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So, here’s all the answers: Arboricultural Association - Two-rope working – an update WWW.TREES.ORG.UK <h4 class= author dblue mb30 ><strong>Simon Richmond</strong>, Senior Technical Officer</h4> <p...

A bit of a lighthearted distraction (but with large scale economic, social, environmental and business implications: Morrisons is selling boxes of unsold food for just £3.09 in all supermarkets - Mirror Online WWW.MIRROR.CO.UK Supermarket chain Morrisons will be the first supermarket in the UK to offer food past its 'best before'... Reducing ‘waste’ surely has to be a massive business benefit - reduced costs. Selling must be better than paying for removal. The morality of skipping food that has been resource heavy in production / delivery and when people are hungry is just the most bizarre situation. Im torn between thinking ‘good show’ for making a positive step forward and bewildered that we’ve even reached the point where food goes to land fill.

A mythical, elusive beast.... ?

Bury Big J. Bit bloody harsh Gazza!

Here's a link to the next Cornish Woodmeet event J. Email address to request a direct contact and access the ticket booking thingy is [email protected] if you fancied it. It's a love-fest for bureau-twats and bearded weirdos in hemp shirts and reed platted sandals where the more fanciful and outlandish the idea (especially if presented in a glossy folder and delivered by a DFL type) the greater the probability of securing grant funding for something that is blatantly unsustainable (business wise)

I bet that was an epic battle against the mediocrity of bureaucracy! Great thread VI ?

“... lessons have been learned... Holy f*ck! What was the organic knowledge baseline if this is considered to be a learning curve ????

I guess the only way to check for sure would be with main dealer. In our case (the MultiOne massive) we could ask Steve or the boys at MOHQ. There must be a level of capability because there is a OEM winch available but who knows what the loading / ratings would be? PUWER/HaSAW and all that.....

I’m no engineer, but I’m guessing you mean to mount a winch on the attachment mounting plate? Where I’ve thought about bollards mounted on the front plate I’ve thought better of it due to the potential pull effect on the extendable jib and also worried about cross loading dynamic forces - neither of which (I would imagine) would have been in design spec. In a nutshell, are the extendable jib arms suitable to resist direct forward pull or cross loaded dynamic force? I never got past thinking - probably not.

Anyone else keen on these? I like the Planning Portal system of submissions which I find quick, easy and efficient. There is a "Planning Champion" registration scheme which I think has now been closed to new applicants: Guidance for professionals | Smarter Planning | Planning Portal WWW.PLANNINGPORTAL.CO.UK Smarter Planning is a Planning Portal initiative encouraging LPAs to maximise the benefits of online working. Smarter... I also subscribe to a similar scheme which is run by Cornwall Council. List of Accredited Agents - Cornwall Council WWW.CORNWALL.GOV.UK A list of Householder Planning Application Accredited Agents Registration and validation is based upon a certain number of applications within a certain time frame and they must all comply with a certain set of qualifying criteria. Once eligible and registered, your 'track record' is supposed to allow for fewer validation checks and quicker processing time. This presents some advantage to the agent but the majority of the advantage, so far as I can see, is to the LA since e-copy submissions from trusted agents will necessarily require considerably less admin and processing compared to paper submissions. Well, received in the email today is the notice that from 1 January 2020, it'll cost £200 sobs + VAT per year just to be on the 'list.' Regrettably, this is interpreted as a retrograde proposal since it seems that the greater part of the benefit of having accredited agents is the reduced administrative burden upon Cornwall Council of receiving electronic rather than paper submissions where paper submissions require significantly more administrative effort from Cornwall Council to process. Seeking to pass a substantial annual financial burden onto the agent is considered likely to result in a significant drop off in current subscribers and to have a major disincentive effect upon potential new registrations. If these assumptions hold true, it also seems to be wholly contrary to Cornwall Council’s declared aspiration to encourage smart working and the reduction of unnecessarily wasteful practices. Disappointing to say the least....

Many thanks! Haven't seen that website for ages so it was good to have a quick refresh ??

Closest I can seem to get is Amethyst Deceiver (Laccaria amethystea) but I'm not at all confident. In the buttress of a mature Beech 6 Oct 19. Any takers??

That’s what I’m talking about! How I’ve missed you TVi!

