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Originally Posted by TreeDimensional  Ekka, thats interesting, I am a bit curious on a few points. The first thing is, is this a public or private school? The second issue is who is Q-build? And finally, does the groundskeeper (gardener) have any qualifications for consulting on such a job. |
1/ This is a public school.
2/ Q-Build, it's the public works dept. Sometimes the school just reports tree problems to them, they come out and have a look and decide a good topping or lopping and some butchery plus witchcraft is best. They dont use consulting arborists and have a great selection criteria for their hacking tree loppers that goes something like ... cheapest is best. At this school they sent out a OHS officer to assess trees and a few were cut down based on BS frankly, one in particular was cut down because it was close to buildings, that's it, very scientific.
Here's some other great performances from them.
QBuild at it again in Bundaberg? Arborists, what's wrong with this picture?
3/ The grounds keepers etc, certainly not qualifed! Now armed with a pole saw there's some great cuts going on. Soon after the new grounsperson started mulch volcanos appeared around trees. My wife had me print it out some info and she took it to the office to inform them, got a cool reception at the office, ends up the new gardener was husband of the receptionist lady she was complaining to, I think the technical term for such is nepotism.
The rest of your post was spot on, great stuff.
