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Gary Prentice

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  1. Gary Prentice
    To be fair though, higher education is a lot more orientated to self learning (rather than secondary education which almost requires a teacher with a loaded gun to actually educate the pupil)
  2. Gary Prentice
    Have you seen the cost of a good new one?
  3. Gary Prentice
    I can just imagine a school leaver attending an interview "You mean I have to come every day, Monday to Friday between nine o'clock and five o'clock? "
  4. Gary Prentice
    Is it fook!
  5. Gary Prentice
    It's all downhill from here
  6. Gary Prentice
    Be careful what you wish for
  7. Gary Prentice
    But God loves a trier and initiative should be applauded I'll admit that I did search the company, but they're in Cirencester and I'm in Manchester. I also don't have a stove!
  8. Gary Prentice
    Give him a break, he only joined an hour ago
  9. Gary Prentice
    That attitude isn't that surprising nowadays. I don't know if it's countrywide, but locally kids finish school at lunchtime on a wednesday and have the afternoon off. They are considered to be in full time education even though they only attend four and a half days a week! Not my definition of full time, but there ya go.
  10. Gary Prentice
    The only people I know who work everyday either work for themselves or are employed in a job where they only work a few hours a day.
  11. Gary Prentice
    I'd assume that they run a business. I'd think that being a business owner just feels like 24/7
  12. Gary Prentice
    I've seen that felling dead elms, by guys who had felled a lot of them. The tree starts to move to the lean, closing the gob until the part gob prevents it continuing further - which then turns the tree above. I've even seen the part gob placed after the tree starts to move, with the feller waiting for the optimal moment to send it off sideways. I think that you do need some fairly decent fibre length in the hinge, if it's 'punky' or short it tries to turn but then just falls to the weight of the crown/lean.
  13. Gary Prentice
    Okay, accept the job claims but I sincerely doubt that you can sharpen a chain properly!
  14. Gary Prentice
    Discovered a new skill when I got married, both times, that I'm always wrong!
  15. Gary Prentice
    confirmed what?
  16. Gary Prentice
    I don't know, a huge percentage of our local large street trees are Ash. Lots of roads will end up looking like Sheffield, with loads of heavy standards replacing 60-70 ft mature Ash. it will make a huge difference in our urban environment
  17. Gary Prentice
    I'd forgotten about this, we looked at it briefly in college in regard to accessing the far side of a clients hedge. I have no memory of any mention of trees on the neighbours land though. I dont know, I think it's a stretch to access their tree in preservation of your own land though. My my memory might be wrong, but I seem to remember the process was that you had a right of entry, subject to sufficient notice and agreement of the neighbour. If they simply refused access then you had to get the court order. Useful for the arb arb contractor to know when they really need to access both sides of a clients boundary hedge.
  18. Gary Prentice
    No worries, I enjoyed the process of sitting down and writing it.
  19. Gary Prentice
    Just years of involvement with trees on my part. OSM is just really clever.
  20. Gary Prentice
    jeez, for a moment there I thought Matelot was back...
  21. Gary Prentice
    That's certainly lower mortality rates than have previously been published.
  22. Gary Prentice
    Reading wiki, I take it that justifiable just means those with a legal right of entry, such as the Police and statutory undertakers such as gas and levy. I doubt whether it extends as ends as far as the arb accessing the land and tree to prune overhanging limbs. Although LA arbs can enter land where ownership can't be established to do works under the provisions of the Highways Act i might be be totally wrong but that's my thinking.
  23. Gary Prentice
    It's a secret until the patent is sorted out?
  24. Gary Prentice
    I guess in the absence of a fenceline, which one would presume to be in the right place, you'd have to proceed with a great deal of caution and definitely not rely on the client saying "it's there" and pointing. When there is no clear existing boundary and its position can't be agreed by both parties, maybe it's time to walk away. The real answer is that you can't be sure. Land registry maps are easy to get hold off but the line on a plan when scaled up is probably a metre or more in width. And you know that that metre is going to cause argument when it comes to the extent of pruning.
  25. Gary Prentice
    Careful there in what you're offering. He'll be expecting you to pay for it as well. Remind me again, how's that working out for Donny Trump?

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