V.T.A symptoms "the chatty trees"

[Matthew Arnold]

I popped down yesterday and got some more shots of the tree. Got some funny looks when i was getting pics of the tree from various angles. And just to get everyones juices flowing another internal cavity shot.

 

What ya recon to this Tony? Our TO has said he would like to see the tree on the deck in the winter due to its "major structural weakness" caused by the internal cavity, the internal large bracket and bracket on the outside.

 

Needless to say it will be standing next winter and the winters after that, until it lets go on its own accord.

[Tony Croft aka hamadryad]

What ya recon to this Tony? Our TO has said he would like to see the tree on the deck in the winter due to its "major structural weakness" caused by the internal cavity, the internal large bracket and bracket on the outside.

 

Needless to say it will be standing next winter and the winters after that, until it lets go on its own accord.

 

Well matty without reduction its probably inevitable that a failure will occur, that is if she doesn't shed some weight, say if Laetiporus sulphureus was in the upper regions.

 

Or a well to do arby type gave her a tickle!

[Matthew Arnold]

Well matty without reduction its probably inevitable that a failure will occur, that is if she doesn't shed some weight, say if Laetiporus sulphureus was in the upper regions.

 

Or a well to do arby type gave her a tickle!

 

Will probably get an out of house tree surgeon in to do it. We have used a guy in the past to do reductions and thinnings. After the first growing season after the work you couldnt tell if the work had been done on a couple of them. How much do you think we could get away with out of the top?

 

We are thinking 2 metres all round with a 10% thin within the canopy.

[Tony Croft aka hamadryad]

Will probably get an out of house tree surgeon in to do it. We have used a guy in the past to do reductions and thinnings. After the first growing season after the work you couldnt tell if the work had been done on a couple of them. How much do you think we could get away with out of the top?

 

We are thinking 2 metres all round with a 10% thin within the canopy.

 

3-4 metres for a structural mod, and NO THINNING, naughty boy!

[Matthew Arnold]

3-4 metres for a structural mod, and NO THINNING, naughty boy!

 

Thats what the TO wants but he aint getting it . Just wanted to see what response it got when i mentioned the T word. If he hadn't seen the cavity with the big bracket in it he would say monitor annually.

[Tony Croft aka hamadryad]

Thats what the TO wants but he aint getting it . Just wanted to see what response it got when i mentioned the T word. If he hadn't seen the cavity with the big bracket in it he would say monitor annually.

 

heres a chatty oak, still cracks me up how they argue over t/r ratio theory.

 

natures rules!

 

 

 

 

[Matthew Arnold]

heres a chatty oak, still cracks me up how they argue over t/r ratio theory.

 

natures rules!

 

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I was chatting to an ex TO now tree surgeon and he said its funny as the way to TO's are taught is that all fungi growing on trees are bad and any cavity, no matter how big or small warrants the tree to be felled.

 

He thankfully has seen the light and now is saving more trees than felling. He saved a beech with G. lipense, it was a monster at the end of the garden and said to the land owner not to fell it but to just reduce the end weight off the lower hyper extended limbs. The tree is still going strong despite the 3ft deep cavity at the base.

[Tony Croft aka hamadryad]

I was chatting to an ex TO now tree surgeon and he said its funny as the way to TO's are taught is that all fungi growing on trees are bad and any cavity, no matter how big or small warrants the tree to be felled.

 

He thankfully has seen the light and now is saving more trees than felling. He saved a beech with G. lipense, it was a monster at the end of the garden and said to the land owner not to fell it but to just reduce the end weight off the lower hyper extended limbs. The tree is still going strong despite the 3ft deep cavity at the base.

 

 

sounds like a tree that will need annual inspection

[Matthew Arnold]

sounds like a tree that will need annual inspection

 

6 monthly inspection with free ones if strong gusty winds are forecast.

[daltontrees]

heres a chatty oak, still cracks me up how they argue over t/r ratio theory.

 

natures rules!

 

I thought gravity ruled?!

 

So what's the issue with this tree/ Apart from it looking like a freak with all that epicormic.