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[Taupotreeman]

Cable bracing the Seddon Oak, planted around 1892 in Taupo. The tree had begun to grow around the old bracing so replacement and renewal. This is stage two of the rehabilitation of the tree that had been neglected and unloved for quite some time. Next stage is a reduction, to be carried out over winter and then in stages after that to reduce the size and lever action of the heavy limbs.

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[MattyF]

As always some great pics on this thread!

[David Humphries]

Cable bracing the Seddon Oak, planted around 1892 in Taupo. The tree had begun to grow around the old bracing so replacement and renewal. This is stage two of the rehabilitation of the tree that had been neglected and unloved for quite some time. Next stage is a reduction, to be carried out over winter and then in stages after that to reduce the size and lever action of the heavy limbs

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Fine set TTM

 

 

Have you guys gone with dynamic or static bracing with the replacements or a combo?

 

Cheers

 

David

 

 

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[Taupotreeman]

Just a couple of the old bracing from the Oak.

 

 

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[Taupotreeman]

Fine set TTM

 

What type was the old bracing being replaced?

 

Have you guys gone with dynamic or static bracing with the replacements or a combo?

 

Cheers

 

David

 

 

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I ended up taking around 90 photos but posted the previous ones in small format just in case they chewed up too much memory or whatever it is.

 

The new bracing is Yale and the old was Cobra. We had a mixture of both dynamic and static. Some of the old bracing had tightened up considerably. We put in all the replacement bracing first and then removed three of the five older braces that had been over grown by the tree. Apparently the new Yale stuff is much easier to work with than the Cobra. Softer on the hands. The two climbers spent six and a half hours in the harness up the tree. The static was put in on a limb that was on the verge of failure, around seven or so years ago.

 

 

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[David Humphries]

Cable bracing the Seddon Oak............This is stage two of the rehabilitation of the tree that had been neglected and unloved for quite some time. Next stage is a reduction, to be carried out over winter and then in stages after that to reduce the size and lever action of the heavy limbs.

 

 

 

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Thanks,

 

Imagine its going to be interesting deciding on the extent of canopy reduction in terms of not overly affecting the trees self optimisation.

 

Great to see resource being spent on it

 

 

Any basal issues?

 

 

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[Taupotreeman]

Nothing that we can see David. We gave it a good "feed" last year of chicken poo and mushroom compost. We also fenced off around the tree as the area out to the drip line was badly compacted. The addition of both seems to be helping as there was no inner, lower canopy when we first looked at the tree. It had all been cleaned out and the only growth was on the upper and outer ends. Now we have some healthy new growth coming through lower down. There are still a couple of substantial limbs to come out as they are rotten through. We decided also to do a staggered reduction over several years rather than one large one as we don't think the locals or Councillors would accept a such a large reduction in size.

[David Humphries]

That reads like a well considered management plan

 

 

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[Taupotreeman]

Haha cheers David. I actually sought a lot of info on arbtalk before getting the plan together. Very helpful it proved to be.

 

 

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[sloth]

Noticed the merip on this leaning sorbus a week ago, after the gales it leans a little more now! It's a 40mph main road through Colchester, if it fails the tips will be halfway across the far lane. The green circle is a branch hit by a vehicle since the partial failure. Last pic is a hispidus induced fracture hanging on.

I was considering letting highways/the council know, now I definitely will! Job for tomorrow...