Colin Bashford

Was booked to go today, but personal issues stopped me last minute.

Now off to Oz for the ISA Annual Conference.

Congratulations are obviously due to Jonesie for another great show.

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Hi John

Sorry about delay in replying but only just got back from the States. I am not sure of the answer but I will make enquiries of the Chapter office and will get back to you.

Colin

Hi Janey

I am a little puzzled as to who you would have liked to meet? Gary is certainly worthwhile spending some time with as are all the keen arboricultural fraternity, but me ............. I do not usually have young ladies wanting to meet me, but hey I can dream!!!!!!!

im sure it would be greatly appreciated by most if you could explain it to us in the english lingo also

eponym - one who gives his name to things, institutions, places or in this case a Conference. Gary is tickled pink that he now has had a conference named after him.

Cirencester, Steve looks most unlikely now as I am hosting Gary around the English Riviera. Hang in there we WILL have those beers soon.

The whole day and the genrerous hospitality of Barchams was stupendous. Speakers brilliant and the networking between nearly 400 attendees (sorry Tony you must have been looking out of one eye) was unbelieveable. Gary Watson is now staying for a couple of days with us down South, so I will have to explain the word eponymous to him in the american lingo!!!

Thanks for this service Steve. Much appreciated.

This is happening all too often. I am getting more and more such cases each year. Please, please lads and lassies remember tree work is always potentially dangerous. Think and think again before taking any action. I hear of so many such cases and accidents from around the world, that however does not make UK accidents easier to reconcile.

Above all climb and work safely. My condolences to family and friends of our lost brother.

Colin Bashford

ISA International President Elect.

Enjoy the day Steve. Happy Birthday mate.

The UK/I has just produced its first electronic copy of Treeline it's quarterly newsletter. Currently it is available online for all to see. Check it out at Welcome to the International Society of Arboriculture UK and Ireland Chapter - Welcome :: Home :: ISA UK&I Chapter

Seems good to me

Colin

International ISA President Elect

If the TPO is new, put in an objction as said recent case law makes the application of woodland TPO's indefensible as in theory anybody walking through/using the woodland will be breaking the order.

 

There is a large list of woodland TPO's being wiped out due to this very reason.

Arborist Sites, where doyou find the information to support the above statements.

As some of you now know I lost my best friend last Friday, so I thought i would post a few pics of my boy at his very best. This is still a bit raw for me but a good excersise, to deal with it.

 

His heart was failing and he was getting weaker by the day, so I took him for the big sleep and this was the hardest choice I have ever had to make in my life bar none.

 

I'm not ashamed to admit I've cried like a baby more in the last week than in my entire life, Buff was soooo much more than just a dog and I miss him like you wouldnt believe.

 

Mans best friend.... Buff certainly was, and then some.

 

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Hi Hamadryad

Those of us with those very very special friends totally understand your grief and loss. You must however remember the good times and hopefully look forward to the next best friend.

Cheers my friend.

Colin

hmmmm tempting. are you going?

Steve there is always a good contingent of UK and European climbers at the ITCC.

If you get there then it will be a great excuse for more beer. As if we neeeded an excuse!!!!!!!

You really have not lived until you have been to ISA Annual Conference and the ITCC.

Hope to see you there.

Colin

Brilliant. Makes my model railways look stupid.

Great stuff and well done.

Colin

Maybe you could use the time to try and improve the take up of the ISA Certified Arborist scheme in the UK, it could be your personal crusade, then after your time as President we could all sit back and reflect on how successful your tenure was.

I would certainly recomend it to all arborists. I will encourage the UK/I Chapter to take up the challenge.

Apparently the attendance at the ISA was comparatively very poor this year Colin. Were you there?

Yep I was there and although the attendance figures were down a little the Conference and Trade Show wiped their faces. The reduced figures were however very good considering the economic climate.

At this conference I was inaugurated in as ISA International President Elect for the next two years. I take over as ISA International President in 2011 in Sydney, now that is a fine place for a party!!!! Will welcome as many Brits as possible to show the ozzies how beer is really drunk and what parties are all about.

See that you also met my old friend Don Blair. Now that is a man that can talk and has so many great tales to tell.

