Council workmanship again!!!

The latest apalling job, A previusly plesant avenue planting of robinia trees. They couldnt even be bothered to tidy the cut ends leaving torn hinges, terrible shapeing aswell.

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[ 21. April 2008, 07:40 PM: Message edited by: Pro Gard ]

 

Looks to me like they are preparing to cut the whole trees down.
That really is a terrible job, someone should get the sack I reckon, and they should be made to come back, by the council, and put it right at their own expense.
The council probably told the contractor to just make them safe, and thats what they did.
It happens round here as well.

Send them an E mail Paul

 

Those plants are fit for only one thing now. Firewood, such a shame. Why don`t these people take pride in their work?

 

Maybe they're Welsh David. (Sorry. As somebody who quite likes my Welsh bit, I'm allowed to say that)

 

Its the Monmouthshire councils own employes not sub contractors that did it, took them 2 days with a team of eight 3 vans and a tractor chipper!

Certainly will be emailing the councill, somewhat ironic as the town cuncill have just spent a large amount of money on planting fruit trees to recreate the orchards that Chepstow was aparently famous for.

looking at the state of the cuts, makes me wonder if the guy on the saw even had a rope chainsaw ticket, When taking the test you have to understand and demonstrate correct pruning cuts.

[ 21. April 2008, 09:27 PM: Message edited by: Pro Gard ]

 

Aside even from the quality of the work, considering that the trees are robbinia and just coming into bud, IMO they should have been pruned between December and Feb.

Personally Id have refused to cut them now.

 

YES! Email the council. And send a copy of your original post to the Race Relations Board whilst doing so. One of the best gardeners I ever knew was a 'gypo' And he had a brain too.

 

John, no need to apologise to me, my semi Welsh friend. :D

 

Sigh* See this is what happens when you remove a career structure and employ buscuit salesmen as gardening supervisors. This is what happened to my job. In the name of "cut backs" and "streamlining" and "efficiency" they laid off old staff, removed the structure (assitant gardener, gardener, craftsman, chargehand, supervisor) made everyone up to gardener and employed outside managers who had trained as, well managers. The upshot was a managerial layer who didn't know one end of a plant from the other and an increasingly jaded understaff of gardeners, who gradually left to be replaced by litter pickers with spades. I gave up after being told by my supervisor to prune hard (ie ground level) a forsythia in Febuary.
"you can't prune that yet it is just about to flower",
"they don't flower",
"that's because you always prune them in Febuary"
"When does it flower?"
"End of Febuary/March"
"But we need it pruned"
"OK I'll prune it in a month or two, promise"
The next day he sent some one else out to prune it and I started working on my notice.

 

That is so sad, they just vandalised those beautiful tree beautiful trees :(
I have one in the garden and I love it.

 

A sad case of too many boys with too many toys and not much time on their hands.....I mean those tea breaks they have don't leave much time to do a proper job.Hel.xxx.

 

pro looks more like 4 yobs on community service,
let us know what response you get, if it didnt look so bad you think it was a joke

 

:( Oh I hate to see plants butchered like that. And it's worse if it's trees.

Our front hedge was cut by one of those things on the side of a tractor and cut right through at one point. We assumed it had been done by the council, had a good moan to our neighbour, and discovered that he had arranged for a local farmer to do his hedge, and as a gesture of goodwill asked him to do ours as well. :rolleyes:

 

That is absolutely appalling work, even by council standards! Who the hell are they employing and what qualifications/experience do they have? Not much by the looks oif it. Definitely contact the council. I would also contact the local paper and get them to write a small story on it too. Damn right! Shame the council into doing sometjhing about it... hell, I'll even do it for you! Shoddy tree work is no excuse when there are plenty of tree surgeons who take pride in their work... (yours truly for one! :D)

 

heres something i want to butcher, an old tree trunk the council took tree down but never killed it off, so now ia am trying to tidy up my front garden and want shut of it, i keep hacking away at it but its gonna take forever, i keep puttin stump killer in chanels into the base but nothing wgat can i use, cant h
ave it pulled roots too long, anyone got any dynamite?

ok need to work on size a bit