Gary Prentice
-
Posts
8,774 -
Joined
-
Last visited
-
Days Won
27
Content Type
Profiles
Forums
Classifieds
Tip Site Directory
Blogs
Articles
News
Arborist Reviews
Arbtalk Knot Guide
Gallery
Store
Freelancers directory
Everything posted by Gary Prentice
-
Crowning? Ya mean that well known arboricultural term found in BS3998?
-
Can I ask what the latest tree pollarding techniques are?
-
Think you're right. IIRC the entire things about £70-80
-
Not sure, but I think it's getting too much air (which I think is bad)
-
Thanks a lot David, every day is a school day:thumbup1:
-
Does this help?
-
Uprated prop shafts and diffs to handle the power:biggrin:
-
I'd been explaining the T/r (t/R?) ratio to a (risk averse) client with a cavity/hollowing tree earlier and was just thinking how the pictures demonstrate how 'safe' the 0.3 ratio is. (Acknowledging the reduced canopy in this instance) Don't go back on my account.
-
Rootgrafts can translocate the glyphosate between trees
-
Great for carrying logs? That's only one!
-
Maybe you should have put some barriers out:biggrin: Sorry, I can't help myself sometimes! Have you measured the actual t/r on that? It would have been interesting, in a less target rich environment, to have it continue to failure.
-
And they're bloody good at it...
-
Forgot to cut the three pails to finish the bow top fencing?
-
I got in a real mess when I got divorced, wrangling with the ex and solicitors for child access, having to find somewhere to live, run a business and a tax bill I couldn't pay. Medication didn't work, for me, but one thing that did help was eventually to learn to put the things aside that I couldn't deal with that day. Not trying to forget about them but acknowledging that they were beyond my control that day. When everything seems an insurmountable burden, doing little things creates a sense of achievement - a positive step. Sometimes getting out of bed was the first thing, then making food, going out to buy food, building up to phoning or writing to people. (doing things I really didn't want to do or deal with) Work was a saviour, I climbed for different people - so in my mind I was obliged to turn up, even when I really just wanted to pull the covers over my head.
-
Lousy pics, think it's goat willow
-
Arbtalk raffle live results
Gary Prentice replied to Steve Bullman's topic in Arbtalk Christmas Charity Raffle 2016
I think next year I should just donate the money and not get tickets, as I think I've won something every year I've entered. Thanks Kevin for donating the prize, and Steve for all the work in running it:thumbup1: -
Leave a Range Rover around here and that would disappear too! Still, the upside is the body becomes someone else's problem.
-
What's the best chipper for disposing of bodies? TW or Forst?
-
'Reasonable' and 'in defence' is hard to argue if they're running away.
-
That was what I was trying to say in my last post. The report, or part of the the report, is to inform the planners of the trees on site. So (based on the information you have at the time) if the report says remove for development, one would hope that that would be a major material consideration in formulating the decision. You'd think that that would be the first thing decided, tree stays - no development, so you would like to think that if outline is approved on that basis it would be a done deal. All you can do as far as I can see, is your part in the informing process.
-
Unfortunately, for some reason, 'karma' is never the bitch she's made out to be...
-
No law about log piles as such, just about what a reasonable person would do. If by your actions, someone gets hurt/suffers loss, and this was foreseeable (by the man on the clapham omnibus) then there is a claim of negligence. I think in this case, a judge would say that it was foreseeable that kids would climb a log stack - being kids and that should have been considered in the manner of stacking the stack.
-
Leaning kousa tree - help!
Gary Prentice replied to Smousie's question in Homeowners Tree Advice Forum
I think it's because a number of factors are involved. In a parkland with absence of competition would the trees late/mature form come chronologically earlier? So in a plantation, the factors that initiate the growth form changes are repressed by competition and don't normally occur before felling. Lots of checks and balances between Tropisms and auxins that'll result in the final outcome. For example, an open grown tree on a coastal site would likely grow upright (geo) until the external factors cause buds on the windward side to die or grow less well (desiccated buds) when more exposed - then the tree takes on the windswept form. The environmental factor overcomes or becomes more dominant -
If the TPO tree is identified for removal in the report, wouldn't it be a material consideration in granting consent? TBH, just guessing as I've never been involved in an outline app.
