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  1. daltontrees
    definitely a Thuja
  2. daltontrees
    No disrespect but how can you not know what rare species you have? Did you buy a lucky bag of seeds and shuck them round? Doesn't look like campestre. Could do with some nitrogen.
  3. daltontrees
    Probably Malus, maybe just domestica. Subtle IDs from juvenile leaves are generally doomed to failure.
  4. daltontrees
    That's no Sorbus I've ever seen.
  5. daltontrees
    'Poplar Petiole Gall Aphid'. Never seen it in person.
  6. daltontrees
    What Jake said, near impossible not to get tears with willows.
  7. daltontrees
    Agreed, but I wouldn't say 'major', as felling restrictions slow down removals to 20 cube a year or only allow it in gardens. WE could discuss 'valuable' all day, but in brief the trees on a development site may be valuable to society but not to the developer, so the developer gets to say what goes. In most ways taht's fair or else we would be compelling everyone everywhere to keep their trees and whereas personally I woudn't mind that, the burden of admin would be huge and it starts to sound a bit like an authoritarian state. Or we pay people to have trees. Again, I wouldn't mind that in principle.
  8. daltontrees
    Yes, if no protection status. But the protection status could include tree preservation order, conservation area, site of special scientific interest, felling license/permission limits, nesting birds, bats and bat roost features, protected tree species, title conditions and maybe a couple more.
  9. daltontrees
    I did say I was living there reluctantly. However, I dug the whole garden over to a depth of about 40cm, picked out and then sieved out every stone, pebble, bit of plastic etc. and took them to the dump. Rotivated and re-stocked the garden with topsoil with endless compost and sharp sand dug in. Worms introduced. I now can't hold the grass back. Plus I am the last house in the street and have free rein to guerilla garden about 2 acres of woodland, which is turning into a bit of a personal arboretum because every DED victim is being replaced with a seedling from whatever building site is being pillaged that week. Joy is all around, if not inside. And my office is in the garden, designed purposefully by me to let the joy in. 🌄☀️🌲🌳 Thoroughly de-grimmed.
  10. daltontrees
    Thanks. And just when I had made my mind up to aim for the 90mm. The VT is a heck of a long knot, I found it had too much scope to jam on the krab.
  11. daltontrees
    Ohhhh, f£$%!
  12. daltontrees
    Maybe, but what a joyless, sterile, grim world that would be. My fees add to cost but this is more than outweighed by the value that is added.
  13. daltontrees
    Thanks all, I will get some 10mm, try it at a few lengths with a VT and if it works I'll get a Teufelberger E2E.
  14. daltontrees
    I stand corrected. Much sharpening saved there.
  15. daltontrees
    Not true, the Barratt box I am currently reluctantly calling home has at least 6 inches of soil on top of the rubble.
  16. daltontrees
    Different experiences. I represent just about every volume house builder in the country and have a good constructive rapport with most of the TOs. Somehow we manage to get about 5,000 units a year squeezed in amongst the trees.
  17. daltontrees
    I want to start using my hitch climber which I have had for yonks but never bothered with. I climb on chunky 13mm ropes and am used to a swabisch hitch for general occasional DdRT. I now only really do climbing surveys for bats and risk. What would be a good eye to eye to use with 13mm and hitch climber, and what knot? There seem to be loads available at a range of prices from £10 to 50. First time I tried a 8mm and distel and ended up on the ground at walking pace, quite unsettling. Tried this week with someone elses kit and the VT kept failing to bite because it couldn't slide past the krab. I expect the hitch and e2e should end up being quite short to ease tending, but it's all a bloody mystery to me. Any quick advice welcome.
  18. daltontrees
    Cheap metal detectors are crap. You need at least one that allows you to adjust the sensitivity, as dense wet wood may be hard to penetrate. And of course for it to be of any practical use in avoiding wrecked chains it needs to be precise too. Maybe look at one of the multi detectors that builders use to detect pipes, wires, studs etc. in walls? That at least gives you a chance of direction being quite narrow. If I couldn't pin down the location of a nail well enough to avoid hitting it, I'd rather not know it's there, otherwise you're just waiting for that sickening impact as you plough through a vague foot length that has something metal somewhere in it. Like russian roulette. This looks good. Bosch Professional GMS 120 Multi Detector | Wickes.co.uk WWW.WICKES.CO.UK Bosch Professional GMS 120 Multi Detector
  19. daltontrees
    But not the ideal starting point for a development site. Established trees give ready-made amenity which it has been demonstrated increase sales value of completed developments. And who would buy a house on a sterile site that cannot be gardened? It's not that hard to get trees and development right. Pissing off planners for sport is only going to make it harder.
  20. daltontrees
    Like shooting fish in a barrel.
  21. daltontrees
    Save yourself a lot of grief and try grafting onto a well established beech seedling.
  22. daltontrees
    Cockscomb Beech. Exciting rare find.
  23. daltontrees
    Big difference between advising him on strategy and advising on tree constraints. BS5837 is fairly clear that decisions on retention are for the designer, using the survey info and other criteria. I need to get paids a whole lot extra to advise on strategy, and I would only do it if I had already done (and been paid to do) the survey, because only then could I advise on whether the Council would resist (on a tree by tree basis) removals and/or trees could feasibly be retained.
  24. daltontrees
    In this situation I would verbally advise potential client as a matter of professionalism that he is within his rights to pre-emptively fell (it's true, and no charge for this). I'd also offer as part of my commission to look at the development proposals to see if felling is likely to be needed and/or if existing trees are suitable for retention even without development plans and/or would enhance the value of the development if retained. A good client will take this, as it gives him an informed basis for pre-emptive felling. A bad one won't because he has other reasons for removal. If it's the latter, happy days I won't have to work with him.
  25. daltontrees
    According to Woodland Trust, H hibernica does not climb. I think this could be helix. It switches from lobed creeping stage to unlodbed climbing and flowering stage. Can look like a totally different plant.

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