Gary Prentice
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Everything posted by Gary Prentice
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You call that music? The Rolling Stones played music! Modern stuff ain’t music...
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You have to ask a kid to set up The TV to record things, having inadvertently saved every episode of ‘Real Housewives of Bogna Regis’, instead of ‘Blue Planet’ And, you fracture vertebrae roller skating
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No worries mate, I’ve got Mr H sussed -
And the client asks “Which tree is the Fagus?”
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I'm not really sure. I heard something about dressing up in someone else's clothing, it may have been a womens (although that may be a different story altogether)
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Not on his own anyway
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Well like, ya kinda had to, after starting it all
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The morphology of the canopy looks somewhat misrepresentative of a virgin crown for tree type in the image. Translation: It doesn't look like a typical unpruned tree. It 'looks' like there is a primary branch/stem (a branch growing from the trunk/main stem)missing from the left hand side and that there were perhaps 5 branches/stems at somepoint the past and the canopy has reiterated(grown some new stuff) in the meantime hence the difference in branch diameter from left side to right side of lower crown. (Branches are thicker on one side than the other) If you don't learn the big words you'll never be able to charge the big money.. and impress us normal folk. morphology the study of the forms of things, in particular: a particular form, shape, or structure
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I bet that sucks after getting your hopes up...
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Oak Tree Leave or Cut down
Gary Prentice replied to Lorraine's question in Homeowners Tree Advice Forum
If it's a clay with a high shrink/swell potential then subsidence & heave are potential problems. I'd suggest taking professional advice from a local arboricultural consultant. -
Stubby won WWII
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Please identify these three trees?
Gary Prentice replied to dingodoo's topic in Tree Identification pictures
Sorry, still can't really see the leaves properly, although I think they're quite small. I haven't seen many Holm oaks, but I don't think that's an evergreen tree and I doubt its Castanea ( no fluting of the stem) But I'm just hazarding a guess! -
Crown volume is an unusual term. Ive never seen that in a works specification, but would assume it meant to crown thin- if the figure was below 30%
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Landowners responsibilities and Liabilities
Gary Prentice replied to drinksloe's question in Homeowners Tree Advice Forum
Jelly providing BT engineers ya got to love them... -
Landowners responsibilities and Liabilities
Gary Prentice replied to drinksloe's question in Homeowners Tree Advice Forum
I wonder what the penalty would be if you disconnected them, felled the tree and reconnected them and then got caught? Not that I’d suggest doing that or mending them yourself -
Almost certainly David, maybe when the house was built?
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Don't you know that trees get big and therefore dangerous, just waiting for an unsuspecting victim to drop a dangerous branch on?
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Please identify these three trees?
Gary Prentice replied to dingodoo's topic in Tree Identification pictures
I don't think the first is ash, I can't successfully enlarge it clearly to see the leaves but I'll throw field maple into the ring. Concur on the other two -
Is a fungus? I think you’re going to get nothing definitive apart from requests for better photos.
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During my own studies I’ve found everyone in this industry amazingly helpful in requests for information and help.
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This sounds like a really good course. Would there be any possibility of delivering it up North, at a later date, if there was sufficient interest?
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1969! I take the veteran back, you’re definitely ‘ancient’
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I thought you just had ‘veteran characteristics’
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Anyone bothered with 4x4 double cab tipper?
Gary Prentice replied to billpierce's topic in Arb-Trucks
I used to carry three rotties in the back of my L200, didn't leave any room for anything else. Apart from as a tool carrier, the double cabs are too small to be of any real use as a load carrier. -
It must be nice to have the continuity, and resources, to actively manage your tree population. Our LA undertook the iTree survey last year, can't remember all the details but it showed that it was a significant asset. A few months later I heard that the tree team were warned that they'd probably be redundant by this Easter! The proposed budget, for external contractors to replace them, probably wouldn't cover emergency works that have been necessary in the last week.
