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  1. Gary Prentice
    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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    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.
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    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.
  10. Gary Prentice
    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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    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.
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    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?
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    I suspect that Chalarah will have a similar effect over here. Ash isn't very durable once it dies and if DED was anytime to go by owners will leave them stood as long as possible before spending money. A nightmare for the contractor working on trees tha will begin to fall apart and resulting in a fair quantity of low quality timber and firewood. We're only beginning to see it his summer in large trees, it will be interesting to see how planning deal with early applications to remove infected TPO trees; either consenting early after the initial symptoms appear or refusing until it's totally obvious that they are not going to be among the very small percentage of tolerant trees. Interesting times.
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    But do they really? Or is it a case of what the seller is telling the purchaser that they want? Who is leading who, I wonder.
  25. Gary Prentice
    Is it ok to burn the parts that fall off though?

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