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Downderry Alex. Summer months, wouldn’t even try and drive a car through there - hellish traffic congestion and parking issues. On the flip side, out of season months are better BUT it seems everybody has held their building projects to the quieter period - crazy amount of work going on. Unusually, this one has good parking at roadside, space to batch, chip and stack, it’s just the transit from tree to chipper that is a drama. That grassed area is across the road opposite the house and is owned by homeowner Open top chute may get get a bit of further investigation but a major part of the hassle is getting ‘gear’ into the village. Its very likely that manpower is the only reasonable solution.

The machinery would be viewed as positively ‘next generation!’ The operatives co-worker however, would likely cause widespread confusion, panic & public disorder! Made me fair chuckle......

Literally, no space at all for that.

The neighbour (left - original picture set in first post) has had their desperately aged boiler repaired many times because they can't get a replacement in - apparently. The only option was to crane it in but crane company reportedly said they couldn't (legally) access the village. It's one of those sickeningly quaint Cornish coastal fishing villages - "main road" ? as indicated below!) Maybe heaving it off the flat roof could be an option.

The route in above is horrendous in a village that is horrendous! Lift from above would need a 25t crane, if it could even reach, it couldn't get in there. I don't even want to take a trailer in the access above the site - it is hellish! It would be +/- £600/day (maybe a little less if they do a ½ day but still >£ than mandraulic.

Helo lift was actually discussed Mr S (forgot to include it in the options!!) The MD of Castle Air is a previous customer, neighbour and occasional acquaintance. It's 5 mins flying time from their base at Liskeard and probably 15mins on task but the fleet they keep down this way is mostly exec rather than lift. It might be worth a quick call on Monday all the same. Anyways, all the Chinook are committed to the Dianne Abbot taxi tasking.... ?

Quiet cul de sac (only 2 other houses) but agree, just don't see the zip line as viable.

By no means a challenge in respect of the dismantle (other than very limited ground working space) which requires a sensible, workable solution for swift materiel removal from the base of the tree. It's a very steep site with long narrow, unstable, winding steps and a less than pristine slippery, raised deck area to transit. Thoughts so far: 1 - mandraulic carrying out 1 piece at a time - probably needs 4 blokes walking up and down all day just to stand a chance of keeping the climber on pace 2 - zip line - with some form of temporary installed base anchor on the raised grassy area (+/- 40m) , or try and pick up a tree further back but nothing in an ideal spot (+/- 70m) - still need several blokes to service the zip line and purchase of some longer lengths of rope 3 - a construction waste chute (if I can find an open top chute rather than a full circle one) still need several blokes to service the chute 4 - Take it out uphill through neighbours garden (neighbour amenable) - it's a moderately less arduous but dreadful processing / parking / trailer space (not any advantage) Any body see it a different way? I'm favouring 1 despite the obvious labour bill.

Amended for you Mark ?

You’ll have seen the news about the Christian woman released after 8 yrs in a Pakistan jail for blasphemy Ti, and the reaction on the streets... And, seriously, people still want to claim that unchecked immigration and so called multicultural diversification is a net gain for the UK?

I fell asleep Ti! Maybe finish it off on iplayer later but cut her bits out with ⏩ Just can’t bear to look at / listen to her...

Hear you brother... Balance, reasonableness, public perception, public confidence... All seems to be absolutely to cock atm. We were talking about the dumbasses that tried to jack an ARV a while back - just about as 'caught red handed' as it's possible to be - yet bailed. I eagerly await the sentencing that will follow that little shin dig - doubtless it will in no way reflect the seriousness of the action and there will be some social / economic / cultural mitigation which is to blame. I noted the sentencing of the 2 guys from the food outlet where the extreme peanut allergy girl died after eating a take away that contained peanut trace. Was it 2 yrs for one of the proprietors, 3 for the other (haven't looked it up in detail because to do so might uncover intentional, nefarious, intent for maximising profit and disregarding HACCP procedures which would not be advantageous to the pitch fork wielding, mob mentality, fake-news, hyperbole that I'm trying to generate ?) Assuming - the owners / operators of that take away were decent, community spirited, properly knowledgable and qualified Food Safety operatives and that basic HACCP procedures were followed (you'd be surprised just how basic they can be and still be up towards the 3-5* range of the 1-5* grading scheme)and that there were no significant 'other' factors - 2 and 3 years in chokey for peanut oil? What will the armed blaggers of a police ARV get I wonder? 2 footnotes - 1 - whilst absolutely tragic that the lassy died after her biriani, if I had such a known allergic reaction to peanut I wouldn't be eating take-aways (or sandwiches) unless I had personally met the exec chef and significant supply chain players, discussed HACPP and contented myself that it was sound. 2 - Whilst the burning effigy situation is absolutely deplorable, the level of police resource and its instantaneous deployment takes a huge dump on anyone that is suffering the effects of crime on a personal level. Its a mad world!

