a little bit of this, a little bit that.........

David Humphries · January 27, 2011

a week over at Burnham Beeches, a site that inspires me with equal measures of awe & good well being.

a yearly pilgramige giving a helping hand to manage a incredibly delicate but well looked after, natural resource.

Due to the very nature of their age, decay and instability we've been reducing via mewp & climbing, slowly (staged) back toward their original pollard height.

One of the mewp reductions..........

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David Humphries · January 27, 2011

a climbed one.............

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David Humphries · January 27, 2011

some random thread fillers............ :001_rolleyes:

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RobArb · January 27, 2011

Are they coming completely back to original pollard points? Its just you say they are being staged, so how long does that take? Is it a yearly job? over how many years?

Just curious thats all:biggrin:

David Humphries · January 27, 2011

You can't hit these hard Rob, they just can't take it.

most of them are lappsed by 100 years or so.

There's in the region of 400 pollards, the aim is to revisit each one at least every 15 years.

Some of these are now on to their second reduction works.

I think the City is aspiring to get 50 or so worked each year.

We're looking at somewhere around 15 this week.

On top of this, new pollards are being created & the old ones are being released from the competing canopies,

and being given more light.

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testcricket01 · January 27, 2011

nice shots :thumbup1: beech is and always will be my favourite tree, worked at a hotel the other week and found in there beer garden a couple of monster beech pollards :thumbup: