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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?

But he doesn't own the tree! You can't have to pay a neighbour for damaging your own property, surely....

It was an area TPO, the tree is only really visible from a few surrounding houses and is to close to the house.

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!"

They had not heard of it, but the neighbour came out with a huge bundle of papers searching for it. I never saw it.

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?

Who? I have probably 100 tons

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?

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

Everything that can be chipped is chipped! Tree work is what we do, logs are something extra. The chip is sold..

Yes, they had a tree hanging over, threatening one of there tents/biuldings, they wanted a report.

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.

The semi evergreen is to cover privet hedges I believe.

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!

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..

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!

Check out Steve at about 47 secs

I know there have been lots of helmet threads.. Here is my experience. Interested in others views. I brought Petzl Alveo Vent Helmet's,for my apprentices. I will not buy another! When I tried them on I was impressed, very light and comfy, but in less than 6 months I am going to have to replace them. The polystyrene liner has fallen to bits, which may have been prevented with more care, but the plastic has cracked on both of them. One cracked in first week. I have a Kask that is OK, although the polystyrene liner is breaking up and should therefore be replaced.. The fighter pilot visor is a waste of time getting scratched and becoming unusable very quickly. My business partner has the Petzl Vertex Vent Helmet, which apart from a bad smell is still serviceable after more years then your supposed to keep a hard hat for. My vertex was fine till it got run over! I had a Kong climbing helmet but that was not comfy and ear defenders were a rubbish fit. Petzl errin roc, still in use 10 years later when rock climbing... But heavy with metal plates for tree work.. So my advice for longevity is the Vertex Vent! Are there any others to consider?

That one was 6x6. It apparently also flew down the motorway at over 70 loaded with tanks of fish! Got to site and went well off road! [ame] [/ame]

Normally it is a bit here and there but we need to get a decent stock pile. I've only ever done a few for myself and it didn't seem to take that long.. It is the first time I have left them at it, and I will admit I was rather dissapointed with their output.

I am not so sure. I had two lads sawing all day, they managed to fill a 3.5 ton trailer and half the back of the 130 with wood ready to be split, I'm guessing only 5-7 cube. The sawing seems to be taking ages, it still needs to be split and bagged. So if one guy can spilt and bag that in a day (or two in half)it will work out at only 2 cube a man day. Bags, fuel, chain, storage, delivery etc.. I can't see much profit at £80..

I read the threads about people doing hundreds of cube a day on there fancy machines, using straight timber. I don't have that I have big piles of logs from tree surgery. What sort of quanities should a couple of guys be able to process with arb arisings, using a chainsaw and a PTO mounted splitter?

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