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TEP is seeking to recruit two Arboricultural Consultants on full-time contracts based in our Warrington and Market Harborough offices. The roles sit within our team of dedicated arboricultural experts, offering the successful candidates involvement with wide-ranging and multi-disciplined projects. Supported by our 13-strong team of arboriculturists you will work alongside TEP’s in-house ecologists, landscape designers, land managers and environmental planners to build on our strength as a multi-disciplinary consultancy. The roles offer competitive salary based on experience, an excellent company pension scheme, investment in your CPD and pathway to Chartership and the opportunity to work for a dynamic multi-disciplinary company, driven by passionate individuals and offering excellent career progression. Closing date for CVs and completed application forms is 5.00pm Monday 6th March 2017. Please visit our website for further details Jobs | TEP – The Environment Partnership

TEP are seeking an experienced and enthusiastic individual to join our team of Arboriculturists based in Warrington. This role would suit someone with previous tree survey experience who can demonstrate enthusiasm and creativity to help strengthen and develop this area of the business. The main role of the successful applicant will be to conduct tree surveys using commercial and bespoke computer software for the purposes of risk management and to support planning applications. A thorough understanding of BS 5837, tree identification, physiology and diseases is essential. Previous experience of a range of computerised tree management software, GIS and in the procurement of tree survey contracts will strengthen an application for this role. The successful candidate will be based in the north-west of England but will be expected to travel across the UK and stay overnight at different locations to meet specific project requirements. For further information please visit our website at Jobs | TEP – The Environment Partnership

Hey All, Long time no speak (sorry) For all you AA members who have received this email, just a gentle reminder. For all those that haven't and you are interested in airing your views at the North West AA Regional Group you are invited to come along. See details below Cheers:001_smile: Good Afternoon, You may be aware of the work of the AA North West Regional Group that began just over two years ago to try and raise the profile of the Association and encourage social and networking events in our part of the country. Currently operating as an extended arm of the Northern Branch we have been successful in bringing a number of roadshow and independent training opportunities to the North West over the last 24 months. We (the current Committee) are now seeking to invite new interest, ideas and to improve the social aspect of the Group. I would therefore like to invite you to a meeting at: Risley Moss Nature Reserve in Warrington (WA3 6QX) on Wednesday 20th May 2015. Proposed meeting time: 18.00-19.30 An agenda is as follows and will be firmed up ahead of the event but core topics of discussion will include the following: - Committee Members & Structure - Proposals for the Northern Branch AGM - Events held / Events to be held If you are interested in coming along and helping promote arboriculture in the North West I would appreciate you sending me a quick email confirming this, even if your plans change nearer to the time so that I can gauge potential numbers. Kind Regards Jonathan Smith Principal Consultant Arboricultural Team Manager [email protected]

Just two little tasters. Words cannot put into reason the trip as a whole

Got it in one... two!

Nope:lol: (sorry) Think easier:thumbup:

Cheers guys. I do try to get on, but with the job and the kids getting older into more activities and clubs, I end up playing taxi. By the time I get in at night I'm goosed haha. One thing the new job had helped with though is the collation of pictures. I don't want to release half a job, but I'm a perfectionist I'm afraid. I'll get there, and when I do, I'll need testers I'll try to get on more often too

Website is there in the background, but it's taking a lot longer than I anticipated. I will release it eventually though

Hi Julian, I recently undertook an exam ran by the BSBI (Botanical Society of Britain and Ireland in case some of you didn't know) and gained a level 3 qualification allowing me to do partial Phase 1 habitat Surveys. I'm sure there may be other routes too, but this one is worth looking at (and possibly right up your street!) BSBI Bats however, is a whole different board game. Our Ecologists have to do years of training events, CPD's, surveys under supervision and hours and hours of on site time before they can even begin to think about becoming a bat surveyor. Worth looking into though if you have the time and energy

