natural fractures

[Stephen Blair]

Took these today so i could quiz you guys that do fracture pruning and monolith work. I see most final cuts like jaggy crowns, which i think is very un natural. When doing your finished jaggy cuts, do you take into consideration how this branch or limb would of come to its demise, do you take into account its angle, weight or length? or just do a jaggy finish? Most laterals will split out in a storm if they are strong and leave a very short break with a chunk out the centre and top and bottom sticking out more quite evenly, if it was a big oak nestled amongst others it would of rotted away bit by bit and not shattered off in a oner. The trees below came down on the 3st march this year behind my house. Your thoughts gents:001_smile:

[John Hancock]

I agree Steve, I think a lot of our ‘natural’ coronets and fractures could be a lot more natural looking – that’s why I started this thread so we could study the fractures as nature intended…

 

http://arbtalk.co.uk/forum/picture-forum/13929-naturally-formed-coronets-fractures.html

 

Stick your pics in here mate when you have a moment...

[Stephen Blair]

just had a quick looksy, nice one john i shall put my pics on there and forget this one

[John Hancock]

just had a quick looksy, nice one john i shall put my pics on there and forget this one

 

It a good question you asked though mate – I’d keep it open, hopefully David will contribute, I for one would love to mimic the more natural look – I think that’s what we should all be working towards..

[David Humphries]

I/we 'try' to incorporate as long a fracture as is possible, then finish off with jags to break up the flat sink cut leading edge.

 

But this is totaly dependent on work position.

 

& is most definately a work in progress, and moving toward getting an interpretation of a natural fracture not an unatainable mimic.

 

 

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[John Hancock]

Impressive stuff Mr H!

[David Humphries]

Thanks John.

 

 

 

 

 

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[Stephen Blair]

nice one dave, i can only presume you and your team have tried a lot of diferent techniques in breaking off the limbs and diferent cuts to try and minimise the dressing up at the end. What about an axe, i remeber one of your foreign trip pics had an axe wielding guy, but i think that was for pollarding

[Andrew B]

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A failure at the fork union due to included bark. or as the client said when he rang me "Half my ####ing tree fell off" lol

 

Andrew

[MasterBlaster]

Those need to be flushed off and painted.