Disease help required

[Mike A]

Unfortunately, this is the type of thing that I have inherited, and the state of the playing fields are even worse. Hell of a lot of areas that are in need of much improvement... good job I like a challenge!

 

Mike

[Steve Bullman]

Have they been prompted into action following the incident at cambridge last week?

Edited July 12, 2011 by Steve Bullman

[Mike A]

Steve - can you tell me more about this incident at Cambridge, as I am unaware of it.

 

I'm slowly turning the 'management' - would you believe that there was no annual budget for tree maintenance up until now? 500 plus trees, and no one qualified to work on them, and a refusal to spend any money on them - the mindset was, and I quote this "wait for them to fall down, that way we don't have to pay to take them down"... following several near misses, and numerous meetings, I have turned that mentality to the stage where people say "what do we need to do, Mike" - that's stage one done, now we are on to building the infrastructure to allow us to manage a large portion of any tree work in house, with a selection of contractors on standyby should the need arise.

 

Mike

[Steve Bullman]

Girl dies after being hit by falling tree branch | Cambs.com

[Steve Bullman]

sorry i edited my previous post, it was a week or so ago...not a year ago like i typed by mistake

[Mike A]

Steve - thank you for this.

 

Mike

[Fungus]

First 3 pictures look like natural bark flaking, nothing wrong with that.

 

This is what abnormal bark throw, caused by an infection of the cambium with a pathogen, underneath normal bark flaking on Acer looks like.

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