Managing Trees with Decay & Dysfunction

[David Humphries]

Pulled out the hanger, retested the the lean (no change)

Will now check back on the lean after any heavy blows to compare clinometer readings.

 

If time permits we'll go back and resurect a portion of the dead trunk in a nearby tree.

 

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[sloth]

good work, thanks for sharing

[Nick Harrison]

Just as an add on to David's post, here's a short video that I took from a safe distance as we pulled the tree over. Not great quality, i was trying to keep an eye out for any members of the general public who might have decided to ignore our various signs and hazard tape rather than focusing the camera properly, obviously gotta sort my priorities out

 

[ame=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yYBRrhJoaqg]Failed Scots pine - YouTube[/ame]

[David Humphries]

Must practice your crowd control Nicholas, at least shout some expletives

 

 

 

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[David Humphries]

Oak with Laetiporus that snapped at 3m & got hung up in a neighbouring oak.

 

That was 2 weeks ago.

 

Would of been a relatively easy winch out, but there's a telephone cable right underneath it

 

Been waiting since then for BT to come & look & then book in a drop of the line.

 

We had it booked in for first thing this morning, typically the wrong type of engineer was sent

 

Finally got the right team in to drop it after an hour or so of waiting, Igland had the hanger on the ground in seconds.

 

 

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[David Humphries]

Very thin residual wall, failed at the point where woodpeckers breached the sound wood in to the brown decay.

 

 

 

 

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[Doug Blease]

Hi chaps,

 

I have thoroughly enjoyed this thread and others. I always learn something new and I like to think that I am of the 'retain and manage' camp rather than the panic and fell. The scientist in me naturally questions situations and observations.

 

Could the mycologists recommend some literature on this type of thinking/managment. I have a selection, but you may suggest some good reading which I havent found.

 

Doug

[David Humphries]

Hi chaps,

 

I have thoroughly enjoyed this thread and others. I always learn something new and I like to think that I am of the 'retain and manage' camp rather than the panic and fell. The scientist in me naturally questions situations and observations.

 

Could the mycologists recommend some literature on this type of thinking/managment. I have a selection, but you may suggest some good reading which I havent found.

 

Doug

 

Hello Doug

 

Not sure there's any mycologists around, but these below have been of interest.

 

http://www.forestry.gov.uk/pdf/lifeinthedeadwood.pdf/$FILE/lifeinthedeadwood.pdf

 

http://www.forestry.gov.uk/PDF/FCPG020.pdf/$FILE/FCPG020.pdf

 

http://217.205.94.38/pdf/RIN241.pdf/$FILE/RIN241.pdf

 

http://assets.panda.org/downloads/deadwoodwithnotes.pdf

 

http://217.205.94.38/pdf/RIN241.pdf/$FILE/RIN241.pdf

 

[ame=http://www.amazon.co.uk/Biodiversity-Dead-Ecology-Conservation-ebook/dp/B008CDSHBQ/ref=tmm_kin_title_0]Biodiversity in Dead Wood (Ecology, Biodiversity and Conservation) eBook: Jogeir N. Stokland: Amazon.co.uk: Kindle Store[/ame]

 

Dead wood matters: the ecology and conservation of saproxylic invertebrates in Britain: BES proceedings April 1992 - ENS07

 

Treesource Woodland Ecology & Conservation

 

http://www.lsuinsects.org/resources/PDFs/speight1989c.pdf

 

Natural Woodland: Ecology and Conservation in Northern Temperate Regions - George F. Peterken - Google Books

 

http://forestry.oxfordjournals.org/content/71/2/99.full.pdf

 

Stubbs, A.E. (1991) Insects in dead wood in standing and fallen trees.

 

http://www.cnr.berkeley.edu/garbelotto/downloads/espm107/lonsdale20091.pdf

 

 

A few bits and pieces for those cold long winter evenings

 

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[sean freeman]

Some really great links there David, I can personally endorse the book 'Biodiversity in Deadwood' which I have found to be the most comprehensive collection of research papers on the subject. It contains information that I have not read elsewhere and explains concepts that I have read before but not really grasped properly.

[treeseer]

Yes thanks; some new ones in there...morticulture? vintage lonsdale; selling that concept to US arbs will be a trick...revising the attached in that effort; advice welcomed.

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