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I knew I had posted something along these lines before, so this is from an earlier thread I partook in: "Land is of course, divided into neighbouring parcels in separate ownership. This will normally be by vertical division; and since land extends to include the air above the surface and the ground below it, as well as the surface of the land itself, this means that the soil containing the roots of the tree, or the above ground portion of the tree may be in two or more completely separate ownerships". (Mynors, 2.1.4 Trees on or Near Boundaries, P.27). Here is the link to the full thread with some excellent discussion and commentary by all involved. If you have questions about trees on boundaries, then this would be an excellent read for you: http://arbtalk.co.uk/forum/trees-law/74382-oak-tree-boundary-therefore-2-owners.html

Sorry Ruben, but this bit is not quite right. A tree cannot 'trespass' in the sense that it moves from one place and occupies another without permission. The situation as described above, and assuming boundaries are where the OP says, would mean that there is a proportional ownership of the tree ie part between the OP, and part between the playground owners. Obviously I would say more ownership is on the playground side. This is because in terms of law, the owner of the ground around the base of the tree, owns what is growing in it. So, if the OP owns the soil on this side of the wall, then they own that proportion of the tree as well - and everything vertically above and below ground from the boundary. Yes, it can get more murky in the muddied legal waters, should one side want to remove the tree and the other doesn't etc., but we will leave that for further discussion another time. Ultimately, define the boundary and you will define ownership, but the tree cannot trespass on the owners land...

I agree with LO. My other thought was which side of the tree will the bypass be situated? Obviously on the wrong side may cast the tree into shadow for some portion of the year, which coupled with increased soot and particulates on the leaves would ultimately lead to lowering of potential photosynthetic area. All at a time when the tree is functionally slowing down, so presumably, this could combine create to an acceleration in senescence. I hope a sunlight assessment is included in this proposal (BS5837 recommends this - but will it be followed?) Even at 15m distance, I feel the long term prognosis for the tree is not great...

The active poison in Laburnam is Cytisine, and this chemical is found all through the plant, so all parts are poisinous as others have said. An interesting article here, also has this little titbit: "That the whole tree is poisonous and not just the seeds is demonstrated by people who have lost kittens when they used a laburnum tree trunk as a scratching post. As long ago as 1928, it was said that exposure to the sawdust of laburnum wood caused ‘constitutional symptoms’. This phrase is used to mean a general feeling of being unwell". Careful with breathing in the chainsaw dust then!

I agree with the above comment. The rib is closed and appears to be well adapted. Yes, there is a large dog leg in the form, but the tree appears to be well adapted in this sense also. The rib has clearly formed in its location due to an unusual (or more likely several) wind/storm events causing a bit of lateral separation in the fibres. But as you point out, is has dealt with this problem well. I take the secondary linear feature just as a crease or perhaps internal fibre buckle formed as the rib reaction wood increased in size and pressure as it grew. All in Island, your call to leave it to its own devices appears to be the right one.

The holy grail in arboriculture!

I started working at 10 years old and have always had a job ever since (30 years on and going strong). In that time I have had some great jobs, and several terrible ones! Here are some of the highlights: Night shift in a frozen pie factory (picking them off the floor and packing into boxes) Night shift in an industrial bakery Selling bags and suitcases in a shop Selling windows by telesales (only managed 5 days!) Working in various office jobs Delivering white goods on multi-drop There are others that were a bit lousy, but each of these jobs in their own way were particularly difficult. Much happier in the mud, sweating hard, lifting heavy and getting sore hands, or more likely nowadays, sitting in the warm, pondering technical solutions and making another brew...

I have acquired a chainsaw mill, but haven't got round to using it yet. Thanks for the videos - I will definitely follow your well described tips. All the best.

As the saying goes, it looks like I'm trying to teach grandma to suck eggs! Thanks for finding the video, AM - I thought it was Ray Mears, but I obviously didn't use the right search command to find what I was looking for. Thermal, the video that AM found shows the charcoaling set-up and the link I posted earlier had a nice schematic of the set up to make an earth kiln for charcoaling and collecting tar. Given the chance I would love to give it a go myself - I just don't have 90ha of forest to play in! It would be interesting to see how you get on with this little project, so if you get something set up (however long it takes), it would be nice to see a follow up video or pictures of your efforts. No pressure of course, but we are all interested now...

