Blow, blow, thou Autumn wind,

[sanny]

very nice she was a biggy was it not possible to leave the tree naturally decay down without cutting it up monkeyd?.

[David Humphries]

very nice she was a biggy was it not possible to leave the tree naturally decay down without cutting it up monkeyd?.

 

The photos only really show the job half way through.

It was hung up in adjacent trees, blocking access and one trunk was precariously perched on top of another.

 

 

 

 

 

 

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[sanny]

thank you a knew there was more than met the eye

[Charlieh]

The smaller stump in pic2 onwards in post 10, is that bat habitat creation? or for inverts, as it would strike me as being a little bit too low for bats

[Peter]

Bats with vertigo?

[David Humphries]

The smaller stump in pic2 onwards in post 10, is that bat habitat creation? or for inverts, as it would strike me as being a little bit too low for bats

 

 

It's for poor little disabled flightless Naterers Charlie

 

 

 

Just a bit of crude farliking around with a saw, on a casuality of the wind blow.

 

Most of the interior has been cavitied, a drainage channel gauged out, then the front wedge having been shaffed and wedged back into place with a small cheese at the base to allow a small access point.

 

Imagine possibly tits or creepers may take adavantage of it.

 

 

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[sanny]

It's for poor little disabled flightless Naterers Charlie

 

 

 

Just a bit of crude farliking around with a saw, on a casuality of the wind blow.

 

Most of the interior has been cavitied, a drainage channel gauged out, then the front wedge having been shaffed and wedged back into place with a small cheese at the base to allow a small access point.

 

Imagine possibly tits or creepers may take adavantage of it.

 

 

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iv'e been reading up on this sort of thing for a while now just waiting on the right place to try it out nice work

[scotspine1]

....Multi stemmed decayed Beech,

 

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Hey monkey D,

 

Whats that circled in red, had you guys already coro-cut this Beech or is it a wound from the storm damage?

[David Humphries]

Storm damage Tim.

Beat us to it

 

We were going to retrench the remaining stem of this Beech this winter anyway, even before the dampening effect of the lost canopy came into play.

 

So a touch of destructive prunning is coming to a tree near here pretty soon

 

 

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[David Humphries]

We were going to retrench the remaining stem of this Beech this winter anyway, even before the dampening effect of the lost canopy came into play.

 

4 years on and that Beech above (although reduced) still stands having gone through last weeks storm and now very heavily infected by Ganoderma.

 

 

the site took a fairly big hit last week

 

210 trees (so far) were affected by St Jude when it ripped through this part of north London last monday.

 

25 complete root failures

15 stem fractures

the rest are all canopy damaged

 

the below are a few of the failed trees.

Sheer stem crack from a buttress & root decayed hungarian oak, Meripilus on beech, shallow rooted beech & Phaeolus within pine

 

 

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