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JaySmith

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  1. Sorry what I meant was is it an ARB company working on behalf of the council? The reason I ask that is the rates that the contractors get from the councils tends to be so bad they are often forced into cutting corners in order to achieve daily targets... but that's a whole different story isn't it??!!
  2. That's true but if unfortunately someone was hurt you would have done everything reasonably practicable to protect the public. We had a rocket scientist break through the barrier tape the other day with his dog because we had blocked his usual route!
  3. Just sounds like bad planning or a Friday afternoon job. Yes the responsibility lies with the guys on site but also with the manager of the company who has the ultimate responsibility if he sent them out to do the job in that way. Yes it does reflect badly upon us all. In an ideal world they would have a support truck with about 50 pedestrian barriers and signs to set up a safe passage around the work zone but in reality who does that? It was something we raised when we did our chapter 8 course as it is ok closing the path but you need to have a designated safe passage around the work zone but in reality we can't do that. However more cones, signs and barrier tape may have helped to make the work zone safer and more professional looking. Was it a council job?
  4. It's tricky to say without seeing the site or pictures but sounds like bad planning, whether that was the guys on site or the boss. When we get a job like that we normally swing by and take a look and work out a plan, such as footpath closed signs and an extra groundie to escort pedestrians through etc. Sounds worrying that the section of timber was in the road outside the cordon. If it was council work could it be the job was badly prices/rushed and the guys were trying to hit their target etc etc
  5. Nice David, the crane makes things much easier and quicker! We had a limb removal on a mature oak on a building site and utilised the tower crane on site, did the job in fraction of the time and no paddling around in the mud. Is that the COL building or where your land joins private property?
  6. The HCC course I think is about £100 deposit followed by 7 months at £50.00 well worth it imo
  7. Chestnut reduction was a bit unbalanced to start as it had lost the central leader many moons ago
  8. There's a bit in diagnosis of ill health p137 about galls. It talks about the bacterium agrobacterium tumefaciens. Says the bacteria is in the soil and enters through wounds, could be possible in this case?
  9. Have a look at http://ipm.illinois.edu/diseases/series1000/rpd1006/ There is a little on there about root galls
  10. Could it be where the root has been cut/damaged as it looks as though it should extend into the soil between the two other roots. The end of the root now looks like a gall has formed on the end? Could it have been servered and some type of bacterial infection has caused the gall to form?
  11. I did my rfs with HCC. I worked every Saturday on it and completed it in about 6 or 7 months, although you have up to 2 years to complete it. The workload and reading is much lighter than the lvl4 by comparison
  12. Yeah they are. We measured them at just over 31m spec was a 1 - 2m reduction on the leaning one I was roped into, was nice and slippy as it rained heavily overnight. That bottom limb in walking back in on was about 8m - 10m off the deck at a guess. We took three skinner ones in the group down and they were a similar height but about 16 - 18 inch at the base and had a fair bit of movement up top!
  13. Reducing a tall oak
  14. Excellent blog, you clearly have a lot of knowledge and thanks for sharing looking forward to more informative posts
  15. Not really a job as such but a walk around Great Windsor Park with Ted Green as part of our Tech cert course and the veteran tree element
  16. We've used Amber Langis a few times and are a decent company. If you have a complicated set up they designs and submit the plans, or you can just pick up the lights and operate yourself
  17. I had a look on their website to see if there was any further info but couldn't see anything, do you have a link? Thanks
  18. There was also an article in Essential Arb about injecting garlic into HC's that had bleeding canker, not sure on the results though http://www.forestryjournal.co.uk/media/uploads/cat-267/horse-chestnut-garlic-essentialarb-november-issue54.pdf
  19. Another option may be to grind, excavate all soil and then reinstate and install a suitable barrier, not sure if geosynthetics do that kind of thing?I assume it would be expensive but then so is £1500 on one tree.
  20. If you get stuck I have the data from a resi 400 that we did at college and I could email the results and pics of the tree, happy to share info
  21. Thanks both of you
  22. Thanks, that's stags horn fungus isn't it? The viburnum it is on has died suddenly this growing season with no other signs
  23. Can anybody id this please?
  24. To be honest AA approval IMO would be the best way to go. When you still the costs down over 3 years it must work out to be £50 per month max. If you equate this to the work you may get from it then it has to be worth it. We've got lots of work from AA site, the biggest residential job I think was around £12k to start with followed by another £4 -£5k over the last few years. We were also working at a job today that was recommended to us by said client. When the storms hit we were working for an LA that could only use AAAC. I was a bit sceptical about the AA at first, however the more you learn and see how it can benefit you the better value it seems. Obviously we will never get to the stage where we all have to be AA reg like gas safe but the more people that get on board hopefully the more influence the AA will have and the more money that can put back into PR educating the public about using suitable contractors etc. For the record I only work for an AAAC and have no other attachment to the AA and there are plenty of other good non AA firms out there but the AAAC definitely opens doors. Go along to one of the talks that Paul does and see for yourself it's free and only costs a day's time
  25. Doing mine with The Training Tree at Painshill, all good so far. You must be at Harlow then?

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