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[Steve Bullman]

Not sure how long ago this guy got stuck in the cavity ?

 

 

[tomo567]

 

 

[Steve Bullman]

Picus test on a beech tree with polyporous for a forum member a few weeks ago. Not a great outlook for this one unfortunately 

 

 

 

[JonnyRFT]

29 minutes ago, Steve Bullman said:

Picus test on a beech tree with polyporous for a forum member a few weeks ago. Not a great outlook for this one unfortunately 

 

 

 

Woah, that’s pretty severe!

[Steve Bullman]

There was enough evidence without doing a picus to know it was severely compromised. Nice to have some extra evidence before condemning a prominent tree though 

[eggsarascal]

36 minutes ago, Steve Bullman said:

Picus test on a beech tree with polyporous for a forum member a few weeks ago. Not a great outlook for this one unfortunately 

 

 

 

What am I seeing from the last picture, is the blue area serious rot, and the purple/green lesser?

[Steve Bullman]

Exactly. In this case the blue area was pretty much hollowed and full of gunk

[Ratman]

Was it from the root / ground level up Steve, or did it start part way up? Picture is a little deceiving, but you can quite clearly see the hollow.

[Steve Bullman]

Did the test just below where the hollow starts. Safe to safe it probably goes right to the bottom. In some circumstances i'd run a separate test at a different point, didn't feel it would have achieved anything in this case.

[Ratman]

I cut a beech up a couple years back, it had been felled as part of what i would imagine, an investigation involving some planning development that was to occur approximately 20ft away from where it was stood. It was non existent below ground level about 3ft easy i would of said, and nearly 5ft up centre of trunk that was on floor. It bloody stank when we started ringing/cutting it up!!! [emoji40]??

Made decent firewood what was left.