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  1. Paul Barton
    Just to clarify the above post, this is advertising a place to tip your woodchip and/or logs - NOT an offer of free logs or woodchip to take away!!
  2. Paul Barton
    Good stuff, thanks Paul. I am looking forward to reading this.
  3. Paul Barton
    I'm doing MSc Arb and Urban Forestry at Myerscough in Preston. It's about 2.5-3 hours each way from where I live. Bristol Uni sounds like an attractive option - what do they do that's arb related?
  4. Paul Barton
    Hi Tony, It's about £1100 per year over 3 years at the moment.
  5. Paul Barton
    Hi Hawk Eye, I am half way through a part-time MSc course. The content is very interesting and stimulating but personally I have found the standard of lecturing and resources to be mixed and generally not as good as when I did my BSc at a larger University. I hope that it will lead to good things though - having an MSc takes you a decent way to becoming chartered which is a personal goal for me. It is a hell of a lot of work though - I have a full time job and a young family so the commitment sometimes feels like a millstone. I am looking forward to finishing! Cheers, Paul
  6. Paul Barton
    You could try these: Root Barriers | Root Barrier | Root Control | Root Management
  7. Paul Barton
    I think I get what you are saying, but I don't understand the sentence about stubs if working to BS3998:2010. The BS quite clearly states that stubs are not acceptable (see section 7.2.5).
  8. Paul Barton
    Congratulations!!
  9. Paul Barton
    Interesting article about the 'future of our industry' and the trade bodies/institutes that support and represent us. What do you think? Johnston 2011 Future of the Arboricultural Industry.pdf
  10. Paul Barton
    How do you go about assessing internal rot of roots Gerrit?
  11. Paul Barton
    I have used an air-spade to investigate tree roots on trees affected by M.giganteus. I am informed that it degrades the underside of roots first so it is important to excavate right under roots to check. I have heard it recommended that using a fluorence testing machine on the foliage combined with a detailed VTA assessment is the first step before excavations - but I don't have a fluorimeter so I go straight for the air-spade!
  12. Paul Barton
    Personal project: 1. Do you find you learn much asking everyone on a forum to do your Uni work for you? Many thanks Paul x
  13. Paul Barton
    Yarp! Worcester here!
  14. Paul Barton
    No worries Matt, I'm only jesting.
  15. Paul Barton
    Thanks - I'll have to give it a go.
  16. Paul Barton
    Gimme an S, gimme a T, gimme an E.......you get the picture. Great forum, don't let'em get you down:biggrin:
  17. Paul Barton
    Cool. Now I am really intrigued - have you just used the free demo or bought the program? I am still waiting for Matt to send me an example to have a look at:thumbup1:
  18. Paul Barton
    Charge money?! I thought we just did it for the fun and free wood!
  19. Paul Barton
    I trust you have done a Google search for wood carvers and contacted them directly? Or looked through the posts in the carving forum and sent some private messages to the posters?
  20. Paul Barton
    Welcome new members. Don't be shy, post away...hope you find the forum easy going and informative.
  21. Paul Barton
    Blimey you're not shy about posting all your University projects up here are you?! Our rough set up is: Office staff: Tier 1: Managing Directors and Sales and Marketing Director Tier 2: Compliance manager Tier 3: Operations and Consultancy Managers Tier 4: Field Officers for project management Tier 5: Administration staff Our field staff are then divided in to 6 responsibility/pay grades - level 6 being team leader/foremen role, level 3/4 being highly qualified arborists and surveyors and down to level 1 which would be apprentices.
  22. Paul Barton
    No BS specifically about stump grinding but it is included in BS3998:2010 in section 12.4.3. It does say that the depth should be agreed!
  23. Paul Barton
    John at Blagdon trees does logs too. He's in the yellow book.
  24. Paul Barton
    Sure!
  25. Paul Barton
    You wuss! How about emailing one to me?

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