My first serious attempt at coronet cuts

[Gnarlyoak]

Last year I had what was for me a rare opportunity, to try and attempt to create some coronet cuts whilst dead wooding a large oak. The tree was located in the corner of a pastural field adjacent to the A556, and part of the Tabley Hall estate, nr. Knutsford.

 

The reason for deadwooding in the first place was for dreaded H&S issues The esate ( its a Crown Estate, therefore owned by HMtheQ) did'nt want chunks of dead wood dropping on their tenant farmers, or their machinery or livestock etc.

 

So the idea was to try some coronets to try and replicate and replace the nice deadwood habitats that we were cutting off.

Anyhoo, these are a few pics of my attempts, which include some slits and slots provided for the wee beasties and micro organisms that like that sort of thing.

 

I hope they pass muster with the more critical conservationist minded amongst you. I would gladly do more, so any tips on how they could be improved upon are welcome. Though the opportuinities to do so are few and far between. Ho hum.

[ukminch]

I don't believe you, I'm sure I've got evidence of you doing coronet cuts on my school job!!! :-)

[testcricket01]

only things id say is you want to try and get rid of the flatness of the end if you no what i mean. otherwise they will only get better

[Graham]

Good job.....and they will get better:thumbup1:

[Gnarlyoak]

I don't believe you, I'm sure I've got evidence of you doing coronet cuts on my school job!!! :-)

 

Nah... don't believe ya Rob. Maybe it was a bit of twig fracture pruning or a bit of test run...

But these pics are over a year old.....

[Gnarlyoak]

only things id say is you want to try and get rid of the flatness of the end if you no what i mean. otherwise they will only get better

 

By this I take it you mean tip end / flat face where the final reduction cut was made yeah? So I need to make this pointier (?) is that what your saying?

 

If so, is there a special purposeful reason for this or it it just from an aethetic point of view?

 

Thanks for your input.

[testcricket01]

By this I take it you mean tip end / flat face where the final reduction cut was made yeah? So I need to make this pointier (?) is that what your saying?

 

If so, is there a special purposeful reason for this or it it just from an aethetic point of view?

 

Thanks for your input.

 

theres no reason for it other than looks, it looks obvious that the limb has been cut off and then fractured up, you want to make it look uneven so 1 tip is longer than another tip etc

 

heres a couple pics to kinda show what i mean.

[Gnarlyoak]

theres no reason for it other than looks, it looks obvious that the limb has been cut off and then fractured up, you want to make it look uneven so 1 tip is longer than another tip etc

 

heres a couple pics to kinda show what i mean.

 

Ahaa, got ya. I'll definately take that on board, that would look much better, much less contrived and more natural looking. Nice one man, thanks or that.

[gibbon]

Looks good to me. It's very hard to do much better than that on rock hard old dead oak like your tree looked. On more recently dead or living stuff try to make some of it tear, then you've got less to rough up with a chain saw.

[Czlowiek Drzewo]

they are for insects right? why must they look good??