Britain's tallest tree?

[ShivaSubcontractor]

Alright chaps,

I've recently been lucky enough to stumble upon a grove of trees that i genuinely feel could be serious contenders for tallest tree in the country. Theyre close to the welsh border in Powys. Its a mixed grove of coniferous trees, Sequoia, Douglas Fir, Thuja and Grand Fir. There's a stand of Grand Fir there that are certainly around the 60m mark, though i havent had a chance to get in there with a clinometer...not sure if its even possible to get a reading....so who's up for climbing them??? Big shot jobby, bit of SRT to access the crown, then about a thousand sappy changeovers to the top. Probably safest to use the big shot poles to reach the very top too. Theres 3 trees that i feel are the tallest so i reckon you'd want a crew of around 6 to climb them all in a day......keen?

[Steve Bullman]

Do you have permission to climb them?

[Tom D]

If you don't have permission to climb them I'd hold off posting on here untill you have either got permission or just climbed them anyway. Asking for others to take part in a trespass could get the forum in trouble maybe??

 

Not being judgemental, I asked for permission to climb this one:

and was refused. We did it anyway.

http://arbtalk.co.uk/forum/video-forum/6931-big-fir-rec-climb.html

 

 

There are lots of sites with trees around the 60m mark, its findig the extre few metres that will give you the record. The one in my vid was 60m.

[ShivaSubcontractor]

i don't have permission to climb them however i have been involved with tree climbing projects on the land before so i cant see it being an issue especially if there's a possibility of the trees being nationally recognized or significant.

[Mark James]

The tallest tree in Britain is in Scotland somewhere, it was on the tv not that long ago they where measuring it there and then and it hold the record. Am sure Google will have something about it.

[Tom D]

There's a thread on here somewhere...

[Paul Barton]

This is it - I was there in May. It's at Ardkinglas at the head of Loch Fyne. 64.2 metres

 

http://www.ardkinglas.com/12/46/Additional/Abies_Grandis.html

Edited July 21, 2011 by Paul Barton
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[Mark James]

Yip that's it, it's a beast for British sized trees.

 

 

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[Chilterns]

Hi,

 

I don't think that the Grand fir at Ardkinglas is the tallest tree in the UK. The top of this tree is frequently blown out. Check out this web page :- The Big Tree Hunters Frames Page where some even taller Douglas fir trees in Scotland are reported as having been measured at 213ft tall (64.9m) in 1999 - that's 12 years ago. Given that Douglas fir grows at about 2 feet a year in this part of Argyleshire then the present day height of these same trees might be 240ft (73m). Now that's a climb !

 

Chilterns

[Tony Croft aka hamadryad]

mmmm this is getting interesting! i never thought about tres like this in the U>K thought I would have to go to California to do one!