Rip, twang, kipper-bang

[David Humphries]

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Youch !

 

Is that just one leader Josh. or the main trunk?

 

Was it in high winds?

 

 

What's happening to the rest of the tree now?

 

 

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[josharb87]

summers day, slight breeze, that was the center of the tree which made the rest of the tree a pain to climb and rig over the road, hedge, well, carport, wires. inspected the limb off to the side, deep hole near the trunk, so i suggested pollarding with the failure as the new top keeping the fracture to show the story

 

 

 

 

[David Humphries]

Good spec imo Josh.

 

Nice piece of work

 

 

 

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[Matthew Arnold]

Nice tree to retain on the road edge. Most local authorities would have that felled to ground level due to it being a "hazard to road traffic". We had a pair of Meriplus infected Beech. After many consultations with the highways tree officer and head council tree officer we decided to go with a pollard as one of them had already been pollarded. The pollarded one is estimated to be 300 years old but only looks like a 150 year old and the one next to it is basically a massive sucker growth coming from the root plate 50 metres away. The elder of the two sadly passed on but is now home to many fungi and various species of birds. Despite it being only being dead a year. The elder tree is also a roosting, hibernating, breeding and brooding site for the Daubenton's Bat!!!. One of the few places for them to do all four in.

[David Humphries]

. The elder tree is also a roosting, hibernating, breeding and brooding site for the Daubenton's Bat!!!. One of the few places for them to do all four in.

 

 

 

PICTURES MATT !!!!!!

 

 

you gotta stop dangling these great Veterans in a literary type way.

 

 

We need the vet porn

 

 

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[Matthew Arnold]

I shall get the vet porn for ya. Lol. Next time i go past the site i shall get some pictures. I shall try and get them up by the end of next week!!

[skyhuck]

Nice tree to retain on the road edge. Most local authorities would have that felled to ground level due to it being a "hazard to road traffic". We had a pair of Meriplus infected Beech. After many consultations with the highways tree officer and head council tree officer we decided to go with a pollard as one of them had already been pollarded. The pollarded one is estimated to be 300 years old but only looks like a 150 year old and the one next to it is basically a massive sucker growth coming from the root plate 50 metres away. The elder of the two sadly passed on but is now home to many fungi and various species of birds. Despite it being only being dead a year. The elder tree is also a roosting, hibernating, breeding and brooding site for the Daubenton's Bat!!!. One of the few places for them to do all four in.

 

No, if the other stem is a sucker, as you say, then the tree still lives!!

[Matthew Arnold]

Severely cankered up ivy clad Ash split out a couple of nights back. The area where this tree has fallen has several big nackered trees with various defects (Fungi, splits, lots of canker, etc). We have planned 3 days of clearing, tidying up before we fell the remaining trees.

[David Humphries]

Was that after big wind Matt?

 

 

 

 

 

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[Matthew Arnold]

The area where the tree is, is quite sheltered from all sides apart from westerlies n north westerlies. Weve had several come down in there. We just had one of them drop a sizeable (9 inches at the butt) branche with flattened a patch of blackthorn. Hence why we are felling them. I shall get some pictures of the area where we are felling the trees. It used to be a victorian garden dump.