General Tree pics

[Peter]

Field side, as was the decay. Looked fine from road side, so much so that it was deadwooded roadside without the decay being spotted.....

 

Weighted towards the road.

[Dave D]

Today, I was going to post pics of a big Cat powered tracked mulcher at work, but it broke down Then I was going to post pics of a prototype flail in action, but the Police turned up following complaints from local residents THEN I was going to put up pics of me working on the splitter in glorious sunshine, but the seal in the top of the ram blew and I got a facefull of Hydrauic oil, so i came home. Some days you should just stay indoors and play soothing music.

 

so what about the pics of you sunning it up in the garden supping a beer between taking out your stresses with the tomahawk. this is a picture thread, you cant just tease us with your sob stories:001_tt2:

[Rich Rule]

Top stuff there Josh. Nice one mate.

[Andy Collins]

No pics, not a lot of point really, ended up splitting with a maul for rest of the afternoon

[rowan lee]

Ash fell.

 

Wow, nice action shots there. Did she go over quickly, looks like a fairly rotten core? Good job.

[Peter]

Hard to say really, I think once the tree has started to break the hinge fibres they pretty much all fall at the same speed.

 

There wasnt a lot of live wood in the hinge though.

[David Humphries]

Hard to say really, I think once the tree has started to break the hinge fibres they pretty much all fall at the same speed.

 

There wasnt a lot of live wood in the hinge though.

 

Don't suppose you've got a cross section from near the base without the hinge ?

 

 

 

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[Peter]

No, but the decay didn't extend as far into the stem as I expected, I thought the whole diameter of the decayed part at the front would be mush, but everything except the bit that fell out was pretty sound.

[David Humphries]

No, but the decay didn't extend as far into the stem as I expected, I thought the whole diameter of the decayed part at the front would be mush, but everything except the bit that fell out was pretty sound.

 

 

I get the feeling that Perenniporia (on Ash particularly) is a relatively slow decay pathagen.

 

Got two or three with fairly large multi tiered bracketed Ash at work which I would on one hand like to take down to get some decent cross sectional shots, but on the other appear (test wise) to be sound enough to leave standing but reduced.

 

 

 

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[Peter]

I think the large area of dead in pic 3 is unrelated to the fungus, probably an old machine strike.

 

The brackets at the base of the tree were at least 3 feet across, so it had been at work for some time.

 

It did crumple a lot on impact, so definately something going on further up.