Gary Prentice

Excuse my ignorance, but what does JR mean? TIA

That LA has sure had some bad luck!

That was my argument at the time, but who can afford the High Courts? I had evidence that a planning officer knew that the order hadn't been confirmed, in the form of a memo to legal at the time of the second application to fell asking that it be confirmed. TBH it felt like a cover up. Even involving a local councillor and explaining how the planning office/department had acted went nowhere. Whatever happened, the LA were just going to serve a new order! The client's wife was ill and they gave up due to the stress of the situation.

I may never have been!! Previously LAs could confirm an order at any time rather than, as now, within six months, although the tree was not protected after six months from the date that i was originally served. I know of one case where the order was confirmed eight years after serving. And to make matters worse the LA twice refused consent to fell when the tree wasn't even protected!

Every order that I've seen the confirmation is included within, either on the same page following the signature authorising the temp order (section 201) or on the following page. The model form (https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/tree-preservation-orders-guidance) shows it as following. It would make sense, as the confirmation is the endorsement of the order, that it's all part of the same document rather than written as a separate one.

They used to be my favourites. Hole already partly dug and the client realised how much work and effort was involved so appreciated the cost. Used to make some decent coin digging stumps. One site two builders had hired a saw and spent two days digging. I quoted a couple of hundred pounds just to get it free. Less than an hour later I was done and paid

Used his set-up for winch assisted felling and for excavating roots, with a strop from the deadman anchor so that the winch is above ground. A rabbit spade is a must, to get in between the roots to clean off soil when you need to use a chainsaw to sever the biggest roots. A lot of people fail by not digging enough of a hole around the sump and then struggle by not having enough room to work and get access. For a big stump, start with digging at least two spade widths bigger than the diameter of the stem. Cut/chop each root to the outside of the excavation before chopping the other end as flush as possible to he stump. If you don't cut to the stump iself you won't be able to expose the vertical growing roots beneath. Just keep going until there's no more horizontal roots and then dig beneath the stump (this is why you need a big hole). Sever as many of the vertical roots as possible before bringing the winch into play. When it starts to rock you can normally work out which direction will be the most efficient to pull from - then dig your deadman anchor. You will get it out but it's a mental thing. You'll defeat yourself thinking that it will be out in x hours. It'll come when i does, steady away. I've dug stumps that had to be sawn/split into quarters to be man-handled away - it's how they were done before grinders

Reading elsewhere, it's being suggested that this fungus has been present in UK since since 2004. I don't know if this has been posted before? So apologies if it has. The Tree Council Ash Dieback Action Plan Toolkit FINAL.pdf

there's only a couple of deaths a day from stabbing or shooting, so they must have plenty of resources available to investigate this social media post.

Not all all!!!

Thanks for that, Mark! If I can find my Zimmer I might have a walk out into the garden today.

No, it's definitely this little fellows fault!

I know that this has been discussed before but I can't remember the conclusion. Would there be a LOLA issue with the date of manufacture (5 years for fabrics). I can't remember if it's the date of manufacture or of first use.

I used these for ages with no problems.

As he said, he doesn't have a diseased mind. Maybe those claiming racism need to be looking a lot closer to home.

Was that on an estate owned by a brewery, after the great storm?

The on slip road at Ripponden was still shut at eleven AM!

The £10 M figure I mentioned was just for the borough and trees on LA within falling distance of the road. "Figure has been updated and now 95% is the expected mortality rate" I didn't know they'd been a lower mortality rate published anywhere, but I remember that when this all started it was reckoned that 95-98% of all Denmarks Ash had become infected within ten years of the disease first being reported. I can't imagine why we'd be much different.

You're just worried about an influx of Emmetts aren't you?

Several years ago our LA were estimating a cost of £10 million just for highway trees and LA trees within falling distance of the road. I'm pretty sure that they've revised that figure upwards due to under-estimating the percentage of ash in the population.

So the mixed marriage thing has nothing to do with her being American?

Is that in Huddersfield? There used to be loads of good sized elms on the Halifax road when I first moved up here, between the town centre and Ainley top. dismantled hundreds in Calderdale in the early nineties (many of which were burred), all of which went for firewood.

It would revitalise Arbtalk, all the discussions for the best way to get it off hands, clothes, ropes and other equipment - keep us going for years

Arbrex was crap to use thirty years, has something changed?

Owner is now looking for a new contractor, apparently!