Monolith with Coronets

[Mozza]

The barts head is brill Alex!

 

Even the customer came out (having never seen one before) and said it just looks like............ yes you guessed!

 

Obviously due to the location it is expected to be a large talking point from visitors. Does anyone know of some real good info the customer could put on a board near to the monolith, explaing all the natural benifits of it?

 

Not sure my explaination could be translated well enough to put on a board, but they would like to show the public they are willing to promote this type of environment.

 

Any links or info would be appreciated.

 

MonkeyD's the man to explain monolith's mate

[Frank]

MonkeyD's the man to explain monolith's mate

 

Yeah but the public need to be able to understand hahaha:001_tt2:

[MasterBlaster]

They forgot to paint the cuts!!!

[alliaria]

For gods sake that is awful...dignity mun.

[18 stoner]

They forgot to paint the cuts!!!

 

:scared1:

 

To be honest, the job went really well, FRANK climbed all that was needed and there were no incidents, nothing broken but it was COLD!

 

When it came to the monolith, for some strange reason i volunteered to do the coronets, and young frank, who i think wanted to see the big lad in a harness, agreed!

 

Unfortunately, as i got more of the coronets done, my thoughts wavered from the job in hand, and i ended up with a fear of spiking out! The sight of all those spikey bits of dead wood protruding towards me, while legs akimbo left me with a bit of a cold sweat

[18 stoner]

So where is Dr Humphries tonight?

[David Humphries]

With the good lady last nicht, you guys just don't tick all my boxes.

 

Can't see these images on the works puter Pete, I'll have a gander tonight.

 

 

 

 

 

 

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[18 stoner]

Cheers for that David, I would appreciate your comments or criticism:thumbup1:

[18 stoner]

I would like to add that this job resulted from the floods of 2007 where this frontage was under water for several weeks.

 

The works took three days to complete with just two of us mainly on site, and Frank did his usual blinding climbing performance!

 

Over an 80 meter stretch we had to remove 8 semi mature sycamores, many holly trees and several shrubs.

 

This obviously has made a massive impact on the approach to the hotel and the monolith idea was partly to with "trying to leave something standing"! This particular stem being the widest girthed tree.

[alliaria]

Hi, My short comment last night was not too helpful, sorry. My thoughts, for what their worth. I assume the aim is to veteranise the tree and thus create as many niche habitats,dead wood, saproxylic material etc. as possible, and that is a laudable project, however is it sensible to veteranise a tree as close to so many potential targets? I,m not sure, but would be interested to know of other peoples experience regarding this.

I,m sure the practical work undertaken is of high quality given the parameters of the spec.

Cheers