Rip, twang, kipper-bang

[MWArb]

Quite spectacular! Note tr ratio, I'd say a bit less than 0.3, and most of the stem. Not a full crown any more though!. Lovely tree, what's its fate?

 

Unsure as to it's fate right now.. everything on the floor is gone obviously.. believe it or not under that mess is a set of concrete steps and some rather destroyed railings.. as for the stem I guess it'll either be de-limbed or taken out... Personally I feel it has pollarding properties as there is growth just under the bottom of the failure but it'll be up to Cadwell themselves I guess.

[HCR]

Ash stem failure at Cadwell park

 

 

 

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Did you get to do The Mountain?

 

Cracking example (sorry, no pun intended) of a hollow tree failure.

[MWArb]

Did you get to do The Mountain?

 

Cracking example (sorry, no pun intended) of a hollow tree failure.

 

Was hard to reign myself in when coming over the mountain in the transit I have to admit... and I felt the need to hit each apex on the way in.. lol

 

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[HCR]

Was hard to reign myself in when coming over the mountain in the transit I have to admit... and I felt the need to hit each apex on the way in.. lol

 

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[Matthew Arnold]

A rather spectacular failure of 3 limbs off one of our big Beeches. It failed this morning but was only reported at 5 this evening. We have deemed it safe (although we have closed the footpath off) as the limbs have settled to their final resting position. There was no warning the limbs were going to fail. Now we will be thinking about a reduction of the far reaching limbs and crown lifting the very lowest limbs.

 

The aftermath. THere is something at play in the tree but not sure what. The limbs had no signs they were going to fail but the rot was minimal in the stem to trunk unions.

[MWArb]

Thought you guys would like this ash we found...

 

 

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[MWArb]

I'll try and get a close up tomorrow as it looks like the split section has rooted because it seems as though its creating reaction wood down the split... will be keen on peoples opinion.

 

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[David Humphries]

Thought you guys would like this ash we found...

 

 

 

Had it speared itself right in to the ground, or was the lhs section just resting?

 

 

 

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[MWArb]

Had it speared itself right in to the ground, or was the lhs section just resting?

 

 

 

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We think it spared the ground

 

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[Ben90]

We think it spared the ground

 

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Heap some soil and rooting hormone around it, worth a shot:001_tt2: