Haloing around and reducing veteran pollards

[David Humphries]

yearly visit to work on and around the splendid pollards of Burnham Beeches..........

 

 

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[silky fox]

Real Ents those Veterans David...

[David Humphries]

Indeed

 

 

 

 

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[silky fox]

Fantasic resolution images too!

[sean]

And very nice too.

[MattyF]

How is the regrowth rate on the ones you did at the start of this thread David ? Have any declined further?

[David Humphries]

How is the regrowth rate on the ones you did at the start of this thread David ? Have any declined further?

 

That's quite hard to answer Matty.

 

It's variable as they can take 2/3 years before they start flushing again.

 

There are about 400 pollards left at this site and they have about a 6/7% mortality rate, which appears to be reducing.

 

They've been re-cutting them now on 10-15 year cycle for the last 30 or so years.

Somewhere in the region of 25 a year

 

They'v all been subject to various levels of Haloing to some degree.

So each tree takes time to react to the new levels of light they're exposed to, depending on individual vitality and decay. A large number have Kretzschmaria deusta.

 

We've been involved since 2007 and work on approximately 8 pollards a year.

From the ones we've been directly involved in, they appear for the most part to be fairly vigorous.

 

We've come down from a couple in that time that didn't feel right and have subsequently fallen over during strong winds or heavy snow fall.

 

Don't think that really answers your question though.

 

 

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[David Humphries]

Back at the Beeches of Burnham to check on some of the tethers we've installed over the last few years.

We're usually there in the winter, so it was great to see it in its verdant spring cloaked glory for a change.

 

 

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[Steve Bullman]

You trying to create something to rival the lunge thread David? It will never catch on

 

[David Humphries]

No matter how hard they try Steve, those reprobates will never quite master it, it's taken my boys years to attain the mastery of the star jump lunge !

 

 

 

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