Ruskins Trees

Mr J R Williams You are using the wrong tree movers! We have over 75% repeat business moving trees (and hedges), some going back over 20 years. We are due to be in your area later this week, moving trees for a client for whom we moved trees 2 years ago. Regards Robert

Mike Hedge transplanting - not a problem. Give me a call 01277 849990. Moved a 100 year old Beech hedge, 5ft tall, 6ft wide, 80 metres long. The client never bothered to water it. That was 15 years ago. 100% success Can give you the google street view link. Robergt

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CITB SSSTS Site Supervisors Safety Training Scheme Sorry to be the one to tell you about this one, if you have not heard. This a two day, £250 course for supervisors who work on construction sites. The CSCS card is too lightweight for many H & S obsessed/aware construction companies. These companies are insisting on this qualification. Strangely there is no photocard, just a certificate.

In the Midlands, East Anglia and the South East, we have had a very dry six months (despite the past few days!). When we have dug holes to trans/plant trees in this area, below a few inches the ground is often very dry and has turned / turns to dust, even clay. Yet I have not seen (I may be myopic) mature trees stressing / switching off, as happened when we had hot and dry (although without the soil so dry) prolonged weather in the recent past. Has anyone else notice this / got any views ? If my observation is correct the best explanation I have is that the trees that made it through the last couple of dry periods must have survived by pushing their roots deeper and are therefore not impacted by this dryness.

On the ground

Look at these big boys falling (naturally), caught by hikers on Trail of 100 Giants [ame=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5Yeyx5jEiKA]Two Giant Sequoias Caught on Film as They Drop to the Ground - YouTube[/ame] On the ground:

Corylus or may I call you Hazel ? Bulk Bags Tonne Bags Polypropylene Jumbo Rubble Bags - Stanlow Used these guys a couple of times, always found them quick and helpful

sorry under the mulch not earth

i) Why invest any effort in a Horse Chestnut ? Apart from throwing good money after a species that is under attack from bleeding canker and leaf miner. ii) Air Spade and Mulch Recently heard, lay cardboard under the earth, its glued with fish guts and the worms love it ! Trying to find a second source of this though.

Do not guarantee eradication, (unless you have a 20yr + contract plus access to adjacent land if any there). The seed is viable for upto 20years!

We have just fitted one on a 27ft flat bed. Find it is hard to gauge depth of view, i.e. distance from camera to object. Has any put two on at either side to assist this ?

We are over in Essex and everyone is getting prepared for the Dale Farm lot to get on the move. Whoever is selling fencing and farm gates over here is having a very good month. There are small bunds and obstacles behind farm gates appearing everywhere. Even the highways agency is putting up concrete barriers.

Speak to Peter at Ruskins Tree Surgery 01375 893898 or email him ruskins@ukf.net. He has just done this on this vehicle.

There is a talkingtree on Twitter. @talkingtree must prove trees have feelings ! ****self promotion alert***

Tree nuisance from roots/moisture removal can be abated by rootbarriers. Although we cannot believe that the most common used one is only 600-1000mm deep!!! When told to install this we laugh and explain its more about the moisture wicking across the soil /and anyway roots will go under and come back up again on the other side and exclude any liability. We call them root deflectors at this depth. There is only one company that we are aware of that we think installs them deep enough to work, but I am not sure I can mention them, pm me for details. Does anyone have any views on root barriers?

Paul Will give you a call in the morning Regards Robert T: 01277 849990

Thanks for the warning! If they had not put up signs saying number plate recognition cameras in this area and just used the cameras, people upto nefarious activities would be less likely to use false plates, which inturn would lead to more being caught. If they wanted to stop false plates they would stop t'internet selling them or get them to pass all details to plod.

Andy I will call you on Tuesday to discuss. Regards R:01277 849990

Many Many years ago We had a tongue in cheek discrimination claim as we were firmly a tea is a working mans drink company and refused to offer coffee as it was too exotic! We are now enlightened and offer coffee! Also tea related, it is the only time a Police officer acted anything other than completely apathetic when attending after a burglary. He was highly agitated and promising revenge, when we told him not only had we been robbed, but they had pissed in the kettle. Thankfully as I recall it has a different boiling point to water and we were alerted before any mishaps although it may have been the smell.

Bizarrely nothing but tea (and sugar rush full fat coke some afternoons) at work and only coffee elsewhere, preferably filter and never if I can help is at £4 a pop in Costalot coffee, Starbucks, but then I am never on the road.

It can regenerate from 1/8th of an inch segments. Disinfect your kit in his garden in the area of the knotweed. Clean your boots in the same way. Do not spread it around the garden, try to burn it in a brazier close by. As I understand it unless you are removing it to kill in your yard you cannot take it anywhere other than to one of those v few asbestos type receiving landfills. If you do remove the cut stems, make sure none falls off on way home and then clean the truck and burn anything that could be knotweed. Your client really has to eradicate it before it starts to come up inside his house! I/ spreading to neighbours, it will grow through concrete (it spreads through its orange centred knobbly roots upto 7 metres from the source). You need to act quick only the root system stays alive after the first frost. It can take several attempts to kill it. BTW the roots apparently can be viable for 20 years! I would leave it at its current size and herbicide, if there is no risk of drift onto anything more worthy. Return in spring and treat the new growths..... If risk of drift we inject. Do not guarantee immediate success. Good luck!

Cannot recommend Newmarket Hire enough, always spot on. Would this happen if all hire depots are run by a woman?

The UKTC website has a lot on this in the archives

Only silly ideas! 1) Wait till next ice age moves it 2) If shorter let it rot down over next 20 years 3) Find a part of the army that needs to blow something up 4) Tell time team there is a Saxon Hill Fort under it. 5) Get one of those tree surgeons who massively undercuts everyone to quote to do it.