Large Beech uprooted by the wind .

[tree_beard]

ok, so there's a lot of wood there, but £900 just to get a wet lump of timber?

 

naah, 2 guys one with a couple of saws to ring it all up, one with a truck/trailer loading and carting away, bonfire... days work. plenty of weekend firewood merchant types would happily do it

[slippery]

naah, 2 guys one with a couple of saws to ring it all up, one with a truck/trailer loading and carting away, bonfire... days work. plenty of weekend firewood merchant types would happily do it

 

thats why you guys do the big wood and i do the 3x2:biggrin:

[slippery]

days work. plenty of weekend firewood merchant types would happily do it

 

and pay £300??

[White Noise]

Bloody hell £300 . I suppose its worth it to someone ?

[tree_beard]

and pay £300??

 

i certainly wouldnt but it seems someone has!

 

i would charge them 300 to cut it up, then get a firewood guy to pick it all up and pay me for the privilege:thumbup1:

[slippery]

i stopped by the other day and met aguy who lives across the road from the tree. he had done a bit of research and he claims the fungus was not merrip, was grifola frondosa ?

 

who is right or wrong

[Tony Croft aka hamadryad]

It IS Merripilus giganteus, and i will put my name to that!

 

Lovely example of the decay zone, seems in a lot of cases it goes into that little cone into the butt. This one should have been picked up on many moons ago, that was fruiting for years and years.

 

the failure wasnt that lucky, the road side would have been cut back keeping the majority of wieght the other side, also regular root pruning via utilities work would have ensured that there was more viable root on the opposite side, if it was going to fail it was always going that way.

 

The roots got infected most likely through the rooad works historicaly.

 

the wood would have been fine for furniture, merrip wouldnt have affected the higher structure, and looking at the fracture to the limb on the ground the wood was not embrittled by other decay fungi.

 

Shame, this was a big tree.

[slippery]

It IS Merripilus giganteus, and i will put my name to that!

 

 

the wood would have been fine for furniture, merrip wouldnt have affected the higher structure, and looking at the fracture to the limb on the ground the wood was not embrittled by other decay fungi.

 

Shame, this was a big tree.

 

not sure about that though, there were some awsome spiral fractures on boughs over two foot in diameter and there were broken limbs all the way to the top.

 

i could be wrong, but i was convinced on inspection that the timber was f***ed, and the cone in the stem went quite a way in untill disapearing into a black mush resembling the structure of a wasp nest

[Tony Croft aka hamadryad]

well it is hard to tell from a photo I guess. just looked pretty clean bar the butt decay

[slippery]

ps

 

apparently, the chap who bought it is at a loss with what to do with it, as he doesn't think any chainsaw is big enough to cut the stem (it would with a 6" bar), so has enquired about getting a digger to come and bury it!!:lol:,

 

apparently, he was quoted over £400 to do it!

 

there has got to be over 4cube of (solid) timber there yet, and i would probably get permission to take it but i can't think how i get it out, any good ideas?

 

 

this is one of those things he should have been thinking about that before he started bidding eh?