Treating stumps

[monkeyallan]

A friend who is a site gaffer for a drainage company has been asked by natural england to treat 3 stumps on a multi stemmed semi mature beech, "to prevent infection" ( 3 stems cut, 3 remaining ). Am I missing something, I thought this practice went out with the ark?

[likeitorlumpit]

A friend who is a site gaffer for a drainage company has been asked by natural england to treat 3 stumps on a multi stemmed semi mature beech, "to prevent infection" ( 3 stems cut, 3 remaining ). Am I missing something, I thought this practice went out with the ark?

 

treat them with detol- that will prevent infection:biggrin:

[APC]

treat them with detol- that will prevent infection:biggrin:

 

"Magic cream" (Germoline) sounds like it would do the trick!

[monkeyallan]

load of bollox from natural england, it's as if shigo never existed

[Lorry thompson]

Wasn't too long ago after raising some trees on a building site the machine driver came over with a stern face saying "I hope your gonna paint arborex on them cuts" I tried to explain as soon as you carry out a pruning cut the spores from a fruiting body will be straight on it and by painting cut will only hold the spores in the area but he replied "well your not a professional tree cutter"

[Paul Jenks]

It's the old story of, 'A little bit of knowledge is dangerous'.

We were asked to price for a mid-size, dead horse chestnut on a site where health and safety is seriously OTT. One of their staff had obviosly been reading the out of date stuff on the Forestry Commission website. We had to price for dismantling and not chipping,(incase the spores were transmitted), placing the branch debris into a covered Ro-Ro with the wood and taking away for deep burial. All so that it minimized cross contamination.

I did point out that 50%+ of the horse chestnuts in the region had varying degrees of infection, that the spores were in the air anyway and that at least a dozen other HC's on the site were in a poor state owing to canker.

The grounds maintenance crew on the site ended up doing it on a Saturday. Go figure

[skyhuck]

I believe in forestry soft wood stumps are treated with urea (sheep pee) perhaps they are thinking along those lines.

[likeitorlumpit]

I believe in forestry soft wood stumps are treated with urea (sheep pee) perhaps they are thinking along those lines.

 

Urea to encourage breakdown

I find in all cases where someone with little knowledge starts on us- whatever we say just sounds like excuses.

Nowadays I feel more inclined to impolitely tell them they know nothing:thumbup1:

[Simon Stewart]

Treatment of softwood stumps with urea is to protect against Fomes Decay (Heterobasidion annosum), If we never treated our stumps we used to get a right ear bashing from the gaffer and he would get a financial penalty.

[William]

One of their staff had obviosly been reading the out of date stuff on the Forestry Commission website. We had to price for dismantling and not chipping,(incase the spores were transmitted

 

Chipping infected material can create aerosol spores that can travel for many miles (from any diseased wood). Once in the air they can travel onto other sites, with no regard to site boundaries and ownership. Regardless of however many trees may be infected on a particular site, a neighbouring site may not be. Avoiding chipping infected wood is a good practice.