Amelanchier
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Results at the end of the month and there's too many in the running to list! Still wide open guys and gals...
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I don't disagree with you Andy. It does give you a paper trail and it's certainly useful to critique an existing Order but I think it provides an easy way out for the lazy in serving. I think a TPO should be justified by a description of its merits much like a building listing rather than a score that must be untangled but then perhaps that's another thread entirely!
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Putting aside the obvious banality of retrospective assessment which IME is the norm; the TEMPO "TPO defensible" threshold is too easily achieved by all but the poorest trees - those that fail are so blatently undeserving that it's hard to imagine anyone even contemplating assessing them in the first place. The end result is that in the rare event that a TEMPO is undertaken in advance of serving an Order it is a fait accompli. If you know anything about trees (and the process assumes you do) and can imagine assessing it, then it's TPOable under TEMPO.
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Sorry guys. I think we're done here.
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For the most part TEMPO is a pat on the back exercise - but then at least it doesn't pretend to be anything else. I share some of the frustrations held by Bggtaz regarding the trite use of 'Amenity value' in LPA decisions (and FTR I have some history on that side of the fence too). Frequently I see it lazily used to defer a detailed response to its use (i.e., define something vaguely enough and it will fit whatever it needs to fit in a given circumstance) - at times it feels like punching smoke.
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Actually I was going to pick your brains after reading your article in the AA rag but felt it needed some proper time put into it - which I seem to be always short of at the moment. I will queue up some quality questions and queries to quiz you with in the quipless quietude of your quintessential quasi-quirky quest...
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Last time I worked it out I was half that Dean but then we rarely run ours 24/7 and we are mid terrace. Still, I imagine the next owner of the property will switch to oil with a month...
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Good isn't it! Clear as mud - I'm not even sure that you need to get a saw out for that spec. You're being asked to consider the options, not undertake them! Talk about passing the buck...
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Exactly. Problem is some other contractor will probably just put a price in... We've just declined to put a tender in for a local authority on the basis that the plans and spec were unclear ("consider felling or reduction") - we heard yesterday that it had been awarded to a competitor. If all the tenders had been declined, someone at the LA would have had to explain why.
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Compressive & tension reaction wood
Amelanchier replied to David Humphries's topic in Tree health care
I think we can draw a distinction between normal (homogenous?) wood that happens to be growing more rapidly to cope with applied forces and structurally specialised wood doing the same. It might seem like a semantic trick but just as a rock can function as a fairly serviceable hammer without being a 'hammer' - not all wood resisting compression is compression wood (and I imagine the same applies to tension wood). I imagine that all trees will add wood where the cambium detects uneven forces - if they are adapted to produce specific types of wood, then they will use those. Trouble is, you need a microscope to see the difference. -
They get away with it because no-one goes back to the client and tells them that the survey is flawed. If that happened every time then clients would take action - the product they paid for is not what they thought. Unfortunately, IME contractors generally muddle through and clients are none the wiser.
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Could be both those reasons. Could be that the tags would have been removed by kids. Could also be that the survey was never meant to be used to identify individual trees for work...
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Thanks for your scepticism guys. I'll leave the thread in now I've edited the OP...
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Bump - keep them coming!
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Good stuff guys - its getting trickier but have my eye on few contenders at the moment. All different shots and for different reasons but some sparks of recognition are being rekindled in the dusty depths of my office brain...
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Arbtalk related is fine. Entries just need to remind me of highs and/or lows of working outdoors - I'm just as interested in clearing up in the rain as I am in autumn colours or a decent sunrise.
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Like the way you can barely pick out the mountains from the clouds Stevie. Nice depth of field on both 'shrooms. Probably should add that Mods can't win so looking good for you at the moment Ben!
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Afternoon all, Driving home in the glorious British autumn rain the other night I was thinking how little I miss working outdoors sometimes. After turning the heated seats up a notch I wondered if I had simply just forgotten the joys of this time of year. So I reckoned that it was about time we had a photo comp to remind me what I'm missing. I have a pristine copy of Shigo's Modern Arboriculture as the prize for the best image that conveys the ups and/or downs of tree work in this season. So a maximum of three pictures per person and all entries to be posted on this thread (no external links). Deadline is the end of November, any questions just ask - stay warm and get snapping!
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It will ultimately be a matter of degree in the eyes of the LPA - how much has been levelled and excavated?
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A good outcome for both you and your client!
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Vrai, mais c'est la vie Monsieur Plogs...
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There is also much to be said for third party mediation (such as that provided by RICS - see link below) before dragging things before the beak. Neighbour Disputes Service
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IMO the boundary issue is one for the solicitors. By all means, give the client the benefit of past experience, opinion or even a nod in the direction of the bloody obvious but caveat venditor... this is a neighbour dispute and they don't often end well. Personally I would stick to explaining and predicting the results of the various pruning options. One of which might be that after loosing half of a proven jointly owned tree, prospective purchasers still consider the tree a disincentive. In the absence of definitive ownership, perhaps a tree valuation could inform an offer of compensation to the other party provided that they do not oppose felling?
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Nice building but when your appeal is dismissed your next step is the high court not the court of public opinion. This recent fascination with petitions mystifies me - just who are the campaigners going to serve this on and what do they think will happen?
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I don't see how running it dry would ruin it - I'd imagine you'd be well below its tolerances in a yurt. We looked at the HH14 before we bought our HH8 and decided it was overkill. IIRC the output of the HH was sufficient to heat DHW, 10 odd rads and the room its in... Sounds like the perfect excuse to have a yurt extension with a hot tub...
