Daniël Bos

They'll have had nearly 30 years to adapt to the changing circumstances, and sort out the damage that was done when the road was made. The available information isn't near enough to form any kind of reasonable judgement on this tbh (I'm a bit baffled at the above suggestion of fell/replace?), we can see very little of the trees, their crown shape, decay, it does look like the middle tree on the right in the lower picture has suffered some damage? you mention D-shaped beetle holes but I can't see any?

If you'd posted this two days ago, I'd have bitten your hand off for 250. I think it's on the low end of fair.

Currently cheap one on ebay, ends tomorrow But if you're in a rush I'd just phone Jones's or the like. Even if it's not in stock, they'll get it to you in a day or three.

Ecotricity! Be the solution!

I know (smileyface with thumbs up) I'd have added some grinning smiley faces but the ones my phone knows don't show up on Arbtalk. (smiley face)

No towbar option coz the chassis holds the batteries. If it did have a towbar, it would tow a lot better than the corsa option mentioned above. It has heaps of power, available always, no gearbox, no narrow power band etc.

Good idea. The (estranged) wife has been driving an electric Renault Zoe for a few years now, been totally faultless. It does reliably over 100 miles on a charge, charges in less than half an hour at a service station (which is free!). It a nice car to drive, doesn't look that bad either (Nissan leaf and prius are hideous imo), comfortably seats four, service costs are super low (it has no oils or filters at all, batteries are remotely checked through the interwebs). Disadvantage is the long distance journeys take longer. Count on needing to charge for half an hour nearly every hour. (you can drive for longer, but need to stop at a service station with a charger so the above is a good rule of thumb) Nil tax Cheap insurance. Dead silent (it actually has a noise generator for under 20mph so you don't kill blind people continously) There were some exceptional lease deals available, about £100/month.

Pavlova? Victoria? Angel? Magdalena? Butterfly? Clementine? Or was it sponge, chocolate, or cheese?

Not my area of expertise at all, but isn't a roller mower more suited to very regular mowing, and therefore more regular and predictable crop flow, whereas a wheeled model can have greater height adjustment to be able to deal with a greater variety of circumstances, hence more speed options?

Bloody Mormons!

The only issue I have with the smartphone option, is that I use it to document the data. I take a picture of the plumbline or the tape measure. It then has a time and date attached. If I use the phone to measure angle (mine has perfectly straight sides btw) it can't take a picture of itself. First world problems, but problems still...

Tut tut Felix... You can't use common sense or life experience! You've got to trawl the interwebs for research result that are skewed to agree with your particular bias first! Some people are just hopeless...

The building hasn't moved by the way, it's a straw bale, cob plastered structure. Any movement would show cracks in the plaster.

On the subject. When I screwed in the screws the distance between the two was 297mm. About a week later the distance was 295mm (which would be less lean???) Both of those were on perfectly still days, the second measurement a day after heavy rain. Today it's been gusty, and the measurement varied between 292 and 299mm which lead me to the question: is there readily available data on how much a particular species of tree, of a particular diameter can naturally flex? I presume it was just flexing in the wind, I couldn't see any rootplate movement, but I don't know if I'd be able to see such small movement if it was rocking it's roots? Also the half I'd be wanting to look at most is under that building.

Is it wrong to be a little excited about this coming storm, just so I can measure afterwards to see if anything moved?

Did you see what I did there? You asked me two question, my response was to give you two answers. It's really not that hard once you try:thumbup:

I did consider making a scaffold tube L shaped bracket, ratchetstrapped to the tree. The long side of the L sticking out horizontally away from the direction of lean and extending past the rootplate circle. Then putting a stake (quite deep) into the ground to be the reference. The longer the horizontal, the higher the accuracy. But, I'm not here as a tree professional on this job, so it seemed an excessively involved method. Pendulum in liquid would help with the wind, but wouldn't it mean the measurement would vary with the levels of wind loading as the tree flexes with the wind? For that reason I thought I'd want to only measure on still days. Also, there is a large weight on the pendulum (5kg of steel) which should help with accuracy.

Handy! How do you mark the measuring point to ensure any subsequent measuring occurs in exactly the same spot?

The floor is suspended about a foot above soil level, with beams resting on points away from the rootplate, so unless it becomes a more pronounced lean retention is preferred.

Yes, it just appears to have grown so quickly, at the Base of the tree, the floor goes right up to the bark, where there was a gap left before. Or, because it's leaning more, the flaring of the trunk is what filled the gap. Not knowing the expected increase in girth annually makes for hard guessing. My measuring screws are at the roofline, as the higher the measuring point, the larger the change.

The conclusion you appear to draw from that statistic is that the reason for the overrepresentation is the colour of one's skin. I'd suggest one could look at income levels, court bias, access to education, amounts of present parents, city vs country and vast amounts of other factors that have influence. To come the the conclusion the reason is skin colour is too simple. And yes actually. I don't believe the great and glorious government is totally unbiased.

More statistical fun could be had if we correlate mate's prison population graph with the following religion vs iq graph. The only possible conclusion is that a life of crime is indeed the intelligent choice. After all, facts and statistics never lie.

Statistics can be so much fun, can't they?

I'm working on a place with some fun trees at the moment, two of which (both Scots pine) have significant lean. For one, the target in the lean direction is just fencing etc so no need to worry, the other has the potential to do damage. The one that has the building built up to it has either grown well over 5cm in thickness in the last two years or is slowly falling. I reckon the way half of its root system is deprived of water may be an issue? If it falls I imagine the root plate will do some damage to the building. Soil is sandy. So, for the building tree, I've made solid measuring points (screws) on both tree and building to monitor it's movement. The field tree has a baler twine pendulum with a marker point (cable tie) on a fixed ground point. Disadvantage of this is that I can only really measure it on still days. I've no previous experience with actually measuring lean, and am just doing what springs to mind. Advice would be appreciated. Building tree: Field tree:

When I did my telehandler ticket there was no reference to the particular pitfalls of picot steer kit?