dan blocker

With my serious head on I think it’s likely to survive. The poor pruning cuts have probably done more long term harm?

He hasn’t washed the cat as well as he?

Doesn’t necessarily have to be from the Glasgow area? Stolen kit can be hawked from low life to low life if they think it’s hot and it can be moved 100’s of miles. No way is a 500 going for half price, they hold their money, set them up with the cops. If it’s legit nothing lost.

I’m 63 and have laughed and sniggered so much at some of these comments I’ve just pissed myself 😳

Nice looking trusses. What’s the roof covering, tiles or steel sheeting. Very similar to a King/ queen post truss but without the bottom beam. Where did you get your design from or did you copy from an existing building? Even with large  section posts there’s going to be a tendency for the wall plate to spread without a tie beam. When at a funeral recently I was looking up at a cathedral vaulted roof with larger span trusses than yours but the walls had the advantage of large section stone buttresses and flying buttresses?

Renewed mine in a post office with a photo booth etc and it was back within a week all present and correct.

Bar stewards need stringing up😫

There’s no need to create a root ball as big as the crown, it looks more than 14/ 15 feet across😳. 5/ 6 feet would do if you can achieve it?

Steve’s right but if it’s got to be moved then you’ve got nothing to lose? I’d definitely try and retain it because it’s a nice tree and takes decades to get it to that size. As Steve says you need to try and create a large as possible root ball, the house side will be difficult to obtain that. The roots could be all ready contained by the house foundations(if there are any?)on one side and drive the other but it’s a healthy looking tree. Try and keep the root ball contained and together to minimise breaking too much root structure. Contain it with hessian or old sheet and pig wire on the outside keeping the wrapping tight as possible. Getting underneath to lift it up will be the difficult part. Remember to backfill the hole you’ve created next to the house in layers max 150mm at a time and tamp or whacker plate, needs to be stony soil or even scalpings. Replant using a high quality soil and or compost and put a flex pipe into ground for watering. Good luck.

If you intend to do the job yourself get a mate to approach her as the contractor and to ask if she had any objection to the work being carried out🤔

Get some mates, tree hugger, school teacher types and get them to dress up as “Just stop oil” and to glue themselves to her drive for the day🤔. Police won’t be able to move them on cos it’ll be a civil matter😳 that’ll keep her busy?

4 hours ago, dumper said:

Look about there are others on the market just as good and much cheaper

Where Dumper? Been looking but can only find for bigger machines like loadalls or tractors🤔 any pointing in right direction would be much appreciated👍

On 20/10/2023 at 16:16, maybelateron said:

Perhaps we should all just sell "a load"

When I was a lad and my mate Noah lived on a boat the standard measurement for firewood was “a load”. In the old man’s case that could of been in the back of a truck cab LR 109, trailer, transit pickup or tractor and trailer. The amount went up or down accordingly, as did the price but it was always described as “ a load”. No worries with Trading Standards, min percentage 20% kiln dried and the people who created Woodsure weren’t even an egg or a bloody sperm🤔

22 hours ago, PeteB said:

Starmer sprinkled in glitter!  😂🤣😂🤣

You can roll a turd in glitter? It’s still a turd!

So they’re high as a kite when high on a roof? But it’s ok cos they’re working for VIPs and celebrities🤔. It makes no different who they’re clients are top’es, they’re still pot heads(don’t think professional cycling can take the moral high ground on drug taking either? Not saying Geraint Thomas as ever taken drugs?( I’m sure he hasn’t)Having said that even the military are getting soft. Years ago if you failed a drugs test - you were history, apparently these days you may get a 2nd chance after some help and therapy😳. Lions led by namby pamby bloody donkeys. That’s what this country in becoming - too tolerant of things that are just plain wrong!

1 hour ago, Slicer Dicer said:

Must be your first day on the internet so let me explain- that article (yeah the one in which I say it's unlikely to be them/the farmer) 

When you first posted the article you didn’t say it’s unlikely to be them? That was your second attempt. Your first post on the subject showed a photograph and named the family? Most people can’t be arsed to Google anything on the local area, keyboard warriors aren’t really that active - are they? If that lad gets a slap( even if info didn’t come from your post) would you still be smug. You could well be guilty of a criminal offence? Google that!

