To top or not to top.

[Husqvarna King]

I'd of cut it here.

 

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im guessin the mewp was at full mast haha:sneaky2:

[walker]

Hi im new here!

Personaly i never top and have walked from a few jobs where ive been asked too. So yer i would have felled too. Acording to something i was reading a few weeks back on hazel coppicing all broadleaf trees will coppice so perhaps its not too unusual to see the Fagus regenerating at the base. Maybe you could return to the tree in 6 months and fell if the regrowth at the base is sufficient to keep the tree alive?

[Dean Lofthouse]

im huessin the mewp was at full mast haha:sneaky2:

 

You can read me like a book

[Dean Lofthouse]

Hi im new here!

Personaly i never top and have walked from a few jobs where ive been asked too.

 

A man after my own heart

[walker]

A man after my own heart

 

Haha thankyou very much!

[David oakman]

Yes the ganoderma is rather high i felled a red oak with ganoderma the same as that. i have also got some beech with ganoderma very similar to yours but no targets at all so will be left,but the interesting point i am coming to is the side the ganoderma is growing the tree has total dieback the rest of the tree is full of vigour proving that the ganoderma decays the heartwood and the sapwood. but as i saw in windsor forest beech hold on to the very end. I can see from posts that there seems to be two sides to this sort of work people like myself who work for someone would save a tree everytime for as long as posible or SULE. but others who work for themselves would fell:scared1:

[walker]

I think in the end it comes down to a question of what the arborist belives is bennificial to the tree and wildlife, maybe topping the tree in this way will provide lots of room for insects and other wildlife but is unlikley to be benificial to the tree. As i said befor i would fell and try to provide deadwood habitat on the ground. if the tree was to coppice then thats even better. We have to think of liabilty issues as well, the tree is over a footpath and leaving big hunks of standing deadwood over the path is just not on in my book.

[U1200]

Great job well done mate !

[David Humphries]

im guessin the mewp was at full mast haha:sneaky2:

 

Nelly is a Denka DL28, she was probably at half mast max, at that fell height.

 

She can get us to approx 90' straight up, and has about 35-40' of out reach.

 

Here she is at rest, at 60' and full extension.

[David oakman]

Good points walker i would not always save, i was walking in a wood full of maiden hazel very nice but we all know that the life of these hazel is about 60 years and if coppiced regularly hazel can live anything up to 1000 years. also the wildlife is safe for longer. something i only just learnt hazel does not produce nuts in the shade so you need to keep it coppiced for mr dormice.