V.T.A symptoms "the chatty trees"

[Treecreeper1961]

Long live the 'chatty trees' thread.

Hmmm. Is that chatty trees or tasty cheese? Both very morish.

We could all do with developing our understanding and appreciation of body language.

I'm gonna go and convince the missus.

[davyjones]

Looks like hispidus canker.

I haven't seen this phenomena brought about by Inonotus hispidus, I thought it normally caused sunken strip cankers on Ash stems? Or is this more commonly seen on Planes?

Edited November 29, 2011 by davyjones

[davyjones]

Returning for a sec to the issue of forks and inclusions, the attached image is of a 30m Lime that failed at 4m, shedding a 26m limb (I can do maths, me) on to someone's forest lodge (fortunately unoccupied). Annoyingly I only have this image left!

 

This is the first time I saw the tree - apparently someone had appraised it a few years previously (...). Incidentally the shed limb also wiped out a 15m beech and half a reasonably sized oak. The stem is pretty much shot up to 4/5m with extensive white-rot extending into the failed stem (G. australe). There was only approximately 3 inches of uncompromised wood by which the limb was attached and this tree failed on a perfectly calm day!

 

There were loads of other mature/over-mature limes at this spot with interesting features for which I have temporarily mislaid the images. I may post these if and when I find them.

 

Great thread by the way, having worked with trees for a number of years I have come to appreciate the infinite variety they represent and realised I have will always have much to learn!

[RobArb]

How about these for some chatty beeches:biggrin:

 

From Kersal Dale country park in salford

 

And the last few is an Ent i found watching over his territory:thumbup1:

[David Humphries]

Some cracking trees there Rob

 

 

but where's all the burnt out scooters ?

 

 

 

 

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[RobArb]

Some cracking trees there Rob

 

 

but where's all the burnt out scooters ?

 

 

 

 

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You wouldn't believe me if i told you:lol:

[Tony Croft aka hamadryad]

some nice erosion root plates there, something wierd going on in some of those trees roots too, nice group of shots.

[Tony Croft aka hamadryad]

[quote name=davyjones;579250

This is the first time I saw the tree - apparently someone had appraised it a few years previously (...). Incidentally the shed limb also wiped out a 15m beech and half a reasonably sized oak. The stem is pretty much shot up to 4/5m with extensive white-rot extending into the failed stem (G. australe). There was only approximately 3 inches of uncompromised wood by which the limb was attached and this tree failed on a perfectly calm day!

 

Great thread by the way' date=' having worked with trees for a number of years I have come to appreciate the infinite variety they represent and realised I have will always have much to learn![/quote]

 

Just how many years previous did the appraisal get done?

 

Ganoderma australe could more than likely not even fruited yet in such a scenario, so would be difficult to say the appraisal was bad, unless there was a perenial bracket with its annual layers available for the count.

 

G. australe can be a difficult one to detect sometimes all thats there (like Kretzschmaria deusta) is a small hard blackened bulb low at the butress bases.

 

Given the low level of info avaliable on G. australe, and the none existent understanding of panic fruiting as described by Gerrit Keizer its no surprise such a tree was under evaluated.

[RobRainford]

Just how many years previous did the appraisal get done?

 

Ganoderma australe could more than likely not even fruited yet in such a scenario, so would be difficult to say the appraisal was bad, unless there was a perenial bracket with its annual layers available for the count.

 

G. australe can be a difficult one to detect sometimes all thats there (like Kretzschmaria deusta) is a small hard blackened bulb low at the butress bases.

 

Given the low level of info avaliable on G. australe, and the none existent understanding of panic fruiting as described by Gerrit Keizer its no surprise such a tree was under evaluated.

 

Was that meant for the fallen ash thread?

[Tony Croft aka hamadryad]

Was that meant for the fallen ash thread?

 

 

No:lol: