Ancient Monument Clearance Thread

[Matthew Arnold]

Depending on wot the ancient monument is. It might be worth just ripping the trees out. out cutting the trees high then pulling the stumps.

[garth mc garth]

not allowed to break the surface within reason, all machinery to be low ground pressure and all stumps have gotta be cut short enough to mow over the top of. gonna be alot of good fruit wood but a large amount of contaminated stuff too.

[Matthew Arnold]

Thats a right ball ache especially with the bloody chicken wire. Is it embedded into the wood or just on the surface? I hate chicken wire although its generally not very thick there is just loads of it which blunts the saw on each tree

[garth mc garth]

some of it is embedded heavily whilst others it is loose. like i said before i did consider sending someone round with a truck and stihl saw cutting all the wire off but with the high amount of trees to do im considering just putting a 13tonner on site with a set of shears and guilottine them off as low as i can.

[rapidlee]

when i worked there a woman came up and said she could remember when there were sheep and cows grazing. so the trees are not that old. we did some churning with a mog.

 

wondering if it could be grazes by goats or sheep again.

[Matthew Arnold]

that would be the easiest thing to do. We have a nice roman camp to clear. It is full of sitka and norway spruce trees which we will fell and put into suitable lengths for fence posts,etc. We also have a major bit of tidying to do on some very old ash and beech. One of the beech is riddled with Ganoderma and Inonotus hispsidus which is strange as i thought hispidus only grew on beech. The ash is gonna be a "natural" pollard. The tree split out a few years ago and the lower stems have died off.Hence the "natural" pollard. Hopefully we can get away with the boss climbing onto the remaining stub and cutting the limbs off.

[Will Hinchliffe]

Im a member of the Shaftesbury Tree group. I dont manage to get to every meeting because I often dont get home from work in time.

 

Its good to keep Local authorities, Tree surgeons and Developers in check a bit. Im sure we have all discussed controversial tree works in our local area but how many actualy do anything about it ?

 

They are also involved in lots of proactive projects. I helped plant a comunity orchard with them and they are setting up a comunity nursary growing trees of local provenance.

[Matthew Arnold]

One of the 5 monuments i am working on this winter. It is called Nettlecombe Tout and is in the "sticks". 30-40 min drive from base to site depending on traffic n weather conditions. Mainly Blackthorn, Hawthorn, Spindle and Field Maple regen all to be brushcut and high stumps reduced. Planning on having massive fire there next week. Got some very fun off roading to do to get to the site.

nettlecombe tout work..doc

[Matthew Arnold]

Been up on Nettlecombe Tout today. The first of 3 days of this winter (i'm only there for the one. LOL). Lots of lovely gorse, blackthorn, hawthorn and brambles with a little bit of elder thrown in there for good measure. Cracking weather and views all day. 3 massive fires and some great fun off roading getting to the site. Such a shame we had a blow out on the way home and no usable spare as that was flatter than a road kill. (The blow out wasn't caused by the fun we had getting off the site.)

[Matthew Arnold]

Had a day at Spetisbury Rings today. The guys had a day yesterday up there making a steady start into the thorn. Got a massive fire going of which i posted pics. Cracking views even though the cloud base was low. Got another day tomorrow. Its quite fun but also tricky getting to the job site as the frost is just coming out of the ground. On the way home out of the field we were running on slicks as the mud is chalk-clay mix. Will get pics of the truck tomorrow with it running on slicks.