Mark Bolam
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It can’t be the measles jab then, it’s been around for decades. Microwaves from mobile masts? Plastics? And what’s causing all this gender bending?
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You won’t miss out mate, me and @Stubby hold a ‘sharpening bayonets’ course at the Scout Hut on the second Tuesday of every month. The murdering Commie Fascist Muslim bastards don’t like it up ‘em! I’ve sent you a fax with joining details. Make sure you burn it afterwards, loose lips etc.
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Aye, timing is a bit weird, but fair play to him bowing out at the top. Very few manage it. He likes a whinge, but does come across like a nice guy you’d enjoy a beer with. I too have enjoyed his very attractive brand of football. Unless it’s against us of course! He’s always had the measure of the Toon! Who’s up next? Alonso?
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Sure would burn hot!
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Looks an amazing machine for arb. Some really well thought out features like the guarding on the legs, 360 turret and 90 deg cage rotation. It’s a lot of money, but it’s a lot of machine.
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That’s my point entirely Josh. If the trees predate the building it’s definitely down to piss poor planning! -
I spotted that Mick. No sign of his single barrel pump action yoghurt rifle, though.
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We have piss wet winters now. The clay expands. Our summers now are basically a drought. Clay contacts. Fell a couple of 100 year old oak trees. Shitty house still subsides and shows cracking every year. ’It was the trees that did it’. The planners that allowed it, the architect who specced the insubstantial footings, and the builder who built it all just walk away. The poor bastard next door who is the proud owner of two decent oaks is now facing a bill of thousands to remove them. What a great world we live in.
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Seriously, do you know what the soil is like? A little patch of wildflowers would look great, and the bees will thank you. Be great if you establish a mini meadow.
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Yes! Think of the future generation of arbs Jake!
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They actually do both if they’re covered in gold paint.
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Steven, anyone recommending slate chips for anything, ever, should be banned from Arbtalk.
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@Timberwolf Official?
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You’ve got a good point, as long as you are honest about what the implications of a stupid spec would be you can’t do a lot more. There are limits, though. I won’t work on trees that will immediately die, or leave them in a dangerous state.
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Have you contacted Timberwolf direct?
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Decent future and existing clients. No one else matters.
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I hear you Mick, and sometimes you’ve just got to shrug, mutter ‘It’s your funeral’, fire up the saws and take the money. I have refused plenty of jobs where the spec was utterly ridiculous locally though. I don’t want to be known as a clueless twat who doesn’t understand trees and leaves them looking really awful or dead. Well, not better known than I already am, anyway.
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It seems they have done enough to indicate that the oaks are the problem, and removal is probably the only long term solution. It begs the question though, why build a shitty bungalow so near to a couple of oak trees, on shrinkable clay? It’s pretty shameful really.
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You’re stuck between a rock and a hard place with a customer like that then. Hope you get some help whatever.
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Snob. I’ll be on a cardboardeaux later, likely.
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Proper pollards can look great. Cutting mature trees in half isn’t pollarding though. There’s a difference.
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If they won’t take my advice they won’t be my customer. ’If I do that to your beech it will die.’ ’I don’t care what you think, just do it anyway. It will be really good for your professional reputation.’
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Pollarding large beech down to 6m. Sounds like a really well thought out spec.
