Gary Prentice
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Chalara fraxinea - Generic thread
Gary Prentice replied to David Humphries's topic in Tree health care
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?
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Chalara fraxinea - Generic thread
Gary Prentice replied to David Humphries's topic in Tree health care
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?
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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.
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The who can get most outraged at bad treework thread.
Gary Prentice replied to Mick Dempsey's topic in Picture Forum
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 -
The who can get most outraged at bad treework thread.
Gary Prentice replied to Mick Dempsey's topic in Picture Forum
Arbrex was crap to use thirty years, has something changed? -
Owner is now looking for a new contractor, apparently!
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Going off topic I know but the discussion has bought to mind a tour I had forty years ago to Windscale/Sellafield. The tour guide explained that the spent fuel rods were encased in concrete within steel barrels before being 'buried' (dumped). Considering that the half life was something like 200 or 500 years, she was asked what the life expectancy of the barrels were? " Around fifty years" she quietly answered. "But we expect to have the technology to retrieve them and deal with them by then!" We're still a very short sighted species.
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Feel for ya Mark, it's losing part of the family. I still look for 'mum' when I'm out with her lads. You've done the best that you could for her and was with her when she had to go, you can do my more. We had our rotti bitch booked into the vets and she sat at the car wagging her tail, thinking she was going walkies and I had to cancel - knowing I was selfish wanting just one day more.
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The who can get most outraged at bad treework thread.
Gary Prentice replied to Mick Dempsey's topic in Picture Forum
Now if he'd planted more trees, firewood wouldn't have been an issue. Just think, the world would have been a different place. -
Are those the new 'chainsaw safety Crocs'?
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The who can get most outraged at bad treework thread.
Gary Prentice replied to Mick Dempsey's topic in Picture Forum
I suppose that he had certain advantages implementing his tree planting strategy though. I can't imagine that he suffered many complaints that the trees were too big and casting shade on peoples patios or birds in the trees were crapping on peoples carts! -
Spoiler Alert!
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Saying that a TPO shall be served isn't the same as there being a TPO in place. If you wanted to fell it this afternoon legally you could. Notice has been served, six weeks have elapsed and two years haven't passed and there is no TPO in place.
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I used it once at appeal. it was ignored by everyone I'm just trying to track down when there is an obligation to replant in a CA.
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Sounds like they're stretching things a bit. What's odd is that hey have given consent to fell. They can't consent a notification. They either don't oppose the notified works or they have to serve a TPO and run through the process, waiting for objections/representations etc and then confirming the order within six months. You can, of course, just fell it as soon as six weeks elapse after the notification if no TPO is served. I think that they are playing hard and fast with the rules just to get a new tree in. Is it in a prominent location. I've never got a satisfactory response from an LA when I've asked how they define amenity, it seems to be whatever the TO wants it to be at the time .
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You're right, group TPOs usually identify x no of particular species and x number of whatever species. So it's those trees of whatever species present at the time the order was made. It gets difficult when, say, there are four beech present of a similar age and the order says three - which ones were intended to be covered? If you can positively identify which trees are which, you can safely assume that younger/smaller trees were either not present or were not intended to be included in the order. Be a bit careful bringing TPO contraventions to the LAs attention, your client might not be impressed as prosecutions can still be started for, I think, seven years after the contravention. LAs can use historical imagery like google earth for evidence to date the offence.
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In the internet age, everyone is an expert! Consider some of the posts on here
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Are you winning yet? Thinking about your problem, I know that my CAD program rounds up stem diameters rather than down. Are the relevant trees single or multi-stemmed? If MS have you done the calculations yourself using the formulae in BS5837? "can’t fathom the methodology that has been applied" That's concerning.
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IIRC from college you round down. The tutor referenced why bu I can't remember why. Perhaps @chris at eden can elaborate.
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Only as far as that it's a saprophytic one, as it's only colonising the dead heartwood.
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So the bank needs to know if the property is indicating any signs of subsidence damage? That's the surveyors job, not an arboriculturists.
