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Looking to set up a small local Garden maintenance business which will carry out lawn mowing, garden clearance, hedge cutting and low-level chainsaw work. Any opportunities which require a proper qualified arborist, I shall pass to professional friends. In setting up this business I will need professional indemnity, public liability etc and would like to understand where are the best places to go for this sort of product. Also would like to understand what, if any, courses/training are out there for people looking to enter this line of work?

Regarding a haircut, do I reduce the height of the tree and if so, by how much or is it more about reducing the number of offshoots from the main stem? (which hopefully one day will be a trunk)

Found this 2m Horse Chestnut sapling growing where I don't want it to be. Would rather move than kill, so would be grateful for any advise on how and when this should be done?

i did used to wonder about the length of some threads, but not any longer 😆😆😆

yep, suppose that's one benefit of the snowflake generation!

Have an island on a river that can be (not legally) accessed from public land opposite. Occasionally, the local yute wade across to the island and causing minor damage to property, and outbuildings. When I bought the property, the island itself was surrounded in barbwire and there is still some of that around. If I can't use barbwire, do I have to get rid of the legacy stuff?

Please could somebody advise where I could go to find out about the use of barbed wire to fence off land to stop people trespassing onto?

I believe it's Alder

Please could somebody help advise with the following dying sapling. This was planted a couple of months ago, and there is life in the cambium up to the point indicated and above it is dead! Just wondering if I should leave or trim the dead part off or is there something else I need to be aware of? The sapling came from a bunch of shoots that I cut away from a root and it grew a reasonable root ball when stuck in water for a year prior to planting (others from the same group have successfully taken)

👍 Thanks

Hi Scotty2809, the opening is 25mm so please let me know if you have spares to fit? Thanks

Well if you can't, they can go on the shelf alongside my chocolate teapot!

Very kind of you. Will send size tomorrow

Hi. Does anyone know where I can get spare winch hook gates?

Methinks they would be better than maggots for catching fish!