Beech of Doom

[Steve Bullman]

was the crown as healthy as it looks on the pics?

[vduben]

them lifts are beasts for the right tree! how did you manage it then?

[RPA]

Hi edenarb, there was discolouration of the false heartwood in some of the limbs. Its hard to see on the photos but its there.

 

Thanks for the education - as normal.

 

Will the degree of discolouration of the false hartwood on the limbs be related to the speed of decay on the main stem, ie do you think the heartwood on this one has gone relatively fast?

 

[Amelanchier]

Steve, yeah not bad considering, some evidence right at the top of short annual shoot elongation and smaller leaves.

 

It had been slightly reduced at some point in the past 5 years, so maybe the really crap stuff was removed.

[Amelanchier]

them lifts are beasts for the right tree! how did you manage it then?

 

Er...we improvised

 

 

 

(we pulled quite a bit of top off with the GRCS, in a half the tree kind of way!)

[High Scale]

Nice work, nice pics.

[Amelanchier]

Will the degree of discolouration of the false heartwood on the limbs be related to the speed of decay on the main stem, ie do you think the heartwood on this one has gone relatively fast?

 

Good question. I'm not sure. The decay in the stem had moved up toward the top from the branch pullout, I think it had been decaying for a while, the photo showing the wall thickness gives a clue...

 

The beetles (or something else) had picked the decay clean at that point. Moving up the stem they were just settling in. I'd love to know example timescale for that kind of interaction.

 

Oh I noticed that they didn't move down the decay column, maybe it got too wet when it rained?

 

As for the rate of discolouration moving into limbs, I think is down to the branch protection zone, which I assume works both ways.

 

Funny old game, eh?

 

Its nice to have somewhere to waffle on about your day! ;D

[RPA]

Its nice to have somewhere to waffle on about your day! ;D

 

Wish someone would tell the wife that, beats the sh1t out of watching eastenders

 

Better be carefull what I say, shes checking my posts now after finding my first arb dogs post!

[Amelanchier]

Wish someone would tell the wife that, beats the sh1t out of watching eastenders

 

I hear that brother!

[vduben]

Wish someone would tell the wife that, beats the sh1t out of watching eastenders

 

Better be carefull what I say, shes checking my posts now after finding my first arb dogs post!

oh dear my man!!!! bet she had you by the balls!!!

i just waffe to the missus and her mum regardless, i here about there crappy days in a shop or behind a bar!!!! i mean how many times can you get told they pulled a good pint, at least my day is ful of trigger pulling and lifting logs:002: lol