Hamas big reduction/pruning thread!

[testcricket01]

more top work tony you no how all the trees are round my way i have to re-reduce now

[RobArb]

Nice one:thumbup:, but thats what most of the trees in salford look like and what we have to deal with on a day to day basis! Can't remember the last time I climbed a "nice" tree!

 

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[Tony Croft aka hamadryad]

After a total stitch up friday (massive ash reduction with no drop zone) i was in no frame of mind to be getting a call to do a sat freelance job for another arbtalker, but he is a good lad and I had already said i would be avaliable. I was shattered and having to now think about a saturday job! i was not a happy boy, you climbers all know that feeling at least the 0ver 35's do!

 

So turns out we cant be on site till nine and that was a lay in, bonus already, then I turn up to see this ash were doing. My opinion was requested before we made the final desicion as to the work to be done and I was very pleased to find some very receptive clients open to being given good advice for retention of this tree.

 

A light use (yard/stable access) road was going right through the RPA a ditch running under the tree within RPA was to be filled and a pipe inserted to take the water (run off to pond below tree) I thought at first this was all going to be too much change what with a reduction as well, root disturbance/severages and land in fill over roots. I had settled for the reality of a fell given all the circumstances but to my pleasent surprise i find the clients happy to alter the plans a little, the ditch will only be filled to provide a drive over, levels will be unalterd around RPA a mulch ring will be added to root areas and on top of that a little haloing of surrounding vegatation (crataegus hedging)

 

My spirits where again lifted and I as will this tree, found my vigour renewed.

 

As I get older I am finding this work harder and harder, but every now and then I come across a tree like this, and clients that LISTEN and are WILLING to do the right things to enable a living thing to share their space without oversteping the boundaries of what is fair, I like these people, this tree and the guy i worked it for, i bloody love my work sometimes

 

The tree is riddled with hispidus (not in a negative view) the old wounds from limb branch loss are there to be seen without a sporocarp. at the base is a set of rather large polyporus squamosus but i am not entirely convinced they stem from the ash but from a dead maple stump at its base but fluting and a discontinuos trunk was evident and wether P. squamosus or hispidus or pholiotta squarosus (latter two being part of the ashe's specific macrofungi community) the decay was obvious and dealt with on assumptions, very fair ones.

 

anyway enough talk, see what you think of it.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

[Ross Smith]

Tony are you climbing on a ART ropeguide ?? as if not this will def enhance your climbing energy on a hourly basis.great thread by the way and some fantastic tree work.much respect going your way

[Tony Croft aka hamadryad]

Tony are you climbing on a ART ropeguide ?? as if not this will def enhance your climbing energy on a hourly basis.great thread by the way and some fantastic tree work.much respect going your way

 

I use a cambium saver a lot as it doesnt require a re climb to get it back, i will as soon as money allows look to put my art coccoon into a pulley saver set up or when situation suits a pinto and revolver for a 3 to 1 advantage set up.

[Ross Smith]

sooner the better mate and yes you can retrieve the ART ropeguide

[Skysthelimit]

Dont do much reductions myself,due to been on utility, but nice work:-)

[Tony Croft aka hamadryad]

Dont do much reductions myself,due to been on utility, but nice work:-)

 

cheers mate:thumbup1:

[Brett]

just read through this tread and find it fantastic, really good to see opposite sides of the same coin. IMO, some really nice work Hama and much respect for having the courage to start this tread in the first place.

[sawman]

Very skilled workmanship, i've enjoyed seeing all of your reductions. Quality work like that is the mark of a true professional but sadly lacking more often than not.