Gary Prentice
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Everything posted by Gary Prentice
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No photo's, but the height that armillaria rhizomorphs extend is surprising. When we were doing lots of DED elms, I'd find them under the bark thirty or more feet up
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You sure that’s not a triffid?
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Just sat in the garden now with a beer. I feel for you
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I think that they only want one reduction cut per tree -
A reasonable approach Paul, but then it creates a precedent that 'you can have what you want if you're prepared to pay for it'. I think that that is the top of a very slippery slope. Locally, due to funding cuts it's becoming very much a situation that a householder can work on council trees, at their own cost, for non essential works to reduce nuisance issues. You have to wonder where and how it will all end. Edit: And no I don't have any solutions, before I get flamed
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No moral dilemma, just a comment in the interests of sparking further debate. As I'm sure yours was.
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No reason at all why they can't. But should they be?
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I appreciate that too
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I've a Getac data collector into which I've put an Excel spreadsheet for the survey. Because it's older, it's a bit of messing about and I'm not quite there, but the idea is that I can take the SD card out, plug into the laptop, open the topo in Keysofts Tree Program and then import into the drawing. Basically the CAD program says,"right, got T1, where do you want to plot it. etc. Still need a paper plan on site, to reference tree numbers to, but hopefully once I've created all the excel drop down lists for all the input cells, it'll be pretty rapid. I've gone this way because it's cheap, starting out I can't afford to spend thousands on new dedicated devices and programs.
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Oooh, look at you! A CAD technician of your very own
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Nah, told her Harry got married. She asked who to? I said that there was a cup final at Wembley around 5. Chelsea playing someone else, caught that on the radio earlier
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The missus has come in and asked if something special has happened today Says the roads and shops are quiet.
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Didn’t someone say, on here, that if you don’t push yourself, occasionally making mistakes, you’ll never learn. Hospital visits really encourage learning
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Do you want ash logs or not?
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They'll grow back into a nice new hedge, guy! I'll run ya down to the cash point now then, shall I?
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You'd lose your money. I have a life!
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I wouldn't go that far... I would certainly try to call a TO as a character witness though, it might be fun after he'd told the court what a loss the contravention had caused, then for admit how diligent and professionally the accused had acted during the x no. Of years years he'd known him.
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I’m sure that, in your opinion, they will be. Meanwhile, in reality...
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I’d rather watch paint dry.
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Managing Trees with Decay & Dysfunction
Gary Prentice replied to David Humphries's topic in Tree health care
Poor bugger, top lopped off and then its toes crushed. That some trees survive is simply remarkable. -
I think that there's some big screens showing it in the church,....
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That seems an eminently sensible use for the day
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I'm beginning to think that you are not taking this seriously anymore? Hopefully Jose has enough of the email correspondence chain to avoid any ambiguity as to the truth. It's an interesting thread, seeing who is admitting to contraventions and whether the fessed up to face the music or ducked and ran (mentioning no names ) I'll admit to two, one of which I was welding the saw, the other in an instructing role. In the first case the LA provided inaccurate information. The second, well someone on site thought they knew better than the site plan. Both times though, the first course of action was to talk to the TO to provide an explanation - A long history of abiding by the rules and being diligent sure helps to encourage a sympathetic ear and downplay the transgression. Get the TO on side and it's a case of divide and conquer the opposing forces
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Managing Trees with Decay & Dysfunction
Gary Prentice replied to David Humphries's topic in Tree health care
Any special measures in the surrounding hard surfacing? -
Watch the Wedding, Football Or spend the day surveying?? Decisions, decisions, decisions.
