sime42
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Is that assessment based on the fact that it has Die Back, so that much weaker, or a general feeling on long laterals like that? I'd be pretty confident in it being doable if it were a normal healthy tree, I quite like a challenge. It didn't look that bad from the ground. I'm going to use a MEWP now anyway, but just trying to gather knowledge on the implications of Chalara for my own future reference really. Last year, fully dressed in it's leaves, that tree didn't look too bad at all, you could barely see anything amiss with it.
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Nice one cheers all. So a clear consensus is forming, it's a MEWP job. My mates are happy to hire one in and there's a large area of flat concrete to the right of the tree, around the barn, so access should be good.
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I.e. is this tree ok to climb, or is it a MEWP job? It's defintely succumbing, there's lots of epicormic growth shooting straight up from lower limbs. I feel like a bit of a pussy to be asking the question, I'd normally climb a tree like this without a second thought. However, I have no experience with ADB, no idea of the timescales involved. Does the wood only get weak and brittle once the tree has died, this one is obviously very much still alive. The tree belongs to some friends of mine, they've asked me if I want to do it, and they told me they've had another firm in to look who said it would definitely need a MEWP, and quoted as such. Thanks.
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Yeah, I remember reading something about the natural rewilding that's happened at Chernobyl. So animals are evolving to cope with the radiation it seems. Chernobyl mutants: How animals exposed to radiation have evolved after the world's worst nuclear disaster WWW.LBC.CO.UK Almost 40 years on from the Chernobyl disaster, animals continue to face the consequences from extreme radiation...
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Wordle 1,022 5/6 ⬜⬜🟨🟨⬜ ⬜🟩🟩⬜⬜ ⬜🟩🟩⬜⬜ ⬜🟩🟩🟩🟩 🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩 Slightly worse than standard.
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A tall cutter with a bad back maybe?
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Fitting one for an arb site today. Wordle 1,020 3/6 ⬜⬜⬜🟨⬜ ⬜🟨⬜⬜⬜ 🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩
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Here's a bit of a derail but still within the bounds of the thread I think. So I went to a water powered forge mill at the weekend. They used to make farming and other metal tools, including bill hooks and I think axes. Fascinating to see how such things were made. The wheels were actually running and some of the machines and tools. Plus an awful lot of heavy, rusty, wrought iron lying around the place. https://churchillforge.org.uk/
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Is there any money involved with signing up? If not then I'll probably do it just to keep seeing the stats. The streak and average guess is very compelling! It's bloody annoying, having to sign in to everything now, but it's just one more on top of the hundreds that you already do.
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Interesting.
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Yeah, but how does that directly influence ground level air quality? There's going to be far more diesel combustion, brake and tyre rubber/plastic particles on any street. Not that I'm advocating all the excessive air travel btw.
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Sure, some of that as well. There were a few upsides. I'm willing to stand corrected, but I don't think air travel emissions have that much of an impact on ground level air quality.
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The fact that air quality improved a lot during lockdowns must prove something. I'm sure people didn't reduce the amount of wood they were burning, whereas we know there was an awful lot less traffic on the roads.
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True but how often do they differentiate in the various air quality assessments that get done? I still can't believe that wood burners are the worst offenders for causing particulate pollution, as a few studies have claimed recently.
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The trouble with that sentiment is that the average youth today would rather stand around like a wetwipe in a nice warm shopping centre or supermarket to earn the minimum wage.
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Too many.
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I don't think it entirely covers the environmental aspects. Fuel efficiency, and exhaust emissions, aren't the whole story. There's other stuff to consider like the amount of brake dust and tyre particles emitted - they've both increased in recent years with the fashion for SUVs and other overly big and overweight cars. That's the case for ICE and EV. Domestic wood burning is probably the scapegoat for particulates coming from our roads. I'd rather the latter was targeted instead of trying to ban wood burners.
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Exactly. I was just about to suggest that we need a much more nuanced road tax calculation that takes into account mileage, vehicle size/weight as well as emissions. That would address the issue of all the obese SUVS and Chelsea Tractors blocking up the roads and unnecessarily hastening their demise. Tosslers and other EVs being some of the worst offenders.
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And a bottle of Rennie for breakfast.
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Not Facebook, I don't do it, but I've just cringed at this.
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I don't think old Putin has much regard for environmental matters. Kind of ironic as his motivation is supposedly to "reclaim a beautiful part of Russia". All he'll end up with is a barren, toxic wasteland at this rate. If he succeeeds. Some light bedtime reading - Ukraine conflict environmental briefing: Nature - CEOBS CEOBS.ORG Joint briefing exploring how the conflict is affecting Ukraine's ecosystems and biodiversity, and its nature governance.
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I'd go for Pyracantha. I think that's even worse than Berberis.
