Gary Prentice

:lol: That's what I thought, but didn't want to appear stupid by saying it when it turned out to be an exotic.

Shouldn't live in the middle of nowhere then:biggrin: I bought some survey equipment earlier this week so aren't too flush, but David emailed me and I don't think he'll mind me reproducing it here, "one thing this day will give ............ is calibrating your Likelihood of Failure estimates with a large number of other arborists. The Likelihood of Failure Club sessions are really useful for this, so you can see where your opinion sits about likelihood of failure, with the same defect, compared to hopefully 40+ others" Which I think alone would be worth the effort. We all have our ideas so it will be interesting to get the opportunity of where our assessments lay compared to others. I heard David a couple of years back when he was starting to bring VALID out, but was getting ill at the time and can't remember much, but it was interesting. Frank Rinn is also very good, an entertaining speaker like his countryman. Where's your nearest venue? EDIT - 4 hr round trip, that's on your doorstep. I'm going to Askam Bryan and that'll be that and more!

Anyone booked this yet? I'm told places are going pretty quick.

Don't be daft Paul, that would be good tree management. The right tree in the right place that didn't chopping all the time.... I wonder why arbs don't promote that?

So the trees in a situation where the landowner is uninformed and ignorant, and there's an arb willing to do it? Poor tree:biggrin: I keep telling myself not to respond to theses threads, but I just get reeled in after reading the same old, same old justifications:lol:

Topping (over here) is a lot more than that. Internodal cuts of whatever size because the tree is too big and wants cutting in half.

I'm simply amazed that people think the arb association, ISA, other national arboricultural associations across the world, researchers, Alex Shigo and everyone since, the arboriculturists who work to write BS3998 are all wrong! Who'd have thought it?

I do. Then again, working within the exemptions of felling licences and in the absence of stat protection, he can clear fell the site pre-emptively at the same time. The system isn't perfect, but it's the only one we've got. If you're involved with the tree owner and next door has potential for development, try to get a TPO. I suppose that amending the TCPA could resolve such things, regarding pre-app works, but I'm not holding my breath

EAB, ALB, climate change, the list goes on. Well if none of those get them, I'll stand on my theory.

But I had to pay; my lads, the rent, my bills, my mortgage; and if I don't do it someone else will.....if

Someone better qualified and experienced will be along shortly.... But in the meantime the BS survey should (must?) identify trees on and off site that will be influenced or affected by the development. So the RPA's should be identified for all trees, on and off site, in the tree constraints plan which is used for the design layout. As I understand it, the purpose of the survey is to inform the planning department, so even if the tree constraints plan isn't included in the planning application the TO would see the tree schedule and identify that an offsite tree could be at risk and tell the planning department to condition protection into the consent. That's an ideal world. I know some LAs don't have TO's , those that do might not pass on the survey for review and other things go wrong. IMO BS 5837 requires/recommends including offsite trees so I always do - what happens after that in terms of conditioning protection etc etc is down to the planning department.

That's the purpose of informing of your intention. It doesn't matter (legally) if you cause the loss of the tree either by instability or root loss leading to decline and death. The tree owner has 'allowed' his tree to trespass on your property and common law allows you to redress the trespass. If root pruning leads to failure, the owner can claim he was unaware of the pruning and deny that he was negligent in assessing any increased potential to fail. If he is informed of the intent to prune the roots, the onus is on him. If the tree is protected by a TPO or CA it's a bit different. In that case the trespass would have to be causing actionable nuisance (actual, physical damage and nuisance in a legal sense) and an application or 211 notice submitted - showing that engineering solutions, rather than root-pruning, had been considered and were either of excessive cost or impracticable/unrealistic.

Can't remember the case law and I don't know of anything specific - more a culmination of cases. I understand that if the cutter informs of his intention and warns that the tree may become unstable he hasn't acted negligently. The owner may be negligent if he is aware of the root loss and then ignores it. Permission doesn't have to be sought. It's tort law (I think). The tree owner has allowed the trespass and the adjacent landowner may exercise his rights, subject to statutory protection.

Is Guy your cowboy name Paul? Doesn't quite have the same effect as Billy the Kid', 'Wild Bill', 'Butch or Sundance'

Never run a saw indoors, ever. Wives and girlfriends go mental and remind you about for the next ten yrs.

Fool! Should be using a No.6:001_tt2:

Surely the first rule is to hand your notice in. Second thoughts, stuff the notice - sue me if you don't like it, I'm off!!

I'm told that there's only one or two confirmed cases around Manchester, but the FC don't appear to be responding to identification requests (even from LAs), so it may be a case that it's more widespread than thought. I imagine that the FC are pretty stretched with regard to this, I'm not complaining. Personally, I think we have to be pragmatic. Some ash will have natural immunity due to genetics, they will reproduce and eventually this problem will resolve itself. Might take a few hundred years which seems forever, but in evolutionary terms insignificant.

Your lucks really in this week. My mates made millions in Nigeria, but due to restraints on getting money out of the country his stuck. If you send me a bill for a pump, for four million pounds and your bank details, passwords etc he'll give you half (£2,000,000.00)

How the hell did we manage, no chainbrakes, no AV mounts, usually no helmets, visors or ear protection. Don't:001_rolleyes: even mention leaving terra firma and climbing trees Apparently you can recognize old tree workers, they're all deaf, blind and lack appendages:biggrin: Those that survived, that is.

Must have had an app on her phone to work that out, or did she take her shoes off to manually add it up?

Failed on the 25th, so assume the 26th (friday) is the first working day thereafter. Monday 29th - Bank holiday Non-working Tuesday 30th -Friday 2nd = 4 w.days Today would be the seventh full working day after the test, or the eighth if they count the day of the original test. Within ten working days whichever way you count it, shirley?

Mot place next door says that Saturdays aren't classed as working days.

That rules out just about everyone in politics

Agree entirely, all praise to them diving into (for all they knew) an active 'war zone) Just commenting because all the news seems to be on how quick the police responded.