A delicate touch.......

[coolie]

Great pics as usual Dave.Do youse use before & after pics for work history records?And did you update the climber to the Howard Hitch?

[Bundle 2]

I think you would need to consider the site carefully before setting a trap like that on the floor. It would need something like a row of posts to form an imaginary boundary. Unwary public could easily stray into the weblike tangle and....oops, there goes the nanny state alarm bell in the HSE office linked to their favorite prosecutor....I feel a case coming on!!!

[Bundle 2]

Why pathogenic?

Pathogenesis is a known, as in identified, strategy"employed" by some species of fungi.

The leaving or laying out of arisings in this way is not likely to have a detrimental effect on the ecological equilibrium of the area/tree whu. Quite the opposite in truth.

[David Humphries]

Nice work BUT what about that high peice on the right hand side???

 

Just can't get the staff

 

 

 

Did this tree really need fidling with, i know of lots like this and never give any recs, was it just an excersise to say you are aware of the tree and are working to reduce targets

Sorry just seems a bit pointless to me

 

 

No need for the appology, entitled to ones opinions, that's what the sites all about

 

The path to the side is a daily commuter passage to the local Tube station.

= high target.

Any reduction, big or small, reduces the chance of failure, especially where there is an identified hazard. ( the Xylaria)

 

Although failure is relatively rare, a multi stemmed Beech is inherently weaker than a single stem.

 

Doesn't appear pointless to me

 

 

 

.Do you use before & after pics for work history records?And did you update the climber to the Howard Hitch?

 

 

More & more often this is the case, but also for my own ongoing development.

A snap shot in a trees time, can speak volumes.

 

The climber was shown the Vt, she seems to like it, was using it again today

 

Another convert perhaps

 

 

 

 

 

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[Arborist Sites]

 

 

No need for the appology, entitled to ones opinions, that's what the sites all about

 

The path to the side is a daily commuter passage to the local Tube station.

= high target.

Any reduction, big or small, reduces the chance of failure, especially where there is an identified hazard. ( the Xylaria)

 

Although failure is relatively rare, a multi stemmed Beech is inherently weaker than a single stem.

 

Doesn't appear pointless to me

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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A high target like that is a big enough reason, bravo on not felling it

[Tony Croft aka hamadryad]

Did this tree really need fidling with, i know of lots like this and never give any recs, was it just an excersise to say you are aware of the tree and are working to reduce targets

 

Sorry just seems a bit pointless to me

 

That beech was in certain need of a little help, it was very due a collapse, and one that would have rendered it a fell in the case of one of the three tearing out.

 

I agree the stem to the right, it will go mad and compete and extend the lever arm and increase the loading.

 

I wasnt going to say so, because overall that job, though not perfect was in my view not only justified but done with care and consideration to the forest flora and fauna, i.e dead wood saprotrophs.

 

Top draw guys, your well on the right path.