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  1. Amelanchier
    Pleurotus spp. can go a burgandy colour as they senesce... Maybe??
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    Indeed, though note how may climbers take them off between events... I find mine to be great for climbing but too painful to stand around in on the deck.
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    I haven't seen the program - did the guy actually work for the HSE?? They seem to have a more sensible approach than most would think... http://www.hse.gov.uk/myth/
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    Stantons are cheap. And seeing as the squirrels can eat them just for fun in under a year - it makes more sense to go with cheap. How many do you need?? I'll sell you some...
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    To my mind pollarding must be done for the right reasons, in the right place, to the right tree, at the right time and on the right cycle. There is a distinction between topping and pollarding. I thought it was Mrs Miggens anyway?
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    Is there any data out there? Maybe the findngs of the National Tree Safety Group will shed some light on the matter??
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    Give them a ring and ask them why. I doubt its panic management. Norwich is one of only a handful of cities to have had a tree strategy since the mid 1970s.
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    Which ones Tim?
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    I hear that. I used to subscribe to the "just take it out and plant a more suitable tree" mindset when I was on the tools. Its just not sustainable in practice. Pollarding allows large estabished mature trees to be retained in locations where full natural crowns cannot be accommodated. If you take a wider perspective at perhaps a district level, you simply cannot sanction the removal of every tree that has a conflict just because you find pollarding distasteful. You'd wipe out vast numbers of perfectly retainable trees in a single budget year (that's even if you could afford it!) and like John says, the mortality rates of new trees means you'd need to be putting in about 3-4 trees in place for each removal. A tree doesn't care what it looks like. We just happen to find good professional tree work aesthetically pleasing and appropriate works do the least harm.
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    Yeah that's a reasonable approach! Really? Regardless of data??? So for arguements sake - if I collate a massive dataset showing that there is no difference whatsoever between the risk of harm from a managed site and an unmanaged site - you'd blithely ignore it and still prescribe demonstratably unnessecary works anyway? Perhaps we could get more proactive management done if we stopped spending all the clients money on "potentially dangerous" trees. Perhaps people would calm down a bit if we didn't convince them as an industry that "trees need managing"???
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    And the real question is - does any of this actually reduce the risk of harm from tree hazards?? We have no data to show that professional risk management actually results in fewer incidents. If we compared managed with non managed sites over a number of years would we actually see any difference?
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    That'll help it sell!
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    Ha, you told me you lived in a wet cardboard box on the central reservation of a motorway. Or was it a dark hole full of broken glass??
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    Is that really your gaff? Your on the move???
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    You not wrong. The rub is that we can never (should never?) say that a tree is safe. But the look on Joe publics face when you say that is one of fear. Sometimes I explain the nature of risk and sometimes I simply say, "It wouldn't worry me to live/sit/hold a wedding/meet the queen under it." I don't think you'd end up on the wrong side of the court for making a reasonable judgement on a tree that failed - its negligence that would be your downfall.
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    doh! My last encounter with sniffer dogs didn't really do me any good. Best stick to the mallet/picus/chin scratching technique.
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    Every item?? Attached .pdf is a decay detection list from “Wood and Tree Fungi: Biology, Damage, Protection and Use.” by Schmidt 2006 found in “Diagnosis and prognosis of the development of wood decay in urban trees” by Schwarze 2008. How did you find the gamma ray computer tomography? Or the sniffer dogs? Table_2_Diag_&_Prog_Schwarze_2008.pdf
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    Ha. Joined up thinking is a myth. Just imagine having to try and convince Highways officers that there are other ways to achieve a even surface without removing roots... To have joined up thinking, you need both parties to appreciate the others issues. Highway engineers often can't see any further than pretty CAD drawings with nice straight lines. 20k?? Exaggerating a little methinks.
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    So we can expect the chatroom to explode at 8:37 then!
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    Ha I note the word percieved... Ed I'm guessing - mainly because I literally am your layman who recently looked at heating solutions for his new house and chose a woodburning stove/boiler rather than anything else. There was a raft of expansive information available about domestic heating with woodburners ('cos they're trendy) but all other means i.e., chip / pellets seem to be aimed at industrial / large residential markets. I suppose you get more tree in a cubic metre if you cut it down smaller, but what I was getting at was - can you generate more heat from a cubic metre of chip than from the same volume of logs?? Also storage / spacewise; my logshed is fairly big but (if I do say so myself) looks fairly attractive in my smallish garden. I don't know if a chip hopper would be in keeping with the area. Is it used on small domestic scale across europe?
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    Firstly its got to be cost. Also I think there might be issues with the storage? I'm guessing that the energy per cubic metre is lower with chip? Or is it about the same?
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    Bad luck guys and gals. Tony "Prize-Magnet" Sorensen has just purchased his tickets. Bring them on!
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    Screenwash!?!?!?
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    In series 3 of Dexter there is a palm tree trimmer who moonlights as a serial killer. When he first appeared, strapping on his spikes for a spot of pruning - I knew he was a wrongun.
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    Well look they quote the forum - I never noticed that. Cool.

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