Dan Maynard

Waste cooking oil? Gates broken at our pub recently and they nicked all the old cooking oil from round the back.

Without knowing your climate intimately, difficult to say. It sounds a lot of water to me but I live in the UK and we mainly rely on the rain. What about investing in a soil moisture meter? You are right that too much or too little can cause problems, and it could be nutrients, but get the watering right first before you try dosing anything else.

That's truly terrible - do you know how it happened?

There is a sampling problem here though, the subsidence happens beforehand so the tree surgeon sees every case. Tree surgeon has gone by the time the heave happens so unless the customer rings up just to pass on news then we are all in ignorance. Builders would be the ones to ask. In the end I agree though, you have to fix the buildings afterwards. If it's on the knife edge of heave then seems to be a risk of subsidence when the tree gets bigger and takes more moisture.

Maybe the ones off a 572 would be longer? Still the same M8 thread as nearly all saws.

I've done this, now they do semi chisel which is much better for the job.

Good ending to a strange tale. Best get it down before something nests and he offers to pay the fines for disturbing it.

Answered your own question really. Find a decent local log supplier, if you buy larger quantities you should also find the supermarket ones aren't all that cheap.

I like the explanation, but the tree has now fallen over so the evidence is at least disturbed if not destroyed. Is there a proper definition of reasonably foreseeable or is that the argument to have?

I said sleep on it and you might, I've slept on it and I wouldn't - can't really turn out well. I also said be surprising to hear back but sounds like client changed tune. Something still smells a bit weird about the situation but no harm following through with quotation and S211 notice, see what happens next.

And beer should be £1 a pint and petrol should be £1 a gallon. Ah those were the days...

There's a huge rim of reaction wood around the hole so looks like it has been decaying for a long time, personally I think the best you can say is it's unpredictable so probably have to say a fell. Would be a good test subject to measure the wood remaining and winch over to test the strength, see other thread on pull testing.

Fair play if you've ordered one, I reckon you're a Landrover fan and maybe I didn't account for that.

I've heard this too, the insurance company don't want to pay for tree removal as they are only insuring against damage to the buildings. It then gets sticky if the tree needs removing in order to effect repairs.

I cleared up a tree a few years ago for someone in my village, it had fallen out of the corner of his garden so across three neighbours and smashed in the wall and roof of the outbuildings in two of them. One of the first things his insurers asked for was a QTRA which he'd never heard of let alone had one done. He worked at the BBC at the time so had a quiet word with their legal people, and the advice was just pay to clear the tree and for all the repairs. As Jamie says above, insurers would get lawyers arguing and legal costs totally swamp the thing, and if they finally decide it's not covered then you'll be paying that.

The answer to the original question, yes you would be liable. Him paying the fine would not get you back to where you started, as others have said you'd make the local news which is the last thing you want. "All the neighbours agree" isn't how planning works. I'd simply email, above board or nothing - and expect not to hear back. Problem then is probably someone doing the rounds will rock up and cut them down for cash. That would rankle because he's getting away with it, so you might after sleeping on it tell the TO - up to them after that.

Thought of this thread today, leaning euc. Got it down before the rain started in the afternoon, which was nice.

It's great, just so expensive I don't really see who's going to buy it except that the commercial label means tax advantages over the standard 90, bit like the luxurious Merc pickup. The example logo is a firm of decorators, in my mind this proves even Landrover aren't really sure who it's for - no decorators on earth are going to rock up in one of these, not much call for off roading to customers houses is there?

Maybe this is temporary in arb but there is a general labour shortage across several industries. The other factor cited is Brexit, however I remember in the food industry the discussion has been about upcoming labour shortage because of rising wages in Poland for more than 5 years. Brexit I think tipped the balance for many but not the only cause.

Bark detaching like that round the base is a bad sign, I'd say good chance it is too late for anything as already dead.

I'm old enough to have been studying engineering at university when finite element analysis was quite new. It was drummed into us then that it can be very deceiving because it will give answers which look very good and conclusive even though the whole thing will never be more accurate than your starting assumptions. I don't know much about the GTC MIS theory so have much more reading to do, but on the face of it I am struggling to get past the basic starting point that measuring the strain under load (inclination) tells you much about the stress without knowing the stiffness of the system. I also followed a link to the paper on forks, that is going to take some consideration. Definitely seen a lot of failed forks with included bark, so does that just mean I've seen the result of a failure of natural bracing? Still means that included bark forks are a risky feature. And finally I'd like to add sail area to the list of unproven concepts. Wind loading and turbulence around trees is extremely dynamic, you can see that by the way different parts of the tree are travelling in different directions at the same time, recently climbing ash in 50mph gusts was informative. And all these trees with ivy that are still standing say to me that it's not so simple.

I thought it was funny she has a protos helmet, reckon it cost more than the saw. Then looks like she made outdoor sculpture from the cherry even though it was really hard wood - rot in no time. Humph.

Pics of the euc too - can you set a line and bollard in the euc to support the log after you've ripped it down?

I think the engine is only 30% efficient at converting energy from fuel to motion whereas the electric motors are more 90-95% at converting electrical energy to motion. The disparity is from the hidden gap when the power station converts fuel to electricity which is only 30-40% efficient.

Ah crap, just as I was thinking I didn't need to buy any more saws..... That looks like it will be a really nice dismantling saw, love the 18v ones I have but that looks like size of the smaller one with power of the larger one.