Yes, I found that out after I did a couple of minutes searching. Do you have a schematic or video about it for the OP?

There is a lovely one close to the deer park entrance at Levens Hall, Cumbria. The river Kent just next to it regularly floods the area and the tree has no difficulties at all. This should work! : https://www.google.co.uk/maps/place/Levens+Hall,+Kendal,+Cumbria+LA8+0PD/@54.2607577,-2.7752235,3a,75y,94.66h,88.7t/data=!3m7!1e1!3m5!1sZ2oIPL32htfilNgyGeijvA!2e0!6s%2F%2Fgeo2.ggpht.com%2Fcbk%3Fpanoid%3DZ2oIPL32htfilNgyGeijvA%26output%3Dthumbnail%26cb_client%3Dmaps_sv.tactile.gps%26thumb%3D2%26w%3D203%26h%3D100%26yaw%3D86.8455%26pitch%3D0!7i13312!8i6656!4m2!3m1!1s0x487c902540813101:0x118f091f03beade0 You can see it immediately behind the chevron sign. Great tree.

Cant seem to find a video, but people also call it, Stockholm Tar, Pine Resin Tar, Pine Tar etc. It was also used for maritime applications, protecting rigging and boards etc. The best source I have found is here, with a description and diagram: Pine Tar; History And Uses Hope its of use.

Hello Thermal, I watched a program about charcoaling - in Sweden too I think, a while back and it was something that folks are doing - but perhaps only on the small scale as you suggest. I recall though, they were certainly using pine because it was resinous. The people doing the charcoaling had a way of tapping the resin from the burn chamber (without it combusting) and they collected it for later use. Apparently it is useful as a natural product to seal wood, anything from skis to shed roofs. 'Pine oil' I think they referred to is as. Anyway, I thought I would mention it as it could be an additional product that you use yourself or perhaps produce enough to sell on? I will see if I can find a copy of the video and post again. All the best...

I'm not dyslexic, so this doesn't affect me, but I have known many folk who are and from my experience with them I would say this is a very good idea. Its not just white/black though, the specific colours you need actually depend on your individual situation. For instance, on their PC a colleague had a purple screen with bright orange writing. It gave me headaches to look at it, but it helped him immeasurably! Of course you could just put a physical plastic filter over your PC screen, or use some software like this: ColorVeil - Screen color filter and dimmer - Aurelitec which will do the job for every time you use your PC. You can also re-program software like MS Word to have the specific colour scheme you need. Perhaps it would be best if this feature was just for the phone app? There are options to sort this for your PC in any case, but I'm not sure what can be done for phone use.

Interesting comments. I used to work for a chap over 10 years ago who did very well from FC contracts, mainly in the Cumbria area. He wasn't exclusive to them of course, and we did plenty of private and estate work as well. I suppose the benefits we brought were that we were a very experienced crew and took on a lot of the difficult work that the FC weren't geared up to, or perhaps even prepared to, handle. As we were providing added benefits, this meant that we were valuable to the FC and as a result, were well remunerated for our services. I used to handle the paperwork at the time, and yes, this was over 10 years ago - so perhaps things have changed significantly since? That said, even then I was providing EIAs, environmental statements, staff profiling, emergence response details, method statements, LOLER and PUWER certs etc. etc. Perhaps we were setting the standards and now its catching up everywhere else?

