kevinjohnsonmbe

I've just been looking too.... I can't find it now. Did it drop off when the format changed Mr B??

Have you considered a call to request a pre application site visit / discussion with TO? Granted, levels of approachability / pro activity / engagement vary according to area but, esp if it’s not ‘urgent’, having an on site discussion might save wasted admin time / effort for both parties later....

Local Authority only! Its high on the list of ‘essential’ tickets since it provides for 10 minutes of standing around with your thumb up your ass time waiting for kettle to boil.... Anyone in the real world would boil kettle on their own time (at home, where HaSaWA doesn’t apply) and fill a flask!

First dry day in ages.... I put the MultiOne out to work today! Bit squidgy underfoot but manageable... The Buzzard was having a field day skipping from hedge line to nearby trees...

Reckon I’d lose pillows in the night through that gap in the headboard.

Is it for ongoing work Craig or more of a one off at home?? If it’s a one off I could run the MultiOne flail over it for you...

How about a kind of temporary ‘hold’, a stay of execution if you like. Inspect and produce a report which either confirms observable feature(s) requiring action within a determined timeframe or (seems more likely) the absence thereof which would satisfy due diligence. Meanwhile, liaise with the certified safety lunatics at Railtrack to establish if they have a future scheduled line closure and piggy-back the tree fell onto that timeframe so as to avoid / share railway admin cost of removing the tree. Railtrack ‘should’ be pleased to have what is a non-urgent, possible future issue addressed proactively. Homeowner ‘should’ be happy in the knowledge that a plan exists - even if it is 2-5 years hence. Insurance company ‘should’ be happy with formal inspection. The theory might be sound and sensible but when dealing with x3 inherently irrational interested parties (RT, homeowner & Ins company) theory will probably fail at the first... That said, it’s only the homeowner that will have to reach for the cheque book so maybe they, at least, will see sense....

You only answered ½ the post Pete! (see Ken’s ? post above - you’re killing us here....) I don’t even know what it is but I want one!

? many sleepless nights ahead!! Best wishes and congrats to yomeself and Mrs Kent ????

Some quotes there that will come in handy ??

Be mindful of door step selling regs. I find customers (almost) always ask for a price or an indication of a price at the earliest opportunity, normally during the site visit, and I always say I will consider all of the details and follow up by email. Takes minutes to send a formatted quote which includes initial RAMS and it forms part of the contractural arrangement. Door to door sales - GOV.UK WWW.GOV.UK Doorstep selling, regulations, written notice of the right to cancel, exemptions, penalties

Sheeeesh..... They'd have your house, your shoes and your Mrs off you if that went tits up.... I'm scared just reading about it in case 'they' claim I was an accessory after the fact. The Railways dude I encountered when talking about Mont pine removal near a line was a proper mental case. Tried to suggest it would be my responsibility if (a) it wasn't taken down and later failed onto the line or (b) if it was taken down without paying the fivehundredty thousand pounds a second required for 'supervision' whilst the job was being done. He wouldn't / couldn't accept that it was actually FA to do with me until if / after (a) the council approved the TPO and (b) the land owner commissioned me to do the work. Like talking to a brick wall. I contacted NetworkSnail so it was all on me.... I laughed, he didn't.... I'm just gonna pretend your anecdote relates to a time when trains were fuelled by coal and a man waving a red flag walked in front of them..... ?

Maybe if you could give us a picture of the trees so that we might gauge size / age and then the estimations can commence ? This is going to be like one of those "guess the number of sweets in a jar" / "guess the horses weight" type discussions....

It's possible I may have said something like that at some point in the past me 'ole scrambled eggmeister.... But it certainly doesn't ring true for PCs (in my experience) It's much more fun being outside the tent (free from the shackles of the code of conduct and therefore able to speak freely) pissing over it....

Can we have the app No’s so as to look at the details online?

You think that’s bad, try sourcing 3 eyed goggles necessary for work in Cornwall!

I had to type that in a bit of a rush because I was heading out to a PC meeting to pose some awkward questions ???

More likely he’d be roved up the camel...

You’d think a simple question like: How many trees have you worked in using a 2 rope 2 TiP system? Posed to the ‘brains’ behind this proposal might be enough to introduce just a smidge of critical analysis into the process...

Has been known to happen (investigation rather than prosecution.) One of the experimental test labs was censured... HSE censures itself for lab burns | IOSH Magazine WWW.IOSHMAGAZINE.COM The HSE employee was testing a prototype hydrogen storage vessel on 4 October 2016 when the incident happened...

My funniest experience was, after quoting a job for a neighbouring PC - they’d had the survey done by someone else - a mate in that village told me there were clowns on site doing the work. No TM, road closed at school run time, massive Oak limbs being dropped onto tarmac. Odd I thought, mate knows his trees, if he said Oak it’ll definitely be Oak. But the spec was for a Beech reduction... I drove by later and stopped to have a look. There was a car there with the boot open being loaded with logs by a lady. She saw me looking at the tree and the dented tarmac and asked if I’d come to check the work. No Madame, just a passing interest. She couldn’t help but gush about how great the PC was and that her husband was the Chairman... She wasn’t quite so perky when I showed her an e-copy of the survey, told her they’d cut the wrong f*cking tree, filled all the gullies with wood chip, dented the tarmac AND been caught by Cornwall councils TM police (that alone was a f*cking miracle since they rarely leave the office!) Oh, how I laughed! Mate from that village always said the same, they’d ask him to quote but it was always the same chimp that got the job. He wouldn’t, and I certainly wouldn’t, even bother reading an email from them again. Muppets!

Spot on! The biggest problem with PCs is that they are full of clueless twats that have absolutely no idea what they should, could or must be doing to satisfy scrutiny and accountability for public funds. That's why they end up with clowns doing shoddy work. Quick post script - not suggesting that might be yourself of course! Quite the opposite. There should be more 'hands on' types that know their way around the job, the spec AND the tender process.

again.... Not necessarily