Summer Branch Drop (SBD) Guide - Tree Risk Benefit-Management

[Acer ventura]

Or is it Sudden Limb Drop?  Or Sudden Branch Drop?

 

I've updated this as a stand-alone document that can be used by any tree owner or manager outside of VALID's 'strategies'.  It can be downloaded from the News Page here.

 

 

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Here's the context.  Arguably, the issue of managing Summer Branch Drop started to became a risk management thing in the UK after the Coroner's Inquest into the death of Erena Wilson. She tragically died in Kew Gardens and it was claimed the cause of her death was Summer Branch Drop. The Coroner’s verdict is that it was an accidental death.

 

 

Woman killed by falling branch at Kew Gardens died accidentally, jury rules | UK news | The Guardian

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Botanical garden's tree inspections called a 'shambles' in court but coroner says Erena Wilson's death was 'ghastly...

 

We then had a very dry summer in 2018, and Jeremy Barrell released a ‘Briefing Note on UK Summer Branch Drop’.

 

https://lnkd.in/g8NpsbN

 

VALID was just getting going at the time, and we were contacted by many concerned Arborists and duty holders who saw the Briefing Note as a ticking time bomb. This SBD Tree Risk-Management Guide was put together to help duty holders take a common sense approach and diffuse it.

Edited May 26, 2020 by Acer ventura

[Stubby]

If one drops  and injures or kills I don't think anyone would care if it was called a limb or a branch to be fair .

[Khriss]

12 minutes ago, Stubby said:

If one drops  and injures or kills I don't think anyone would care if it was called a limb or a branch to be fair .

...... Was hilareous when Prosecution asked Defense,  "  So how many Cedars have you inspected and how long ago"  Defense  "  about 140 and records back to 19th Century" ?  K

[Acer ventura]

15 hours ago, Khriss said:

...... Was hilareous when Prosecution asked Defense,  "  So how many Cedars have you inspected and how long ago"  Defense  "  about 140 and records back to 19th Century" ?  K

It's difficult to imagine a place where the trees are, or have been, more regularly assessed.

[Acer ventura]

Sorry, just picked up a bookmark error.  3 4 in the grab was incorrectly numbered 4 5.  It's fixed now.

 

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Edited May 27, 2020 by Acer ventura

[Khriss]

My only experiences of Summer Branch Drop are after heavy rain,  on broadleaved,  or the odd Cedar,  otherwise nothing like the published literature. I think it's a consequential and unique ( to the tree ) event. Happy to be proved wrong - but think it's gonna be a wait.  K

[Khriss]

On 26/05/2020 at 16:33, Stubby said:

If one drops  and injures or kills I don't think anyone would care if it was called a limb or a branch to be fair .

My OCD compels me on this Mr Stubby,  it's Trunk not Stem and Branch n not Limb ( waggle yrs for me if you please to prove you have one an it's not a branch )  k

Edited May 27, 2020 by Khriss
........ Not THAT One ..... ?

[Stubby]

2 minutes ago, Khriss said:

My OCD compels me on this Mr Stubby,  it's Trunk not Stem and Branch n not Limb ( waggle yrs for me if you please to prove you have one an it's not a branch )  k

When its " de limbed "  ( you can say de branched if you want )  it is a stick .?

Edited May 27, 2020 by Stubby

[Khriss]

I just say snedded.... which is wrong but at my age it can fuck right off thru that chipper  ! K

[Stubby]

2 minutes ago, Khriss said:

I just say snedded.... which is wrong but at my age it can fuck right off thru that chipper  ! K

Out of interest why is snedded wrong ? ( I say that also )