Rip, twang, kipper-bang

[geoff]

The boss is back on Sunday so I'll find out if he likes his willow pollards on Monday morning, mate.

 

No worries, got some photo evidence if needed!

[geoff]

Couple of pics from a call out yesterday;

 

DSCF0018 by geoff321, on Flickr

 

DSCF0020 by geoff321, on Flickr

[David Humphries]

Like the second shot where the fibres sit back on themselves on the right hand side.

 

Must of made a fantastic ripping sound

 

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[geoff]

Shame I got the focus a little out, but nice compression of the fibers there, hence the shot.

Whilst on the job, in another tree I spotted another defect over the kids play area, pointed it out & the client had me remove it, was not too obvious to the eye.

 

DSCF0021 by geoff321, on Flickr

[geoff]

The first one (that I was called out on) was in my opinion not caused by the last wind, but a few weeks back, in this pic you can see it still holds its leaf, would I be right in that assumption?

 

New_1_DSCF0015 by geoff321, on Flickr

[David Humphries]

Often get a form of Marcescence of the leaves in old failures.

 

This one may have been from St Judes perhaps.

 

 

 

 

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[geoff]

Thank you David, that makes sense to me.

[David Humphries]

Splash.........

 

 

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[Matthew Arnold]

Kaboom. Right across a sunken bridleway too. Hung up a little bit across the track but will be attempting this monster with the big boss i recon. Brought down by a fairly small gust and a severe case of Honey fungus.

[David Humphries]

an old oak pollard that had been storm damaged in 1987, re-grew a canopy but succumbed to the weekends blow.

 

Laetiporus brown rot in the trunk.

 

Looks like the house pretty much got away without too much damage.

 

 

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