Horse chestnut pollards...

[Ty Korrigan]

Near Beaumont Hamel in the Somme France.

Never seen this before outside of individuals vandalised by members if the travelling community.

 

[Rough Hewn]

Very French.
In Brittany they strip every branch off a 60' oak ,leaving one tiny branch/twig with one leaf
at the top.
The hedge rows are full of them.
Traditionally it was for faggot making, for bread ovens , on a 3-5 year cycle.
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[Stere]

Interesting any pics of the oaks?

[Rough Hewn]

Interesting any pics of the oaks?

Ask Ty, he's in Brittany.
They monolith them, looks really odd.
I'm trying to get the trunks for milling.
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[openspaceman]

14 hours ago, Rough Hewn said:

Very French.
In Brittany they strip every branch off a 60' oak ,leaving one tiny branch/twig with one leaf
at the top.
The hedge rows are full of them.
Traditionally it was for faggot making, for bread ovens , on a 3-5 year cycle.

Here it was called shredding

I got the impression it was mostly for a bit of a summer green forage in the  lull between first flush of grass and  the late summer regrowth.

[Mick Dempsey]

On my trips home I see this sort of thing from the motorway in Normandy, the bit on the top is called a sap puller or seve tirantes or something similar.

Edited July 24, 2019 by Mick Dempsey

[Rough Hewn]

On my trips home I see this sort of thing from the motorway in Normandy, the bit on the top is called a sap puller or seve tirantes or something similar.

That's it.
Nice one Mick.
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[Ty Korrigan]

Yes, 'tir seve' but never a line of horse chestnuts, a first for me.

Later on I found a unexploded howitzer round in Trônes wood,  another first...

  Stuart

[Ty Korrigan]

I ran out of time but it will keep.

Next trip, we will visit the South African memorial which is in the shape of a Cape fort. A hornbeam still grows, fenced off, that was the sole surviving tree in a woodland fought over by the South Africans.

Incredibly tough your old Carpinus, imagine the raggedy pruning and other wounds it recieved and yet did live.

  Stuart