sad end to one of scotlands tallest tree

[green horn]

passed the hermitage in perthshire and was sad to see its tallest tree a 200ft plus douglas for had come to fall during storms in january of this year

 

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[Mick Dempsey]

Circle of life and all that.

[skyhuck]

Thats what happens if you overreach yourself.

[David Humphries]

That's a shame, it's a good sheltered growing environment along the river at the hermitage, should of put on a lot more height.

 

Wonder if the root failure was decay or shallow rooting?

 

Spent a chilly New Year's Day up there a number of years ago trying to lose a post Hogmanay hangover.

 

Was mightily impressed by the height of the trees there.

 

 

 

 

 

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[Steve Bullman]

Is this one of the trees Mark tansley and crew climbed and documented a few years back?

 

 

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[MattyF]

That's a shame, it's a good sheltered growing environment along the river at the hermitage, should of put on a lot more height.

 

Wonder if the root failure was decay or shallow rooting?

 

 

 

 

 

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Looks like the ground has slid??

[Wood wasp]

I was there couple weeks ago and it's been cleaned up now, from memory there was a few had slid down the bank and they didn't have good root base

[Brett]

we have a few fails round us in Dundee area, I wonder if its attributed to the unseasonably dry weather we've had, then along comes the wind.

[Brett]

........ on that note, we were grinding out stumps today in Perthshire. the ground is so dry we had to go get dust masks as there was very little wind, we had put up a square of ply to contain the mess and we were working in a constant dust cloud.