Gary Prentice

Mark! Your kind sensitive nature is showing again:biggrin:

And as Anno said, check that your client has a authority, through ownership, to do the actual work, if no TPO/CA prevents it.

Would have thought the best idea was to send the pictures to your employer to ask, rather than arbtalk?

Just a comment, but paramedics were on scene within six minutes.

Oh yes he did!

You got it! Wonder how that would work with oak processionary moths?

Fixed that for you! Saws are so twentieth century.

You're a very, very bad man:biggrin:

:lol:

To be fair, I think the bloke on the scythe wasn't using a normal action to do the job and working at above normal pace. When I used one, the natural arc is a bit shorter and the pace a lot slower. I'm a race like that things are different. With practice, a good scythe and pacing yourself, i would probably say that at a days end the strummer is a little more tiring

You sir, are a star. We've quite a lot of timber, and chip, there next week.

That sounds like a challenge! Seriously though, is it?

Sorry Toxteth, to jump on the bandwagon but john, do you know of anywhere over Blackrod way?

I can apply to fell a tree on my neighbours garden, if it is protected, the LA decide that application but you then need the permission of the landowner to do the work. In your case, doing that and getting a refusal, then allows the opportunity to go higher and appeal. If the planning inspector thinks the owner/LA were wrong to refuse then they're backed into a corner. But the inspector only considers the application, so you need decent evidence to support the app. he'll only consider whether, based on the application the council were wrong to refuse. If the LA give consent, they then can't justify not doing it themselves, if they refuse, you go higher.

Renewable John is a bit north of Bolton and can normally help out. He's not been around for a while, that I've seen. I'll look for his number and if I can find it, PM it

I heard that!

Can't be fairer, or more honest, than that.

Anyone can submit a tree app for someone elses tree. On the decision notice there will be a note, to paraphrase, that they give consent but you have to have the permission of the tree/landowner.

I really do understand the lack of resources within many councils, and the cost of advanced inspections. But, (there's always a but:biggrin:) lack of resources would, I think, be an unacceptable excuse, should a tree fail. The tree is known to be colonized by a decay fungi. The extent is unknown and probably (we're looking at pics here) can not be determined visually. If someone is jumping up and poking about in a cavity and can say with conviction the decay appears compartmentalized and not intensive and ongoing - that's a different story. But looking at it and 'guessing' that it's okay, when there are well established and accepted means to quantify the extent of dysfunction and strength loss, wouldn't be fulfilling your duty of care. An ex TO I met who had worked for a local authority that failed in their duty of care/inspection, which tragically led to a loss of life, said that a death due to trees was needed to safeguard and improve the budget. I don't like it, but that's the world we live in.

Get over it? I thought it was a defence mechanism, preventing/reducing moisture loss and creating a physical barrier similar to the resins in conifers. I can image if there's lots of sites on the tree it could be harmful due to cumulative effects of loss of water conductivity (particularly in a small, young tree), similar to the actions involved in DED

I'd have to respectably disagree Kevin, woman and logic isn't a relationship that I've ever come across. Edit. I'd be heading to the divorce courts if my missus read arb talk:lol:

Your obviously not married!

So what's you identification of the 'disease'?

And IIRC the long term affects if air spading is very much dependant in on soil types. +1 for a damn good mulching:biggrin:

I don't know, but would a visual inspection be classed as fulfilling their duty of care?