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It is illegal to deliberately kill/disturb ANY nesting birds, it isn't illegal to accidentally kill/disturb nesting birds! This is how the council and farmers get away with brushing hedge rows and road verges in June/July/August, they kill literally thousands of nesting birds without any problems what so ever. Good rule of thumb is to expect birds to be nesting or prepping nests from the beginning of April till the end of August. If I fell a tree that on inspection after felling has potential bat/bird nesting cavity's etc I leave for 24-48 hours before removing from site. If a has a high likely hood of birds or bats(or dormouse) and is dangerous I call either NRW or natural England to try and get them to make the call on felling the tree or not, they don't like doing this and in most cases will tell you the best way to fell the tree instead of stopping you from felling as this will put liability on them.

reopening was the best digging ground that's already been dug is so much easier never had a problem with rotting wood etc but to be fair that wouldn't have bothered me anyway

I used to do it about 10 years ago you need to get in contact with undertakers and local council, only about 10% of my work came from council because if they could get mini diggers in they'd do it themselves It payed £250 per grave 10 years ago and would on average take 5 hours to dig out and fill back in be careful when working in grave yards with shingle/stoney ground especially if on a slope, one time we were digging out a grave and a yellow stinking goo kept coming in from the grave uphill from it Also watch out if it's raining a lot, one time it was pouring down and a relative hung around after the service (probably saying last respect) for too long and by the time we got to filling it it there was over 10inches of water and the coffin was floating, after trying to empty out the water and trying to weigh it down we decided the only way to sink the coffin was to smash holes in it with a pick to let the water in, it worked but i'm not sure the relatives would be happy

Looks like a good design and safe. But...... Its so so slow sawing logs one at a time like that. I've been using a sawhorse made from a pallet, a piece of 4x2 and 10 pieces of 2x2. i can put about half a dumpy bag worth of logs (of just about any length) in it in one go. safe easy cheep and fast

Cheers for the reply's guys I was going to use potassium nitrate crystals to kill the stumps but hadn't thought for a second that it would damage neighboring trees, I'll cover stumps with a tied on bin bag or tarpaulin instead. I thought it was over kill to remove the tree's because of one branch falling off but it's always good to get the opinions of the pros before making any rash decisions. i think i'll get a tree surgeon to check the tree's out now rectifying any immediate issues, then I'll get them checked out again after the leaves have fallen and may get him to put in writing a plan of action for the future. I'll try and get some pictures of the trees over the weekend. Oh a couple of the trees were within four meters of the power lines so I've managed to get the power company to take care of those ones :-)

Hi guys, I need some advice on some poplar trees. I have 20-30 80ft tall poplar trees on my boundary, the other day my neighbor came round and said a branch had fallen off and was worried that the trees weren't safe(the branch was 4 inch in diameter) he suggested that I cut them all down to ground level. i'm going to get a tree surgeon to tidy up where the branch snapped, remove any dead/diseased/hung up branches and to give the tree's a good checking over, however I don't think the neighbor will be happy with this and he's suggested he'll get the local council involved. What are the legality's with tree's on boundary lines? and do you think i'm doing everything i should be doing? There are two tree's that are causing damage the the neighbors drive so I'm taking those ones out as well as two either side of them, I'm taking them down to the ground and poisoning them. Any help/advice would be much appreciated

I'd go for a 346xp or a 550xp on that budjet I've got a 346xp and i think it's great, probably going to get another one this autumn

Robinia is one of the best firewood's IMO. I season it for 18+ months, by then the moisture content is under 20% Make sure you split it before it's seasoned too much because its very hard to split when seasoned

Hi, I'm looking for any tree surgeon waste hard or soft wood, leylandii etc. In shropshire powys border area. Anything considered. Thanks