HCR
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Planning question- No CA, no TPO but can i fell it?!
HCR replied to arbmark's topic in Trees and the Law
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Always very dubious of anything like that. Can't see anything on Snopes yet...
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Hunting for a venerable ash tree – can you help? | The New Sylva A few people here must know some good examples!
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Any organic matter will clog flues up if it's burnt with a high MC. We used to burn peat when I was a lad, which was frequently damp, and the flue needed digging out (literally) about twice a year as it clogged to the point of blocking. I've never burnt fir in any quantity but tonnes of larch, spruce and pine have kept me warm. No dramas with any of them - maybe not my first choice as they tend not to stay in overnight, but perfectly good otherwise.
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I'll keep you in mind!
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How is Ian these days? He was telling me about how he used it on a moorland restoration project on the back of a 'mog for clearing Molinia growth, it sounded like quite a beast.
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It worries me when people say things like this. No species have shown themselves better adapted to our climate than the ones that have native status. Britain has been far warmer (6000 years ago the tree line was 300m higher than it is now) than it is now as well as far colder (the 'mini ice-age'), yet every native species survived. Planting palm trees or Eucalyptus everywhere 'to cope with climate change' has no basis in science and is academically lazy. By all means avoid high maintenance species, such as those requiring vast amounts of watering, but don't try to recreate montane xeric woodland in Portsmouth! I don't know any specific details relating to the Danish example you gave, but that sounds like it has more to with amenity planting than the naturalistic.
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Get an EPS licence (doesn't really matter which one, but make it a species that is found in your area!) and you should be able to get seasonal survey work with a consultancy. Work hard and you'll get a regular position.
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There's no magic species mix that works universally. Assuming you're talking woodland, there are 25 recognised types, many with up to 5 sub-types, each being the most appropriate mix for a given set of conditions. Get hold of British Plant Communities Volume 1 (Edited by JS Rodwell) to get a good feel for how it all works.
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From the harsh conditions you've described, sticking with the proven route (i.e. a species that has already shown it can do well) is probably best.
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Yes. My opinion (for what it's worth) is that from a punter's point of view, accreditation of the business is of greater significance. Whilst knowing everything to a good academic standard is important, and a good basis for building a business, it doesn't mean all that much by itself. A PhD in the efficacy of differing pruning cuts would be very interesting, but it doesn't mean you won't get your lawn destroyed by a tracked chipper. It doesn't mean that the holder addresses his liability isssues. The current theory/hybrid courses are pretty comprehensive and there is something for most people in there; even if some of the new post-nominals are a little laughable.
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Good effort, always impressed by people taking their health seriously
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Above ~ 4-5" (10-12.5cm) dbh. Of course it was a tree all along, but it's no longer a sapling above that size. Slightly moot point though - when does a child become an adult?
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Thank you.
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Ryetech. Flail mower collector
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Yes, I very nearly bought one about 7 years ago. I'm wracking my brains to remember the name of the company and when I do I'll post it.
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I'll add Westonbirt to Hampstead Heath in my list of places I really should have visited!
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...or since the 1600s - Preston, Pearman & Dines (2002).
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According to the law, yes. (DPA 1998) Information relating to a patient's health, conveyed by (inter alia) the telephone. And regardless of the law, it was information relating to the medical condition of someone. It's just not on to obtain that by deception and broadcast it on the radio. Do you disagree with that point?
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This medical information? I don't read the Daily Mail and I don't do knee-jerk reactions, but what the DJs did was pretty low. They set out to deceive and broadcast a health record to a large audience for the purposes of 'comedy'. Shoddy.
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I've never seen one - why not do the arb world a favour and pull one together using the Collins Field Guide? I think it might have mileage.
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I heard he was ill last week and thought this might be coming. It's an end of an era, but I suppose we can't be too sad at the loss of an 89 year old who spent his life living his passion. Xylophonist, pianist, actor, cricketer, philanthropist, patron, monacle wearer and amateur astronomer.
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What the DJs did was disgusting. 1 - they attempted to obtain personal information by deception (a criminal offence in this country) 2 - they took advantage of someone else's misfortune (a sick girl in hospital) for their own advantage 3 - they humiliated the person who answered the phone in front of a large audience 4 - suicide is often borne out of depression, and depression is not a rational illness. Choices made by sufferers may seem irrational to those who are not suffering, but cannot be judged by the same standards We know very little about the nurse who killed herself. She may or may not have had an underlying condition. But think of it this way - if she was someone who took great pride in her work, and found her voice being played on news bulletins all around the world as the idiot who was bluffed by a couple of pranksters, how the hell do you think she would feel?
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Financial constrain can be a mitigating factor, but it certainly doesn't affect the duty of care. That will persist for as long as there is a neighbour to whom one can be owed. I presume I can be counted among these. Apologies if I caused offence - that certainly wasn't my intent. A fairly crucial misinterpretation of the law was put forward (specifically that a duty of care can be obviated by the licensing of neighbour to carry out remedial works) and I felt the need to clarify the situation. Of course you can licence such work, but (a) you are not obliged to and (b) the neighbour is not obliged to carry the work out. Note that neighbour is used in the legal sense and not that of 'the person living next door'.
