Alex

We have a place just become aviable on a LANTRA Climbing and Aireal Rescue 5 day course running from Monday 7th to Friday11th August, in Norfolk, with an assessment following if required. If any one intrested please get in touch.

[email protected]

Abseil4Research (Belfast - 14th June 2015) off the Europa Hotel Belfast City Centre followed by a BBQ and Tree Climbers Forum (TCF) in the Sir Thomas & Lady Dickson Park.

We have 20 abseilers booked-up for the event which is great news and testament to the hard-work put in by Clare & Rob Gibbs. Many thanks to you both !

Would also like to thank (in advance) Rob Gibbs ( Arbortec); Donal Roe (Tree Solutions Ltd.) and Alex Laver (Tree Logic) for delivering the TCF.

There will ...also be a communal tree planting during the TCF. Many thanks to Alan McHaffiea (at Belfast City Council: BCC) for supplying the tree and also to Jack McCluskey and Stephen Quinn (also at BCC) for granting permission to use this public park.

Looking forward to a great day and the educational CEUs !

Fund4Trees | promoting sustainable treescapes

Seeing as they are both over 750Kg tow weight, what is the price difference from the st6 and st8?

Hi guys. Please remember we need you all to enter the comp or register for Arb camp or volentee to tech ASAP if you are coming, as we need get get passes sort out for all. If not and you just turn up on the Sunday you will have to pay to get in to the show. Please email the ISA chapter office: [email protected] or down load forms by following link above.

Any one coming for Arb Camp and dose not want to climb in the TCC a registration form will follow as we need numbers and need to get passes to people to access the camping and site on the show ground.

Is the comp running over all three days??

Registration and gear check on the Saturday along with some workshops, Prelims on the Sunday and Master on the Monday. The Country show runs Sunday and Monday.

The TCC will be held along side the British Falconry and County Fair

Chetwynd Park Newport Shropshire TF10 8AA

British Falconry Fair -NEW VENUE! Chetwynd Park, Newport, Shropshire - The UK Premier Event for Falconry & Hawking

We will also have our Chapter Arb Camp running at the same event bring workshops, entertainment and fun to the event, open the event up to a wider Arb industry audience. So come join the fun, with Free Camping, TCC, climbing Workshops, Climber corner and have ago trees, BBQ and evening entertainment.

TCC Climbers please download the registration forms and send them in asap to be sure of a spot. If this is your first TCC we are here to help so just ask.

If any one wants to come along and Volunteer as a Tech, Judge or Helper please contact the Chapter Office!

Chapter Tree Climbing Championships 3rd-5th May 2014 | ISA UK & I Chapter

Spread the word and find us on face book and join the vent to help us gain a guide on numbers… See you there.

This event is splitting and moving… The TCC will be the same weekend so Arb camp workshops and fun is going up county to join the TCC at a big country fair..

CAS and ISA will be running the technical seminars at Caple still and there will be an ISA Cert exam as well…

We Have A Date…. 3rd - 5th May 2014

Along side the British Falconry and Country Fair

British Falconry Fair -NEW VENUE! Chetwynd Park, Newport, Shropshire - The UK Premier Event for Falconry & Hawking

Chetwynd Park Newport Shropshire

Arb Camp will be moving to Join the TCC event, so lots there for all the arb world…

Free Camping, evening entertainment and events planed.. BBQ and more..

More details and registration forms follow this link TCC’s | ISA UK & I Chapter :thumb up:

Should have seen the sign just above his head...

Ps this porn Pat just one our less comfy talking about out side of work...

Join our Charity Fund4Trees (F4Ts) ride being held as part of the

“Trees, People & the Built Environment II” conference & help get proceedings off to a flying-start

Meeting Point / Time: 8:30am: University of Birmingham Guild of Students Union Building on Edgbaston Park Road. Car parking is available in the local area. A 10 min. Ride Risk Assessment Briefing will be given by the Ride Leader.

