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  1. benedmonds
    Isn't that going to risk killing my trees?
  2. benedmonds
    Isn't that going to risk killing my trees?
  3. benedmonds
    We planted 400 trees on an ash heap last spring. The weather has been good to them this summer but the weeds are also doing well. We did mulch with wood chip but the area between has gone nuts. I am going to strim down the weeds, then spray,then plant with grass. Any advice on what spray would be best to use? I also have an edible hedge that we planted across a meadow which is also becoming overgrown. Would you recomend the same or something different. Cheers
  4. benedmonds
    We planted 400 trees on an ash heap last spring. The weather has been good to them this summer but the weeds are also doing well. We did mulch with wood chip but the area between has gone nuts. I am going to strim down the weeds, then spray,then plant with grass. Any advice on what spray would be best to use? I also have an edible hedge that we planted across a meadow which is also becoming overgrown. Would you recomend the same or something different. Cheers
  5. benedmonds
    Still looking..
  6. benedmonds
    Still looking..
  7. benedmonds
    Due to a busy work load we have need of a freelance climber who can drive our 6 ton iveco with 2.2 ton chipper. So pre 97 licence or whatever HGV is required. Send a CV/letter with qualifications to [email protected] Based in-between Derby and Nottingham DE72 3NX
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    This is what I thought, but if you sell the land, stick a covenant on a tree then what for damages are you claiming? You no longer own the tree can't claim your property has been damaged... visual amenity..? As it does not confer any financial advantage or disadvantage to either party I don't see how it would work. A solicitor may write you can't do this, that or the other but if you go ahead and do it ,what is the neighbour going to sue for, would it stand up in court? I know farmers do it all the time to restrict biulding on plots of land, but that has a financial implication/can be reversed so it would be straight forward to assign a figure to it/remove the biulding. Has anyone heard of it happening?
  10. benedmonds
    But he doesn't own the tree! You can't have to pay a neighbour for damaging your own property, surely....
  11. benedmonds
    It was an area TPO, the tree is only really visible from a few surrounding houses and is to close to the house.
  12. benedmonds
    The home owner had no knowledge of the covenant and called their solicitor to find info, while me and my lads sat about.. waiting..... I hate waiting. Still what damages could he sue for? "You have damaged your tree pay me!"
  13. benedmonds
    They had not heard of it, but the neighbour came out with a huge bundle of papers searching for it. I never saw it.
  14. benedmonds
    What would you have done? We had a cedar tree to fell today, 18m tall with a tpo about 8m from a house. Home owner wants it out. We apply and get the go-ahead. Turn up two trucks, chipper, trailer, 4 guys. Start cutting when a neighbour runs out, "that tree is protected etc.." Explain we have permission... Then another neighbour comes out. Apparently he sold the land with said tree and put a covenant on the tree saying that no works could be undertaken without his permission. If we cut the tree he is going to sue for damages... and we can fell it over his dead body. I don't want to be in the middle of a neighbourly fight but what would you have done? Can a covenant be placed on a tree when you sell it preventing works and what damages could possibly be claimed, for felling a tree you own?
  15. benedmonds
    Who? I have probably 100 tons
  16. benedmonds
    I don't have much nice cordwood it's all different size lumps from different sp arisings from arb. Will people pay £35 a tonne for piles of arb-wood?
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    But I have to pay guys to process it, when I just have to pile up the chip:001_tongue: Firewood is a very small part of my business, up till last year it was just a sideline for my partner. A big chipper saves time on jobs and I would hate to be without it. Many jobs take half the time with our TW250 compared with our TW190. It may cost more to run but I will never be a member of the wee chipper club. I am not convinced chipped cord takes up more space then unchipped. I know it is denser, but there is a lot of air spaces when you load logs in the back of a truck. Very rough estimations, that are bound to be wrong...: £9 ton for chip so assuming 2cubes to a ton: £4.50 per cube no processing cost or £70 per cube as firewood but, assuming 2 guys doing 8 cube per day costing £150, wages and fuel and saws etc.... Therefore £18.75 per cube
  18. benedmonds
    Everything that can be chipped is chipped! Tree work is what we do, logs are something extra. The chip is sold..
  19. benedmonds
    Yes, they had a tree hanging over, threatening one of there tents/biuldings, they wanted a report.
  20. benedmonds
    It seems it is just the sawing that is slow. They split everything they had sawed in under an hour. I guess they were sawing lots of small stuff. Two guys filled the same trailer that took the best part of a day in two hours today. Bigger rings will take more splitting I suppose. We only do the minimum of cutting on site, so when we have a tractor on site they can be pretty big lumps. I think it is the smaller stuff which is taking the time to process. We will have less and less of that as we've have a 10inch chipper now, that we didn't have when this wood was piled up.
  21. benedmonds
    The semi evergreen is to cover privet hedges I believe.
  22. benedmonds
    Rail track estimated cost for our day next to the rail way at £2,074+VAT. As I said we told them the client couldn't pay so they let us off that bit. There was an 11 page document to sign and lots of waiting about We had to have a Network rail safety briefing Visitor track permits for all on site Hi viz orange including trousers (they let me off up the tree..) We should have had blue helmets, again they let us off. Once we had got started on the initial cutting the COSS decided it was too dangerous and we had to stop and return to do it at night! So we caused considerable upset to the neighbourhood and had a particularly bright police man asking me what I was doing up a tree at 4 in the morning!
  23. benedmonds
    We tried one of those multitoothbar cutters on a compact tractor. The finish was not good, the clearing cuttings off the top of the hedge a pain, it was difficult to use and be accurate, every bump making a big difference. All in all slower then doing it by hand. We had 10Km of council hedges to cut, I gave up after 5 mins, an experienced tractor driver tried but by the 3rd day giving it a go we decided to return it..
  24. benedmonds
    It is a pain working with network rail! If it is a private client they have the option to waive the expensive fees, but do it by the book as they charge REALLY SILLY money if you block the line!
  25. benedmonds
    Check out Steve at about 47 secs

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