monkeybusiness

Root protection areas can (and should!) be drawn to include physical barriers to roots. What you are proposing sounds sensible to me - a root barrier on one side 3m from a newly planted tree should have minimal/zero effect on its long term growth and stability (assuming the rest of the rooting area is unimpeded and of suitable material). The tree will ultimately grow to its environment. If in the future you wish to build on the other side of the root barrier the RPA should be drawn to include the root barrier, and the arboricultural method statement would include this detail as mitigation for what might otherwise be considered incursion into the RPA.

I can’t believe the ridiculous responses to an employment advert - pretty disgusting behaviour IMO.

They definitely have (assuming you’ve been taking them for the last 10 years or so)! X

These are made by a friend of mine - very well made bits of kit.

Got any links??

One log load - took advantage of the frozen ground to get this monster lump of oak out in one piece…

Where are the reports of all of these white men grooming and gang-raping children in organised gangs in numerous towns and cities up and down the country? Sadly there are peados of every colour and creed, and I don’t doubt that many many white male excuses of human beings are responsible for this sort of horrendous abuse. I’m not aware of organised gangs of white men nationwide undertaking the sort of depravity that the Pakistani Muslim peadophile grooming rapists have seemingly copy/pasted across our nation though, and am unsure why you are trying to downplay what these animals have done (and no doubt continue to do to this day).

Just had to Google pemmican - incorrectly assumed it was another word for jizz…

I have had a hycrack for 25 plus years and have never had any form of near-miss with it. As long as you present the timber correctly they are totally safe. Mine was supplied with a ‘stop-bar’ which is essentially a sprung bar attached to the tractor’s fuel-stop by a length of string - pull the bar and the engine shuts down. It’s run on an old Ford 3000 so this basic setup works perfectly.

Oh yeah - we have the long reach pole saw too, which has been good so far to be fair. The bar is on the wrong side though for some reason, which I still can’t get on with!

I meant once planning is granted, but worded it incorrectly. In my experience not much felling takes place once an application has been submitted though, as developers don’t want to jeopardise their application. Any felling after the survey is immediately quantifiable.

I have a mountain of Makita battery kit that always works, every item every time. I bought into the Husky battery gear and almost immediately had an expensive charger fail - a bit of research showed that it is a common unfixable fault (essentially it is a throw-away item if still under warranty - madness!). The main reason for buying into the Husky battery kit was their long reach hedge cutter - we use it for less than a fortnight per year on a couple of repeat jobs. This blew its gearbox casing within its first week of use - again, a bit of research showed this to be a very common fault! It has since been a disaster of a tool with repeat wiring problems through the knuckle joint, and is currently languishing in the back of the shed not working as I can’t be arsed investigating it yet again. We do have a top-handle which hasn’t yet broken, and the batteries themselves have been good. I won’t invest further into the brand’s battery offerings though, as my experiences to date suggest maximum pricing with minimum quality unfortunately.

Husky battery kit is dog toffee sadly - really really unreliable expensive crap.

Yeah - Labour did everything possible to undermine and delay any implementation of the Rwanda plan (purely for political one-upmanship), and discarded it untried as soon as they came in to power, whilst lamenting the costs spent to no avail (largely because of their boycotting tactics). And now they have zero alternative deterrent, even though the hard work and investment had been done/spent. Pricks.

Not really, no. Groups and woodlands can be identified as such (with any important trees individually identified where necessary) as that is how they are relevant from a planning/landscape perspective. They are given retention values as a group and this information should be sufficient to help steer decisions as to the suitability of the proposed development. Surveying every single tree would add immense costs and would do nothing other than generate mountains of totally irrelevant data. We already have a planning system that forces ridiculous overbearing demands on developers, giving various consultant firms a licence to print money.