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Don't talk to me about ivy spent last Tuesday ripping the stuff off an oak tree to try and reduce thee weight on some of the outer limbs and hopefully prevent the tree being nailed in the winter storms. It covers up so many problems like where to anchor your line, grabs everything and showers everything in grot. Priced it for a day but should have done for 2! You live and learn.

We have a hungry penguin, British design British made, compact and boy it gives off a lot of fuel, this is multi fuel so we burn all sorts on it and of course it has a wonderful little top oven compartment. I believe they have the ability to take a retro fitted bak boiler.

Hi Maria, youre doing exactly what i'm doing, I work as a nurse and hoping eventually to do 50/50 tree work and nursing, always doing something different keeps you interested and engaged. just done my aerial rescue and looking for dates to do the saw from a harness, all scary stuff but i get a massive sense of acheivment from learning new stuff. good luck to any one new starting out.

David d, that's the scary bit that competent experienced people make mistakes. That's exactly what happened with Elaine Bromily, the video is available online, if you watch it I'm sure you can draw parcels between the world of surgery and the world of arb, I think it's called just another routine operation. After each of our incidents at work we do a root cause analysis( no joke!) to look at the individual components that led to that one point. There are usually multiple factors that lead to it, stressors on the worker, problems with the processes in place or problems with the organisations policies or structure. Changes are then made to as many areas as possible including re training of staff if necessary. The point is that We no longer say it's your fault your fired because that just stops people being open and sharing their near miss incidents. We share all this info with other trusts across the country to help them learn from our mistakes. Being new to the world of trees and arb, I would very much like to look at the things that led to accidents/near misses occurring so that I can make sure they don't happen to me. I imagine most people are the same. In this case I believe the LA needs to learn a serious lesson but most of all it needs to share that learning with the family of the gentleman concerned and it's counterparts across the country. I am now off to take a bloody good look at a lime tree that has been steadily rotting next to my mother in laws house. She was told it had a tpo and could not be touched, no one has come to look at this tree in years, it's huge with houses all around there has been serious fungal growth on it for the last 10 years!! I believe it's just a matter of time.

Hi all, I am new here and looking to get into the world of arboculture. I have read this post with interest, coming from a nursing background within the nhs and as patient safety representative we often have to face up to the consequences of our failures. The one thing that has been found is that suing and compensation are often used as a tool to punish people. Whilst compensation is absolutely necessary on occasion to help people rebuild their lives, it is also used when people feel that a lesson has not been learnt after an inccident and this is what is missing here. The local authority needs to be showing that they have learnt from this incident and what measures have been put in place to stop this happening again. In the nhs we are trying to move away from a blame culture a d this is following the airline industry. The reason for this is to try and encourage and support people to report incidents and near misses so that we can learn from these rather than waiting for a catastrophic incident to occur. I wonder, is there any facility within arboculturw to recognise and share near misses to try and protect other arborists? I am sure there have been other incidents such as the one mentioned where no one was hurt and no property was damaged, had that information been shared and learned from then it may have prevented this incident from happening. There is a very poignant video about the wife of a pilot called Elaine bromily, she died because certain errors were made. Martin her husband took the approach that something had to change in the way that mistakes were reviewed and learnt from. This led to the introduction of human factors training. In short something needs to change and learning needs to be shared between LAs to stop this happening again. Sometimes in incidents such as as horrific as this are the catalyst for wider change. Just my 4 and half penneth