

[Tim Stobart Tree Surgery]

I've got a contract which is to fell a good number of trees, but leave the timber in the woodland to provide habitat, and as it is not economical to recover it. Basically the job is making the area safe, not harvesting timber. The area has been surveyed and tagged, using Latschbacher tags. My dilemma is whether to leave the tags on the lying timber, remove and replace them onto the stumps, or to just remove them as they are now effectively litter amongst a biodegrading mass.

 

Does anyone have any thoughts on this, or am I over thinking it!

[Stephen Blair]

I doubt they would be classed as litter.

If it bothers you, take them off, as for putting on the stumps I don't see the point as the tree is now gone.

[Stubby]

I doubt they would be classed as litter.

If it bothers you, take them off, as for putting on the stumps I don't see the point as the tree is now gone.

 

This .

[Gary Prentice]

Probably overthinking it, but being plastic they're not going to decompose wherever you leave them.

 

In good conscience, I'd remove them.

[Vespasian]

Take a sturdy black bin liner with you on the job, put the tags in the bin liner and then put the bin liner in the bin...

 

Then once home, get out a piece of paper and a good pen and write out one hundred times..

 

Common sense is my friend, I will default to its advice whenever a simple problem can be solved by a simple solution..

[openspaceman]

I've got a contract which is to fell a good number of trees, but leave the timber in the woodland to provide habitat, and as it is not economical to recover it. Basically the job is making the area safe, not harvesting timber. The area has been surveyed and tagged, using Latschbacher tags. My dilemma is whether to leave the tags on the lying timber, remove and replace them onto the stumps, or to just remove them as they are now effectively litter amongst a biodegrading mass.

 

Does anyone have any thoughts on this, or am I over thinking it!

 

It's good that you are considering the consequences and yes remove them if you also find litter in the countryside aesthetically displeasing.

 

The pollution issue is a different ball game in which washing clothes is a big contributor to plastic micro particles now found in filter feeders, like crustaceans, and many other organisms.

 

Whether your contribution will be significant,: I'd put it alongside voting labour in Surrey.

 

Back in '74 I was doing the first pruning of poplar and removing tree guards on piecework 2p/tree, I gathered all my guards and brought them home, the other two guys just left theirs where they fell, the boss said no one would see the difference in a few years, he sure as hell didn't as he was dead before he was 50.

[Gary Prentice]

Back in '74 I was doing the first pruning of poplar and removing tree guards on piecework 2p/tree, I gathered all my guards and brought them home, the other two guys just left theirs where they fell, the boss said no one would see the difference in a few years, he sure as hell didn't as he was dead before he was 50.

:lol:

[John Shutler]

I usually just pull them off and give them to the contract manager

[openspaceman]

Back in '74 I was doing the first pruning of poplar and removing tree guards on piecework 2p/tree, I gathered all my guards and brought them home, the other two guys just left theirs where they fell, the boss said no one would see the difference in a few years, he sure as hell didn't as he was dead before he was 50.

 

:lol:

 

He died young from an asthma attack but I was trying to make a point: I think most people are basically hedonistic and don't consider the consequences of their lifestyle beyond the next party let alone the next generation but mine is the first generation that has been able to modify our living environment so extensively in my lifetime. The consequences are unlikely to dramatically affect the last years of my life but I have children and grandchildren...