Chalkwell tree failure

[Canal Navvy]

On 29/06/2025 at 23:14, monkeybusiness said:

There is the ‘fence off and retain’ option too, but obviously not always possible.

It’s a horribly sad event, and ultimately blame will end at someone’s door.

(I doubt very much that the person the finger ends up pointing at did anything untoward). 

 

The "fence off and retain" should have been  the answer. 

Something odd goes on when a tree person evaluates a tree and suggests a reasonable response. In my personal experience tree's that should have had the undergrowth left to discourage people's access have been cleared, tree's that can be retained as they are away from used paths get benches put under them and trees that have perfectly safe deadwood get butchered. It feels that "management" people don't understand what is recommended or why and respond with a knee jerk reaction 🤔

 

[Oldfeller]

25 minutes ago, Mick Dempsey said:

I wouldn’t give a monkey’s toss what Trustpilot or any other website for the disgruntled say. 
 

 me neither, but then I think the same about some on here.

[Mick Dempsey]

47 minutes ago, Oldfeller said:

 me neither, but then I think the same about some on here.

Pretty sure the feeling is mutual for many. 

[Sviatoslav Tulin]

Ok there is my point, we had very powerful storm this winter I believe many trees got some sort of internal damage , which hard to identify,then summer come trees become more heavy at summer as they absorb moisture , plus hot temperatures cause them to expand and if tree already hade some internal damage I believe that will cause collapse even in absolutely good looking tree I just cut biggest elm I ever seen with very interesting internal crack sadly I don’t like photos during work ! Tree like this cedar must be fenced to retain , it is also good for a tree  to keep ground intact under drip zone.  I’m afraid that if we start remove every potentially dangerous tree it will be no tree left, we just need proper people for assessment and survey , plus we need to stop some sort of ecolunatics affecting decisions, so it’s all about good specialists and managers all those becoming absolete !