I see your point on this Jules, IMO, there is enough of this kind of posting on the boards at present in any case. Personally, I just don't respond to those threads and leave them to folk who want a more social interaction. Its just down to preference I feel. My original idea was for a consultants corner where the more technical information could be kept, or where there could be banks of documents or valuable threads for easy look up for those who need it. I often find that the only place I can put a thread on GIS or British Standards etc. is in the general discussion, and TBH other folk who may want that information have not necessarily been successful in using the current search function to access the existing materials - hence my thought to get a specific area for it all to be in one place. Again, I have not looked at or used Yahoo Answers myself, your appraisal tells me all I need to know about it already! Steve suggested the Q&A may possibly go in the consultants area, where I hope the theme of that forum alone would prevent the more vacuous questions from being posed. Here is an example Q&A from the 'other' forum I use, the style of which I suggested to Steve. Personally, I hope if there is a Q&A that it goes more along this route: Why does 1 - 2/3 - 1/3 not equal zero? - MATLAB Answers - MATLAB Central Where you can see a question is posed at the start, this question can be commented on for further clarification or different perspectives (without someone answering), then a variety answers follow at different levels of information/explanation, the OP can accept the best answer for their question, and anyone else who reads or responds to the thread can up vote the comments that they think are useful. If in this format, I believe it would be useful to adding to the technical content and spreading the wider knowledge of arboriculture, forestry and tree management. If, on the other hand, it is Yahoo answers as you fear - then yes, I would also share your concerns. I can hope that if this feature is used, then Steve and other moderators would be on the Q&A regularly to weed out the benighted questions and to promote the more insightful...

No problem at all. I just put it down to you almost certainly have other concerns to deal with at the time, so don't worry, I didn't take it personally! I'm unfamiliar with Yahoo answers, but I do use another forum (sorry to admit that I have cheated on you, but its not tree related and the other forum doesn't mean anything to me...) where it is prominently a help based, question and answer set up. On this forum, the OP is the one who 'accepts' the best answer for their purpose, but everyone else can up-vote someone else's answer and this helps build the 'reputation' of the people who answer the questions. Perhaps something similar could be incorporated here?

I like it - in fact I am looking for exactly that type of set up right now. I have taken on a 'hobby woodland' for a local landowner. I am to re-establish a fairly large lapsed coppice over a 7-10 year rotation, and I get all the timber produce. I only started in January, and have to be out by start of March, and thus far I have hand-balled everything as there is no access for larger vehicles than a quad. Come next season (starting September), this set-up would be perfect for my job. Other then that, in the past I used to have a Holder A50 with 3T winch (sorry to say this is long gone now!), but I suppose in the instances you use the quad and trailer, I would have used the A50 and winched/skidded out. Good video as well. It looks like you are in a fantastic area, and yes, I'm a little jealous...

As I have spoken to you before Steve, I think there should be a "Consultants Corner" so we can get all the useful technical info in one place. It should develop into a good resource for arborists who want to look up a specific question/methodology e.g. strength loss calculations or whatever, and for students who have to answer consultancy type questions for their coursework. Either way, best of luck with the roll-out...

Are you sure its a static shock? According to what you read, 'wood' is considered neutral (or so marginally negative it may as well be neutral) as described in the triboelectric series. This series basically tells you which material is likely to give up either positive or negative charges if they were rubbed together. Hence wood is most often an insulator against charge so, its unlikely you are experiencing a static shock in my opinion. Perhaps its actually a nerve related condition in your arm. A little like the joke where a 'blonde' goes to the doctor with pain everywhere on her body where she touches, and the doctor says, "you have a broken finger!" I have had pins and needles in the lower half of my left hand for 2 1/2 years now (in the area from the middle finger down to the edge of my hand), due to a trapped ulnar nerve somewhere in my forearm. I feel the pins most of the time, sometimes much less, and other times its really aggravated by activity of whatever sort. So, perhaps its your body and not static? Just my thoughts...

Now step six should have shown the 'map' of segmented colour locations. As you can see step five and six are very dark, and by looking at the histogram of the images - there is almost no colour separation at all, and the K-means only identified 12 individual groups. So, all in, this should have worked - but the original image (from Google maps) was too saturated to see great differences and therefore identify the unique tree locations. When I have more time (which is not now!), I may have a look at improving the sensitivity of stages five and six. So, there you are, it worked. Sort of...

Step Six: Identify segmented colour centres

Step Five: Create new image from the previous segments

Step Four: Generate pixel indexing