Taking Part: Please visit - Ride for Research – Birmingham – open to applicants | Fund4Trees

Finish Time / Location: 2.00pm: University of Birmingham for a ceremonial tree planting and for those who can stay a ‘swift half’- retreat to Student Union bar.

Route: A relatively flat route (approx. 17 miles long): roughly 50:50 between road and towpaths taking in traditional Birmingham sights such as the historic parts of Bourneville, urban parks, country parks and the canals. We will visit two schools* en route for fun educational tree planting session.

Required Equipment: Cycle helmet (conforms to CE: EN1078), clothing-layers advisable with a light jacket (preferably brightly coloured: visibility) in case of rain. NB The classic yellow RfR t-shirts will be provided.

Required Reading: Highway Code safety regulations for cyclists and the Fund4Trees “Working with Children Policy”. These will be emailed nearer the time.

Lunch @ the Canon Hill Park cafe: Will be provided: please advise if you are a vegetarian.

Rider Sponsorship: To take part £150.00 is required. To obtain your sponsorship a please visit the Just-Giving page: Start a fundraising page with JustGiving | Fund4Trees

Please sign-up for Gift-Aid when making donations as the F4Ts Charity gains an extra 20%.

Insurance: The Ride and school tree planting events will be insured by Fund4Trees but riders are advised to take out personal ride insurance for the day**. If required, Disclaimer Forms will be emailed out prior to the ride.

* We aim to get all - if not most of - the schools to turn-out for the tree planting. For any given ride we could engage with 400+ children.

** Insuring each rider would be prohibitively expensive and divert important resources away from urban tree research and bursaries.

Ride Aims: (1) Raise monies for urban tree research & study bursaries and (2) Take the message to schoolchildren about the important environmental value of trees in towns & cities via hands-on tree planting and interactive group discussion.

For more Ride info. contact Russell Ball - Mob. 078844 26671/ [email protected]



Institute of Chartered Foresters | National Conference ● fund4trees.org.uk

Ride for Research 1st April 2014, Birmingham University | ISA UK & I Chapter

Ride for Research – Birmingham – open to applicants | Fund4Trees

Arb Camp is moving locations, We are going to Capel Manor College.

2nd and 3rd of May 2014

We have got a full two day program of :

Climbing workshops, lead by Jo Hedger and a team of other ISA TCC climber

Contract workshops program building up,

ISA Cert Arb Exam on the Saturday.

Student TCC,

CAS Technical seminars http://tree-expert-finder.co.uk/perch/resources/castechsem2014.pdf

Arb Quiz night and BBQ on friday night, with charity Auctioning must haves and one of opportunities raffle

On site Camping

So save the date and see you all there.

Any Volunteers to help make it all happen please contact us here or on our web site.

Any companies that want to get invoked and help promote this free event, please contact us we would welcome all support

More details will follow over the next week.

Hi Guys

This is going to be great chance to really get your head round Tree law in the UK&I, the speakers will look at case law and how the verdicts where reach and how we can avoid getting in the same situation or become better at advising clients with confidence.

Not many places left, so don't delay call or email Jean at the ISA Chapter office for your place now.

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Vist chapter web site to click and down load the results.

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Cheers Alex

nice find....

PS go and down load the rigging research PDF on the HSE web site, a lot of reading but skip to the glossary and there is spec on all the rigging lowering divesices that where out at the time.

The Tree Runner is a good light weight easy to use small bollard, only rated to 1000daN same as a big port-a-wrap, but perfect day to day.

As for ISC V Buckingham.... I'm with Buckingham never had a rope drop of the port-a-wrap as weight comes on and of the line as a branch comes pass another, the ISA caspstane oh Yes felt that heat and glove wear... cheers

This Tread really took me, I don't normal post much, but in the most part the stuff being said is good stuff.

Ok if I was in your place.....

I would look at the existing brace, how old is it and the load rating of the brace, is it dynamic?

