Sooty Bark Disease

[Treerover]

I had to dismantle an almost dead Sycamore yesterday and once I’d removed the Ivy I discovered it had Sooty Bark Disease.

I’ve only come across this once in 25 years so researched it further at lunch.

I was slightly alarmed when I read that exposure to the spore can cause a ‘debilitating Pneumonitis’ after 4-6 hours post exposure .

Luckily this hasn’t yet happened but has anyone ever suffered this when dealing with Sycamore with this disease ?

 

[Husqvarna King]

I took down two sycs with this around 10 years ago, remember asking on here what it was, two days cutting in as many days....no problems as far as I know. Thanks for the heads up ?

[Husqvarna King]

On 23/05/2020 at 13:59, Husqvarna King said:

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Edited June 10, 2020 by Husqvarna King

[Mr. Squirrel]

I took down a few with this last year, I'd never heard of it in ten years on the tools. I only realised how bad it was when we were done, didn't have any issues but a heads up from the boss would've been nice eh... 

[PeteB]

It used to be a notifable disease. Burn on site and no removal etc. I had a load to do in the 90's and it cropped up regularly. I've had a few episodes of pneumonia etc since but then, I smoke, weld smoke, wood dust, animal dust etc, so hard to blame anything nowadays!