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You've turned in to a right potty mouth recently!
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I've heard Evans himself admit he was a bit of a knob twenty years ago! I think he's great on radio 2 - but went off top gear years ago so haven't watched any of that. As for allegations in the daily mail...well, if they got everything right we'd all be dead from mad cows disease, the world would have ended at the millennium and Diana would have been killed by migrants stealing our jobs!
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Hi Cecilia, Please can you post all these items in the Arbtrader section of the site? There's a button link top right hand side of the screen. I'm afraid I need to close this thread as the forum isn't to be used for advertising! Paul -
R4 The Life Scientific - Cuckoos
Paul Barton replied to coppiceer's topic in Forestry and Woodland management
Heard that on my drive this morning - fascinating! -
Maybe you're confusing a s.211 notice for a conservation area and a planning application for works on a tree with a TPO Hamdogg? 6 weeks is the time limit for decisions on a s.211 notice, but 8 weeks is the standard length of time for a planning application.
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What is the best way to prevent tree roots lifting block paving
Paul Barton replied to benedmonds's topic in Tree health care
Are you thinking of something like this? Permavoid Sandwich Construction (SC) applications -
What is the best way to prevent tree roots lifting block paving
Paul Barton replied to benedmonds's topic in Tree health care
That's just what I was thinking! If the client wants to keep block paving, I think that all that can be done is to lift the pavers in the affected areas, prune back the roots nearest the surface and re-lay the blocks. Wait a few years and repeat. Wait a few more years and repeat. -
This seems to be one of the best ID apps out there - recently released by the Woodland Trust Identify trees with our Tree ID app - Woodland Trust
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This poor Pine is being girdled by an adjacent Sycamore root!
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Gutted for you, that must have been hard even if you knew it was the right thing to do. I've heard that this can be a fairly common thing with working cockers?
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As this is a council tree and it is the council that are insisting on the dropped kerb that would give me confidence to write an AMS that perhaps makes the best of a difficult situation and therefore the application should get through due to the background circumstances. Some root loss is almost inevitable. If you found a decent sized root then it would need pruning. Will that lead to the demise of the tree, or to its instability? Probably not. I think all you can do is write an AMS that includes arb supervision of the hard surface removal, and any root pruning. Perhaps if a large root is pruned, recommend a subsequent crown reduction.
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Mossy on our walk this morning. She's 11 months old now and coming on great.
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How we are crushing it with Google
Paul Barton replied to Shane WB TREE SURGEONS's topic in General chat
Hello Shane, As this is your first post I've removed your web link for now. I'll watch this space to see what discussion it generates. -
I sometimes use GISKit: GIS Pro & GIS KitGarafa | Garafa It allows you to build your own forms and use aerial images as background mapping, including cached maps for offline use. It's not cheap but alot cheaper than buying a full GIS program - the Kit version is £69 and I think the Pro version is about £200. The main difference is that the Pro version exports to CSV (spreadsheet) and SHP files, but the Kit version only exports to KML (Google Earth). In terms of accuracy it depends what device you are using. Iphones aren't bad, but you can add an external antenna (such as Bad Elf) to get better fixes.
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If it's on a development site then this should be covered in the Arb method statement. If there's no planning condition that specifies a watching brief for all work in the RPA etc then you can probably carry on as before.
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They're delicious!
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What a shame! Good on you for trying to educate them though. It's funny how many people worry about kids eating Yew berries - understandable on the face of it, but I've never actually heard about a child being rushed to hospital. Perhaps it happens but is rarely heard of?
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There are no specific requirements for the frequency of inspections for tree hazards - but it should be appropriate to the level of site usage and condition of the trees. The NTSG book is a useful read as Arborist says. Here's a linky: https://www.google.co.uk/url?sa=t&rct=j&q=&esrc=s&source=web&cd=1&cad=rja&uact=8&ved=0ahUKEwj7o5W9mYfMAhWBPBQKHfunBiEQFggfMAA&url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.forestry.gov.uk%2Fpdf%2FFCMS024.pdf%2F%24FILE%2FFCMS024.pdf&usg=AFQjCNHEPhjW8qdOWvCpddir_IhRtY1sfQ&bvm=bv.119028448,d.ZWU
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The way I did it manually in Autocad (before buying a purpose built program) was to draw a cross with the N,E,S,W dimensions and then use a 'spline' to connect them.
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Ok, I think this has strayed enough from the original post now and unfortunately moved in to territory we don't want to host. Thread closed!
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Hi Dilz, I did the QTRA training about 10 years ago, but didn't use it afterwards. I did the training again last year and found it much more approachable. Whether you end up using it or not, you will come out of the course with a better understanding of tree risk. I would highly recommend it.
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There you go - taken from Trees in Towns II.
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From memory I think it's about 25% failure rate. BS8545 may mention this in the introduction.
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The development company are the Welsh Government!
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Good to know the tree should live for many more years, although I can't help thinking that it was never really in grave danger. There have been some pretty comprehensive environmental surveys and impacts assessments for this project. The Oak's root system was assessed using a tree root radar some time ago - this probably wouldn't have happened if the tree was due to get trashed by a new road.
