General Tree pics

[Stephen Blair]

What's your poison Big Man?

 

Milk, straight up:biggrin:

[Simon Rotheram]

Beechwood til i die Simon

 

Ha ha, written through you like a stick of rock!

 

Great job mate, looks like you enjoyed it!

[ferdinand2000]

This is a large Black Italian Poplar, which has been in the family since the 1920s.

 

Not a tremor at present, but I'm not looking forward to the costs of taking it down when that eventually happens. It's good to have it there in the meantime, though.

 

The motorway size lamppost is because it used to be a trunk route and every so often it used to be cut back by the LA to more or less the pavement line.

 

For the detail-mongers, she's holding a paint brush because I pulled her off painting the shed to be a comparison :-).

 

The road is a good illustration of the defensive/negative nature of the TPO setup - in a road of perhaps 400 houses, only a dozen or so have decent sized trees left. All the rest have been removed over the years, and some of the remaining ones have been TPO'd, so those who left them alone are stuck with the continuing costs of providing amenity, and who will allow any more to grown big? I would not let a tree that size near my garden now, unless the garden was huge or until the regime changes.

 

Ferdinand

[treedog]

A strange field gnarly old tree and a two headed man!

[testcricket01]

nice failure on a mighty fine sweet chestnut wouldnt like to guess how old it is beutiful old old old tree

[David Humphries]

Did the Tree have any signs of Laetiporus on it James.

 

Heartwood of failure part showing much brown decay?

 

 

 

 

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[testcricket01]

Did the Tree have any signs of Laetiporus on it James.

 

Heartwood of failure part showing much brown decay?

 

 

 

 

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will pop back tomorow have a better look i was driveing past on way to appointment in a rush.

[chainsawdom]

is that tree in houghton???????????

[testcricket01]

is that tree in houghton???????????

 

yes just down road through the wood, infront of 1 of the gate houses.

[John Shutler]

alexs oak from this morning

 

appologies for the poor picture qaulity but they were taken on my phone

 

the last 3 are of a false crotch setup on my mammut power static access line with rope guide and ddrt climbing system. this was set up to prune out 8 good sized dead limbs up to about 50 ft, i footlocked the tail of my climbing system