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cheers john
Excellent advice John, I'd go along with all of that. Although we see it all of the time, it is never worth taking chances with public safety as well as our own.
Hi, the reply was deleted. Can someone repost the advice please.
We've seen a massive demand for our Tree Cutting and Spraying in Progress signs in just the last year...with the way human nature works now, you have to be 'visible' about what you can do to assess and control any risks to you or the wider public.
There will always be the selfish/ stupidity element to watch out for - a few years agfo I hired a grab lorry to lift soil from a garden I landscaped, coned off the path and had someone standing there but a lady with a pram just walked around the cones and beneath the grab arm as it was too inconvenient to her to cross the road!
Richard@Progreen
Had the same thing not that long ago, with a teenager. Tree pruning on a street. Everything blocked off for about 30metres with no entry signs at both ends, shredder going full blast.I would'nt have walked through it. I was watching out as a colleague climbed and trimmed. Just as a branch was being dropped a kid came behind me and wanted to carry on straight through .luckily my colleague had spotted him and stopped cutting,but only sheer luck stopped it falling. The toe rag then squared up to me for screaming at him to get out of there. He then continued on his way kicking the signs over as a mark of respect.
That’s shocking, people can be so ignorant. You know were to come if you need new signs now ;)
😂😂😂Fair play....I'll get onto you when the times right!!
The first thing you need to take into account is just how stupid people are, I have seen people arguing with police officers who were stood in the road stopping traffic whilst a tree was being felled, as well as a mother moving barriers to get her pushchair and child through just as a tree was dropping, in amongst other examples.
Don't know about English law but up here, Jocks law is you cannot just take control of a public path or road by coning it off. You have to have a "New roads and Street works" certificate to do it legally. Think your PLI company would have something to say about any claim that came in. Falls under the Highways and Byways legislation.