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Lummie!

Nice work! Why did you have to take the top off?

Exactly! I was at Waterloo when it happened - didn't hear anything but I got a text saying 'Helicopter crash in Vauxhall'. Like a lot of people I guess, I thought someone had been having a go at that building. Still haven't seen the news reports so missed the main event - i.e. the chipper

Definitely. Find out when compulsory registration came in in that area as well - if the land changed hands since 1990 it will definitely be registered, if before then it depends and it might not be. When were the houses built? There's a fair chance that the LPA does own it, but if it was never registered and they can't find any records, no one will ever know. Extra bits from development most often go to the LPA as part of the handover. But no rules are set in stone and it may even still belong to the developer, who may be dead/not trading any more/merged with other companies etc etc etc. All paperwork lost and no one wanting what is to most people a pretty useless plot of land. Adverse title is the way forward, though it might be worth getting a little advice from a solicitor - though to be honest everything he needs to know can be found on the internet. Applications for first registration made by the owner in person (Public Guide 13) - Land Registry for England and Wales

Very impressive recovery! Might have to go on a little jaunt to meet the good lady.

1 - the company will almost certainly use local crews to do the work. Why would they want to cover the cost of 200 miles' worth of diesel eveyr day? 2 - it's not about keeping procurement managers happy, it's about staying within the law. Procurement rules are very strict for public bodies and they can't rule people out just because they're not local without a very strong justification. 3 - Unless the person running the contract is a complete moron, the spec will have included performance criteria for emergency operations and the like, so the the company will have had to show that they can meet these criteria as part of the tendering process. 5 - How would anyone here feel if they tendered for a contract and a company that put in a higher price won it just because they were local? 6 - As has been said, the supermarket v local shop argument is pretty conclusive.

Hard to tell from the photo but I wondered that as well.

just as a footnote, I've got one and I don't think any work has come in as a result of it. It probably will one day but I'd be in a bad way if I was relying on it! Adwords gets me about half a dozen clicks a day which is about right for what I'm looking for.

I used to make biodiesel and although I never got one, I often looked at the filter units that restaurants used to clean their oil, extending its life. They weren't all that cheap, but if you were using a lot of free oil you'd recover the cost soon enough. I found that with biodiesel it was thin enough after the transesterfication that everything either sank in the glycerine layer or floated to the surface.

As far as I knew you have to pay for adverts on Facebook, that's largely how they make their money. Or do you mean having a business page? If the latter, unless you have the sort of business that brings out new products on a regular basis and has the need to comminicate this to a set of followers, I doubt it will generate much custom. Still, it's unlikely to cause any harm to go for it. Google Adwords is far more effective and doesn't cost much - you set a daily maximum which can be £1.00 if you want. You only pay for clicks onto your site. Your site could of course be a Facebook page...

And this (possibly apocryphal) reference:

This relates to T cuspidata, and doesn't specifically mention anyone or anything dying from being in contact with yew wood, but it lists the compounds (including taxinine) found in the roots: Fumio Kawamura, Tatsuro Ohira, Yoshinari Kikuchi, Constituents from the roots of Taxus cuspidata, Journal of Wood Science, November 2004, Volume 50, Issue 6, pp 548-551

It's about the college covering themselves - they don't know the OP from Adam so they might ask. In my experience though, they don't. It's just not practical as the risks are relatively low and it's hard enough to find companies to offer places, without putting extra obstacles and delays in the way.

The college will have their own risk assessment - or if they don't they bloody well should have - for sending people on work experience. This may well include something about CRB (DBS now) checks, but that's for them to worry about. I'm pretty sure that you are not required by law to be checked.

Slight aside, but here's a pretty good story of someone getting stolen kit back thanks to Wavesource: http://www.thefryhole.co.uk/wordpress/2010/04/dont-steal-from-a-compsci/

Ditto, I'm getting the same (on a PC).

Susceptibility varies from tree to tree. Some are moderately resistant, some show almost total resistance. As a prolific seeder, the resistance gene(s) will be passed on relatively quickly - bear in mind that this could easily mean 50 or 100 years to achieve large scale fully functioning populations but it's still relatively quick in evolutionary terms. The gene mapping project aims to identify markers associated with resistance, which means that evolution can be given a boost by seeking out the trees with the markers and breeding from them.

Try Ebay - set up a search that will send you an alert when one is listed. And have a laugh at people asking close to £1000! You can get one at a sensible price if you wait.

Like I said, not ideal but it's an option. Even in rural areas, if you can tell the police the location of your kit to within 5km, that's a darn site better than saying 'it was in Eastbourne 24 hours ago' or whatever. If there's a ***** family in that circle of probability then they're going to be the first ones getting a knock.

Another point to bear in mind is that if the tree is causing subsidence, simply removing it and doing nothing else could exacerbate the problem due to heave or just the fact the foundations are cracked and need a proper looking at. If there are cracks in the wall (as opposed to superficial cracks in the plaster) it will need qualified advice one way or another.

Yes, there are various tracker apps that work off a mobile signal, meaning you could check up on your chipper position from your smart-phone if you wanted. Google it, there's loads of info out there. There are stories of people getting stuff back which is quite nice, too.

Disappointed that it didn't turn out to be a newly discovered form of Merupilus that snaps up unsuspecting arbs

Don't forget that under planning rules, anyone can apply for permission to build anything on anyone's land. In other words I can apply for (and get) permission to build a house in your back garden. It is not up to the LPA to discover if you have been consulted on this matter. Clearly if I set foot in your garden without your permission, I have trespassed and you can sue me, but that is a separate matter.

Ditto. £4-500 (or thereabouts) and 3 days of your life. Well worth it. I would never say things like 'this tree is safe' or 'this tree will not fall over' in a report, any more than a doctor would say 'this person will not die'. No significant defects were discovered, reinspect in 5 years is about as close as I'd go.

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