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Nature at work.
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Mix a systemic and residual, with a dye. With the residual if you use chikara (think that is the spelling) you will only need to do it once a year.
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The main point of this is that it is the employers responsibility to check the competence of the sub contractor. If the sub contractor makes a mistake and is found to be incompetent the employer is liable. I was told of a tale, where a lady employed a pair of travellers to take down a dead tree in her front garden, a task they achieved by tying a rope around it, linking it to their transit and driving off. A young child was watching, the tow rope snapped, he went into the road to watch the aftermath and a car nearly hit him, he dived back to the pavement and due to a pre-existing medical condition (forget details), died. The homeowner was liable. If the public was aware of this principle, they would be more likely to employ competent contractors. To the benefit of us all. How contractors prove they are competent is another story! -
Large container grown conifer supplier required
Ruskins Trees replied to monkeybusiness's topic in General chat
We would be glad to help, this is right in our sweet spot! -
Beware planting anything in a heavy soil. The rootball will inevitably be a lighter soil. Moisture will wick across from the heavy soil to a light soil. The planting pit/rootball will fill up like a sink, drowning the plant. We had a client who will not be told, he had a digger, so each year he buys a couple of trees from us, digs a pit bigger than the previous year "as I have clay soil (& therefore thinks he needs to backfill with lighter compost/soil) ", plants them, the pits then filled up with water and drowned the trees. Took him three years to believe us. Been reading recent literature all of which promote no more than 5% compost, spoil as vast majority of backfill and get Mycorrhizal/Microbes from soil around healthy plants on site by adding this to the backfill. If you cannot drain the soil, mound plant or right tree, right place.
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Good luck Lovely country & people Please ask them, why with the All Blacks getting so many players from Samoa and Fiji, that they have not played in Samoa for 30 years and never played in Fiji. Is it just the lack of money generated from such games?
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Daft and irritating terminology used in this industry
Ruskins Trees replied to Goaty's topic in General chat
Biochar / Carbon Gold Call a Spade a Spade: It's charcoal Do not promote it by saying that ancient civilisations in the the Amazon used it thousands of years ago to boost the fertility of the soil (perhaps, might of done, outside chance). It might have different benefits from charcoal, but it is still charcoal. Snakeoil salesmen Rant over -
Yellow Snow? Can we have more threads along these lines, I'm learning lots (of useless information)
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1) I love the fact that any compliments about my company directly (or more usually) indirectly reflects on 'things' I have done. 2) Also love the fact if anything goes wrong, it is my fault indirectly (or more usually directly). This should stimulate me to improve things, which links back to 1).
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In my opinion! There is a natural division in the EU. Northern European countries and Club Med. Most of the issues currently with the EU are from those whose coasts touch the Med (and Portugal). I'll excuse Ireland in this huge sweeping statement, who got a bit carried away with the bank lending.
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Norway Spruce are more sensitive to movement than most trees. They take a bit more (care) and suffer a bit more stress to get established. A Nordmann Fir is far easier to get established with less stress. In addition it has softer needles and is nicer to handle! I can help you out with either.
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If you are travelling along the above section as a passenger, please take images of the young mature trees that used to overhang the hard shoulder and post them. It is within the first couple of miles. A large 360 with a flail has reduced major branches to the fence line, (it was still there). The result is the most extensive wounds I have seen from 'tree surgery', not so much a coronet cut, more all the crowns from all the kings and queens who have ever lived. If anyone was the contractor please explain the circumstances behind these works. At present, with no knowledge of why the works were undertaken using this method, this is a terrible, terrible advert for Tree Surgery.
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We have worked on many construction sites where even in the height of summer we have to wear long sleeved tops and trousers. This is a response to the risk of sun cancer, as the site manager cannot effectively assess the efficiency of sun lotion / application of. BTW we have found a way to even this up, pm me for how
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We work all over the country and Ireland, I find yell.com (golden pages in Ireland) the best method of finding local services (welders/mobile mechanics/red fuel distributors/ hire companies etc). It gives you the local suppliers on a map. The natural listings and paid for ads on google do not deliver the same quality of information. I advertise on it for Tree Moving and occasionally get calls as a result.
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FORS Bronze Recognition Scheme Once you've understood LEZ, for over 3.5t vehicles going into the LEZ area you have to get the above. It is part of the drive to stop cycle / hgv accidents in London. FORS - TfL contractor and supplier requirements
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The LEZ punishes small businesses. Big national fleets just allocate their new lorries to London runs and routes the older dirtier lorries elsewhere. I had to sell a perfectly good hiab lorry and buy a newer one. The largest polluters are buses, but these are exempt. We are weak willed compared to the French, they would not put up with this. I am told that when they implemented wheel clamps, they took it upon themselves to super glue any wheel clamp padlock in situ and the authorities gave up. The cameras are too high to put out of action!
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Does anyone use one these? If so can I have some feedback please?
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It does not matter so much where you go, as long as everyone is up for it. Where abouts are you? What is the per head budget? 1) Any place with teaching hospitals /hospitals/ large Student population 2) No place with a garrison / naval port 3) Any place with foreign language colleges 4) Where you will rub along with the locals 5) Any Mediterranean resort with a party reputation 6) If abroad a non-Euro currency location will make your £ go further 7) If money no object Los Vegas ! 8) Do not worry about the weather, it never rains and is always warm in Pubs, bars & Nightclubs 9) A commercial freight airline pilot, told me the place in the whole of the world to have a good night out is Tallinn, Estonia
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Bio diversity offsetting an ancient woodland with planting saplings is beyond a joke. The whole principle of offsetting is similar to killing someone and offering to compensate by conceiving a baby. Ancient woodlands are our "keepers of time" they have existed for thousands of years, a timescale we cannot contemplate. Who are we as custodians (not just the arb/environmental/green world) of this to stand by and allow this destruction. 7 generations to a century, 70 per thousand years, how can 1 generation allow these woods to be cleared ?
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Mobile Clutch Replacement - The Flying Clutchman tanning saloon - sun strokes (ok not a good name, a stupid name)
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Tickets for From The Jam (Jam Tribute Band, featuring Bruce Foxton), roll on March!
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The 98.6% positive feedback is a bit worrying
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Is the bark flaking vertically in strips Are the flowers white "lace caps" hanging down, like an old fashioned lampshade If so Arbutus undeo If bark peels in small platelets, leaving a dappled bark (like a Plane, but much smaller platelets) it could be Stewartii pseudocamellia An image or three would nail it. Both lovely trees, massively under planted in my opinion
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We have them, providing you remember to wipe the lense as you walk past it, annoyed sitting in cab, turning vehicle on and just seeing a blur on foggy/icing mornings! Has anyone considered putting two on, focused on a single point to provide perspective?
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Open tree pit and mulch NO1 option, if not Porous Tarmac it is flexible Agree with ScottF re resin bonding
