Paul Jenks

I thought the common name for acer psuedoplatanus was weed. As for duty of care. It is the tree owners responsibility to look after his/her trees. If a tree surgeon/arboriculturalist is qualified and, importantly, insured to report on the condition of a tree then the buck stops with the reporter for the time his/her report is limited to, usually a year. If the TO chooses to override a report then the TO assumes responsibility. If this is the case it would be prudent to assess the tree again in a year and allow the TO to override it again. We had a case with a large tree close to houses that I said was too tall given the history of groundworks and proximity to new builds. Tree was TPO'd and I requested a minimum of a reduction to mitigate potential for windthrow. Arguements went to the regional government office and TPO was renewed. It fell over 4 weeks later and the LATO had assumed responsibility for 12 months. Damn lucky, the tree was 30 metres and missed everything. A stunt fell would have put it in the same place, only slot available. LA had to foot the clear up bill.

It's the old story of, 'A little bit of knowledge is dangerous'. We were asked to price for a mid-size, dead horse chestnut on a site where health and safety is seriously OTT. One of their staff had obviosly been reading the out of date stuff on the Forestry Commission website. We had to price for dismantling and not chipping,(incase the spores were transmitted), placing the branch debris into a covered Ro-Ro with the wood and taking away for deep burial. All so that it minimized cross contamination. I did point out that 50%+ of the horse chestnuts in the region had varying degrees of infection, that the spores were in the air anyway and that at least a dozen other HC's on the site were in a poor state owing to canker. The grounds maintenance crew on the site ended up doing it on a Saturday. Go figure

Although the size of the gap in the canopy looks fairly significant, there doesn't appear to be much in the way of canopy dieback and the foliar cover looks pretty good. Both these are symptoms of advanced canker. I'd've thought a reasonable reduction would've sufficed.

I got hold of a load of the ones TNCountry posted a link for. They were £1 a pair as they were end of line or something. Still got mine and they've done from about September last year. Granted I'm not on site all the time and I don't use gloves religiously, but they have done remarkably well. Rubbish for climbing though. No grip.

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Done.

As the director of a limited company you have a statutory and fiduciary responsibility to the company. As was said earlier the company is a living entity and the director, as an employee, has a legal duty to look after the best interests of the company and it's creditors, the people to whom it owes money. HMRC are actually quite helpful on these matters and like to be consulted and are free.

Couldn't be bothered to watch the whole vid. Fell it.

Firewood and buy the posts. Nice answer Alec

Timber with woodworm burns very well i'm told. Sort the house out first, the woods will look after themselves for a while yet. PPE, well there's a few guys on here who'll be able to get you some of that.

Fell it. Awful trees. They're not known as tree of hell for nothing. Short lived and brittle. Yuck. That sounds a bit Freudian. I think one must have offended me in a previous life.

You'll know you're welcome when someone posts a, "Wot's wrong with my dog", question, c/w photos for you to see. Also, I'd bet that if you offer a good cup of tea and a few biscuits some of the local tree guys would be happy to visit your property and give some advice.

I've got a 'Black Sheep', (Trade name), dark brown wool jumper that I found over twenty years ago. It's the warmest most comfortable jumper I've got. Not the most stylish you understand, but good enough to wear out and about as well as for work when it's damned cold. I think it's oiled wool as it sheds a bit of water, but the great thing about wool is it's ability to retain body heat even when soaking wet.

Speak to your local Ifor dealer. There was a thread on here a little while ago that mentioned replating trailers if their design weight was originally under 3.5 tonnes.

Coppice and see what happens. The bits that are dead are dead. Sounds like the roots are ok. There are hundreds of dead ones around here, Oxfordshire, along with eucalyptus, cordyline and pittosporum. Some that will struggle through though. Another hard winter might see a few more off.

:lol:Hornet poo.

Famous last words, but I've never had a webbing strop break and I do a mix of throwing the saw up and catching the strop to lower the saw:001_smile:, chucking the saw up and missing the strop so the saw just falls :biggrin:and also,(when the branch moves a bit quicker than planned), chucking the saw to grab the branch before it heads towards the greenhouse:lol:.

Either hire in a chipper once or twice a year and bag it and sell it or stockpile the chips for use about the place, or buy an old one, (Chipper) and do the same.

Cheers Dean

Ball park, how much was that one in the picture? I know there is also a lot of different heads you can get for them including, I believe a stumpgrinder.

It's less about the level of fine one is going to get it's the safety of the rig. There are limits to the braking ability of a vehicle just the same as there are to the ability of a vehicle towing a trailer. The more you have on it the more distance you need to stop. If you're over loaded the more likely your brakes, suspension etc is likely to have a catastrophic failure the same as rigging gear. Think of the consequences of causing a collision by being unable to stop. Bad enough if your legal. If over weight or have any fault with the vehicle you're to blame unless you have some very reliable external witnesses. Compound that if you, your staff or a mother of 2 young children is killed. I know I've over loaded in the past, I guess everyone has, but do try to think of the implications of sanctioning overloading openly. Most transit type vehicles with chip boxes have the capacity to be grossly overloaded and VOSA know it. Fortunately for most they don't have much manpower.

The VOSA website has some interesting stats on the number of vans pulled over for overloading. It's in the 10's of thousands but given the number of vans about it's a drop in the ocean. We're pretty careful about loads and wouldn't buy another 3.5t tipperfor just this reason. It seems that the best route is either an import Jap 3.5t 4wd or Land Rover tipper. Slightly more load capacity and a proper towing vehicle that'll go most places. The only other, legal, option is for LGV but the licencing(personnel) is a costly business. Safer, cheaper than a fine and I sleep at night.

I think NPTC should do a course in climber support. Certainly 30/31 is a start and then 38, which is more use to a smaller company. IMO. (for compliance)