Managing Trees with Decay & Dysfunction

[David Humphries]

few trees I'm keeping more than just a passing eye on.

 

Couple of oaks with Ganoderma resinaceum & a beech with Meripilus giganteus.

 

 

.

[David Humphries]

An ash naturally retrenching with Perenniporia fraxinea at the base and Inonotus hispidus aloft.

 

Farily busy footpath junction, so is now booked in for a reduction in height.

 

 

 

.

[David Humphries]

A tree that has had its time........

 

Declining ash.

Various dysfunctional issues.

Park cafe seating area

 

We've monitored this tree over a number of years, its been heavily crown reduced by a previous contractor some years back.

 

 

.

[David Humphries]

Various dysfunctional issues.

 

Ganoderma australe & Ganoderma resinceum basal decay

Root girdling

Inonotus hispidus colonised in the trunk and canopy branches.

 

 

 

.

[David Humphries]

Today was the day for its change of orientation.........

 

 

brush stripped out first, then under the direction of our sites licensed bat worker we inspected the woodpecker holes, cavities & bark fissures

 

 

.

[David Humphries]

Confident that we were not destroying current occupation the team carefully removed a few sections that we will resurect & use as habitat in other local trees.

Then crash matted the rest of the branches.

 

Trunk was then felled.

 

 

.

[David Humphries]

The white rot of both the Ganoderma & Inonotus was evident throughout the tree.

 

It could have stood for a few years more, but we were not particularly confident that the canopy branches would have held out much longer.

 

Stump is to be ground out and the planting pit will have a new replacement (not ash) in due course

 

.

[treeseer]

Good call, great documentation, thanks!

 

Snazzy piece of kit, that borescope.

[sean freeman]

Very well documented reflecting your teams serious and (IMO) balanced and proportionate approach to highly valuable assets in their specific locations with all the particular circumstances associated with those locations.

 

Well done David

[David Humphries]

Thanks guy/sean.

 

 

pretty cool to be influenced by & share the results with like minded arbs across the globe.

 

 

we're getting there !

 

 

 

 

 

.