kevinjohnsonmbe

As snidy digs go it’s quite funny.... But you’re right, abject stupidity and confirmation bias will kick in. A quote from some Prof on LBC yesterday - wearing face masks to combat Covid is akin to throwing a fist ful of marbles at a builders scaffolding. 1 or 2 May hit a pole and bounce off but the majority..... straight through! Same with face masks. Unless properly fitted adequately spec’d , you’re just as well stick 1 finger in your ear for all the good they do. But they HAVE provided a comfort blanket to the terrified and the compliant and created self appointed Covid ‘police.’

Well that’s well and truly put paid to my previous line of thinking..... 🤮

What’s a honey wagon business.... Shod I be thinking along ‘alternative’ meanings....?

It’s a re-run! All been done before 😂

It’s what we’re all waiting for 😂

There was such a vacuum created by the multiple sharp intake of breath by the collective TO fraternity at the Mynors Barcham Trees seminar when this subject was broached - and the myth shot to, well, you know - that I think my ears popped 😂 Just search "actionable nuisance" and set yourself about 3 weeks aside to read previous discussions - a selection attached below:

TPO on a back garden Eucalyptus.... Thats just wrong on so many levels....

There certainly are circumstances where a person, not being the owner of a tree which is subject to TPO, may undertake work to the tree without recourse to anyone’s consent.

😂😂😂 Here we go.....

Work of the devil! Old Cornish units of measurement - Wikipedia EN.WIKIPEDIA.ORG

Not in Cornwall lofty 👨🏼‍🌾

Straight out of the advertising brochure..... I think the ad agency needs to be fired! Be just as well using a pair of milk bottles if all you want is a couple of yards away! You could almost TOUCH it let alone tactical survey 🤪

Holy crap! Never jumped static line so not sure what the cut away / reserve drills are on a combat jump but I have had a main chute failure from free fall and successfully deployed reserve and landed safely.... This guy was lucky to survive! British parachutist plunges 15,000 feet before crashing through roof of California home in 'miracle' landing WWW.GOOGLE.CO.UK 'It's amazing, he missed the counters, appliances, everything,' says witness after soldier on training exercise survives fall

Not with standing the possible structural issues for the tree (which is just a guess from the distant picture and what I thought might have been the reason for removal) have you even considered retention? A crown lift and pull back from the eaves - nice tree.

An 'engineer' has flagged it.... OK 😂 sorry, shouldn't laugh but can't help myself! "Engineers" are wired differently to 'normal' folk. You'd be much better served getting a reputable arb consultant / decent tree company to have a look at it - unless you just want it gone and that's that.

Possible structural compromise- 1st pic?

The local lodge black ops team will have been put on immediate readiness - I may be off line for a while.....

Whilst we’re in the bounds of wild, unsubstantiated speculation I’ll have a punt.... What if estate owner is a senior figure in the trouser leg funny handshake brigade and there is a historic persecution of anything that presents any real or imagined threat to the obscene practice of raising dumb birds that will boost the ego of inadequate morons with shotguns and, since this single tree was identified as a the only priority requirement for immediate felling, and the daft labourer was despatched as the fall guy, and the Chief constable is a grand moose and a regular lunch guest at said estate and intervened so as to avoid any heat or light falling upon the real guilty party....? Like I say, just a wild unsubstantiated stab in the dark. Funny how it seems (to me) to have a greater ring of credibility than the report.....

I’m sure we’ve had this thread - or something very similar - before. I can remember posting this before but couldn’t find it. It popped up on FB ‘memories’ today. Quethiock village 5 years ago and Quethiock village last week where Cormac are STILL acting like morons (as described earlier in the thread)

Tiny hands! Jeremy’s chopper must have looked enormous with those little pinkies wrapped around it.... 🤮

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Can’t answer for NI specifically, but hourly rate is for idle ‘gardeners’ that ponce around all day pulling weeds and LA workers stretching ½ a days job into a weeks work. They are restricted by the rate as to how much they can earn so there is no incentive to graft harder. Price the job at what it ‘should’ be (varies anyway but you have to set your own levels), then crack on and get it done in quick time so that you can either do another or go home - again, as suits. Starting with hourly rates is fraught with hassle Eg - when does your first hour start on arrival at job site, when the saws start or when you start prepping your gear, load the vehicle and drive to job site? What happens if you want a brew or a sandwich - customer not paying you to eat. When does your ‘hour’ stop? When the tree hits the deck, when you leave job site, when you get home or after you’ve cleaned and sharpened? Probably wouldn’t even talk to someone that wanted hourly rate. If I did it would simply be job price divided by the number of hours expected to take + at least 30% for hassle factor.

Oh don’t start saying how shit things are here compared to Sweden, Germany, Swaziland etc.... Youll get Big J on his industrial soap box!