Fagus with Ganoderma

[Tony Croft aka hamadryad]

Ah, there you are! Was hoping for your comment. I'll happily accept your age estimate. I did think I was being conservative I'll admit but my knowledge of local land use heavily influenced the guess, plainly along with poor knowledge of how fast/slow such a tree would grow.

The circumstances of the woods' ownership give this tree a good chance of being left alone - I hope. The public use it a bit but there is absolutely no management. If I think there comes a time when there is obvious and considerable danger I may try and settle the tree with a Tirfor but I'm certainly not going to take a saw to it: I'm not qualified or experienced in such work and am also looking forward to a natural future for it. Fingers crossed everyone leaves it be.

Thanks.

 

Dont worry about moving or stabalising it, it will only drop down slowy as decay progreses first via small limbs then bigger ones and so on till her mighty girth finaly comes to rest in peace and her inal resting position.

 

What a great oportunity for study, i have many beeches i photograph anuualy through thier degradation and i now have images from live standing to fallen, through eruption of fruiting colonies and also long decayed laying on the deck with new growth completley somthering them.

[nepia]

Dont worry about moving or stabalising it, it will only drop down slowy as decay progreses first via small limbs then bigger ones and so on till her mighty girth finaly comes to rest in peace and her inal resting position.

 

What a great oportunity for study, i have many beeches i photograph anuualy through thier degradation and i now have images from live standing to fallen, through eruption of fruiting colonies and also long decayed laying on the deck with new growth completley somthering them.

 

Yeah, I'm going to photograph it regularly from the same angles.

 

My fear for it is that the horseys take exception and have it 'dealt with'. I'd only settle the tree to mitigate an obvious danger likely to lead to such drastic measures, i.e. I'd be trying to make the tree look safer and hence prevent such action. If it was on my land I'd just tell people to stay away from it and let it be.

 

I'm looking forward to seeing the bare bones when the majority of leaves are off it.

 

Thanks,

 

Jon