Managing Trees with Decay & Dysfunction

[treeseer]

Here be more afore, during and after shots, 2 & 4 showing four years on.

 

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wonderful work with the tickling; nice to see!

 

That oak is one tough old bird then!

[David Humphries]

a lime with Ganoderma applanatum & Kretzschmaria deusta that we've been bringing down in stages over the last 6 or 7 years.

 

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[David Humphries]

a lime with Ganoderma applanatum & Kretzschmaria deusta that we've been bringing down in stages over the last 6 or 7 years.

 

its now got to the stage where chainsaws were not required to remove it !

 

base has been left in situ with the remainder being added to a habitat pile in a more appropriate location

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[treeseer]

Those are real he-men!

[daltontrees]

It's a pleasure as always to get the benefit of your patient long-term observations and management approaches, beamed straight to my 'puter. Thanks, long may this thread run.

[Asimina]

I'm no arborist, just an American that likes fruit trees. I thought the first pics with the fungus were pretty. If the tree had been in a safe location, could it have been left standing complete with the fungus?

[openspaceman]

 

base has been left in situ with the remainder being added to a habitat pile in a more appropriate location

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The only time I remember finding stag beetle larvae other than in a woodpile was in a lime stump like that.

[David Humphries]

I'm no arborist, just an American that likes fruit trees. I thought the first pics with the fungus were pretty. If the tree had been in a safe location, could it have been left standing complete with the fungus?

 

Hello Asimina

 

I wasn't confident that the willow would have remained intact with heavily decayed branches and trunk.

 

3 years on from the first post in this thread and It's still standing and has (as willows can) rejuvenated a new canopy

 

 

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[Dowie]

Hi David, what is the plan for the oak in the picture? I went to see a large oak today, that shed a large limb, (approx 1/3 of the crown) back in June, it has what appears to be cubical rot in the shed limb. Would be interested what plans if any you have for your oak? Thanks Ollie

[David Humphries]

Hi David, what is the plan for the oak in the picture? I went to see a large oak today, that shed a large limb, (approx 1/3 of the crown) back in June, it has what appears to be cubical rot in the shed limb. Would be interested what plans if any you have for your oak? Thanks Ollie

 

Hello Ollie,

Do you mean the oak in the middle of this shot?

 

We have some other issues going on around the immediate locality of this particular tree that may or may not have an effect on what we can do with it.

 

Long term (next 5-10 years) I would like to reduce the sail.

 

 

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