Jon Hartley

Judas tree?

Thanks Graham,

..broad domed two or three co-dominant stems,,,

...DBH ranged 800-1000mm...

Evening all

I was doing a survey in a park north of london a couple of days ago. There was an avenue of over mature trees with deeply fissured grey bark. They are in the region of 16m tall with a spread of 16m. The main unions were all compressive in nature with significant included bark and no real reaction wood present, much like Robinia psudoacacia(no spikey nastiness though!

I only got these poor shots with my phone. Bark, buds and an in situ fruit on one of the topped individuals.

Good luck..

Morning guys

This may well be an easy one for those of you who have been here for a while but I'm newly off the plane from a 5 year stint in Oz and I'm slowly getting back into our trees!

Its a street tree from the Hammersmith area, I'm leaning towards Turkish hazel but I will happily bow to your collective wisdom!

Thanks for your help in advance

I am a little jealous, I hand in th last assignment of year 1 today. I still have 2years to finish. Congratulations on sticking it out to the completion of your course.

Was going to suggest you look into the aa approved contractors in the area, but I see glen already messages you!

Ive said before and Ill say it again...You get what you pay for!

shigo's a modern arboriculture is THE original tree book and well worth a read!

020,obviously

020, Someone else showing there age! Cant agree more...although thats probably more nostalgic than accurate, the 200t solved all the problems. Why on earth that new thing(201t) was launched I dont know!

My Zubat comes a very close second!

with flikr open, hit the "share" button > "Grab the HTML/BBCode" > BBCode then get the .jpg file link from out of the BBCode code string bitween the img tags

Thanks for that...every days a school day!

 

 

 

Thats the first pics ive tried to post I hope they worked!

......it would appear not!!

Thats the first pics ive tried to post I hope they worked!

I've had a hankering for one of those for a while, just can't bring myself to part with the 90.

 

From what I gathered, they're pretty much a LWB pajero underneath with a van body - think the earlier ones were L300 bodies.

I bought a 1988 L300 4x4 when I got to Oz. She was pretty cool:001_cool: but let us down a lot! Having said that there were no electronics so we could always fix any of the problems she threw at us:thumbup:!

also...forgot to add. Good fuel economy!

Everyone should really be singing the praises of Toyota land Cruiser but fuel economy isnt crash hot.

I read an article about a retired guy and his wife who did it in a Disco2 (Td5) with no problems. When they got to Australia they upgraded the suspension because of the tough terrain outback and the load they were carrying.

OK just checked with one of my colleagues do you want command line cad or point and click? Also 2D or 3D? Also do you want CAD or do you just want to amend existing plans (you don't actually need CAD for this)?

Hi again John...

It turns out that I have no idea what I want from a CAD programme! I really just need to be able to open plans, and add extra layers to those plans!

You sound like a man who knows, so what would you suggest?

As far as being your favourite Aus city, on a day like today I couldnt agree more! The suns shining as I sit writing this on my balcony at the top of Kangaroo Point cliffs overlooking the river and city!

If you want something on site then our Android App will do simple CAD soon. You will still need something to sort out the data back in the office.

 

By the way Brisbane is my favorite Aus City.

Which app. is that John, it sounds interesting.

Auto CAD WS works fairly well.

Thanks Phil Ill have a look at that!

...a slight change of subject but its still in the same vane, can any of you recommend a free ware alternative to autocad?

these organisations pay well, use the experience to raise your fees to them and ride the odd problem with extra profits from a small "agro surcharge"

Thats exactly right Tony. These situations are few and far between and like you say you do build them into your pricing structure to a certain extent. Over the course of a year this will get swallowed up in the accounts almost to the point where its not noticed financially, the customer has been kept happy and we are still working.

(doesnt mean its right though:wink:)

I would email HSE myth busters,with this case, they are determined to end this over zealous, out of proportion risk assessment culture. There is an acceptable risk, risk does not have to be eliminated.

 

Get their support and email it to the idiot telling you to remove the wood chips.

I hadnt heard of HSE Myth Busters, brilliant!

Thanks RobArb, I bought that last week from eBay, it hasn't arrived but I'm glad it was a good choice!

For the first or second year?

That was a little unclear!

First year please, the year of soil overload by the looks of it?!