Soil compaction good for trees

[Paul Barton]

Well this lovely field maple seems to be coping very well with a lot of little hooves all around its rooting area!

[Matthew Arnold]

And being nicely crown lifted too. Might be a bit of gnaw damage around the trunk.

[David Humphries]

Paul where is that, I haven't seen field maples as big as that since last year in Spain.

 

Wonder what the ph levels are like on that root plate.

 

 

 

Fine shot

 

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[Paul Barton]

Saw that beauty whilst walking on offa's dyke last month. Nice ain't she?!

[rapidlee]

will the animal poop help fertilize the beast

[Matthew Burton]

My boss has a simliar size field maple on the bank or a stream in his field, will try to get a pic.

[David Humphries]

The yearly onslaught & mincing up of this unfortunate Oaks roots, seems not to be having any major detrimental effect on it's vitality.

 

These big green bushy things, sure are resiliant forms of life..........at times.

 

 

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[Matthew Arnold]

We have trees like that on a local shoot my dad and i go to. We even have one known as the lightning tree as it was struck 8 times during the day. It is surrounded by crops but we know for a fact the estate left a 10 metre circle around it as not to damage the root system as it was a 450 year old knarly old thing. When it was hit it was riddled with Beefsteak and Chicken of the Woods, yet it plugged on with no problems till the lightning strikes. It is now a roosting, breeding and brooding site for Lesser and Greater Horseshoe Bats!!. I shall try and get some pictures of it.

[Tom2020]

Think thats the biggest field maple i will ever see in my life I only see little ones

[David Humphries]

We have trees like that on a local shoot my dad and i go to. We even have one known as the lightning tree as it was struck 8 times during the day. It is surrounded by crops but we know for a fact the estate left a 10 metre circle around it as not to damage the root system as it was a 450 year old knarly old thing. When it was hit it was riddled with Beefsteak and Chicken of the Woods, yet it plugged on with no problems till the lightning strikes. It is now a roosting, breeding and brooding site for Lesser and Greater Horseshoe Bats!!. I shall try and get some pictures of it.

 

 

 

Would like to see that for sure Matt

 

Sounds a fine old tree

 

 

 

 

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