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If it's any help, I can recommend Hinowa 17.75 really nice machine and you can have two people throughout the whole working range.

Another vote for wild service tree

In my understanding of common law, you can cut the overhanging branches as far as the boundary line without consent from the landowner (Earl of Lonsdale v Nelson 1823), but you are not allowed to trespass onto his land to do so (Lemmon v Webb 1894). You must offer the branches back to your neighbour, in an unconverted condition (Mills v Brooker 1919). There seems to be a general acknowledgment that such pruning back to the boundary must be done with reasonable care, which implies not damaging the tree, but I don't know myself where the reasonable care bit is found in common law in regard to pruning back to the boundary. Perhaps someone can enlighten me, @daltontrees or any other consultant on here?

Can the T/R ratio even be applied to anything else than a circular stem? What if the stem is irregular in cross section? I think Mattheck says to use the thinnest residual wall thickness, but where do you measure the radius in an irregular stem - the shortest radius, the largest radius, or somewhere between? But then I suppose the term "radius" is only to do with perfect circles, and many trees are not circles. (Don't worry, I am not a blind user of the T/R ratio)....

I believe this part of the ACOP is in bold, which means that it has legal status.

Almost 15 months since my Bandit ZT stump grinder smashed my leg to bits and almost took it off. Remember!! - turn that cutter wheel off before walking away from the controls!.....anyway, I didn't think I would have cause to post here again so quickly, but this week I had a nice surprise; I had an appointment with my surgeon and an x ray. Regarding the x ray, he told me that the new 71mm of tibia bone is calcifying really nicely. But the appointment got better than that, because he assessed my foot and ankle, and told me that he had no medical reason, much less an personal reason, as to why the footplate could not be removed! He then told me that they only ever remove 2 pins in clinic, any more than that and its sedation and operating theatre. I asked how long for theatre slot, he said 2-3 months. So I said can't we just get on with it, I have had plenty of practice with unbearable pain so far on this journey, and so, after some discussion, with much warning from him as to the pain, he agreed to pull all 4 pins out of my foot in clinic. They said the only thing they could give was gas and air. They first loosened and removed the little nuts and bolts which hold the pins to the black frame. This resulted in a sudden, unpleasant twang as the pin "relaxed" - each pin is loaded with 100kg. This was fairly unpleasant, even with gas and air. But the worst bit was when they pulled the pins out because the bones grow really tight around the pins so the pins have to be wrenched through the bones. The pins go right through from one side to the other. I wouldn't want any more done in clinic like that!! See before and after pics below. Now I can start to put some weight through my leg, and when that bandage comes off my foot I can put a shoe on...but who would have thought how hard it was to learn to walk again! The brain gets trained to the different centre of gravity and one legged hopping when non weight bearing, now I have got to train my brain again.

It's been over 14 months since I almost lost my leg to my stump grinder. I thought I'd put something on here, to keep the thread going, and as a fresh reminder for anyone who hasn't yet seen this thread, be that new members or whatever. Progress is slow, but it's still progress. I never really knew what winter blues felt like, until the last two winters! But I manage to keep smiling most of the time. Not much to report on, but the new section of tibia bone I grew last year is still calcifying. The foot plate and leg frame remain in situ for a while yet. Here's two pictures, one shows the start of 2023, and the second one shows the start of 2024. Remember! Turn your cutter wheel OFF before leaving the controls!!

That's what I was trying to say, but my choice of the word 'levels' was poor I admit. Having the diploma demonstrates a wider knowledge than having an award or cert, because more units have been studied.

Assuming the wood strength of that reasonable wall thickness is still sufficient

Be aware, I think there are three levels of the L4 Arboriculture - award, certificate and diploma. I believe diploma is the full one.

I see a well looked after 2010 cabstar, with 70k miles and arb tipper body (complete with roof, barn doors, ladder rack, beacons etc) go for £11,250 plus VAT earlier this year, if that helps by way of comparison.

Indeed. It was a force like I have never felt before, being grabbed by that cutter wheel, spun round in the air and launched several feet across a garden. A miracle that it didn't pull me underneath it.

The 11th November (to anyone decent) will be a day to always regard, being armistice day. A day of remembrance, as well as the official remembrance Sunday too. But for me, it was a double day of remembrance. Whilst reflecting on the sacrifice of those who have gone before and fought for our liberties, it was also a day of remembrance of things much more personal, closer to home and recent. The 11th November for me marked exactly one year since I almost lost my leg and almost died in my horrific accident. I set out for work, with a nice big poppy on my truck grille, and I was very keen to remember to turn off the grinder at 11am for the 2 minute silence. However, when it got to 11am, I was in Addenbrookes hospital on life support equipment, where they battled to save my leg. I have come a huge way since then, and my leg is a wonder to all who see it, especially when they see the pictures from the day of the accident. The injury is horrendous, but the skill and wisdom that has been given to the surgeons and nurses has resulted in the 2nd worse ever leg salvage case at Addenbrookes being successful. Progress is now much slower, since the lengthening of the leg was completed, but some amazing signs of life are manifesting, not least that I am getting some foot movement back, and some toe wriggling is now possible. I continue seeing my osteopath once per fortnight, and I go to the gym 2 or three times a week. I am told it will be another year before I am fully recovered (or recovered to whatever stage I can reach) but hopefully this next year will be a lot easier than the last year. I hope to begin walking next year. Above all, please do not leave your controls of your stump grinders with the cutting wheel engaged. If my bandit zt could speak, it would tell you very honestly "I only tickled him that day". Please go back to the beginning of this thread and read through, if you have not come across this before.

In a water filled trench? How will the roots respire?

What about mound planting? Plant the hedge on a bank, this will keep the roots out of the water. Use the arisings from digging the trench to make a bank. Waterlogged soil = dead hedge (no oxygen for the roots to respire). And the client gets further privacy too.