My 1st attempt with a drift

[scotspine1]

 

Biodiversity-Habitat-Aesthetics-Replicating nature, are some of the overiding goals.

 

 

What's environmentally friendly about standing in a tree with a petrol chainsaw using over 5 litres of fuel to make coronet cuts?

[Tom D]

gibbon and monkey d,

 

Coronet cuts are not 'arboricultural' cuts because they're not done in the best interest of the tree.

 

True?

 

If coronetting prolongs the "useful" life of a tree which under standard "arboricultural practise" would have been felled then it most definately does benefit the tree.

[scotspine1]

If coronetting prolongs the "useful" life of a tree which under standard "arboricultural practise" would have been felled then it most definately does benefit the tree.

 

That's not an argument for coronet cuts, standard arboricultural practice would have recommended reduction cuts which would achieve the same goal of retaining the tree and use less fuel in the process, which in turn benefits the environment.

[gibbon]

That's not an argument for coronet cuts, standard arboricultural practice would have recommended reduction cuts which would achieve the same goal of retaining the tree and use less fuel in the process, which in turn benefits the environment.

 

If your that concerned about the environment you could save a whole load of co2 emmisions by going though you order book and cancelling all the jobs you have where you are not the most local contractor to the site.

[David Humphries]

How many Trees do you cut down Tim that have what is deemed to be an inherent fault, ie non coalesced cavity, delaminate limb, partial basal decay etc...?

 

What we are in part creating, is a balance to the loss of habitat in the urban/semi urban environment that has been oversubscribed to sanitisation over decades.

 

Rare fungal deadwood decayers, invertebrates. lichens, nematodes, woodland/garden birds etc....aren't disappearing because some nasty hooded man is going round at night and lifting them.

 

 

Trees (interms of what they provide to us in mental & physical wellbeing) are not in the grand scale of things, meant to resemble mans idea of a tree, but they can be managed in as close to their natural state in terms of targets and liability.

 

 

 

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[gibbon]

This is the tree four months on. Its put on a substantial amount of new growth already and I think its looking pretty good.

[testcricket01]

definetly the way forward rather than felling trees

[tommer9]

That is looking excellent Matt.

[David Humphries]

any new epicormic on the actual trunk, or adventitious on the coro/fracs, Matt?

 

 

 

 

 

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[gibbon]

any new epicormic on the actual trunk, or adventitious on the coro/fracs, Matt?

 

 

 

 

 

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No shoots from the cuts. There was quite a bit of small fluffy epicormic before I "pruned" it. This seems to have really taken off since. There is some new epicomic growth on the trunk and new small shoots on the main limbs too which is encouraging.

 

When pruning I removed not only dead wood but some live wood that had some small, struggeling but living foliage at the top. I can only guess that by removing some large diameter limbs that were perhaps hard to sustain, there is more energy available for the lower shoots. Maybe thats just speculation?

 

Makes me think of what Ted Green said about some Oaks being somehow more able to regenerate from dormant buds than others.