Gary Prentice

Or no one else had anything dry?

Haven’t seen that, I’ll try to find it. It’s funny, JS is someone who, when the truth comes out, isn’t particular surprising because of his public persona. Always struck me as an oddball. Ive known three blokes who have gone away for sex offences with under age kids. All of them were jack the lads, appeared to have plenty of success meeting women of their own age and probably the last people that anyone would have suspicions of. I find these sort a lot more worrying.

He would know and believe in that interview, because it is now a matter of fact. The critical element is did he believe the same originally? Would he admit now, that the original conversation was said simply to shock and cause outrage, attacking a well known personality? Personally I can't understand how, if the number of people who say they were aware of what was going on, it stayed largely under the public radar?

I wasn’t that impressed by CODIT. I thought that Alex Shigo explained the principals much better, but maybe that’s just me.

Only for you

Playing devils advocate.... Would any customer admit to cocking up a two stroke mix or using old fuel? So how seriously would the manufacturer take a claim that only aspen or a good fresh two stroke mix was used? We we all know that the customer is always right, even when they are wrong - plenty of threads on here about that topic. In this particular case I would think that the argument is with the dealer, whether it’s a warranty issue is between the manufacturer and them. I’m assuming that future purchases will be from that dealer, so I would concentrate on them.

I like John Lyndon, but I do wonder if the original radio interview was just a comment to shock, to fit into the punk image and now with hindsight just a case of jumping on the bandwagon. Like lots of punks he sold out, can anyone imagine his reaction in the punk era telling him he’d be advertising margarine in the future

I’ve no answers, but do the Scandinavian countries use salt at all? (I didn’t see any when I was there briefly)

Allegedly, they are all highly valuable!

Don’t worry, David has a master plan. He answers questions, gets you more interested in mycology and then suddenly you’re hooked. Davids a long term myco addict, so to ease his suffering he takes pleasure in getting others hooked. Before you know it you’ll be joining fungal forays with other deviants. You have been warned

Firewood money Do you know how valuable walnut is?

Ian, from experience I would say that most people know very little about the ‘norm’ in tree works. Some think that removing a tree is all of the tree, that is there will be no stump, no anything. Most don’t even know that most deciduous species will coppice and regrow. So, I think it is something that should be discussed at the time of quoting, educating the client if necessary about the probability of regrowth, the options and any additional costs. I dont think that the opening posters’s client is unreasonable, complaining that the stump is regrowing. Obviously they didn’t know it could or expect it to. The error was not considering it at the time. We do this job day in, day out, and forget sometimes just how ignorant our customers actually are about things that we take for granted. Personally, if the site was local I’d call in and treat it, after explaining that we don’t treat unless instructed too, just as a good will gesture.

I wouldn’t automatically treat, having damaged nearby vegetation of the same species due to rootgrafts. I would normally refuse to herbicide in this situation, extolling the virtues (environmentally) of just cutting off the re-gen.

Talk to the client at the time of quoting. Offer up the options, does the stump want treating, grinding or will the client deal with the expected regeneration?

So you wouldn't consider voting for him?

Well that doesn't make much of a story, I wondered why that hasn't been reported?

Can't have done, softwood doesn't burn well

Birthday or Christmas present?

Depends what you mean by missing! Chances are you’ll lose compression. Easy enough to blank off with a suitable bolt- make sure something that ‘fits’ isn’t too long and coming into contact with the piston.

BSI have always charged. ( a lot)

Both links are for the AAAC workshop Paul

Normal restrictions of working within the root protection area. If you’re concreting posts in, lining the holes would be a good idea to prevent leaching of the chemicals in the concrete. Dig carefully, assuming the job won’t pay for an airspace, and don’t damage any bigger roots

So there’s no ‘in clean tractor cab, parked in the yard’ box to tick on the delivery sheet? seems a bit short- sighted.

Possibly because movement beyond the layered roots is causing strengthening growth, like a new tree above a tight tree tie. I don’t know if it necessarily because it’s deriving nourishment from the layered root more. Jules layering comment is thought provoking.

I don’t. If nothing else when the neighbour complains you can say that you were reliably informed by some bloke on the Internet