What to do with 200+ MASSIVE stumps?

[waterbuoy]

  On 17/03/2023 at 13:04, Whoppa Choppa said:

FC have stipulated complete removal. As per opening post, we don't want them there either.

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Did FC stipulate or did they agree to your proposal/request to remove stumps?

 

As others have said, something appears awry

[Mick Dempsey]

  On 17/03/2023 at 20:35, Whoppa Choppa said:

Oooh all the Chris Packhams coming out. Yep, fk this, cu l8r. Wrong website. 

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[Dan Maynard]

I still can't see why you'd destroy live oak stumps, could be 6-800 years old, just because FC say so. Looking back at the FC decisions of the last 70 years many haven't turned out well.

 

 

[Will C]

I would love to know where this is, if live oak Copice stools of that age are genuinely being destroyed with permission heads should be rolling.

 

ive a funny feeling someone is trying to pull everyone’s plonker and is getting plenty of bites!

[scbk]

  On 17/03/2023 at 18:35, Whoppa Choppa said:

Average multi stem

stump size.

FC have stipulated complete removal. As per opening post, we don't want them there either.

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Is it not a bit pervy to take a photo of a bloke as he's trying to have a wizz behind a tree 

[Stere]

 

 

[Ledburyjosh]

That is a very unusual suspect job. Would be great to know how it came about and why. On the surface of the pictures it looks totally the wrong way to deal with those Oaks

[Stere]

How does a contractor both have the gear to fell & remove 1000 tonnes of oak but also has had to leave stumps 6ft high?

 

 

Were they standing on a step ladder  felling the trees?

 

 

 

 

[Will C]

Here was this one bloke he was 8ft tall you know! (Just like this tail)

  On 19/03/2023 at 18:05, Stere said:

How does a contractor both have the gear to fell & remove 1000 tonnes of oak but also has had to leave stumps 6ft high?

 

 

Were they standing on a step ladder  felling the trees?

 

 

 

 

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[monkeybusiness]

I’m not sure about the confusion and hostility over this request - the op has stated it was a FC stipulated clearfell (I suspect Phytopthera due to the presence of Larch - oak is also a host species).
Lapsed pollard stumps with the harvestable timber removed could easily still be 6ft plus tall, particularly when growing on a slope. These stumps would still potentially be hosting phytopthera and it makes sense for the FC to insist on their removal and destruction to cleanse the site for replanting (even though the whole enterprise is a case of closing the door after the horse has bolted, but that’s not the op’s fault)…