Growth increments - accurate age for TPO

[Rowan the Bruce]

I'm looking at a job for a client in an area of blanket TPO 1966. The Macs to be worked on therefore should be less than 42 years old. Client has removed one of them and wants four more (in a tricky position) to be removed. The client would prefer not to have an application if he can help it due to the fact that the last application he made on trees that were younger than 42 they came along and slapped a TPO on them, for good reason in my eyes, they we're nice pines. The macs aren't great have been topped about 10 years before and were planted as a hedge, with targets and the odd rip here and there.

Can I ID the age accurately from a ring that was about 6-8 ft up the single main stem of the felled one?

[Will Hinchliffe]

What are Macs?

 

[Bundle 2]

Macrocarpa...google it.

[Will Hinchliffe]

Ok a Monterey cypress

 

If you count the rings six feet up it will tell you how years it grew for after it reached six foot. So you can give a good estimate of the age.

[Rowan the Bruce]

Yeah sorry about the slang phenom, about 30% of my work involves repairing/dismantling macs.

Here is the ring after a bit of sanding/oiling and I reckon its over 45, so its an application or someone else can do it!

[Log-ologist]

If the tree was smaller than 3" dbh ( diameter at breast height) at the time the order was applied then the trees are not covered, technically speaking. If its a hedge and maintained as a hedge they may not be covered ( previous treatment shows hedging took place)

 

its still your choice though but I guess the council cant be that hard surely.

[Amelanchier]

If the tree was smaller than 3" dbh ( diameter at breast height) at the time the order was applied then the trees are not covered, technically speaking.

 

I'm afraid this isn't the case. An area designation will cover the trees specified in the first schedule - typically "...All trees of whatever species within the area marked XX on the map..."

 

There is no mention of any minimum size in the act or the regs so this will include saplings and seedlings.

 

The older the order, the greater the logistical and adminsitrative nightmare it becomes.

[Rowan the Bruce]

Thanks for the advice guys