Heavy Oak Reduction.

[AA Teccie (Paul)]

Cheers guys

 

All things considered I think we’ve done the best job possible. The old girl has been host to inonotus for some considerable time (and weathered a fair few storms). I hope an inner crown will develop in the coming years and that will enable us to bring it down even further.

 

A few more odd pics....

 

Hi John,

Thanks for great 'pics', certainly makes me wish I had the chance to go back in time sometimes instead of being a 'pen pusher/keyboard basher', albeit very heavy pens & keyboards so my lats n biceps r still pretty good (NOT REALLY!) Just remind me there someone posted a while ago about good exercises for tree climbing, well IMO besides 'more' tree climbing, I always reckoned bent over rows for the left-hand 'lat' (as I'm right handed) was good....I did try 'chin ups' too but my torso was always disproportionate in weight to myarm/back strength (AKA 'fat b****rd' syndrome!)

 

Anyway, sorry, reason for posting...did you consider doing the veteran / 'coronet' / natural farcture cuts here at all? Only a thought that it may have helped to break up some of the harsh outline which is inevitable when doing such a heavy reduction. Purely an 'aesthetics' thing.

 

Cheers..

Paul

[John Hancock]

Hi Paul, yes it was considered but only for a few seconds. The estate is relatively new (brick houses, brick-paved driveways, even brick-inlayed roadways, all in all very modern and manicured. If there was some woodland or even a wildlife corridor close-by then maybe the coronet and fracture route would have fitted well, but not in this case.

 

If and when the upper crown dies back I may consider some cheeky pruning to create a ‘stag-headed’ effect but that’s many years to come.

 

We do have another interesting Oak (old pollard) coming up, which will receive the ‘coronet’ treatment as the setting is a little more ‘rural’.

[Tommy_B]

Great work Mr Hancock!!! And some very cool pictures mate!!!

[paradise]

I has a mess around on Photoshop the other evening and came up with this, see what you think…..

 

The pic is very cool (now on my desktop) but I prefer the original, in which the climber is dwarfed by the tree and not centre-stage. It's probably a matter of philosophical taste though

 

Edit: nice job keeping the tree in such a high target area btw

[tommy_tentage]

So then, a couple of years on here are a couple of pics of the oak tree.

Tree has put on a bit of growth and doesn't appear too stressed,

Not much change with the fruiting bodies at the base, but haven't done a detailed investigation.

 

 

No plans as yet for the next phase of pruning.....

[White Noise]

So then, a couple of years on here are a couple of pics of the oak tree.

Tree has put on a bit of growth and doesn't appear too stressed,

Not much change with the fruiting bodies at the base, but haven't done a detailed investigation.

 

 

No plans as yet for the next phase of pruning.....

 

 

Brill thanks for the follow up

[Tony Croft aka hamadryad]

So then, a couple of years on here are a couple of pics of the oak tree.

Tree has put on a bit of growth and doesn't appear too stressed,

Not much change with the fruiting bodies at the base, but haven't done a detailed investigation.

 

 

No plans as yet for the next phase of pruning.....

 

thickening up nicely, good update:thumbup1:

[David Humphries]

So then, a couple of years on here are a couple of pics of the oak tree.

Tree has put on a bit of growth and doesn't appear too stressed,

Not much change with the fruiting bodies at the base, but haven't done a detailed investigation.

 

 

No plans as yet for the next phase of pruning.....

 

 

Thanks for taking the time to update

 

(hope you don't mind me putting some of the thread shots together to show context?)

 

 

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