Richmond Park ( a diary of sorts)

[sean]

Dont mind about the link at all bundle.....cheers. Look forward to watching it.

 

Todays job.....before and after. Big willow pollard. Felled half the poles onto the bank and the other half into the brook then pulled out with the landy. Nice job....

[David Humphries]

find it a little difficult to judge the scale on this one.

 

Maybe you could nick some of the kids toys for scale aid

 

 

 

 

Nice looking job all the same.

 

 

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[sean]

So back in the park after a wee sabbatical.

 

Big white Pop fell. This tree is just inside the perimeter wall with some very very big houses on the other side. Thjere has been some contentious issues surrounding this particular tree which i will not go into......anyway the tree had to go!

 

Have a couple of weeks reducing heights of existing monoliths as well as creating new ones. Lots of laborious (yet at times interesting) bat checks with the endoscope and mewp. Am going to try and post images from within these big old oaks because the endoscope picks up some weird and wonderful beasties.

 

Big Oak failure this afternoon. Co dominant stem on a vet literally 'unplugged'.

A very weighty limb just popped out. Very wet brown rot. Old pruning wound just below. Wet brown rot. No evidence of fruiting bodies.

[Bundle 2]

Quite unusual failure. Not seen that in oak a great deal myself. Literally "popped" out its socket!

 

Edit: Being conservation minded Sean, it worth watching the fallen for FB's? There's gotta be an agent at work in there I racoon.

Edited September 8, 2010 by Bundle 2

[Tony Croft aka hamadryad]

Quite unusual failure. Not seen that in oak a great deal myself. Literally "popped" out its socket!

 

Edit: Being conservation minded Sean, it worth watching the fallen for FB's? There's gotta be an agent at work in there I racoon.

 

This isnt uncommon, and I suspect fistulina is the culprit here, if it had been laeti it would have slightly more red in its tonal range and there would be evidence of mycelial matts, white flecks, within the rays.

 

Visit any ancient oak woodland and these failures will be around everycorner.

 

Staverton, Windsor, Bradgate, Ashridge etc etc

[Tony Croft aka hamadryad]

Loving the diary sean

[sean]

Few photos from the park today....just randoms. This old beech is a fave of mine. Loads of Merip, Resinacium, Adspersum, Fomes...

 

The stags are warming up for the ruts. Been hilarious watching the young uns practicing on each other as well as on the the piles of brash.

[David Humphries]

Nice shots sean.

 

Beech is nuts.

 

Has it been reduced, or going to be?

 

 

You got some scratches on the lens?

 

Few blurs in a couple of the pictures, or is it just glare?

 

 

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[Tony Croft aka hamadryad]

great stuff Sean, i realy must get over there very soon, got heaps of work (freelance climbing and surveying) coming in so it may be a while but i wont complain about that! the next weekend off, Richmonds gettin hama'd

[sean]

great stuff Sean, i realy must get over there very soon, got heaps of work (freelance climbing and surveying) coming in so it may be a while but i wont complain about that! the next weekend off, Richmonds gettin hama'd

 

Let me know when you want to come and i'll gladly show you around.