tree-fancier123

is there a difference between a good idea and a sensible one? maybe head height is OTT, but providing you can get it off the stump without trapping your saw then progressively cutting the butt higher off the ground, even to waist height allows the whole weight of the tree to work in your favour, of course it can drop unexpectedly while you're cutting, my ways aren't intended for professional use, only for have a go sole traders

pity it wasn't 5.3m - back to where they came from, or the US gets concreted over even quicker

I can't see why dangerous tree work can be completed just by typing stuff online - there shouldn't be any need to go out into the real world

anarchists arent allowed any direction, they are free from the burdens of dichotomy

I was trying to find where the FC rules say about the garden exemption, can you link to it ? Without it taking up too much time of course

this isn't an idea written from experience of big hung up roadside trees, more plenty of small ones, I did one the other day, and used the blocking method to get the butt off the ground and then a rope with me and the owner pulling with the hung up tree in mid air, it worked. I do have a T35 winch, but this was an add on job I'd not planned for. Now with a big tree like that I imagine blocking from the base out across the road cutting to head height from the side and then a pull rope (if gravity didn't shift it). Maybe they didn't even have a pull rope with them. A decent rigging line and perhaps a pulley for redirect and the tractor, plus the blocking method would have been my first thoughts - although I know when the crown in wedged in the severed butt of the hung up tree will not fall or be pulled down. At that point with the hung up tree suspended in mid air they could have said right f*ck it - pull in direction of severed stump of hung up tree and just fell the other one across the road too. They fell one too many trees, but make it back home

you shouldn't have skimmed it, it's 28 pages, not 280 pages, quite clearly says 5 cube a quarter or more you need a licence, any conservation area needs to be declared, the FC will then contact the LPA for an opinion before issuing a licence. What I couldn't follow is CGs point above about trees in gardens being exempt from needing a felling licence. Some big properties, say a 2 or 3 acre garden, if it's not in a conservation area, surely you can't just clear fell say 20 cube worth of trees at once if someone wants a golf course on the back lawns with no felling licence? Is there a reference/link for this exemption? I know you can go over 5 cube a quarter with pollarding etc, but what about felling?

Ive always just hedgecuttered laurels, if its a yearly cut after a couple of months the smashed up big leaves on the face are hardly noticeable, never had any complaints, certainly not used loppers or secateurs

of all the hedges I maintain for people I like cherry laurel for a big garden, beech is ok, but laurel being evergreen is more my taste for a year round screen. I cut a few leylandi that have got like the 6ft wide ones above, people just put up with them, its a green screen, prettier than a fence, you would have a slightly bigger garden afterwards, by all of 3ft

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that's not really fair - peds has started climbing some quite big trees now - doesn't that take backbone? backbone Trump with his love of country - notwithstanding avoiding serving in Vietnam on dodgy medical exemption

I agree that Labour don't really know how to drill down into the details like the Conservatives did, but at least the thrust of it is acknowledging that China is putting up more smog than just about everyone else - and a transition to green energy isn't fools shite. There is no way that fossil fuels burning and associated CO2 hasn't changed our climate more than all the volcanoes combined. Chinese burning their own and Australian coal is the worst culprit, but moving transportation to battery will help too - not only with global warming but air quality too. I briefly lived and cycled in London, watching cycle couriers steal a lift by grabbing the back of a lorry and get towed up the road - I thought those guys must breathe in so much exhaust fumes. Coal Oil and Gas made us lazy and pampered, back in the day a man had to walk to work. The greenhouse gas theory has implications so bad that people just don't want to believe it. We all know eventually Earth will become uninhabitale anyway when the Sun finally burns out, but burning all the coal, oil and gas looks like a good way to make the planet more f*ucked much sooner. All because humans want luxury and comforts. I mean people who fly abroad on 2 or more foreign holidays a year - putting their own enjoyment before anything else. The answer isn't just more nuclear - it is to get humans to enjoy life without mega consumption

maybe willow, perhaps salix caprea, or fragilis - close up pics of the buds would help

POTUS Biden - funded genocidal Israel POTUS Trump - funded genocidal Israel Scorsese's film 'Killers of the Flower Moon' illustrates perfectly what happens when the european settlers get involved in matters of territory and money. There is no hope of a good outcome until the US is broken up, I don't care that it won't be in my lifetime, but when it comes it will have been a long time coming