General Tree pics

[David Humphries]

Climbing for gareth again today on an interesting sycamore totally knackered old stump regrown into a new tree im guessing just exploded when it hit the deck. 3 ton of woodchip off it and 8/10 ton of wood off it.]

 

Looks like a graft James.

 

Did you slice it through the graft to have a look?

 

 

 

 

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[testcricket01]

Looks like a graft James.

 

Did you slice it through the graft to have a look?

 

 

 

 

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Unfortunatly not david, not my job the guys going back with a teleporter to rip that and a few more stumps out. I would have cut through it if there wasnt a metal chain in where the new meets the old can just see it in the pics i think.

[Mark Bolam]

Looks like a strangulation due to a chain James.

 

Did you slice it through the graft to have a look?

 

 

 

 

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Sorted it for you David.

 

I have some spare contact lenses in the ashtray of the truck if you need them.

 

[testcricket01]

A couple gareth sent me when he first looked at it. Out of interest david what would you be looking for to find out if its a graft or not? What would be the reasoning also as its always going to have a serious fault on a stump like that.

 

 

[Wouter]

here's on of my favorits

[David Humphries]

Sorted it for you David.

 

I have some spare contact lenses in the ashtray of the truck if you need them.

 

 

Ha ha

 

 

Tungsten Carbide Chain - jobs a good un

 

Nothing more satisfyingly dramatic than the arc of hot metal sparks flying over ones shoulder on a propper stunt fell

 

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[David Humphries]

Out of interest david what would you be looking for to find out if its a graft or not? What would be the reasoning also as its always going to have a serious fault on a stump like that.]

 

Change in bark texture above & below the graft line.

 

Also if the leaves are slightly/significantly different than you would anticipate for a straight species.

 

 

Sorry, not quite sure what you mean with the last sentence?

 

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[testcricket01]

Change in bark texture above & below the graft line.

 

Also if the leaves are slightly/significantly different than you would anticipate for a straight species.

 

 

Sorry, not quite sure what you mean with the last sentence?

 

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Thanks for that david.

 

I would just like to know why someone would graft a tree onto a rotten stump, or would this happen naturally? Never really seen to many grafts or know anything about them.

[Mark Bolam]

Who or why would you graft a syc though?

[testcricket01]

Who or why would you graft a syc though?

 

Thinking the same, but now i think about it it used to be a massive stately home but is now a care home which has been extended in everyway so that tree would have been in the middle of a wood. Maybe it was naturally done, or a mad gardener experimenting

 

This place has such a wide varied selection of mature trees massive trees some rare trees aswell gareth tells me some tree guy from europe well known is making a trip there to look at the trees forget his name now though.