Bejeeezus! theyve let Abbot loose on QT! This will be entertainment...

Easy Nigel! You’ll melt the snowflakes ?

Maybe a bit lost in all the noise, but this can’t be a bad thing: https://edition-m.cnn.com/2018/11/06/politics/sharice-davids-and-deb-haaland-native-american-women/index.html?r=https%3A%2F%2Fr.search.yahoo.com%2F_ylt%3DAwrJS9cSYuNbWBkA2BVB4iA5%3B_ylu%3DX3oDMTByaW11dnNvBGNvbG8DaXIyBHBvcwMxBHZ0aWQDBHNlYwNzcg--%2FRV%3D2%2FRE%3D1541657235%2FRO%3D10%2FRU%3Dhttps%3a%2f%2fwww.cnn.com%2f2018%2f11%2f06%2fpolitics%2fsharice-davids-and-deb-haaland-native-american-women%2findex.html%2FRK%3D2%2FRS%3D6RF3SURTXMSRkXaHOy7PsPOpQ_w-

If only they could sort out that real world problem which wasn't envisaged in the dog free environment of the R&D and CAD design labs..... They could "Winalot" of technical and innovation awards - maybe even the Queen's award for industry?

Only the COOLEST dudes have it in black ?

Some hobbies come and go over time.... That one's definitely a 'keeper!' ?

All 4 same species?

I'm guessing you mean the Conservative party? What makes you think they are my mates? I like Boris and JRM, Thatcher was decades ahead of her time, there may be a few others that are noteworthy, but there are many that I dislike intensely. That said, the current state of the Labour Party under Corbyn is a nightmare waiting to (hopefully never) happen. If I had to choose one or the other as a binary choice it'd be a no-brainer - but that's not to say I'd vote Tory if a viable option was available.

Vote Labour, you’ll have all the time in the world to do the work - and then have an end of work BBQ & PU on the tracks ?

I thought it would have been this part that raised the question: “...Also Duncan Slater published an article a coupel of years ago making a good case that trees are positively hostile to each other, especially if the same species...” Gonna have to try and look that up.

The categorisation element is an interesting one Jules. Difficult to justify "U" since it is caveated by the "in the context of the current land use" phrase. The current land use doesn't impose a "less than 10 years" implication. The current land use could see them continue until failure - which would likely be greater than 10 years (notwithstanding pathogens.) C1 would probably be the closest in a less than optimum choice of categories. Then one or multiple RPAs can be calculated. But if anyone then draws multiple RPAs as circles, they're kidding themselves on. I mean, how would the roots of the smaller stems get under the large stem? This opens a question for me... Leaving aside the (less than ideal) issue of RPA 'circles' as an unrealistic but perhaps workable (unless obvious obstructions exist) compromise for presenting likely or anticipated extent of the rooting presence, wouldn't it be the case that the result of combining the multiple stem DBHs to provide the 'big circle' takes account of the reality that some of the smaller diameter stems will not reach the outer extremities of the big circle (uniformly) but that having this method allows for a kind of over estimation which 'should' accommodate the lesser or off-set root areas of the smaller diameter trees? I'm hoping this whole situation will arrive at a conclusion before too long, then I might be able to share some more of the details.

I've done both Ed with exactly that (worst case scenario) premise in mind - worst case scenario doesn't present an RPA which is anywhere near being a barrier to the proposed development - on that basis alone (there are potentially other issues though.) There is quite an entertaining tale behind the sequencing of this one, I may be able to elaborate more soonish....