Our first attempt at coronet-cutting…..

[twobob]

nice job

 

I love coronets, leaves an old stick with dinity in its old age. I had the opportunity to experiment with them quite a lot working on English Heritage sites. Plenty of sketchy moments with big rip cuts but the result is excellent. have read of people ripping whole tops and limbs off with winches creating a beautifully natural effect. Also a good way to keep dead wood in trees whilst making them safe.

[David Humphries]

Would be interested to hear back from you John, when you've had feedback from the stakeholders of the woodland, in terms of what they think.

Stevie, may be right, it could put on new epicormic and persist, but if it does go over, would you be putting the Tree on to a monolith database to be peoriodically checked, or would you then fell it?

 

What you guys have created has fantastic habitat potential, I think this tree could be used by your information officers as a subject for school kids to come and watch as critters move in & it becomes a habimetropolis.

 

Would of liked to have seen a couple more fractures, though I think there's a good mix of retained dead & created stubs, particularly like the top.

Perhaps a few vertical bore slits/cuts placed around the trunk, for our fury little friends.

 

Nice work

 

 

Great picture set as usual John

 

Your harness gathering dust then

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Edited January 18, 2010 by Monkey-D

[John Hancock]

Thanks for your input David. The land is managed by our in-house ranger team as a nature reserve, in effect we were carrying the work out for them. I’ve already been asked to put together some information, along with the photos…..(I think we’ll be doing a few more in the future)

[Simon Rotheram]

Good job John, and some great shots mate.

 

We have got an Ash undertake this work on Wednesday so will post some pics of that too.

[Stephen Blair]

who's feeding robbie john:confused1:poor little guy, robins are not just for christmas mate:sneaky2:

[John Hancock]

Good job John, and some great shots mate.

 

We have got an Ash undertake this work on Wednesday so will post some pics of that too.

 

Cheers BBB - Nice to see you again buddy!

[old snake]

Nice work mate. Wish we got some work along those lines.

[Joe]

Good job John, and some great shots mate.

 

We have got an Ash undertake this work on Wednesday so will post some pics of that too.

 

im gutted im in college on wednesday :thumbdown:

[Ian C]

Should of felled it, could of been home for dinner:thumbup1:

[sanny]

great looking job there john love this type of work. iv'e been lucky enough to do a lot of monolith work cant wait to go back and re-visit them to see what impact they have made, got one we're going back to inspect soon will get some picc's when am there.