General Tree pics

[MasterBlaster]

Another live oak trim on this glorious fourth of July friday. The last pic is the soybean field that was allowing a nice breeze to blow on me, cool beans!

[Rowan the Bruce]

http://arbtalk.co.uk/forum/attachment.php?attachmentid=4892&stc=1&d=1215241127

[Rowan the Bruce]

a Turkey oak reduction with my groundie practicing climbing and retrieving hangers.Reason for reduction was a large stress fracture about to split it in two.

[atree]

Those links arent working for me.

[Andy Collins]

heres Rowans pics for those that cant upload them

[atree]

cheers andy

[David Humphries]

heres Rowans pics for those that cant upload them

 

Very nice work, Rowan

Would be pleased with that spec, if myself and my team had been involved.

 

 

What's the site usage?

 

 

 

 

 

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[Rowan the Bruce]

cheers for that Andy I still can't seem to work out the attachment thing, any tips would be well apprieciated.

 

Yeah the site usage is a rather large estate in Cornwall worth several million and the new owner wants to put a new driveway and lake close by,the vista from the house incorporates this and other valuable amenity trees and the guy has recently spent 140 000 on planting throughout the estate, obviously a long term project.Wish I had 140 quid to spent on trees!

[MasterBlaster]

Why ruin such a nice tree? That is just wack, yo.

 

You're NOT SUPPOSED to do that to trees, don't ya'll know?

 

British "arborculture" is sure different that American. I wonder who's doing the right thing?

[Rowan the Bruce]

Ok Master blaster if i could suss out sending pictures, you would see one of an enormous stress fracture up to 10cm wide in parts running down the middle of the trunk with a stihl 026 sticking out of it.Now when the reduction was finished the crack had closed by 4cm which allows the tree to remain standing for at least 50 years instead of being torn in two by the next heavy storm, the reduction is harsh but 3 days of my life isn't much to that tree. Often prevention is better than firewood! As we all know every pruning cut should be done for reason and I would not do such a job for trivial reasons such as view/light etc.I hope that explains things a bit.