Rabbit damaged tree

[Arbre]

Got a tree about 40ft tall that the has all it's bark removed by rabbits (I guess) from base to about 12 inches up. No damage to the core wood, just the bark thats gone. The customer is keen to have the tree felled but it looks healthy and is already in full bud.

 

Do you think the lack of bark is serious enough to fell or will the tree live normally?

[David Humphries]

Which species is it?

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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[armchairarborist]

grr-woof! fell it:thumbup:

[Gareth Smith]

This post reminded me of rabbit damaged trees on a farm that i shoot on and the surrounding arable fields had just been rabbit fenced 8 weeks prior to these pics being taken, they couldn`t get to the crop anymore so thought they`d take their frustration out on these.

[jpbeaver]

so have you shot them all yet?

[Arbre]

Which species is it?.

 

 

It's an Ash tree......

[Gareth Smith]

Ha no mate i aint that good

 

I gassed them instead, bit cheaper and quicker but not as much fun !

Edited April 8, 2010 by Gareth Smith

[Doug Blease]

I am sure its safe for now. I would write a management plan for it taking into account annual inspections.

 

Fell it once = £

 

Reduce it five times = £££££

Finally fell it

Replant

[felixthelogchopper]

Ha no mate i aint that good

 

I gassed them instead, bit cheaper and quicker but not as much fun !

 

I might have the scale of the trees wrong in my mind, but do you have any muntjac round there as that damage looks a bit high up the trunk?

[tractorboy1]

I might have the scale of the trees wrong in my mind, but do you have any muntjac round there as that damage looks a bit high up the trunk?

 

May have been when snow was on the ground, rabbits striped loads of trees on the M20 high up when we had snow here.