On 30/09/2023 at 16:26, Slicer Dicer said:

Yes I know, I wasn't suggesting that the article was the reason specifically but just highlighting that they've obviously had issues in the past as most farmers will have when the public come on to their land en masse. Personally I'd doubt it was the farmer tbh- they're generally pretty in touch with local sentiment and the vulnerability of upsetting the apple cart so to speak.

 

Long time generational farming family.  Even if there tenancy had been terminated prior to this for whatever reason- they'd have to be pretty idiotic to do something like this and expect to be successful taking on another tenancy elsewhere.

Miss Marple, you’ve put someone’s picture and details up on a public forum basically accusing them of cutting a tree down when emotions are running high in the area? If your not accusing them why put it out there? You in the habit of posting personal details and relating them to crimes. And now your saying that personally you doubt it was the farmer tbh?

14 hours ago, Whoppa Choppa said:

Most definitely not an arb waste machine tho. You can barely squeeze a ring bigger than 9" down into the splitting chamber. Then the splitter ram power is pretty low, max 5.6 tonne ish. Dalen 2054 is the kiddy.

Have a Splitfire PTO hydraulic splitter for rings. Only process 20/30 tonnes a year so 9 or 10 max on straight timber works for me. Unless there’s some lift equipment on the job it’s all hand ball and for me that generally means anything above 10” gets ringed up, I’m done with gut wrenching lifting competitions -I’ll leave that to the young uns🤔

3 hours ago, Blackbriarwoods said:

He's an undercover NPTC assessor

They’ve called out Special Branch🤔

As my other post on your Arb waste question - I use a JAPA 700 which as a circular saw blade. It has minimum guarding(not sure of later models?) can hold smaller bits to convert or process long strait pieces. It’s manual feeding with no feed belt like the bigger plate and chain processors. Good intro model and most importantly cheaper🤔

21 hours ago, spuddog0507 said:

Personally I find arb waste a night mare to process compared to nice clean straight bought in timber,, then you have the down time to consider with hitting metal and various othere items,, with bought in timber you can make a nice uniform  product, but as with arb waste if its soneone  else's who don't give a ×××× what timber or size they are tipping off fir you,, I do try to avoid othere people's waste niw a days,,,

Don’t sell much firewood myself but burn a lot as it’s my only form of heating. I run a JAPA 700 saw blade processor and a separate hydraulic splitter and it can be a pain to process but I’ve slowly educated the lads to trim the wood out more cleaner. Some Arbs bosh it out but ex forestry guys tend to trim it out clean. Either way if the woods free and let’s face it some of us also charge for removing it from site to our yard so it’s win win🤔

Well🤔, it looks like the Robin Hood tree is Friar Tuck**😳

2 hours ago, Doug Tait said:

He might be young but he knows how to use it

Yes he does by the look of the cut. Local farmers lad perhaps. Not much else to do around there except chase sheep and cut down trees. Unusual for a youth to go to that much effort. Someone take him on quick he may turn out to be a hard working competent tree cutter🤔

1 hour ago, Stu33J said:

This would be a good time, while this situation is being highlighted by the media for the likes of the Arboricultural Association, National Trust & NTS, etc., to band together alongside the Police to not only ensure the maximum fine is applied but to also highlight the importance of trees like this and the reasons as to why they are protected and that all trees should be pruned, if actually required, correctly and to the proper standards.

What’s it to do with the Arb Association? Bit like a Motorcycle Club getting together with the police on Traffic laws, or the National  Trust come to think of it - they can’t even manage their own trees and woodlands correctly?

Bang on eggs. Labour put out a cost of something like 12 Billion around 20 years ago. As details were firmed up it was projected at 32 B, currently running at 71 B, and thought to be more like 100 B by the time it’s finished - some hope? Apparently France and Germany build their fast rail tracks at average of 32 million a km, here it more like 250 M 😳. I think the figures are about right but they’re not far off. The government is just throwing money at lost causes. How many Hospitals, doctors, nurses, teachers, schools with decent concrete could be had for that sort of money.

In the early days the contractor was giving £10,000 a time to “do as ya likies” to move on if they pulled up on any of the route, last I heard it was £50,000 - that was a few years back when someone I knew was in charge of security.