Study tour of the Basque region Trees

[Rob D]

Great load of pics. I go down surfing around Biarittz several times a year - they do enjoy their pollarding over there!

[David oakman]

Wonderful trees pollards. They seem to be very low i am guessing about head height. That is the first silver birch i have ever seen as a pollard grows back well:thumbup1: Someone cut that gob in went home for lunch and forgot to go back:lol: what would HSE have to say about that. Brill pictures david.

[jojam]

Fascinating pics.I read about this in this months forest journal monkeyd,i believe in the last lot of pics no2 was used.I think they came up with the verdict that there's no difference between hand cutting by axe or cutting by chainsaw for regrowth.Does climate play a big part David? regards jamie:001_cool:

[raafbeard]

Great Pics David!! Those Beech Pollards look amazing!!

[David Humphries]

Fascinating pics.I read about this in this months forest journal monkeyd,i believe in the last lot of pics no2 was used.I think they came up with the verdict that there's no difference between hand cutting by axe or cutting by chainsaw for regrowth.Does climate play a big part David? regards jamie:001_cool:

 

Haven't seen the article yet, Margaret has been kind enough to send me on a copy.

 

Climate for sure plays a part.

 

We carried out some ring counts, and the noticable thing is how large the growth rings are compared to timber of similar dimentions back here in the Uk.

 

 

I think the verdicts still out awaiting due processing of the data, but you may be right.

 

There will be a publishing of the whole project later next year.

 

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Edited November 18, 2009 by Monkey-D

[Stephen Blair]

excellent, pollard tastic:thumbup1:

[Bart]

Great pics

[Tom D]

Some really nice trees there, what sort of area do they cover? Just pockets or a large forest?

[benwrdn]

awesome pics!

[MattyF]

wow david im green with envy that looked a great trip and and some amazing trees ..thanks for posting! amazing they do a lot of it with an axe do you think it encourages the trees to flush more buds with such cuts??