openspaceman

If it is the same collision then one may have been in the criminal court and this one a civil claim? My granddad cycled into a lady in the 30s, before my time, and was sued, paying the compensation just about broke the family. My gran, a matriarch, took in lodgers to make up, one of them being my father. PS I have just googled and the case with a fixed wheel bike was different and the lady died.

Agreed, I wonder if he would have done it if a cornish ex marine had been the protestor

I'll join you for morning break

Despite a quick search, you're still going to have to explain what 'solus' means My misremembered spelling: Unless the land for a road was purchased for that purpose most highways ran on somebodies' land, because the public gained a right to use it didn't mean the ownership was lost so often the two adjacent landowners still owned the earth (solum) under the highway even though a highway authority were charged with maintaining the surface. Often before the surface was metalled the right of way wandered over a larger area as traffic avoided pot holes or wash outs so the right of way extended beyond the currently surfaced bit of road and includes the verge. All irrelevant to your TPO query

Even if unadopted if there is a PROW it could be highway, the solus could belong to the property.

I'd say you are on a sticky wicket there, the tree has amenity value and the owner wants it removed for a reason other than the nuisance it is causing the neighbour. Still worth an appeal on the client's behalf but I'd probably want the tree to stay were I a local. If it dies from DED then problem solved and as you say the expense of rebuilding the wall with an engineering solution for a tree with limited life is money wasted. BTW the verge will be highway waste won't it. I dealt with a stump causing a boundary wall dispute where the neighbour made a claim for damages but denied it was a shared wall, pics in the stump grinding thread. Solution was simple, remove wall and no rebuild, case is ongoing even though no nuisance to anyone any more and the neighbour has no right to the wall.

Has the neighbour claimed for the damage?

@QuattroKev

I wonder if you get that sound out of a guitar, return to the alhambra I think.

Yes and it was all done by one gorilla of a bloke when I was there, hand balling a few thousand tonnes a year. There was an old school cutter locally called Joby who would tell me I was trying to run before I could walk. Striping cost me a pair of boots when the tool slipped, mind we never did it on sites we could extract immediately. Kent took birch, sycamore, alder 6" down to 2"and if pushed ash poles down 6" down to 3.5" Mere didn't like alder poles as I recall but also took beech sawlogs, Harris beech sawlogs only.

Yes, Peter Dunlop IIRC it was a long time ago. I also supplied Hill at Mere and Harris at Bromsgrove.

Could some of this be due to the late harvesting, i.e. the B&M rotation was only 25 years, so rot would not set in, leave them for 40 years and more chance of rot?

It's logical if you think about it, if you prune the butt to give 6m of clear stem for peeling then you'll have 15+metres of knotty top for pulp[1]. Before plastic peeled punnets were used for all sorts of vegetables and with the swing against plastic packaging in the public's perception it may be worth pursuing again[2] but the management has to be sustained rather than the crop being abandoned as in the Bryant and May case. UK needs to adopt the French long term view on timber growing rather than FC led short term grant getting. Let's not go overboard in decrying poplar it does have potential and I think @Billhook on here successfully built a cabin from it. [1]This was what was annoying in the 70s when paper recycling became the way to save the planet, it depressed the market for the poorer grades in the top, put more of the harvesting cost onto the rest of the tree and increased the diameter of lop and top left on site. [2]Actually the use of wood instead of plastic from fossil fuels makes sense for a lot of things, I started supplying birch poles for brush heads and even way back then the owner of the business said his fortunes were inversely proportional to the price of oil, if oil went up Addis brushes went up and so he sold more wooden brush heads, eventually even though the ancient turning machines owed him nothing the labour couldn't compete with the speed of injection moulding and the cost of oil pumped out of the ground compared with motor manual harvesting of small diameter poles.

I think the Poplar Timber Co were promoting poplar planting into the late 90s in the SW as the FC were still willing to pay grants even though the markets weren't there even then. When the firm I worked for were poking 500 tonne a week into the Slough Estates power station the maximum moisture content was supposed to be 45%, poplar and most softwoods couldn't meet this freshly felled so I don't know what happens nowadays, if it's paid on a dry matter basis it may not look so promising.

The Bryant and May plantings were over by 1974 I think but I was doing the initial pruning, 2p per tree to 8ft and an extra 1/2p to take the spiral guard off. The planting was at 8m final crop spacing and the intention was to produce stems clear of knots to 6m for peeler logs at P+25. They would have needed a few further lifts to keep all the knots in a 4" core. I still drive past one block I did and it has never been touched since so the trees are too knotty for most purposes. I watched many of the other blocks being pushed over and burned in the 80s and 90s as they were reverted to fields for horseyculture.

Bilbao is about as far south as I could stand, I can read spanish reasonably, speak next to none and understand very little of it when spoken but was sorely tempted.

The lad managed to undo all the screws to the seat box without problems. It is a remarkable vehicle as it hasn't run since 1980 and has been barn garaged since well before that by the second owner. A water company had it for the first 4 or 5 years. Strangely the chassis is painted green over a zinc rich base and not a spot of corrosion on it. It will be restored to it's 1965 spec but not pristine, the lad has a sensible approach and likes some of the "patina" (including the list of telephone numbers on the visor but he will repaint the steel bits after treating any rust spots.

Isn't it used for beehives?

Yes I vaguely remember carbon thrust bearings and similar the bolt on MOD cross member, this one is coming out upwards. The boy has got all the seat base out and I expect he will have it out before I get back there on Monday.

No they are tiny and as I said may have completed their life cycle. I looked up this old thread which shows similar damage.

This one will be a DIY rebuild but the son of my mate who owns it wants to drive it in the mean time. The series 3 gearbox seems fairly common as a take out , the series 2 both rare and expensive.

As Paul says it is the live bits you need to keep an eye on, if it is little critters they will have gone after feeding on the green bits. They also tend to go for conifers that have been clipped late in the previous season In the old days they would spray with lindane at the first sign of the beasts in late April/May but that is banned now. As I have mentioned in another thread soapy water can be quite successful in removing them, further confirmed by my plant pathologist friend but she says the best method is to add some ladybirds as a biological control.

Do any of you aficionados know if fitting a series 3 gearbox and transfer into a series 2 is straightforward. I can see an obvious difference that makes me think the series two bellhousing will need to be kept but are the gearbox bolts and size of the first motion shaft the same?

If you do add a bit of soap as it is supposed to lower the surface tension and block their airways. I grew peppers last year and used a water pistol to keep aphids off but then I was doing it regularly not as a one off.

Is there another service the pump operates? If it reaches the same pressure on both the problem is likely the pump. To be sure you can cap a port on the block to see if it reaches the blow off point of the relief valve.