Oak Removal

[Mike Hill]

Looked like a great day out!

 

Any idea of the age of the Tree?

[Tree Man Tom]

Cracking job, and some proper kit you were using there

 

Cant beat the smell of fresh cut oak and those diesel engines

[Andy Collins]

Once again a lovely set of shots there Mr Ace! Nice kit, nice job nice to see the "get it done" attitude alive and kicking.

[liamjordan]

thanks for all the great comments guys!!!

 

so who else clocked the landy parked behind the tree in pic 17, mobile platform for the high back cut. nice:001_smile:

hahaa yeah your right

[David Humphries]

twin stemmed oak on a cross roads, its a village dave out in the country, they have loads of trees. Do they get some fancy tree surgeon type to close the rd and charge a couple of grand to tickle it all day with girly wee saws, or call in grandpappy and his mates, fell the old girl and that be the end of that:thumbup1:

 

 

 

Hard to really try and second guess the structural condition from some non specific photos, but I'd disagree with you on principal here Stevie.

 

Twin stemmed, with I guess a minimun of 50 years of adaptive growth going on.

 

Yeah it's old, more than likely to be older than the property directly opposite.

But could conceivably still have had decades if not centuries in her.

 

Liberal Conservation is just as applicable to our country side trees as it is in urban environment, espeicially with the ammount of Oak, Ash & Elm decline I see on my travels throughout the country.

 

 

Stevie, in natural terms we had 80% tree cover on these shores a blink of the ecological eye ago.

 

Cuirently at around 8%, you do the Math

 

Will keep a good few people warm through the winter though

 

 

 

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[Andy Collins]

Been to the school of Dean then.....excellent:thumbup:

[Stephen Blair]

 

Any idea of the age of the Tree?

 

it was at least 2000 years old, the guys were all blitzed on cider and whisky, it was summer salstice and about 4 am, they came out the pub trying to dodge their 4 week bar tab bender, they agreed to fell the old oak so the pub could get sky sports, it was easier than erecting a scaffy pole in the beer garden to fit the dish, so grandpappy and his mates dropped the oak and logged it to save the embarrassment of being barred from the only pub that has a car park big enough for log lorry,county skidder ans 4 landys.

[Stephen Blair]

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Stevie, in natural terms we had 80% tree cover on these shores a blink of the ecological eye ago.

 

Cuirently at around 8%, you do the Math

 

 

 

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well up here in north ayrshire we have 27% tree cover, you guys down south must of been crap at knitting in the old days, we would just stick on a jumper and not cut down all the trees.

[Andy Collins]

Dont be silly Stevie, someone is short of wood, saw a nice load of logs waiting to be converted, and bang bang bosh done job:thumbup:

[Stephen Blair]

its hard for me to take conservation seriously when there is a wooden clad house in the back ground, a bt pole to the right and a fence n stabs around the field. that tree will coppice away and do just fine, in the grand scale of things maybe the tree could of had its life extended, but what would that involve. a future of site meetings, 5 guys quoting every time, the cheapest guy from 100miles away getting the job and all this time thousands of miles of vehicles burning fuel to extend the life of an oak tree to help the environment. and guess what, in 50years time it would be felled, why not fell it now, replant and forget about it, in another 50 years hey presto some more fuel.