The Grand Canal, Dublin, this afternoon.
John McDonald writes:
Serious tree surgery being performed on the willows at Portobello Bridge. Is this necessary?
Anyone?
Thanks John
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The Grand Canal, Dublin, this afternoon.
John McDonald writes:
Serious tree surgery being performed on the willows at Portobello Bridge. Is this necessary?
Anyone?
Thanks John
Yes, it probably is necessary.
No they are going to great expense and effort for the craic
….a bit like Bord Uisce…without the effort or the craic
Not sure surgery and cherry picker can be equated.
Depends on the cherry, no?
I’ll get me scrubs
It can on a tree. They’re bigger you see
John. Seriously. You were about 20 yards from those two guys in hi-vis jackets. If this issue concerned you so much, could you not have walked over and asked the guys yourself?
I’m so sick and tired of people doing things which I don’t immediately understand. Thank god the internet is there to help me figure it out without thinking or interacting in real life.
Millenials… ‘Generation Y’ …I think they took the label too seriously and turned it into…. Generation Why?
I preferred generation X. At least we had that Spice Girls Pepsi ad.
Heh :)
Generation Whine, amirite
Oh snap
*fist pump*
*fist explosions*
Ooh I hope John doesn’t see that! John? Did you see it? You ok?
yernotrong
Yes you are !
“Is this necessary? ”
For f*ck sake. He probably has a Masters in something and yet comes out with this.
Probably no need at ALL, you have these guys who need to justify their position by coming up with things to do and budgets to spend… Leave the tree’s grow…
It must be nice to live in Portobello, where their most pressing concern is the annual tree surgery performed on their leafy avenues and canals.
Perhaps John means “Is this necessary?” in the more esoteric, philosophical sense, rather than in the more prosaic botanical sense.
Possibly Rob, but if that same tree fell in to the canal, would anyone hear it make a splash?
I absolutely HATE people like you.
I see it all the time with policing experts giving out stink about the gardai when they have zero experience or knowledge.
wow. that’s quite a jump from tree surgeons to gardai. quite touchy, aren’t you?
ah, his bark is worse than his blight.
Call out the Special Branch for this one.
Leaf them out of it.
Same ignorant know it all attitude.
“takes ten council workers to change a streetlight ffs ”
” why did the send 6 gardai to arrest a child “
willow leaf it out?
jock likes to stick it to the man!
I reckon he needs to take a long hard look at himself – root and branch!
he’s a sap alright..
Jaysus John, will you get a hold of yourself, man!
You’re lucky you’re not a samurai, John, such is the dishonour you have brought on yourself and your family today.
The least he could have done is cut his tongue off, you know, as a sign of respect.
+47 ronin
i would assume they trim the trees in spring so that when they’re in full bloom the weight of leaves doesn’t pull them over and uproot them into the canal.
starina wins the hi-vis jacket!
is this necessary though Starina? ;)
sorry, didn’t realise i was ruining the game!
Horseflies?
Where there’s willows there’s horseflies.
They like the leaves.
I like leaves.
Horseflies like me.
Unfortunately.
At least as good as moynes
Square trees would be better.
As a professional tree surgeon myself (well online degree from the University of Google), there are a number of reasons to do a job like this :
(1) Certain branches may be diseased, damaged and/or broken therefore need amputation
(2) It’s only the branches on the canal side being cut thus changing the centre of balance of the tree lessening the chance it will topple into the canal, block it and take half the pavement with it
(3) Shits and giggles