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You also need to protect yourself and your reputation and your potential liability for being an accomplice. Slightly at odds with RH advice, I would not call the TO out because that's not your remit. You seem to be the developer's contractor, not the dveloper's agent. Big, big difference. I would tell the developer that he appears to be in breach and that if you are to proceed with removals you want his express instruction (in writing, even just an email). That will soon sort out whther he respects you or was hoping you would blunder on to get him what he wanted and a get-out-clause.

Sycamore?

First prize in the 'still trying the hornbeam joke 2 years on' contest.

Hmm, as suggested by Treseer it also suggests something has bashed it recently.

And Oyster musshrooms...?

Thanks, I must have been thinking of Straw Mushrooms (Volvariella volvacea).

Paul, I have an interesting challenge for you. Why should Arbtalk members use the Induistry Code of Practice? If it takes you more than 25 words then you will probably lose the audience.

I thought shiitake grew on straw...?

You're so lucky that you'll never have to read the draft.

Tell that to Arbtalk! Even the sub-forum dedicated to SRT is called 'Single Rope Technique'.

SRT seems to be recognised now in the just published Industry Code of Practice. Industry Code of Practice: Tree Work at Height It's being called Stationary Rope Technique, which makes so much more sense than Single Rope. What's the reference to two parallel ropes about? Does that still come under the heading of SRT? I wouldn't think to out a fricvtion hitch around a doubled rope.

I see the new Industry Code of Practice has been published now by the AA. I am pleased to see that it is a vast improvement on the draft, which was almost impossible to read. I made some suggestions to the AA myself and was relieved to see that they had been taken on board. Others must have done the same, it is definitely improved. Industry Code of Practice: Tree Work at Height So, I went from thinking I might try to get through my professional life without ever having to look at the ICoP again, to now thinking it is quite a good summary of the H&S issues in aerial tree work. Already I am thinking that from both the consultancy side when drawing up specifications and from the contracting side when drawing up quotes it could be a really useful shorthhand to say that the ICoP (or at least the relevant parts of it) will be observed. Anybody else looked at it or got any thoughts on it? I'm not a plant from the AA PR dept, (honest!) I am just as ever interested in where the industry is at.

Oh dear, I think I am about to be told of several guttating fungi species commonly found on Oak... No, this one had the colour and visual texture of I.dryadaeus, with light caramel coloured droplets and darker bigger ones. The pore surface hadn't developed, or was completely buried in fine debris a tthe bottom of the knothole. Here's a close-up. Please please correct me if I am wrong. I can take it!

Not possible. To see it at all I had to grab either side of the knothole and do a pull-up. With my weedy arms, viewing was restricted to about 30 seconds at a time.

Indeed it is but I am 100% sure about the ID. It was deep inside a dryish near-horizontal knothole about 200mm wide and about 300 deep, at about 2.2m above ground level. On Q. robur, mature, exposed location but knothole on sheltered side. Shropshire.

Seen last week. Anyone know what has caused these lumpy shelves on this Ash?

Bit of a poor picture, but Inonotus dryadaeus guttating away quite happily at the base of a knothole last week.

I think it might be Muehlenbeckia, just reached that conclusion after a half hour search of books and internet. The whole genus seems to lean towards obovate leaves.

I think it's one of these but I don't know what it is. Maybe juvenile Eucalyptus camphora. eat my SWEET DUST: heart shaped leaf

Impressive, that should be a new olympic event.

You didn't freewheel it all in reverse did you ??l

http://arbtalk.co.uk/forum/general-chat/84377-clinometer.html It's not possible to calculate height withgout knowing distance. Trupulse etc. measures distance and angle. Laser disto measures distance. Choose your weapon for inclination. They all do the same. I suggest you spend 5 minutes realising how really, really simple and reliably accurate it is to do it with a manual clinometer and a pair of feet.

Suunto. Indestructible. Needs no batteries, no screen to get scratched, no holes for water to get in, hangs around your neck, always ready when you need it. I have 3. Have used Haglofs digital clinometer with Leica 520 laser, and Trupulse 360, but they are largely a faff and only going to get broken. Calibrate your paces ona long tape stretched out on a pavement someday, and as long as you can count to 20 you will never ever need anything other than A Suunto again. Some of the other methods rely on technology so much that they create a false precision and are prone also to false accuracy.

Pearls before swine on this forum. MOst people on here will use the owner's initial desire to remove the tree as a way of making money. A few will make just as much money by doing a careful and complicated crown reductiond that achieves the same purpose for the customer. One either cares about trees or one care about ones' own financial situation. It's not wrong to cut down a tree like this in any legal sense or even a moral sense, its just business, But the only people I respect are the ones that have a business ethos that includes making sure the customer fully understands all the options before you start cutting. If he says yeah I know all that risk argumet, I just want it gone, then it goes. But if he is just a bit worried about it, a proper assessment may reassure him that nothing needs done or that pruning is a better option. And there's the problem. If retention is acceptable on an assessed risk basis, the customer's not goig to rely on some contractor's verbal reassurance. A written report backed by qualifications, experience and insurance is what is required. There's few contractors who can and will give that for nothing. Just as with builders, it is a myth that tree contractors (especially the ones who rather fancily call themselves tree surgeons as if they are treating rather than killing trees) can be trusted to advise the public about the right thing to do for trees. They are largely just money-making businesses.

Skyhuck's right, the Council can very definitely TPO a tree in a Conservation Area when it gets a notice (not an 'application'), that is the entire purpose of notification so that the Cuncil can decide to TPO or not.