Right...... Let’s not let latent Columbo tendencies get in the way of a right Royal piss take and derail.... I can’t even contemplate the next episode until TVI has taken us into the realm of sado masochist mind altering poetic prose.....

And folk wonder why the likes of HS2 etc go stupidly over budget... Like so many large commercial or publicly funded projects, some office walla cuts & pastes a contract tender doc which hasn't been reviewed (by an intelligent human being) since the last time it was cut & paste (and the time before, and the one before that etc, etc...) and which likely includes a whole raft of generic prerequisites that may, or may not, be relevant to the current scenario and the net result is that a whole range of unnecessary often contradictory or counterproductive 'requirements' are included and the tender price necessarily increases exponentially. Big firms have office staff to deal with the paperwork and ensure token compliance is achieved which is then completely ignored when it gets to the sharp end - take the 'tree experts' as an example. At least the smaller outfits have the honesty to say bollocks to that!

Their eyes met briefly over the power tools. A moment of non verbal communication confirmed the sexual attraction, but alas, as ??s bent over to pick up the pencil he’d dropped, as soon as they had met, they were separated.... And all that was left was the indelible image of Brentwood Tree Surgery tailgate as it disappeared over the horizon with a ½ load of conny chip.....

That is a pickle - but (hopefully) not unpicklable. If you sent pics to these guys I'm pretty sure they could match you up a replacement piece. Home | Kenyon Canopy KENYONCANOPY.CO.UK That roof must be 20-30 years old? It probably doesn't have a manufacturer's mark still visible which would define it either as or not containing asbestos - so it would default to the presumption that it does (unless lab tested otherwise.) Lab test a small sample (£20-30?) might actually be a good move if no manufacturer's mark is visible - it could have a massive impact upon accurate costing of replacement. A full replacement is wholly unreasonable but your roofer's temporary repair is pretty poor - as anything other than a first aid waterproof repair. A full replacement with box profile would be the best bet for the landlord - but that ain't your lookout. What would be reasonable? Total cost of replacement £X divided by total life expectancy (maybe 20-25yrs) divided by % of damage your are responsible for seems like a reasonable £ figure to me. The thing would have needed doing soon enough anyway although probably not quite yet. He can't insist that you go to your insurer - that's entirely your choice. He can however take a civil action for damages - but would he really? He'd have all the up front costs and the potential that the judgement might end up being something like the equation above - not worth the effort. You seem to have made all reasonable efforts thus far to reach a mutually agreeable solution which would be in your favour if it went to mediation or, ultimately to court. It's after the event and doesn't help your scenario (and I've just had similar with a shitty old greenhouse only held up by ivy which was directly under the tree for dismantle) but having experienced the professional affront to my dignity of breaking 1 or 2 panes, I will never again accept liability for such an obstruction (old, knackered, 1 sneeze and it breaks) under a tree. They can either board it up at their own expense or accept liability for accidental damage arising from normal professional behaviour. Not so much a screaming howler, but a genuine mishap. I hope you can find a replacement piece - hopefully Kenyon Canopy will have something - fit the replacement and say that's your lot.

I know, and a bit bloody rich coming from me ? I don’t have “discretion” nor “restraint” nor “compromise” as any of my middle names..... ???

Maybe (hopefully) they both have the energy, determination, commitment and vision to source, maintain and grow their own leads and work - plus having the resilience to manage the fallow periods, personal injury, unpaid holiday etc. If they don’t, they may be about to learn that the grass isn’t always greener on the other side! For ??s - you know why they’ve jumped dont ya ??

A bit of a tangent (and putting to one side for the time being the discussion of mature tree benefit v the desire of the land owner to make unencumbered decisions of how to use their land...) Be wise to be mindful that the LA or any member of the public could seek to initiate TPO process if they were aware of a potential threat to the trees. Should that be the case, your decision making process would be taken away from you. Discretion - Worth bearing in mind.

Thought you might like this one @Mark J ?

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Did you see that our (not entirely serious) input to that FB post about replacing TPO tree after nature failure have been expunged from online history ? W⚓︎'s ?

?? Was just trying to understand the context where/how the saw would be used. A top handle (Stihl) and a groundsaw sounds like the best situation.

I was a bit confused by the text above. Are we talking aerial crown reductions in woodland trees or a general use woodland saw? I guess I’m wondering why woodland trees need crown reductions?