Haloing around and reducing veteran pollards

[David Humphries]

The lady is remarkable in so many ways.

Not only is she phototropic & geotropic.

She contends with a compromised vascular connection.

Squirrell damage & Armillaria shown by the presence of the melanine plague coating the exposed inner wood.

 

Not sure if the young whip beside her is progeny from roots or a seed but cool to see something sitting in the wings waiting to play it's part in the cycle.

 

 

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[Danavan]

Not that I know of Sean, but maybe by contractors on a previous schedule.

 

I know that one I was on above looked like spike marks, but I'm not sure they were.

 

I think the guys fully knew what a privilege it continues to be working on these particular trees.

 

 

 

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Unfortunately you are right sean. The trees were spiked & wounds from saws were inflicted under the supervision & instruction of those with far more knoll age than I.

 

I do however believe that this method of deliberate wounding was carried out in good faith to promote an un-natural/ natural age colonization of various specific species into a relatively sterile environment previously manipulated by the hand of humans.

 

I am no expert but am trying to see sense in some methods that at some times I don't fully understand but have a little empathy with.

[Danavan]

David, I don't think that I have worked on the trees in your pic's, but the work I see looks good to my eye as far as vet & environment habitat pruning goes.

 

Magic place to work if you let it in as i'm sure you & your team have:001_smile:

[David Humphries]

Unfortunately you are right sean. The trees were spiked & wounds from saws were inflicted under the supervision & instruction of those with far more knoll age than I.

 

I do however believe that this method of deliberate wounding was carried out in good faith to promote an un-natural/ natural age colonization of various specific species into a relatively sterile environment previously manipulated by the hand of humans.

 

I am no expert but am trying to see sense in some methods that at some times I don't fully understand but have a little empathy with.

 

 

I don't see any issue with challenging convention, particularly at sites like BB.

 

Whilst in Spain, I saw first hand how trees (Beech in that instance) can adapt to intentional wounding, and would like to see an increase in that discipline to study the potential long term benfits against drawbacks.

 

the shots below (have shown these before) were inflicted by Ted Green using a hand axe, and the resulting advantitious bud emergence is a direct consequence of the trees ability to take advantage of that cambial interface.

 

I'm a little suprised that the photo from earlier in this thread (which appears to show spike marks) has not done the same in reflection. Perhaps in too much shade or on the northern side of the trunk.

 

 

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[Tony Croft aka hamadryad]

one thing i notice there is the fact there are two wounds together, one above the other and only the lower has shot.

 

suggests to me that it is the break in the plumbing that instigates the shoots, to be expected in a tree of good vitality, wether we tie a cord to strngulate, tip the branch or here, axe wound it. IMO

[David Humphries]

one thing i notice there is the fact there are two wounds together, one above the other and only the lower has shot.

 

suggests to me that it is the break in the plumbing that instigates the shoots, to be expected in a tree of good vitality, wether we tie a cord to strngulate, tip the branch or here, axe wound it. IMO

 

 

I think it's perhaps more variable in terms of taking, in so much as that close up picture can show Tony.

 

From memory, (and we know how scetchy that can be ) there were wounds above that shown failed one, but conected to the same vascular flow, that had taken.

 

 

 

you'll have to take my word for it, as there appears to be no shot of that in me files alas.

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[David Humphries]

Ongoing experiment on this Beech at Burnham.

(not entirely sure when it was started, but a good few years)

 

Ring barked to kill the top off slowly, as a haloing attempt to introduce more light to its older pollarded neighbour.

Only the tree doesn't want to play ball. Its still going strong !

 

First shots are from 2008, the rest last week, but you make out that there are still buds in attendance.

 

Diffuse porous trees need a little more persuasion, it would seem.

 

 

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[David Humphries]

Ongoing experiment on this Beech at Burnham.

 

 

Same objective, but here carried out to greater effect, on a ring porous Turkey Oak at Windsor

 

 

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Don't suppose you've ever come across this tried on willow have you?

 

Alec

[David Humphries]

Don't suppose you've ever come across this tried on willow have you?

 

Alec

 

 

 

The ring barking ?

 

Don't think I have Alec.

 

Whats the Willow context ?

 

 

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