Glad you had a great time Steve. Maybe onetime you should try the ISA International Conference which is TCIA with conference, seminars, workshops and World tree climbing Championship added on and with fungi etc for Monkeyed.

A definition...

 

Stochastic - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

Wow, wow, wow!!!!!

Still not sure what Frank Rinn means by the use of this word. Maybe it's lost in the translation!

Thanks Tim:thumbup1:

Further research includes the comparison of 3 techniques...

Hey guys, come on do NOT get fooled with something that is five and six years old, when we now have uptodate research information!!!!!

Anja from Switzerland won the womens. Jo hedger won the head to head footlock again.

Thanks to you lot, you are what makes the site what it is:thumbup1:

Steve you are too modest, yes contributors are rather essential but it would be nothing without your enormous committment and workload that often goes un-noticed.

Thank you seems some how rather understated.

Take care and climb safely.

Colin

It must have been!!! is it just me or are all tree consultants pompus and arogant?

I sincerely hope not. That is why you will find me assisting at most Tree Climbing Competions. I firmly believe that as a profession we do not do enough to recognise arborists who are the largest percentage in our profession.

Sorry to hear the sad news guys, but look forward to seeing you at Guildford at the English tree Climbing Championships.

Well about bleedin time Mr B.

Anyone would think you were busy or something.

 

Ofcourse your point is well founded and shared by the majority. (Tree fellers & the uneducated public) I hope that I am neither a tree feller nor an uneducated member of the public. However, over many arboricultural issues their knowledge may well be greater than those expressed.

Even if that is not quite reflected in the postings of this thread.

 

But, although I am no classical landscape student, I would imagine that messres Brown, Repton and Kent did not envisage with their remarkable foresight, miles upon miles of just uniform, neat, trimmed, monospecied Man made avenues & blanned plantations. No they did not and I am not advocating as you well know over manicured trees and landscape. Neither I am sure did our great landscape ancestors envisage a mess of fallen trees in their great parkland landscapes, retained solely to benefit ecology and nature conservation. I robustly believe that we owe a great debt to such as Repton, Brown, Bridgeman and Kent and we should therefore maintain their work and that of others in purity of their design. We would not allow our listed buildings to fall into decline to provide a habitat for the likes of the Deathwatch beetle!!!

 

I'd also imagine they knew that true landscape form & aesthetical beauty, was largely acheived by mimicking the randomness of nature.

 

I was at the NT's Sherringham Park in Norfolk last week, which I understand to be of Repton 'design'

 

If you know it, you will be aware it is a mesmerising kalaedascope of random planting and meandering footways.

Stunning so it is

 

 

Why do we have to tame nature & tidy everything up, steralising the ecology that has taken decades to establish in spite of Mans interventions.

 

Anyhows, this 'quirk' aint goin no place meharties There is a place and time for everything and in this particular case I support Skyhuck. Please however do not start me on "veteranisation".

 

Oh yeah, nearly forgot, as a nod to 'conformity' the wee one 'next in line' is a replacement for one that was completely uprooted in a little windy event we had back in the late eighties. Good to see and who says this is wrong.

 

.Now I am about to depart on the small matter of a honeymoon so do not expect a reply until my return.

 

QUOTE] Please see my interwoven comments above in red. Take care David and keep up the good work but please stay open and receptive to all opinions in various circumstances.

 

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Beauty is in the eye of the beholder and all that. I quite like the way the three trees in this picture seem to be showing the three stages of death. Ok that is nonsense, but I think the fallen tree could prove to be a point of interest over the years. The limbs touching the ground might root and the canopy adaption might develop into something...

 

Or it might just give up and die, but I think it's worth giving it some time to see what happens, it's not doing any harm and it'd leave a big gap if it's removed.

 

In the meantime, I agree it would be worth getting another tree established nearby, to continue the line in the longer term, only I'd try and find a seedling from nearby - I think it'd be a bit of a job keeping an EHS alive and it'd be a few years before it puts on any useful growth, particularly in this weather.

 

I understand your view and respect your opinion, but having considered and reassessed I still stick with my expressed opinion.

Cheers.