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bark looked and felt fine no residue on there. Thanks for the reply.

As mentioned don't believe this could be malicious but who knows what people do when the lights go out. The tree officer who visited before (5years ago) said for it to be reduced down to 3m which seems a bit drastic. Owners never got this done, but the right wasn't like it is now. Looking it on internet people give different ideas from animal urine to bonfire. It will be shame if it has to come down but if it hasn't recovered in the past 5 years can't see it coming back.

No it is all in one garden. Good thought though. Cheers

Thanks for best guess better than nothing. No broken drains due to distance away from house plus it being raised above the road no drains would be in the vicinity. Ground was not boggy even though have had good amount of rain. Thanks again.

Hi All Hope someone can help, looked at a Yew tree which has been slowly declining over 5 years since it was first found. The Left side has completely died, the right side is slowly going the same easy. Any new needles quickly become brown but the branches themselves still look and feel healthy. Does anyone what could be causing this, will it recover if treated and can it affect other Yew trees in the area?

Hi All Looking for someone who has or know someone has a tractor with a tractor mounted hedge cutter I can contract out to do some hedge cutting in Cirencester. Also roughly how much it is per hr or day rate? Please either reply to this thread or phone me to discuss further. Cheers Andy (07825279575)

My training is with Blake Training as I am based SW

Thank you very much appreciated.

First I will apologies if this has been asked before, (I did search first with no luck) Hoping to go on a LOLER course this year and was wondering is there any pre reading I can do so that I don't look like a rabbit in the headlights when things start? Thanks

As a basic theory, reduce the crown by a third, but if the tree was heavily lob sided then that bit would have slightly more off. To be able to judge how many meters a tree needs off from the ground is not an exact science, what I a more worried about is, if you say will reduce by 1.5m but in places need to do 2m are the council going to come down on you like a tonne of bricks?

Hi all Many apologies if this has been posted before, recently I applied for a application for mulitipal tree works, most of them where for 30% crown reductions because that is what I have always applied for. Had email back asking for how many feet/meters I wanted to remove? This throw me a bit as how much do you say, and if the tree is heavy on one side do you take the amount you applied for on that side a blend everything else in? Just wondering what the rest of you have done in the past? Guess I need to re read the tree law as this came in in 2010, even though this is the first time I have been asked for feet/meters. Cheers

For £50-70 per day might as well work on a building site, less dangerous don't need to pay £1000s out on courses, PPE provided, some companies take the biscuit, no wondered more people go on the dole.