Amelanchier
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Just a thought but if you hold the sides of the ladder you never loose contact with it - three points all the time. Hold the rungs while you walk up and you tend to alternate two points of contact. Plus the boot/mud/slip/die ting.
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Me. Richard Ravencroft. Tim aka Bundle2. Dan Yeomans aka Silverback Darrell Moore
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Have you tried Mr Laver or Mr White?
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Do I recognise the Lions Mouth there at Felbrigg Dave?
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I used one when I was with the Council. First thing I'd ask is do you have the calipers?
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I think that should be a new ISA rule.
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I thank you for the compliment regarding the average performance. I aim for average! And I have proof that you were the winner last year by 7 points, so you can't be retired because I demand a rematch!
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Yeah then Pete went and got good. Traitor. I was 10th out of 28 once - good times. All downhill from there!
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I always battle it out with Rupeski. King of the lower third mate - that's where the real competition is! You guys can keep your shiny medals, your big money prizes and and the plane tickets across the world - we're keeping it real (slow).
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I'm grateful for that - it allows lazy pen pushers like me to enter. Which is important, cos otherwise Rupe wouldn't have anyone to beat
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Scots pine? Is the yellow one a Robinia psuedoacacia 'Frisia'?
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Thanks mate. Bigger and better every year til we take over the world!
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Thanks to everyone who took part, came and watched, sponsored and supported us this year. I'll put together a better write up later - my brain still hurts. Anyhow this years winners were: Climbing 1st - Chris Willis 2nd - Oli Husar 3rd - Daryl Platton Pole Climb 1st - Daryl Platton 2nd - Chris Willis 3rd - Hayden Platton Chainsaw 1st - Josh Russell 2nd - Steve Gale 3rd - Ricky Swales In addition to the seperate events, every year we combine the placings of each competitior looking for the best overall. This year, thanks to the generosity of the sponsors we gave prizes from 12th place 1st - Chris Willis 2nd - Daryl Platton 3rd - Steve Gale 4th - Oli Husar 5th - Alex Laver 6th - Robert Bell 7th - Hayden Platton 8th - Kristian Garnham 9th - Martin Rutherford 10th - Joe Mercer 11th - Martin Pigg 12th - Ben Mercer Full details, points etc are in the spreadsheet below... Cheers guys and gals. C&C2010.xls
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Well - Spiking poles are setup. The limb walk challenge is now a proper challenge after we added 200m of bungee cord into the system (nope not kidding). The zipline station is installed in the work climb and the holes for the 40 felling poles are dug. Just got the other 4 workclimb stations to rig, the scoring to tweak, couple of dry runs and a case of ale to drink before saturday. See you there
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Indeed, my rather dull point was a general one and not really aimed at Mario's dilemma. You're quite right of course, a single cable prevents the included union from bursting open from incremental growth and gravity but not from a side load. There look, I've agreed with you - it happens to everyone once!
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I don't think that cabling would be viewed any differently than pruning in the eyes of the law. Doesn't specifying/undertaking remedial pruning works admit the presence of a fault? Both seek to mitigate the liklihood of failure - just in different ways. As you say Hama, a combination is preferrable but I'd say that was in terms of preventing a failure rather than dodging liability.
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Like you say Rupe - I've gone back to the burn it and bin it stuff - Lirios / silver streak (its been a while ). The high temp stuff sounds good but that heat has to go somewhere once its been generated. I'd rather the cheapo cord took it than my lifeline. At the C & C we'll stick 30 odd climbers up the same ropes for two days. Countless bits of cheapo cord die mercilessly but the ropes are still good when they come down. Funnily enough, due to local peculiarities we have an abnormally high percentage of Lockjack users (avg 5/30) and you can tell at the end because the rope profile is elliptical.
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He'll have a job - I haven't even seen it yet...
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Hey, who's argueing... Dunno why it costs extra to apply to do management works. Even a simple management plan can be acceptable. (Year 1 - Fell all Cherry Laurel within compartment A as shown on the plan to ground level and poison stumps. Replant with 2 million dwarf Lawson Cypress. Year 2 - Remove all Cherry Laurel regrowth that ignored the poison... ). Now if the woodland was already under good management prior to the serving of the Order - that's a valid reason to object.
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I predictably disagree. Why would you want to exclude saplings? Are they not the future of the woodland? The whole point of the woodland Order is to secure a self sustaining unit - if you exclude saplings from the Order you have no control over their removal. I've seen woodland Orders remade/revoked because landowners have mown the seedlings away year in year out. What was once a nice stratified ecosystem is now a bunch of declining equally aged trees with a tight clipped lawn underneath. How do woodland TPOs lead to declining woodland? Just to clarify - TPOs do not get quashed (except by the High Court) or lifted they lapse or are revoked. Errors tend to get rectified before confirmation.
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I don't think the OPs TPO is recent. The theoretical offence caused by people stepping on seedlings forms a very weak objection. Wouldn't wash round here and quite rightly so. TOs and TPO appeal panels in this neck of the woods would dismiss it in a moment given the value of future amenity and the self sustaining nature of a woodland Order. The Palm Developments ruling wasn't anything new - it simply stated the obvious regarding woodland orders (i.e., that everything is protected, because little trees make big trees). To follow your logic ad absurdum to its conclusion, a conservation area prevents you from walking within RPAs because of the compaction damage that may be caused and no protected trees may be climbed (even to undertake exempt works) because ropes can abrade the bark.
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Installation of Kerbs within the root protection area.
Amelanchier replied to Andrew B's topic in Tree health care
Joshing? FTR, I'm a man without religion but with a passing interest in teasing fundamentalists... -
Installation of Kerbs within the root protection area.
Amelanchier replied to Andrew B's topic in Tree health care
Because pi is 3.14... so the circumference is 10 x 3.14... = 31.4... -
Installation of Kerbs within the root protection area.
Amelanchier replied to Andrew B's topic in Tree health care
I'd like to nominate myself for best derail of 2010 at this point. Kerb edges to King Solomons arithmetic without the need for superflous surrealism. -
Installation of Kerbs within the root protection area.
Amelanchier replied to Andrew B's topic in Tree health care
"And he [Hiram] made a molten sea, ten cubits from the one rim to the other it was round all about, and...a line of thirty cubits did compass it round about..." — 1 Kings 7:23 Its frequently used to tease fundamentalists (the bible is the literal word of god right? Didn't he mean 31 cubits? He can count right?etc) and again illustrates the problems of rounding these pesky numbers.
