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 26/11/2007, 18:47
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Chris Head
 
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Re: Regs on tree felling & surgery?
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Agree with Chrispy but you might be disappointed with what a timber merchant will pay you, especially if the access is difficult and he has to employ specialist extraction equipment. There are ways of maximising the value of woodland to your advantage and not the timber merchants but you have to crunch figures and do your research. Quality & end usage of timber affect the prices. If access isn't too difficult then paying for pro felling and getting in a mobile sawmill will increase the amount of monetary yield you get from woodland, but you're still left with having to move the timber after felling (friendly farmer?) and market the sawn timber yourself. But you get to keep the tops for firewood; either for yourself or selling on which will help with felling & convertion costs.
If you're simply worried about safety/liability issues then a surgeon is the obvious choice.
I personally don't charge for time to come out; just my travel expenses.
There's only one surgeon in this area Pawsy...not too sure how he gets up a tree though...he's, erm, 'well built'! I only registered over here 'cos there's some nice timber around that can't always be taken down in one....& it's kinda cool dangling up aloft... like I need to tell you about the joys of climbing eh?
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26/11/2007, 19:38
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Patf
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Someone was busy near us this pm with a huge tractor plus branch cutting attachment, working overhead - what a noise! They regularly chop the oaks back to keep the agricutural land and ditches clear. So there's plenty of this kind of work, sort of major debrousillage. Could be dangerous work - take care, Chris.
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27/11/2007, 16:41
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pawsy
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Yes we di visit and give prices Please PM for details
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27/11/2007, 16:47
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pawsy
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Were with you on the climbing front Chris. Its fun and extremly safe if you know what your doing. What these roadside tree men do is NOT tree surgary is it Chris the oppersite infact more often than not.
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28/11/2007, 6:15
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Chris Head
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And cost of insurance here is a real dream compared to the last time I bought liability insurance in UK....it makes the small amount of climbing I'll be doing tenable. If I remember rightly there were small businesses having real problems affording insurance because of the litigation culture there and some stories of newly qualified arborists being unable to afford the fees or not even being able to find a company to insure them in the first place! One fall, cut or claim and it could have been bye bye to your business! Perhaps things have changed by now?
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04/05/2008, 9:12
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Jay
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While out for a stroll with the dogs this morning I noticed a blue arrow on a minor road pointing along the track bordering our property. A large tree on the boundary of our property was also marked with a big blue dot. Does that mean, as I suspect, there is something wrong with that tree and it will have to come down? If that is the case do "they" do it and charge or do you get a letter demanding it is removed? Anyone had a similar situation? If it has to come down it would keep our fires going for a couple of years!
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04/05/2008, 12:02
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Jay
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Could well be Ron. I had a walk around our boundry and about 200 yards up the track our neighbours new stone wall had the same markings. It is actually a blue dot with a yellow bar next to it,done in spray paint. Either it is something like you said or our tree and our neighbours (illegal?) wall have to come down! Our French neighbours would probably have an answer but they are on holiday at the moment. I know that paths around here are being "done up" but can't imagine they would want a stone wall pulled down. If the tree has to be cut down I would rather do it myself and store the wood, there must be a good 200 or 300 Euros worth of wood in that one tree.
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