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daltontrees

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  1. See if you can get the next two without the foliage. I wil add it later. No. 9.
  2. I don't think they have strict obligation to remove risk, just the option to do so. Sorry, I am such a pedant, I can't help it really I can't. Highways Act says that if "any hedge, tree or shrub is dead, diseased, damaged or insecurely rooted, and (b) that by reason of its condition it, or part of it, is likely to cause danger by falling on the highway, road or footpath, the authority may" intervene. They don't have an obligation to do so. But I suppose if it was brought to their attention and the danger was clear and they didn't intervene and someone got hurt they would be complicit. I recall their first tack is to serve on the owner or occupier notice. If nothing is done or an appeal against the notice os unsuccesful they can take entry, remove the danger and recover the expense. They would have the problem of identifying the owner. If they couldn't they would know they won't get the costs back.
  3. Answer No. 4, 3 points for Liriodendron tulipifera or Tulip Tree Answer No. 5, 1 point for Acer or maple, I more for Acer platanoides or Norway Maple
  4. Answer No. 1, 1 point for getting Aesculus or horse chestnut, 2 extra points for getting Aesculus x carnea, Red Horse Chestnut. Answer No. 2, 1 point for getting Acer or Maple, 1 extra for getting Acer saccharinum or Silver Leaf Maple. Answer No. 3 1 point for getting Carpinus betulus or Hornbeam, but no points if you also guessed this for 1 and 2 also.
  5. No. 8, this one's a granny-stopper. Note the stem on the second photo is from a different tree.
  6. I think more people will get more out iof it if no-one writes in the answers. Just make a note of them and pat yourself on the head if you got them right.
  7. It is ALWAYS worthlooking at feedback rating of sellers, don't buy big things unless the seller has SOLD a good few resonbably high value items and got good feedback.
  8. I/m feeling generous, extra pic of fruit for No.6
  9. That's a few people have decided what's what. In will put an answer to the first three on tomorrow. Keep your own score if you want. There's another 20to go, so pace yourself. Mostly straightforward but a couple of dingers to sort the men from the boys. Remember it's just for fun (if you're a saddo like me that finds this sort of thing fun) but tyou will probably get most out of it if you (like I do) put the time in working out why it's what it is rather than just giving the first answer you think of then waiting for other people to tell you.
  10. I imagine the intensity of watering is to disperse and dilute the fertilizer rather than to water the tree.
  11. Flowers for No. 4 would be too easy, if you know what it is then you will know why, if you don't then try again.
  12. If you're choking to read about the deficiencies in current amenity tree valuation methodologies and the contribution that net present value techniques could make, let me know and I will scan it for you and email it.
  13. OK you can wait for the answers in a day or two.
  14. I thought someone would say this. But one of them actually is, but which one?
  15. Unless the developer got the Council to agree to maintain the trees too. All I was getting across was that in the past there have been agreements of this kind that no-one documented. The point about license and possession seems very apt. The Council might struggle to take title (ownership). Historically the law of land ownership in Scotland has been very different from England and the terminology is different, but I always understood that open, peacable and uninterrrupted possession could be used to turn defective title into clear title. That being so I don't see how the residents could take title. Even if they could it would proably have to be on a shared ownership basis which would cost thousands to change everyone's title deeds. I now recall trehre was a thread about this very subject about a year ago, a strip of developer's no-mans-land. There might be some answers there.
  16. I thought gravity ruled?! So what's the issue with this tree/ Apart from it looking like a freak with all that epicormic.
  17. I am glad someone read it! My general fear is that the subject is so poorly understood that even attempts to explain it will fail. I know people using existing systems are pleased and relieved that they only have to feed numbers in and look up the answer.
  18. Won't stop suckering though, might even encourage it?
  19. Yeah, know your stuff! Luck will get you throughyour exam but it won't teach you good habits and won't help you when you're working on sites. I would say test each other all the time, don't with till th exam before you try and list 10 safety features on a saw for the first time. And as someone has said, take your time. You will just worry the assessor if you are rushing around trying to look slick. Safety first. And second and third. Visor down always, never put hands in front of saw if it's running, even with chain brake on. Keep thumb wrapped around front handle. Always make a show of clearing escape route. Crouch, never kneel, to low cuts.
  20. I doubt that! I just thought it would be useful if anyone wants to look into it a bit more. Incidentally, it used to be thought a pathovar of Pseudomonas syringeae but has been elevated to its own species now. It is easy to see how it could be thought the same species, its action is generally the same as the closely related Bleeding Canker of Horse Chestnut (P. s pv. aesculi) and Bleeding Canker of Cherry (P. syringeae pv. morsprunorum).

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