Managing Trees with Decay & Dysfunction

[Arborowen]

I'm not the TM police.... Or am i

 

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[David Humphries]

the decay associated with daldinia

 

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[David Humphries]

have been watching the decline of this white willow for a few years

 

this google image shows it from two summers ago with a small percentage of die back in the upper crown and the gap is from earlier storm damage.

 

 

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[David Humphries]

the decline has steadily increased year on year.

 

this is the tree earlier this week.

 

 

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[David Humphries]

No significant basal issue, but perhaps left this one a little too long above a crossing, but its now down toward where we leave it as monolith with no dramas.

 

Stopped the traffic while we felled out the indiividual main limbs.

Agent-Arb managed to get the majority of them both up & down hill along the verge.

The last one shattered on to the kerb but all in all didn't cause too much disruption for the traffic & pedestrians.

 

will take another meter or so off the top to leave it within a safe falling distance of the crossing.

 

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[Andrew Gale]

Don't you just love willow when it shatters into a 1000 little pieces........; elm too, a ruddy nightmare.

 

Off topic but liked the look of your clinometer App and subsequently got myself one; no tree is safe now, everything gets a measure:thumbup:

[fagus]

Thanks for the information,nice work.

[David Humphries]

small job releasing an SBD over a woodland desire path

 

 

 

 

 

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[David Humphries]

Crataegus Laevigata 'Pauls Scarlet' (Midland Hawthorn)

 

plays a significant role in the aesthetics of this water garden.

 

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[David Humphries]

Crataegus Laevigata 'Pauls Scarlet' (Midland Hawthorn)

 

not a really old veteran, but probably a victorian planting and now in a state of being a segmented semi-autonomous tree with individual functioning units.

 

These are now delaminating and threatening its continued vertical existance.

 

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