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I think you may be mistaken Dent...i am pretty sure you need v5 plus ID in most places, front or rear. I tried to get one for the chipper and ran into these probs.

Yeah- and weve all seen police camera action with the car thieves- it only takes minutes to get the helicopter up in the air for a stolen car.....

As above. I have had one which is made up of stick on letters for about 5 years. Strictly illegal, but nothing has ever been said.

If you join the police you should join it to uphold the law a safety of the public, and if you cannot do that using the loss of your job as an excuse, then in my opinion you are f-ing spineless. Are you seriously trying to excuse their lack of attempts at action with their potential job loss as a valid reason???????? I very much doubt that they would have lost their jobs if they had stopped him, however they had done it short of causing more death... And of course there shouldnt have been a madman on the loose, but guess what- he was a madman, and NO amount of legislation or anything else will EVER stop that.

WTF:confused1: yawn....

Wouldnt touch yell or the yellow pages with Franks.

You should watch JUST the met office- they are generally spot on......or just deal with the rain lol....coz i know you love it.

I agree. I think that is why in this case the spec was fairly exacting, but allowed a useful ammount of leeway; '.....no more than 2 metres' etc, and back to suitable growth points, any more specific would have been unrealistic. We were to deadwood aswell, so that was allowed to be flexible on the branch length etc. Two tree officers climbed this tree so they had a good understanding of its condition.

Thanks for your reply Paul. The spec i put in the thread an extract of an email the TO sent to me to follow, as opposed to my application. We had discussed it on site, and when he emailed it he just said to use it in my aplication. However, i have to admit that i would have probably only submitted something similar to that.... All input gratefully received.

Yeah- it was MEANT to look like this........ but seems to have ended up looking like a tree:confused1:

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I cant believe nobody else mentioned anything :thumbup:

Excellent- thanks guys.........seeing as how my middle name isnt 'self confidence' i was expecting slightly less favourable comments lol!

Yeah i think so Tony. You on the 3rd of june, or 30th may mate?

Haha- best squirl pic i have ever seen!!

It was roasting hot- i lost about 3lbs i reckon!!

A landy and trailer is quite a bit of excess though....lol.

:laugh1: yes:blushing:

How very dare you......im 21 if im a day:lol: Cheers dave.

Morning! Thanks guys. David, There was an amazing amount of epicormic all over the tree- its almost as if the tree is doing one of 2 things....regenerating (in which case it will respond really well) or giving its swan-song....When i last looked at it, about 2 months back, the general concensus was that the tree was doomed. The amount of old pruning wounds and large number of decay pockets showed that this tree had had a really hard life. Coming back and seeing the amount of vigour has been very encouraging however, and I will be giong back next year to see how it has reacted. Dave- when i originally spoke to the owner, before looking at it, she had been advised by 'a mate who knows a bit' that it was dead/ dying and would ned to come down....she wasnt happy about that and was put in touch with the TO i believe, who climbed it to inspect it (not in his capacity as TO at this stage). It was then left for a seasons growth to assess it, and when i got involved with a view to working on it (she didnt want it felled:thumbup1:) then 2 TOs got involved from a planning point of view and did the second climb in order to give me the spec.... Myself and *********** undertook a climbing inspection of the Sweet Chestnut in June 2009. I revisited Dean Terrace on Thursday 4th March and met with Mrs *******., we discussed the trees on site and remedial works that I would support, please see comment / specifications below. T1 Large, mature, Sweet Chestnut. Following the removal of an adjacent mature Beech, extended lateral branches have been left exposed; in the last year the tree has suffered storm damage, branches extending toward the west have sheared off. The tree has numerous, historic pruning wounds, dead/desiccated wood and dysfunctional cambium bark are associated with these, a previous climbing inspection indicated that these do not constitute significant structural defects at this time. The crown contains numerous sections of deadwood. I would support the removal of deadwood and a canopy reduction of approximately 30%. Reduction work should reduce the height by no more than 4m, the eastern spread by no more than 3m and north western spread by no more than 2m. Branches to be reduced back to suitable growth points, providing a framework for future growth. Pruning should result in a more compact crown form, promoting the development of a symmetrical canopy in the future.

Sweeet:thumbup: Export and zero-zero here:sneaky2:

I did this job on wednesday. The job was to remove deadwood and TRY to reshape this elderly and gnarly old sw. chestnut. It is an amazing tree, which had been topped out a very long time ago, by the previous owners husband many mooons ago i am informed. That had left a mess at the top of the tree, with a large area of decay, and some fairly hefty branches growing out of it. It has been in the pipeline for about 18 months, with repeated meetings and 2 T.O's doing 2 climbs in order to give me a very exacting description of allowed works- almost a branch by branch remit!! I am sort of pleased with the result, but only time will tell whether or not the tree will respond with a nice shape and some renewed vigour in the crown. It was hard to get pics as the site was pretty small.

hahahahahahahahahahahahahahah LMFAO:lol:

Theres one in every crowd:laugh1: