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It sold a few months ago - the ad stayed up on marketplace for ages as Facebook wouldn’t let me mark it as sold from my phone for some reason 🤷‍♂️

I didn’t realise he’d sold out. Always seemed an odd (and greedy) business model to me, stack-em-high-and-sell-em-cheap, essentially devaluing any brands they were flogging, whilst simultaneously pissing off small local retailers nationwide. They were a terrible outfit at the end - I wasn’t aware of any point where they changed ownership or MO though.

Will he also be advising you about advertising and selling stuff you don’t actually have? 😂

They fit on a 12 foot Ifor tipper perfectly - possibly smaller too but I have no experience of others. As an aside, the 12 foot Ifor tipper is the trailer I would definitely keep if I could only have one - it is the most versatile bit of kit out there! It’ll carry 8 cube of chip (with the high sides) and can also carry a 110 Land Rover (when stripped to a flatbed).

If that’s the case then it is a genius move by @Johnsond - I’d happily take as much money as possible from any bullshido net-zero funded nonsense.

Can’t their judgements subsequently be overturned by the ECHR though?

You were suggesting climbing over winching.

Would be great if they do implement something like this, but what a complete shower of pricks they were to have done everything possible to scupper the Rwanda deal and then cancel it outright before even trying it.

No idea tbh, and that’s not what I meant (but wasn’t written very well!). Where I was coming from is that if there had been at least one person on the site with windblow experience then I can’t see how the job would have been allowed to proceed the way it did. There are plenty of lads who climb trees (some very well to be fair) all day every day who have no forestry experience, and have never used any machinery other than chainsaws and chippers. They possibly had to get a small hung-up tree onto the floor with their felling lever during CS31 - that’s the limits of their knowledge of dealing with windblow and tension/compression etc. There is nothing really wrong with this, and it doesn’t necessarily make them unsafe in their day-to-day work pruning trees in back gardens. I don’t know the lad who was injured (and I wish him nothing but the best - some of my posts may appear critical towards him personally and that’s not what I’m getting at) but I do know of several other climbers who would potentially unknowingly put themselves in harms way in a similar fashion. If a team is sent to deal with a job and they are unaware of other ways of approaching a problem then they are obviously going to do what they know best - in this case it would appear that was climbing and cutting the tree free. All on site had a role to play, and they all appear to be entirely unaware of the potential outcome in the vids (which suggests naivety and/or inexperience). The entire thing is horrible, and I really hope that the climber heals well.

I’d suggest that quite a few commenting on here (along with at least one person on the site that is the subject of this post) would benefit very strongly from doing their windblow ticket as a bare minimum - there are some worrying advisory suggestions being bandied about. It is clear that several here have no winching experience, which should really be the first approach considered when dealing with hung up trees.

That’s a pretty narrow niche, but whatever floats your boat……

An acquaintance is considering buying approx 3/4 acre of land adjoining their warehouse with a view to extending their building. They only want half the land for their proposed development. The current owner cleared the majority of this piece of land last year (although not the boundary that would need to be cleared for the warehouse extension) - there was no statutory protection on any trees but the LA received complaints and subsequent notified the Forestry Commission, as they believed that the 5m3 per quarter exemption may have been exceeded. The FC have done nothing about it, but are obviously now aware of the site. My acquaintance has approached the LA’s planning department for pre-app advice to get an idea of whether they would have any likelihood of gaining pp for their proposed extension - the planners apparently have a generally positive outlook towards the proposal as the land in question falls within an industrial area. Half of the site could potentially be replanted without impacting upon the proposed development and that half is where the bulk of the original trees and vegetation appeared to be when looking on google earth. The worry my acquaintance has is whether the FC are likely or able to put a spanner in the works if they go ahead and push forward with a planning application. As it stands there is no restocking notice (and apparently no suggestion of any sort of enforcement) - is there a time limit to this sort of thing, would PP supersede anything the FC might choose to do, is there a friendly voice within the FC who could be approached for a bit of advice without risking sterilising the site for future planing etc?

I know, I’ve had a couple of good deals on kit. No joy with Bobcat at the time so changed brands via a more sensible dealer!

The first thing HSE will need is a thorough explanation as to why any aerial work was required at all I’d have thought.

The incident this post relates to happened at the end of Jan, the vid of it (filmed from next to a tractor) started circulating at the start of Feb. It is a miracle the lad is still alive, and the vid raises a lot of questions (why it was climbed being the main one). It’s a horrible watch and I’m not going to link it on here. Part of me can’t help but think there was an element of showboating involved - the leaning tree is partially cut and the climber is being filmed by several colleagues, standing on it as it falls, ready to take a big swing towards the tree he is anchored into. Unfortunately he is also anchored to the tree he has cut (which appears to go unnoticed by everyone until it’s too late). It was a highway’s job over a major A-road dual carriageway that had been subject to an emergency road closure the night before because of this tree (that had partially fallen and subsequently hung up over the carriageway). There is woodland both sides of the carriageway and in the central reservation. It should have been winched out and dealt with on the floor, there aren’t any targets to protect. Thank god the lad is alive, and should mane a decent recovery.