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10 hours ago, sime42 said:

1010kg.

 

Regarding the graft point. Why would you graft just a limb like that on a Beech tree? Question for the floor.

 

 

As the desired copper beech cultivars don't grow true from seed, the nursery stock are grafted somehow, somewhere, but as the tree expands massively the graft union must be pulled around a bit. 

Several threads about copper beech grafts onto common beech seedlings, most of the big trees pictured the graft is much closer to the ground. If there are branches coming out below the graft they should be wild type leaves, not purple

 

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No sardines for you Mick I'm afraid!

 

The winner is...

 

@sandspider with a guess of 1350kg, just 20kg off perfection!

 

The weight was 1320kg according to the weighbridge

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As I've kept you waiting so long for the results I'm afraid the sardines have gone off.

The new prize is what the office posted on the work WhatsApp group after the Copper Beech owner called them to say what an excellent job the tree fairies did for them, leaving no damage or mess.

 

Congratulations sandspider, you are now officially an honorary tree fairy!

 

 

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Furious emoji..

I am actually impressed by how close we all got.

I wonder if those who got closest have loaded wood by hand into trucks/trailers so can estimate better how many 20/25/30 kg pieces there were in that branch.

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My guess that won me the mackerel (yuck) was 1500kg.

 

I base my guesstimate on what a timber crane will lift at full extension, half in or close in to the machine. Feels like I get a better handle on it from sitting in the machine thinking of its capability rather than lifting rounds myself. If I pick something up I've no idea how heavy it feels really, but knowing the machine's capacity helps judging a piece by it's size.

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