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I've seen you mention horticultural registration on here before. What's the score?
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I didn't. We're arguing about nothing. Back on topic, twatting about with trees makes money from people who are scared into thinking they need to twat about with them.
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The ratio in Congleton is that protecting people from every little thing isn't necessary if it reduces public utility. The law realises that making things 100% safe will make life miserable.
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Yes it will. Tomlinson v Congleton.
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370,000,000 years ago - trees arrive 200,000 years ago - humans arrive 1000 years ago - modern legal system emerges in UK - people now definitely responsible for their property damaging other people's property 970 years of people being responsible for their trees causing damage etc goes happily by 30 years ago - internet arrives, lets people more effectively swap ideas about how to scare people into unnecessary tree work, people act like fannies about perceived liability hiding behind every photon We're talking about things like silver birches in a McDonalds car park. They'll be dead from drought, compaction or the need to put a bin where they were before they're twelve feet tall anyway. It's not a two tonne limb from a heritage oak that could fall on a picnic in Hyde Park.
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13 Douglas Firs from 12" to 30" DBH, along a main road and with a power line as thick as a boner running through all of them. Done mostly solo, a bit of help from a five foot girl and my 65-year-old dad and a day with a one-armed man with a winch on a 110 to put the biggest one down the side of a house. I undercut the nearest quote by £2500 and still made made money after buying outright almost all of what I needed to do the job. Once I'd done it, I knew there was no tree job I couldn't do. Uninsured and for cash btw. I love telling this story.
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Bollocks. Trees know what they're doing. They grew fine for the hundreds of millions of years before we invented the arboricultural consultant. Formative pruning is important for doing three jobs to trees that probably need no jobs doing to them.
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I love videos like this. Any time that someone tells me the training standards in this country are anything less than laughable, I can show them it. I usually use the one with the slow motion heroic blower tutoring.
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You blow my mind every time you post this. You sound like a badger asking a dogfighting ring for careers advice. You seem to appreciate quality in other areas of your business. Why not with financial planning? You're at war. Tool up with an accountant.
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Electric. You won’t care if it lasts a year. They’re excellent.
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Interesting. Tell us more about the Derwentwater project please.
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Many are.
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Complaint about my Wood Burner
AHPP replied to Danny Boy's topic in Log burning stoves and fireplaces
A private criminal prosecution?! Or just a civil action like nuisance? -
I'm in an apocalyptically bad mood (which is unlikely to improve through the oncoming festival of plastic shit). Is it obvious?
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“Always there will be the intoxication of power, constantly increasing and constantly growing subtler. Always, at every moment, there will be the thrill of victory, the sensation of trampling on an enemy who is helpless. If you want a picture of the future, imagine a boot stamping on a human face - for ever.”
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I think it's a nice tree but at the end of the day it's his tree. My sympathy is with him and anyone else who is told what they can and can't do with their own property. Anyone on here who's happy to see him penalised, I ask you whether you would be happy for other people to tell you what kitchen cupboards you're allowed?
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Complaint about my Wood Burner
AHPP replied to Danny Boy's topic in Log burning stoves and fireplaces
Is it though? Don't give it a legal label if you don't absolutely KNOW that label is correct, especially when doing so might be bad for you. @kevinjohnsonmbe may be able to help you. He's dealt with similar in uncommon detail. -
I'm not even clever enough to tag him.
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Aspen Bob has posted on here about the legality of fifth wheel towing before.
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Did you take down the top triangles or go in between the teeth?
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Baumpflege?
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Handle before buying. Dad’s Stihl mains electric saw has an uncomfortably fat rear handle. Very tiring to use.
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Is the silica dust a problem when in with burning stuff? And can you write more about your career please. It sounds from your posts I’ve seen over the years that you’ve done loads of interesting stuff.
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Just a thought. Best of luck with it.
