General Tree pics

[Paul Barton]

Nice work Carl.

 

Did the Beech snap out from a twin stem or old wound?

 

Any shots of decay/dysfunctional wood at point of failure ?

 

 

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I happen to have looked at this beech a few months ago - I was asked by a contractor friend to do an 'informal survey' on the trees and recommend any works.

 

The beech that failed was a twin stemmed tree that divided at about 12ft - the fork was included as they often are on beech but I noticed a small fruiting body on the union. We climbed up and had a look and to the best of my ability I reckon it looked like a small Ustulina/kretzschmaria deusta bracket. I doubted this for a while as I know they normally are found near ground level between butresses. Looking on aie.org.uk I see that they are fairly common in beech forks though.

 

Hopefully this event will make the customers take my recommendation for their other beech tree more seriously too - it has a huge Ganoderma bracket on the stem about 10 ft up and the tree is within easy striking distance of the house. They are having it 'picused' on Weds so we'll see what that finds...

[David Humphries]

I happen to have looked at this beech a few months ago - I was asked by a contractor friend to do an 'informal survey' on the trees and recommend any works.

 

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Thanks for taking the time to give us the info Paul.

Any shots of the Ustulina or Gano?

 

Do you think the Consultant would agree to release an image of the tomograph?

(Just the visual, not survey/records ofcourse)

 

Sounds like it would be a really good pictoral study for us to have a gander at.

 

(Decay detection - sectioning etc......)

 

 

 

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[High Scale]

I put my money on that Beech coming down, as Paul said massive bracket on the stem, I also removed substantial die back in the crown late last year.

 

The customers more or less scoffed at our concerns before, they seem to have somewhat changed their minds now.

[Barney]

Nice work High Scale

[High Scale]

Merci.

[Barney]

Up rooted beech hung up in Oak yesterday, this is my work mate Greg.

 

[Stephen Blair]

was there no way of doing that without climbing it?looks dodgy mate.

turfer?

[Barney]

Yeah a turfer winch would have been a far better bet, but we didn't have access to one and after careful consideration we decided that Greg should risk his life instead of mine, haha, no he knows what hes doing.

 

Got a winch for tomorrow after I clean up this dead Cedar and half it we're going to winch the rest up the bank.

 

[Barney]

Also, would you think its safe to snatch some of the trunk down on the dead cedar?

[Stephen Blair]

it looks like you guys are working in woodland, cant you just drop stuff? when you say snatch do you mean lower? i do as little lowering as possible, make a bed with the brash as you go up, knock the head out, and just cut and drop onto your pile.

or if there is room crank it over with the turfer.

 

but really hard to say with pics, you guys obviously know what you are doing. tell me how your arms are after turfering all day.lol