Good call or not?

[18 stoner]

I was called to a Sycamore couple of weeks back, customer saying it had shed a limb. I got there to look and the customer had already had the TO down (conservation area), who said the tree was healthy, just needed some light limb reduction.

 

I looked, found this;

 

various brackets at the base

 

extensive run out from this lower cavity

 

[Steve Bullman]

from the picture id say that wound looks very decayed and runs deep into the trunk.

[18 stoner]

Upon climb inspection found the main stem to be hollow below the damage and very unstable above it.

 

After further, shall we say "communication" with the TO, the decision was made to fell;

 

 

[Steve Bullman]

so was it the same TO that told you it was a sycamore?

[18 stoner]

Ok steve, still posting pics......Lol

 

My concern now is, should i have left a stem as habitat?

 

Also, the tree was in a ten-foot, with limited access but along side a public right of way.

[18 stoner]

so was it the same TO that told you it was a sycamore?

 

chestnuts come in all sorts of shapes and sizes round us:blushing:

[Yorkshireman]

has your TO seen the internal pics

[Dean Lofthouse]

Nowt wrong with that Pete.

 

You could have left it till it was paper thin then got Skyhuck in to climb it

 

I've had similar experiences with non climbing TO's, who have said nothing wrong with the tree/s this involved six sycamores / horsechestnuts / brown poles with a big green wavy thing ontop, whatever you want to call them.

[Mac McLennan]

Good skills Pete......Don't ya just love it when you go to put the gob in......and there's nothin there:scared1:

[18 stoner]

has your TO seen the internal pics

 

Not yet Iain, but i sure got plenty:001_cool: