Todays pollard...

[benedmonds]

It gets worse.. Today.. Good fun to do, I sat in the middle with the 441 dropping stems out.

 

It had bleeding canker and possible armillaria.

[David Humphries]

It had bleeding canker and possible armillaria.

 

Why possible Armillaria, Ben?

 

Any mushrooms, rhizamorphs, mycelium?

 

 

Any pictures?

 

 

 

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[Mr Ed]

Nice work Ben. Nothing wrong with that pollard.

[benedmonds]

Why possible Armillaria, Ben?

 

Any mushrooms, rhizamorphs, mycelium?

 

 

Any pictures?

 

 

 

To be honest I meant to have a better look but forgot. I saw what I thought were the bootlace rhizamorphs on the lower trunk under the bark as you often get with horse chestnuts. It was pretty covered in Ivy and like I say I meant to have a good look later. No photo's..

[mdvaden]

Seems that this process may only work one time.

 

I've got a decent pic of a maple I removed, where similar was done.

 

The top cut is about 10" diamter, and the right limb cut about 12" across. Most of the darker area on this Big Leaf Maple is deadwood. Only a small film of life is on the outer "skin". Anyhow, it was the same sort of topped pollard thing. Not sure how long ago it was top cut.

 

You can barely make out where the limb area cut was compartmentalized at one time about 15" to the inside where a dark barrier can be seen. It's interesting to cut these things open and look at the history inside.

[mdvaden]

Same tree, tighter crop: