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Well, let's try: Let me google that for you
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Ah - I have only heard of GoPro cameras. Perhaps the thread title should be amended to POV cameras. ...done.
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Here's a thread for the best GoPro videos you have seen - not necessarily tree relarted but they can be of course. Here's a crazy mountain bike dude: Riding A Bike Over 72ft Canyon - Amazing!
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You can buy OS maps and aerial photographs online from emapsite.
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Nice video - very professional.
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Great subject for an assignment by the way...I'd like to read that!
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You mean the thread wasn't on the mandatory reading list?! Have we got any further...not as far as I can tell.
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Just started rowing to get me fit and widen my social circle. Really enjoying it.
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How to become an arboricultural consultant
Paul Barton replied to Jewdus46's topic in Trees and the Law
Hi Jewdus46, Aside from the formal training options available, a great way to increase your skills and knowledge is to learn from someone who already does this that you respect. Perhaps you could come to an arrangement with a local arb consultant where you supply him/her with a source of work and in return you shadow/assist him/her to learn as you go. After a while you'll build the confidence to take some jobs on yourself. -
If you start or contribute to a thread about a contentious subject then you should expect people to offer different opinions! No one is being shot down in flames and it's no good blaming the forum....it's open discussion, that's all.
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Professional Tree Inspection Course
Paul Barton replied to LimbWalker's topic in Training & education
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It sure looks like Pholiota squarrosa. Whether or not the tree needs felling depends on how advanced any decay is. If the tree has a TPO it would be reasonable to expect it to have a decent amenity value, so rushing in to fell it may be a mistake. Can you investigate the base to quantify how affected the tree is? Perhaps get someone along with a resistograph, or have a tap around the base with a mallet. As you will know, Ash will take a good hard pruning so it may well be possible to significantly reduce the tree to reduce the likelihood of it failing and then manage it as smaller tree/pollard in the future. Hard to say without pictures of the whole tree and its immediate environment.
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tracked chipper required Redditch area
Paul Barton replied to areleywood's topic in Forestry and Woodland management
Try AEMG. They are Redditch based and have one. -
Check out Proximitree on the web. They supply ready made tree maps saving you the trouble of capturing them with GPS.
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Also agree with that. I tag trees (with price agreed) on sites where identifying particular trees would be difficult with just a plan. If there is a decent topo and lots of reference features on the plan tags aren't needed.
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I don't think there is anything wrong get with giving a client options. There are many trees that could be retained by heavy reductions but retaining trees with defects has a long term cost implication for the client. I would rather inform a client that some action needs to be taken in order to reduce a risk and let them decide how to spend their money...once they are fully informed of the management implications. I'm not necessarily condoning a woolly recommendation such as "fell or reduce" but I think tree surveyors have to accept that clients don't always have the resources to do exactly what we'd like them to do. In which case options can be given to help them decide.
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Of course tagging trees costs more, both in time and the materials...£65 per hour sounds alot though!
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I got a cheap one like this from ebay http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/Digital-Moisture-Meter-Wood-Timber-Damp-Detector-Tester-/250749826789. I don't know if it's accurate but it definitely helps me select direr logs for the woodburner so it fulfills its purpose for me.
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Why is it tree surgeons can't read maps? Only jesting - I can see how it's annoying. If trees aren't to be tagged, a system of dots of paint works to identify trees for work.
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Great to have you on the forum James. Hopefully there will be some further questions that you can help with.
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Being a member is not the same as being an approved contractor/registered consultant. Membership generally has no assessment (unless you are relying on experience instead of qualifications). Do you really believe that having an NPTC ticket is evidence that you can carry out good quality work? From my experience, I came out of college with the tickets and a C&G qualification but I was a pretty useless tree worker - that only came with years of learning how to do the job properly from my senior co-workers. Anyway, to answer your question - I am a member because I appreciate getting the journal, magazine and discounts for CPD events. I am not an approved contractor but I did work for one in the past and was the named manager for the AAAC scheme. The assessment is about a lot more than assessing tree work - there's alot of focus on H&S, office systems, record keeping etc... Hope that helps?
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Joe Public - how do you think they see the Arb world?
Paul Barton replied to Andy Clark's topic in General chat
I can't agree on this Andy. Mechanics (some) are professionals. Plumbers are professionals (some). You're mixing up blue collar / white collar workers. In my opinion anyone that has received specific training and elevates their knowledge, skills and expertise to above that of the average person can claim to be 'a professional'. However, this doesn't guarantee that they act professionally...to BE professional is a whole new can of worms. Do you consider planning consultants and landscape architects to be professionals? There are many arboriculturists operating at this level - surely they should be known as professionals amongst their peers from other sectors? -
Joe Public - how do you think they see the Arb world?
Paul Barton replied to Andy Clark's topic in General chat
Great question Andy. I think many people are passionate about trees - that may be negatively or positively! I get alot of people stopping to talk to me whilst out on surveys...sometimes to moan but often to check that I'm not going to have the trees felled. Just look at the public outcry when the government talked about selling off forestry land a couple of years ago - people do love trees and woodland, they just don't know much about them. I do agree that people also often look amused when I say what I'm doing - less so when I was on the tools doing a 'proper job' of course. I sometimes get the sense that people think inspecting trees is a bit of a mickey mouse job that isn't really essential. Wonder if they'd feel the same if a tree fell on their car?! ...but of course that happens so rarely that most people don't think about tree risk...just as pointed out in the NTSG document. Interested to hear what others think about this... -
I missed the program in the end! Was it good - worth watching on the iplayer?
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Tonight's 'trust me I'm a doctor' on BBC 2 has a feature about trees importance in public health and pollution. Should be interesting...wonder if any arbs will be on it.
