Thing to do on the King's Birthday October) Long Weekend

[nomadpete]

Aaah, it's so simple when I see it like that.

Now, is that the only map, or are there more with different dates?

[nomadpete]

Long live the King!

 

And thanks to the great monarchy for giving us colonials so many birthday public holidays through every year.

 

I'll bring the snags if you bring the beer!

 

[red750]

Daylight saving starts on the first Sunday in October, and ends on the first Sunday in April. So this year, it started in 6 October and will finish 6 April 2925 in NSW, Vic, SA and Tasmania.

 

Officially, the change to and from DST takes place at 02:00 local standard time (which is 03:00 DST) on the appropriate Sunday. So, at the start, 2 am becomes 3 am (DST). At the end, 2 am (DST) becomes 1 am.

 

Queensland, WA and NT do not observe DST.

[Marty_d]

17 hours ago, willedoo said:

One thing I don't like about local government is their trumped up big brother attitude towards the shire residents. Our local council employs two people full time to study satellite images of our properties. That's their only job, to make sure we're 'complying'. They study one property at a time and compare it to the stored images from a year or two before. Nothing better to do than spy on people obviously. It would be good if they just got out of our lives. I can't see the sky falling in if someone on a rural property puts up a chook house or garden shed without a very expensive permit.

I'm grateful that they're only at that stage.  
 

Comparing stored images is donkey work.  It shouldn't be hard to set up automation of that so it automatically flags any new structures (this is well within the bounds of current machine learning).  Then cross check the latitude/longitude with title records, check for DA for that title, if there's any mismatch then spit it out to a council enforcement goon.

 

Neighbours of mine got council approval to extend a room by a couple of metres.  Cost them an absolute bomb and they're not made of money.  I understand why they have planning offices - you don't want to end up with slum suburbs and disease outbreaks - but it should be nuanced especially in rural areas where the addition of a shed makes absolutely no difference to the area.

[facthunter]

Farm Properties are less  restricted.  (and so  they should  be).   Nev

[spacesailor]

My neighbours require ( need ) their neighbours tree' s

Pruned or removed .

They have zero sun in winter ( my property is affected too ) , the trees are within striking distance of their house .

But, according council those trees are more important than human beings . Plus insurance problems costing more in premiums. 

Me 'a good neighbour ' got him up the ladder to cut the tops off . stick that were it hurts, Bureaucrats .

spacesailor

 

[red750]

We have a tree in the back yard which die about six months ago. I went to the council offices and asked if a permit was required. I showed the guy a photo on my phone (see below). Disregard the gum tree behind it.

 

He gave me a slip with the council email address on it and said, "Email that photo to this address, attention Planning Dept., and arrange for an arborist to come and certify that the tree is dead. They will issue a letter confirming that the tree had been cleared to be removed. Give that to the person doing the cutting. That clears him from any complaints from neighbours if they complain about the chainsaw noise." I'm pretty sure the tree is a Japanese Box. My wife always referred to it as a Money Tree, not that it brought us any luck or money.

 

[Bruce Tuncks]

Red please tell us how much, if anything, dealing as you did with the council, cost

 

[spacesailor]

Plus the " Aborist " then the professional ' chainsaw cutter ' . It's not going to be cheap .

Dubbo way , some time ago , the SES under the command of Mr Gavin Arnold . Would do it for a donation.

spacesailor

[red750]

All I've done so far is go to the council office with that photo and ask if a permit was required. I had previously checked the council website which said that trees over a certain size required a permit to be removed. As this one has been dead for nearly a year I just wanted to check.

 

I was told to email the planning dept and request an arborist inspection to get the approval certificate issued. I asked the cost, and he said "Nothing - part of the service."

 

I haven't looked into getting a quote for a tree removalist. The remnants of the tree are not that tall. My son has a pole chainsaw. The council guy said to check with the arborist whether we could do it ourselves.  I'm in no great hurry to remove it - I want to get a few bucks under my belt before I do it.

[spacesailor]

My neighbours tree was/is overhanging his house. 

After our trimming it should ( when  ) fall on the owners house .

The owner rents it out , so has no interest in spending

' one dollar ' for his neighbours safety. 

spacesailor

[onetrack]

We had our big Jacaranda in our backyard pruned several months ago. It was done by a team of three arborists, two young blokes and a young girl.

They were extremely professional and hard working, using a heap of professional tree climbing equipment, because there was no way they could get a cherrypicker into the backyard.

The bloke doing the lopping trimmed several overhanging branches (into neighbours yards), and cleaned out a pile of dead branches in the middle of the tree.

They supplied a truck and big chipper, they mulched everything, and took all the mulch away. The eldest bloke and the girl lugged all the branches and trimmings out to the front, and put them through the chipper.

They quoted (estimated) $2500, but said it could cost less, depending on what they ended up having to do. They were very efficient and finished in a few hours and charged us $1841.

After they left, they got a heap of work from others around the area who saw them working - including a deadbeat demented neighbour, who got them to cut down nearly everything in his backyard!

[old man emu]

1 hour ago, onetrack said:

It was done by a team of three arborists,

Reminds me of Paddy and Mick who were looking for work and saw a sign in a stock & station agent's window. It read "Tree Fellers wanted".

 

Paddy said to Mick, "Sure, it's a pity ders only two of us."

[Jerry_Atrick]

Dat was da turd Irish joke today.