Ruskins Trees

I think the case law on this relates to the canary wharf tower, when it went up some people in Tower Hamlets in its transmisson shadow, could not get some tv channels. It went all the way to the top of the court system and the case was rejected. You have no rights to a TV /Radio signal (and by association mobile signals?)

So Biochar is Charcoal Call a Spade a Spade I am going to launch a product called bioliquid, vital for the health of your trees and plants and hope no-one finds out it is water, obviously sold at a tidy premium to water. I have read a lot about Biochar, nowhere in the literature does is it called charcoal or is likened to Charcoal. I do not accept it should be called a new name as someone has found it has other uses.

I have read a lot about biochar, still a bit confused What is the difference between biochar and charcoal?

We need a German arborist to contribute. They have divided their trees into polite ones and rude ones. The polite ones, when they loose branches do so slowly i.e. Ash The rude ones, just drop branches without warning i.e. Horse Chestnut

Gnome If you have ten trees to move around 20-25cm diameter at 20cm, to move with a 2.16 metre Tree Spade. We estimate that we can save clients 90% over purchasing in the same trees. If is it just a single tree, we group you with other clients if we can to reduce the cost. Have pm you with the costs! Check out one of our largest Spades in action, much better music in my opinion and a 2nd generation design of Spade, on advantage of which is no towers which have to be pushed into the canopy.

One of the biggest tree nurseries in the country, are telling customers, it is their (the customers) duty to continue planting (the growers) Ash trees, because it might help find a resistant one.

Log man, Mycorrhizal, mulch, plant at correct level, stake, do not let roots dry out, try to move rootball without it falling apart, use rootball nets, hessian squares, PG Horticulture sell them. Move Oct-Mar, preferably as early in the season as possible. Water commencing when buds swell, for 2-3 years during dry periods. Root pruning will help but not critical.

The 3 metre spade is based in germany and owned and operated by the manufacturers.

Please see image to the left. The largest Tree Spade in the UK, the Stocker 8, 2.16 metre Spade on a Magirus deutz 6x6 in action: [ame=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wJHsXBJXqt0]Ruskins Full Video - YouTube[/ame]

Daniel Our sister company Ruskins Tree Surgery Ltd owned it. If I can be of any help send me a message / call. Robert

The police federation looked into this, the stats on life expectancy after working night shifts on retirement is shocking. The best shift patterns are long periods of night shifts followed by a meaningful break before swapping to days. Short periods of night shifts are very bad for you.

Hyundai i40 blue motion, (fuel efficient model) 55mpg at 70mph+, 5 year unlimited mileage warranty. Great helpful attitude from dealers re warranty. Had a Hyundai Santa Fe, did 260,000 miles in five years, even in the last month they were happy to replace something under warranty (cannot recall what). Parked in a field with horses, one of which used my wing mirror as a scratching post for is ar**, and the wing mirror was left hanging off, was told by the dealer that it should be strong enough to resist this and replaced under warranty.

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I know very little about bonsai management and a little more about growing trees in containers. In some situations we grow trees in Air pots (the best plant growth container by far), then unzip them every two years and prune the roots, to stop them becoming pot bound (air pot roots will not girdle). I am told this is the same as what bonsai people do to reinvigorate their trees. I suggest instead of thinning you actively bonsai these trees by root pruning. Then install an air pot system inside your container (leaving a tiny air gap), so that next time you just have to unzip and prune. BTW met an Swedish ex-Air Hostess, who showed me pictures of her Swedish Birch, which she smuggled into the UK many years previously. She has it in a plastic dustbin, when the roots cause it to split, she cuts the dustbin off, prunes the roots and puts it is a new plastic dustbin. The Birch was in excellent health but about 20% of the size its girth indicated.

Airpot is the best container for growing any plant, by a countrymile The Caledonian Tree Company - Air-Pot Overview

Rod If your soil is satisfactory I would leave the FYM at present. I would advise establishing the symbiotic Mycorrhizal relationship first. It is by far the most important thing you could do, this is highlighted by the information below. A mature Beech tree If its roots were placed end to end, they would stretch five miles. If its mycorrhizal were placed end to end they would go around the world. Mulch then assists this relationship. If you do use FYM, ensure it is very well rotted.

My recommendations are: Mulch to 3" deep as wide as you can, this will reduce significantly the competition for the grass / weeds (which will have deeper roots than the trees), retain moisture, stop the need for grass maintenance around the trees and most importantly of all, increases Mycorrhizal activity by 15 times over a grass cover. Use woodchips - get from local tree surgeon, try to avoid too much conifer, try to get composted woodchip. Maintain woodchip levels. If you did not add Mycorrhizal on planting, do so now. Buy UK sourced Mycorrhizal (google friendlyfungi), ignore the instructions, wait until the ground is soft, take a metal spike and push down close to the tree, add a bit of Mycorrhizal and heel over. The fungi has to be in contact with roots. I suggest six holes per tree. Do not fertilize, it reduces the fungi. When it gets hot and dry, water. Agree entirely about the pruning.

The great thing about trees is that you are always learning and you never know it all. Learnt this, this week. The smell of Pyrus calleryana Chanticleer flowers is similar to the smell of sperm. Does anyone concur? The smell was hinted to me, by a client, I had to google it. The google answers were all from americans; read into this what you like. What have you learnt?

Fantastic thread. Are there any cases where it can be proved that "un-girdling" has resulted in an improvement in tree health. I'm not doubting it helps.

OPM was first explained to me at a seminar by Tony Kirkham. The thing that struck me most was the following: It is a public health issue primarily, in Spain and Portugal they shut Oak forests when the OPM is out and about.

Do the job you are given well, then when complete, find the boss and ask what is next. That and offer to make a cup of tea for him/her in the morning goes far, then when they leave at the end of their day when the boss is usually still at the desk working, offer to make another! (this has never happened to me yet!)

We go where people will pay us to go. We are careful however on how far we go to quote. Try to get agreement on a budget first for longer distance clients and then group them together for quoting. I have the view that if I do not think where is the nearest airport when a customer tells me their location, that they are local! I realize that this is not realistic though!

You can compensate for moving 'out of season' by taking a larger rootball and increasing the aftercare. Root pruning also massively helps. Even if only a month or so in advance, as you are managing the stress caused by root cutting by spreading it over a number of events. Ensure all final cuts of roots are clean. Use Mycorrhizal fungi (UK sourced), do not feed, mulch, water regularly. Do not fret if leaves are dropped, check cambium if you think die back has occurred. Do not reduce canopy first, much better to let die back occur then prune back. Do it naked by the light of a full moon (was told this by a willow weaver, do not subscribe to this theory myself).

It is a case of over supply by colleges and people thinking tree surgery is just a bit more complicated than landscaping. Our further education system gets it wrong. The stats are along the lines of: We need 80,000 engineers a year and our education system produces 8,000. Yet they produce 80,000 beauticians for 8,000 jobs. Not saying they are the same thing!

The HSE have revised the Chainsaws at Work document, you can download 1 free copy via this link. Chainsaws at work