Not bud scar. Leaf scar. Its the place on the twig where last year's leaf was before it fell off. The scar is what is left when it does fall off. The bundle scars are the little dimple type things on the leaf scar. Close up of that would be a real help Sent from my GT-N7105 using Arbtalk mobile app

I don't thin kit is Frisia due to the lack of thorns. Think more along the lines of Fraxinus pennyslyvanica, or Phellodendran sp., or Juglans cinerea, or Rhus sp, or... I'm working on it

Hah, I can picture it now:thumbup: Sent from my GT-N7105 using Arbtalk mobile app

I like the way you're tied into the piece you're cutting too! Here's my caveat! JOKE! for all those lacking a sense of humour:lol:

Syngenta withdraws application to use banned pesticide linked to bee harm | Environment | theguardian.com Different chemical I think, but makes you think... Long live the bees

Trouble is, i'm sure a normal layman out there would read this and go.... right where's me axe:001_rolleyes:

http://www.marketoracle.co.uk/Article45860.html Loving the incorrect idents, anyone would think the writer of this little piece didn't like trees! Now... who's had there official rope saw training:lol:

I've always been tempted by work abroad (and that side of the world) when I was a climber, I'll be honest and say it wasn't the size of the trees that put me off, but the creepy and bitey crawlies that lived within them:lol: Plus, the family would take a bit of persuading. If I could "consult" over there that would be a whole different story and a massive learning curve, you never know, one day. I'll keep doing the researching but cheers for the info:thumbup:

Do you ever have any comings and goings with arb consultants out there Lee? Any ideas on what pay scales are like for that side of arb? Cheers

Imminent - Fast approaching, about to happen, almost a certainty But is it definite?? 1/1?? nah, not quantifiable imo Probable - Likely to happen, odds-on, plausible It either happens, or it doesn't... statistics can be bent to any situation depending on the viewpoint... 50/50 (0.5) Possible - able to be done, that may happen, feasible, capable of occurring Again, it either happens, or it doesn't... 50/50 (0.5) Improbable - Not likely to happen, unexpected, (didn't know this but this word comes from the Latin "hard to prove" - "in probabilis") This ones' a funny one. Let me give you an example... According to the Second Law of Thermodynamics, it is improbable that when dissolving a teaspoon of sugar into your cup of tea, that by stirring, and stirring, and stirring that the sugar will reform back into crystal granules. Not impossible, but improbable. 0.999999999 recurring. Maths, mmmmmm

Just a thought.... We have British Standards concerned with Trees and Developments, Nurseries and Planting and Tree Works amongst others. Why not have one for house buying!? (even if it's just ickle) The amount of times I've come across NIMBY's who've bought a house with a tree next door adjacent or on the boundary and want it down/pruned a few years later. Surely a bit of advice from an estate agent (should they be considering this anyway?) would reduce the number of cases like this one presented here? In regards to this tree, why are there so many members who feel the need to get one-upmanship on matters of the law?? (and that is aimed at both sides of this argument). As Jules states, so many cases like this go unresolved (in the law) due to interpretation of words and phrases, misunderstandings of terminology or sheer bloody-mindedness from arguing factions. BUT, as Rupe states, this tree is easily resolvable and has given by far the best (from a common sense perspective) advice. We can argue till we're blue in the face about the benefits of trees and if we could change your mind to leave it and live with it, great. If not, go with professional advice and remain amicable at all times, even show willingness on your behalf to mitigate the pruning of the tree by buying a small potted tree and offering to plant elsewhere perhaps. And in future, maybe you have friends or relatives thinking of, or in the process of, buying a new house that you could give sound advice too in regards to houses and boundary trees.

Is it a laburnum without the darker colouring of any heartwood?

Is this the majority of the country too? How do the not so reasonable arb's fair? $650 AUD is like £350 ish, even £200 a day i'd be tempted..! Edit: HAHA, that makes sound crap! I'm not, honestly Also, is there any going rates for consultants?

Or Commonly known also as the Box Elder

Hah, quite surprised no-one said Hornbeam:001_rolleyes: