Gary Prentice

No worries, the embarrassed emoji was to indicate my embarrassment after commenting on what, I previously thought, were largely worthless guarantees. I apologise for the sarcasm in my response

Can't remember what?

Who said it hadn’t?

Did you go any further with this? I was rereading Daltontrees thread last week and it rekindled some previous intentions to get into this more.

Would Gary Ellison give me a call again, I only noted ten numbers for your phone number..

Interesting comments on Leyland cypress. We don't see many that big up here (yet) so have no real experience to comment on their stability at larger heights. As an new species (evolutionary wise), being only naturally hybridised in the 1920's, is it really fair to say that they are unstable with height, or have some failed due to ground conditions and then the whole species being condemned due to that? Has anyone seen any statistics to prove/disprove the hypothesis?

If you take the shoot tomorrow, but forget the chipper, then definitely..

So that told me What's that saying? "Better to be thought a fool, than to open your mouth and be proved..." If nothing else, I'll be able to explain to people the differences between just treating and using a INNSA member

Thanks for the explanation Richy, everyday is a school day

Good luck with burning it, it comes from volcanic regions and I've seen the rhizomes (?) growing after being dug up and 'incinerated' on good hot bonfires. The above ground parts may be burnt, but I understand that it rarely reproduces from seed anyway

I've no idea how these firms operate, but a 25 yr guarantee seems worthless. You can't reasonably expect that JKW won't be re-introduced or grow from already present currently dormant roots over that length of time. I tend to think that parts of the KW management industry resort to scaremongering and provide worthless guarantees to support ridiculous and extortionate pricing. The media hype it up and the consumer gets pressed into spending thousands of pounds trying to eradicate a plant, getting (probably) worthless guarantees when it isn't necessary- as the MOD example above. Its strange how a tree report can be provided, with the Clauses that no trees can be guaranteed 100% safe, yet there seems to be a requirement to treat knotweed and guarantee 100% eradication with no further treatment required for 25 yrs!

I'd probably bite you if you tried to put that on me too!

I thought that I'd read that the guarantees were 25 years! Not sure how anyone can guarantee that it won't turn up again for that timespan.

Thanks Kevin, I think I've Phillips somewhere. But the First Nature site is ideal for a quick search/ref much appreciated

That looks like a target rich environment! are all the ffbs to one side of the stem or all around the circumference? Obviously, counting the layers the gano has colonised this a long time ago (12-13 layers) and there doesn’t look to be a decrease in the thickness of the most recent layers so the assumption is, could be, that there’s still resources available to the fungi. If you remove a lot of the canopy, then less resources are available to the tree to create physical/chemical barriers to defend against further colonisation, so you might actually do more harm in the short term. can it be reduced so that it wouldn’t hit anything if it failed? The best way to decide what to do really is to establish the extent of decay (Picus or resistograph for example), but the costs associated with that then become an issue. What was the canopy like? Honestly, I’d hate to form an opinion solely on those photos, but suspect that the consensus will be to monolith or remove.

This is where I'm currently undecided. I've a Getac Data collector which takes a micro sd card. On that I've an excel spreadsheet with some dropdown lists already set up to ease the onsite data input. The card then goes into the laptop at home and inputs directly into keysofts Keytree. Pretty much asks where do you want to place t1, t2, t3 etc Then because it's excel I can also import the survey schedule straight into ms Word. I could do exactly the same using a toughbook, but after taking tablets onto site their size becomes a bit of a pain. With the Getac, I still need a paper plan of the topo, just to mark which tree is which at the moment. It's coming together slowly, just a pain getting everything to work together. The getac won't 'talk' directly to the laptop because windows ten isn't compatible with windows mobile devices - or something like that, the getac isn't running excel 2016 properly so working between an earlier version on site and compatible mode on the pc. etc etc Why is everything so difficult?

What are you running the app on, on site Paul?

Sorry Tim, definitely outside of my experience. I'm only setting up/set up for 5837s, the LA stuff is a lot more extensive/larger scale and I'm not even sure how you'd import/set up for a development site.

My wife has asked me to sort out some cameras so she can watch the wildlife in the garden and around her little pond. Looking at some of the cctv type setups I'm out of my depth, so can anyone recommend any set ups. I was hoping that a trial camera would do, but she would like to watch the foxes, feral cats and stoat! live. Ideally the system requirements I'd like are: 1-2 totally wireless cameras (battery powered/solar powered?) to overlook the pond which is at distance from the house. Maybe these cameras to have a motion detector to operate to save battery life? 1-2 additional wired/powered cameras that can be fitted on the house to overlook the garden Viewing/recording on a pc/laptop Good resolution for night time viewing, there are some solar powered lights around the pond itself and most of the garden has PIR security lights There seems to be so many options in cctv setups that I'm struggling where to even start.

Who's Greys0n? Okaay, just gone back to 'Todays Posts' and geddit now.

Thought you'd gone selling snow to arabs? or something...

And why should that stop anyone arguing the toss that their opinion is better than someone elses? It hasn't so far...

In what area do you want to use it - trying to narrow the field a bit. Something that the LA use might not be the best thing if you're doing a 5837 survey etc. How much are you wanting to spend...