The placing looks ok from the photos but hard to say, have a good read up on he cobra product web site and check it meets their speck. If in any thing is in question, renew or replace after any work and document.

The area under the tree is key for long term. Can it be fenced of to reduce or minimise food fall? If yes then do it. Will reduce risk, demonstrate risk management and improve root plate conditions. Next some work to the root zone, air spade work, radial trenching (good info on ISA site or Bartletts site) then mulch. A mix of compost and chip or well rotted chip is fine couple of years old and water in.

Short term the reduction work is more to do with end weight and lever arms on the unions down the bottom, might be worth doing a wind load calculation on the tree, good info on the ISA site, there is a Science of Arboriculture pod cast too. So I would recommend a more of a thinning reduction than a blanket size reduction. If you where to consider the a heavy reaction work wounds above 2-4" then staging the reduction work over three years giving the tree a chance to show it reaction might be the plan.

Safety of the tree in its environment, so long as you and the council tree owner document all actions and reasons you can demo your approach and prover the tree was being cared for and considered.

Good luck would be nice to here what you end up doing. Great tree worth saving and good to here that plans for future landscape are in hand. If it is that important to the community allot can be done with more invasive bracing, the decay is already there, so you are not going to mack that much worse, worse is the tree being felled. Just look at some of the old Victorian trees in the UK and the Major Oak in Sherwood. They are still there oblivious to the ideas of obsessed well meaning don't do harm people.

Good Luck

Alex

Tree Logic

ISA UK&I President Elect



ISA UK&I ArborCamp 2012

Hosted at the FR Jones Show (13-14th July: Sevenoaks)

Wagoners, Back Lane, Tonbridge, Kent TN11 9PP

FREE TO ATTEND

Preliminary Agenda

“Arb Master Classes” (with the UK&I 2012 Tree Climbing Competition Champions).

Tree dismantling workshop (Kingswood Training Services).

“Tree Climbers Corner”.

“TPOs: 2012 regs. resume of changes” Paul Smith AA Technical Officer.

“Major changes to the BS:5837 (2012)”. Paul Smith AA Technical Officer.

“Ancient Woodland Management, Coppicing & Bats” Kent Wildlife Trust (KWT)

An update on Insect Pest Management Strategies (Adam Clarke: Bartlett Tree Experts).

Tree Disease Management (Adam Clarke: Bartlett Tree Experts).

Soil management/de-compaction demonstration (Bartlett Tree Experts).

KWT Nature Conservation/Education exhibition stand.

ISA UKI Trade/Technical Publications stand.

Special Guest as Detective Dendro™ - a ‘kids corner for all ages’: Guy Meilleur is an ISA Board-Certified Master Arborist, aerial consultant, and former Instructor at Duke University (NC, US). But he is best known internationally as a frequent*Detective Dendro™ author in the ISAs*Arborist News.

On the Saturday 14th July there will be a raffle prize-draw for £176.00* of technical

Tree Climbers books. Tickets will also be on-sale on Friday 13th July. All monies raised

will go to the KWT

* Non ISA member price. At ISA member prices these books would be worth £146.50.

:thumb up: See You All there

Alex

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Hi Guys

After last years workshop on rigging going down so well we are going to do another free work shop this year.

It's titled "999 There Has Been A Accident On Site"

We are going to look at the big What If! great demo planned, weather permitting that is and going to look at what we can do to be better prepared and be safer and smarter on site. Should be fun got a First Aid training company called Norvic, with there own paramedic trainers to help out too. Think live Arb work site Casualty episode.

Its all Free!!! :thumb up: and there will be CPD or CEU credits for all.

5pm after the comp stuff under the Student Tree.

See you there

Alex

Hi all you arb talkers...just to let you know there will be a free rigging workshop on the Saturday afternoon after the comps all wined down for the day, so come join Tree Logic team bring a beer or two and see what you can learn about rigging forces. CPD and CEU points available.

See you there.