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Old 5th May 2008, 09:00 PM   #79 (permalink)
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Default Re: Significant Trees

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Originally Posted by treeseer View Post
Nope, sorry, the owner defines what is a hazard, and every individual owner has an individually defined risk tolerance.

You have a lot of expertise, Eric, but even you cannot speak for "all worlds".
And then after someone is maimed or killed by a high risk tree, the courts will define who was negligent in not correctly defining the impending hazard. You should know this as a forensic arb.? I think your position of not accepting or even acknowledging the need for any tree to ever be removed no matter what is silly and immature.

If someone was injured or killed in your family or a loved one (by a high risk tree) you'd be at the courthouse door filing a wrongful death suit based on incompetence by neglect of the consulting/administrating arborist. And you would be hurting deep inside too. A girl in our town was killed by a falling limb last winter.

Might be interesting after this fence is in place to require all supporters to spend a night camped within the secured fence, during a wind storm.
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