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  1. Gary Prentice
    Are you sure? Putting the requirement to get planning consent for a drive itself aside, would you need to submit a tree works application or Section 211 Notice? I'm asking because I'm not sure. No-ones pruning roots, the actions aren't intended to willfully damage or kill the tree, so would there be a contravention? I'll wait for some-one better educated than me to explain what case a legal department would put before a judge. I think it would be difficult to say that cell-web (or similar) when installed according to the manufacturers instructions would damage tree roots.
  2. Gary Prentice
    You're probably right, should have checked before replying
  3. Gary Prentice
    I think the applicants consultant recommended surveying again in 2019. That kind of suggests, at least to me, that he expected them to still be there.
  4. Gary Prentice
    Thanks for that. Time for some more research then:biggrin:
  5. Gary Prentice
    I'm a bit rusty on the terminology, but what's the difference? What I was alluding to were attaching sensors, basically two tiny prongs that the device measures the deflection of, when a load is applied to the stem.
  6. Gary Prentice
    I have:001_tongue: and Paul Melarange is involved with them. Not sure but I think Paul Muir from Treework Environmental Practice may be the only practitioner atm Fascinating, and pretty damned conclusive testing.
  7. Gary Prentice
    Damage caused, additional costs such as emergency call outs and rates, PTSD:biggrin: Once a lawyer's involved the sky's the limit:thumbdown:
  8. Gary Prentice
    Here, here:biggrin: One test that wasn't mentioned was a 'pull' test. I suspect that would have removed all opinion from the equation.
  9. Gary Prentice
    At least the new saws are waterproof! The first 020's I used wouldn't start if they got wet. If you were climbing in the rain you'd have to leave em ticking over. Leave them on the lawn for ten minutes and they were a pig to stat again. We'd leave them under the van at breaktimes if it was wet, but did run a few over:blushing:
  10. Gary Prentice
    I don't see why, maybe I'm being dense this afternoon. Has anyone ever planted an oak, beech, redwood etc and seen it reach maturity? But if our forefathers hadn't, we wouldn't be seeing them today -I'm talking about urban settings, not woods and forests. The head forester at Burghley is planting enormous avenues of limes, grown from layered cuttings of 250-300 yr old trees. He'll never see them in maturity, neither will the 'house's' current owners - should they not bother? Our urban parks are full of 200 yr old trees, the people who planned and planted them never saw them in maturity. Our roadside avenues - introduced by the Victorians, the Meikleour beech hedge, Wimpole Hall's Elm Avenues - now gone. Should we stop trying to find/breed DED elms, cos we'll never see them reach maturity? How have we become so short-sighted and selfish? Not getting at you Mick, just something that peeves me.
  11. Gary Prentice
    Good job people like Capability Brown and his clients weren't so short sighted, planting parks and avenues that they'd never see in maturity! Wonder what sort of world we're going to leave our grandchildren? (hypothetical question generally - not just topped trees:biggrin:)
  12. Gary Prentice
    Don't be such a purist:001_tt2: ya know that the customer is always right, if we don't do it - someone else will, yada, yada yada:lol:
  13. Gary Prentice
    You'd be lucky if you could come back, if you started preaching about human rights under Sharia Law!
  14. Gary Prentice
    Sshhh.. Don't mention how many people die in RTA's annually, everybody will stop driving:biggrin: Apologies, I shouldn't be taking the mick, a surprising number of the people I meet have a fear that their tree is 'too big' and is going to fall on their house.
  15. Gary Prentice
    Done, Never even knew this 'Tree of the year' thing existed, so thanks for posting
  16. Gary Prentice
    Why the fear that they'd fall on your barn? Probably a higher risk of a tractor damaging it!
  17. Gary Prentice
    I don't think Bingley actually processes, just buys logs to sell on.
  18. Gary Prentice
    I'll take that over a bent 660 bar, any day of the week:lol:
  19. Gary Prentice
    And the prize is?
  20. Gary Prentice
    On one 'subsidence site' I worked on, the under-pinning contractor said that they were finding roots at 1.5m deep - the only trees nearby were cypresses. IIRC, these were in top soil, uncompacted fill from earlier excavations possibly. I didn't see them personally and wouldn't expect that myself, but they were adamant they'd found them:confused1:
  21. Gary Prentice
    Pyracantha
  22. Gary Prentice
    Me too.
  23. Gary Prentice
    MS201T, then either 560 x-torque (20 in) or straight to 660 Occasionally use the 880, but that's just hard work!
  24. Gary Prentice
    Cos 'she's' female! Don't ever try to reason, using logic or debate with the female of the species, it can only lead to insanity. Just accept!
  25. Gary Prentice
    An article I read, may have been by Oisin Kelly, also points out that C & R used data (I think from insurance claims) where subsidence had actually occurred. If a Hawthorn within 3m of a house caused subsidence, it went into the data, regardless of the fact that there are probably tens of thousands, or more, growing at that distance without conflict. The Relationship between Trees, Distance to Buildings and Subsidence Events on Shrinkable Clay Soil -Mercer, Reeves & O'Callohan, is worth a read.

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