Gary Prentice
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That's a very valid point Stubby!
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A consultant can undertake a safety assessment. A basic/stage one assessment is from ground level, looking at the body language of the tree - if and how it has adapted to external stresses as well as internal dysfunction or decay. This assessment may trigger more in depth investigations - a climbing inspection to look at cavities, fungal fruit bodies at height or invasive testing such as a Picus test or some drilling with a resistograph. Just because the tree has lost a limb doesn't necessarily mean that there is any great problem. The failure may have been caused by localised decay, maybe where a limb had been removed previously, decay in that area started and eventually the load of the limb overcame the strength of the remaining sound wood. This is what the assessment will be looking to establish. Whatever else is observed will guide what, if anything happens next.
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Fixed that for ya!
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Seeing how the tree is subject to a TPO, the local arboricultural officer may be your first port of call. Any work specified by a tree surgeon or consultant is likely to require the tree officers agreement/consent, so you might as well get him/her involved anyway. It will be a refreshing change for him/her in that you don't want to remove the tree unnecessarily.
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Ninja felling in the middle of the night with a battery saw! Turn up the following day with the chipper. Any questions and you're only there on chipper hire. Job sorted.
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I thought that, having a dim memory of being told that at Walkley Clogs at Hebden Bridge. But a search on wikipedia doesn't mention it. Poplar and willow being mentioned only.
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For some reason I thought that I was replying to Westphalians post, if I'd realised that I was responding to you, that probably would have been my first conclusion!
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Are you climbing on a prussic?
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TPO trees in a new landscape scheme
Gary Prentice replied to jacquemontii's topic in Trees and the Law
You'd be better asking on UKC (full of TO's, planners and consultants) I'm interested in the answer myself, because I'm thinking that in these circumstances the only protection that could be afforded would be through a section 106 agreement (short term protection). I don't think that you could protect a tree based on it's future amenity value, and unlike a replacement planting there's no amenity to replace, as such. -
He's probably already built his own!
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Can't say anything on here cos my posts are looked at, but I'll be okay. I'm not worried.
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Wow! Today's turning bad pretty fast, just quit my job and upset me old mucker ? and it's only 8 AM
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Didn't the 'Guy snaps leg' bit in the title help your memory at all? ?
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Or lifting too many pint glasses!
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I seem to remember that reports from Scandinavia were that large infected trees were surviving for 5-10 years. I suspect that the spores are so endemic that any new growth that may sprout from leafless trees will just get re-infected the same year.
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The threads about favourite softwoods, ya can't have holly
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Sadly, that comment and the image it portrayed has been the highlight of my day. Probably wrong, but I think the 'puzzle a monkey' comment was actually attributed to someone. I seem to recall something about a plant hunter/collector and his patron discussing the tree when it was shipped back. Then again I might be delusional.
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Interestingly I was listening to a program the over morning about child care costs. About handouts for putting kids into nurseries not covering cost and how much the UK is the some European countries. Should we be supporting or encouraging larger families by paying for childcare so that both parents work?
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Just really becoming noticeable around Manchester. Last summer , once you got your eye in, it was pretty much everywhere in young trees (up to 5-6 m generally) This summer I’ve seen a couple of, what I think, are infected mature trees. Local TOs say they’ve spotted a very small number themselves. With little recent media coverage, the average tree owner seems very much unaware of the threat. Although we’ve had couple of mountain ash where the owner suspected infection
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Can’t remember now where I read it, possibly in one of Alan Mitchell’s books, but when they originally discovered someone said they would puzzle a monkey to climb. Maybe they they started as ‘monkey puzzler’?
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In a global perspective, does it really matter? Just reading on here this morning about farming practices, plastics, pollution, population explosions and how electricity is being generated, I just think the world is just going to hell in a hand basket.
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So what's going to happen to the firewood market?
Gary Prentice replied to Woodworks's topic in Firewood forum
Don’t worry about it, it’s t’inernet. Knowledge or expertise has never been a prerequisite for posting. You’re right though, so much just doesn’t make sense. -
So what's going to happen to the firewood market?
Gary Prentice replied to Woodworks's topic in Firewood forum
Like the paper bags. ( why do supermarkets supply paper bags for mushrooms and plastic for all other lossed veg?) I wonder if, given the current views on plastics generally, that the buyers viewpoint is the same?
