Godmersham Park, Kent

[armybloke]

net working now so can reply was a great day working with phil and richard c ,its a shame the ash had to come down would of made a good pollard but over the winds in feb the crack had appeared to of got bigger gryfollia and dryads saddle had been at play

the good news is a young ash growing next to it has chance to fill its boots and take over and stump and some of the hollow trunk will be left for habbitat

 

Out of curiosity would she have pollarded ok? It looks quite an old tree and I was of the understanding that it subject it to too much shock to respond back to health. Anyone like to add anything?

[plippy]

in the afternoon ben and his collegue richard practiced aerial rescue, which was interesting, i think theyr a bit to close if ya know wot i mean:lol:

[Matthew Arnold]

Out of curiosity would she have pollarded ok? It looks quite an old tree and I was of the understanding that it subject it to too much shock to respond back to health. Anyone like to add anything?

 

Even if it did die at the shock of having its lid removed it would have made a cracking piece of standing deadwood. It wouldn't have been much use for the woodpeckers but would have been a gooden for bats with that big cavity in the middle.

[Tony Croft aka hamadryad]

Out of curiosity would she have pollarded ok? It looks quite an old tree and I was of the understanding that it subject it to too much shock to respond back to health. Anyone like to add anything?

 

ash are one of the finest to pollard, would have shot like a trooper.

[richard-c]

wat xray ? he has not got xray vision lol

[sloth]

I thought hispidus on ash was mostly confined to the tops?

[Ben Ballard]

i have only ever seen hispidus brackets high up stems of ash

[David Humphries]

I thought hispidus on ash was mostly confined to the tops?

 

i have only ever seen hispidus brackets high up stems of ash

 

 

 

Not a basal decayer, but can often be seen fruiting quite low down on a stem.

 

 

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[Tony Croft aka hamadryad]

I thought hispidus on ash was mostly confined to the tops?

 

i have only ever seen hispidus brackets high up stems of ash

 

Hispidus can be found anywhere along the main stem/limbs. Its a white rotter but often the wood appears brown, as in this case. Hispidus is one of those that hollows the centre of stems and limbs, and in later stages a necroses (hispidus canker) forms sometimes leading all the way to the ground, but more usualy upto 10ft or so from the site of first colonisation.

 

stem failures tend to be rare due to the self pollarding of ash by Hispidus colonisation, an important fungi in the aging roscess of ash.

[armybloke]

ash are one of the finest to pollard, would have shot like a trooper.

 

That is very useful to know as I am dealing with a large Ash in my woodland management of a NR down where there is a 'sensitive government neighbour' eager to remove large limbs that could give potential unauthorised access. Thank you all for the knowledge.