big stool thread.......

[rapidlee]

i was havin a mooch around a wood and came across this super massive coppiced ash stool, can anyone tell me its aprox age it is 6.9m round at the apropriate place.

 

anyone else got any photos of any super massive oldie coppiced stools.

[Matthew Arnold]

Shall get some pictures of two 1000 year old Ash stool that is mentioned in the doomsday book. Havent got any as of yet.

[rapidlee]

can you measure it too please.

[Matthew Arnold]

Will do. Are you measuring the stool from a meter off the ground?

[rapidlee]

i was following the woodland trusts guide which is around the narrowest point. i also found a birch which was about 3m at 1.5m round.

[Matthew Arnold]

Nice i shall measure and take pictures of our biggest stools and our most mature trees. On the sites i manage.

[rapidlee]

you can register them on The Woodland Trust | Take part in the Ancient Tree Hunt with the Woodland Trust

[Matthew Arnold]

ok. I think we are goin up to the site sometime this week to begin the winter work as the site is extremely boggy. We got a L200 with mud terrains stuck up there in April so it need to dry out a bit.

[rapidlee]

sound like a re-inactment of the somme....

[Matthew Arnold]

It is bloody horrid stuff. Chalk and clay mix. The first sign of moisture and it sticks to everything. Hence the tree work help it dry out and we are having the ditches either side re dug and linked into the deeper lower ditches.