Gary Prentice
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This is obviously a wind up. They're screw gates, everyone knows that only triple action gates are acceptable:001_rolleyes:
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I thought most people carved wood? Each to their own I suppose:biggrin:
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That's like asking the wife how many pairs of shoes does she 'need'? After all, she's only got one pair of feet! At the last count, I think there's eighty plus pairs stored in special boxes in the spare room. Maybe I'm just lucky that we just spend our money on what we 'need'
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What hitch do you use for lowering limbs/Trunk
Gary Prentice replied to Top Cat's topic in Climbers talk
Not seen the video, but heard a discussion today of slings coming unstitched when choked and loaded by a persons bodyweight alone! Sounded a bit dubious, maybe I got the wrong end of the stick? -
<p>Hiya Nikk</p>
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<p>Apologies, I was watching the clock the other night and my missus called me down to eat. Time passed and then I realised that you'd probably left for work.</p>
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<p>I'll give you a call this evening</p>
<p>Gary</p>
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If you were giving it away, you'd have to be delivering it for turners:biggrin:
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So very true Paul. Ive sent links to similar articles to disuade clients from topping trees. One problem I have locally is that the neighbouring LA actually manage their tree stock very much like this, due to their historic management. Edit: The other side of the coin, is to question the original planting specification. Johns lunchtime trees appear to be planted for screening purposes but are now too imposing. Should the planning department have agreed the planting spec at the time of the build?
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Can't it be milled?
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Russian? Someone once told me it was called 'Rushing vine' as its growth rate was so prolific.
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That's the one, normally someone bins a plane every six months or so. It was lodged right in the tips of a long ascending limb/stem, tried to reach it from the adjacent tree but just out of reach. Ended up swinging from canopy to canopy to get it. Made a nice change
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Rescuing a girt big model aeroplane out out of an Oak tree...... Beats sat in the office filling in tender documents:biggrin:
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Well, should have bought a husqvarna! Someone had to say it:biggrin:
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PM a contact number and I'll give you a call for a chat. I'm working to a deadline tonight, but will give you a call tomorrow evening.
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You have to let it go Roz. The system is far from perfect, or rather the individuals/departments adminstering the system are. The lack of co-ordination that I regularly find out about sometimes beggars belief but what can you do? It's difficult if you care (when others who should don't appear to) but if you let it grind you down, you'll end up stacking shelves in Tescos:sneaky2:
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We have a similar issue, introducing new stray cats and kittens the wife takes in to our two Rottweilers. The dogs recognise a newbie into the pack and sometimes accept them quickly, others for some reason are more intriguing to them and get followed (stalked) for weeks. It's amusing how little fear the cats actually have for the dogs until they get sniffed or licked (tasted?)
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"pathetic pound land terrorist in an estate car with a knife" :lol:
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That would require a desire to prosecute from the legal department:sneaky2:, something that seems to be lacking with certain authorities. I can understand where there are cash-strapped councils, fearful of incurring costs should things not go their way, but I'm personally aware of a number of instances where a legal department have failed to pursue a contravention where the contractor was caught in the act (after a refusal had been issued to a felling app). Further along, if prosecutions occur, the magistrate has to understand the significance of trees and impose a penalty significant enough to matter. I can sympathise totally with Roz's opening post, it all ends up feeling a waste of time and that you're fighting a battle where everything is against you
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Brilliant!
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I was on a site a couple of weeks back, saw some excavation very close to trees so asked the manager if they were working to approved plans? He said yes but was concerned about tree stability. He asked me to email his company to voice my concerns - as the Arb person. That afternoon planning enforcement turned up and stopped the site. In this instance because there was no planning permission for what they were doing, but I think if conditions haven't been met or contravened, they could probably do the same.
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Not seen that before, as you say 'quite useful'.
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https://planthealthportal.defra.gov.uk/assets/pras/2.1-S-tsugae-PRA-v9.pdf This disease certainly spread, or got reported, last year
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West yorks had a grant scheme, which didn't last as long as Brighton and hove. ( think theirs may still be in place) I know one company we're prosecuted by the FC for transporting- fined £150 or something daft. There was a third LA, I think, who gave grants to remove infected trees (to remove beetle breeding sites) but can't remember where it was. I only moved to W Yorks after the grant had ended, but from what I gather a lot of the conditions weren't actually policed or met.
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Used to be restrictions in west yorks in the eighties, burn it on site or remove bark to prevent the beetle being transported. Surprised that the claim is that the timber has no value, the fungus is only in the sapwood.
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Done also.
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The AA have a webpage on Facebook? I'm not a fan of facebook btw:biggrin:
