To Coronet or Not to Coronet, now that is a question

[Marc]

Nice looking for a coronet cut, our Tree officers promote the use of coronet cuts and leaving dead wood in the appropiate place.

 

Did some nice highways work a few months back, the spec was to veteranise an Ash and Oak tree! We removed the hazards of the road but created hazards over the farmers field.

Not only did we coronet cut, but we tried to create holes in the stem and limbs by boring out out slots in the hope they will be used by bats or woodpeckers.

 

On one council contract we strapped deadwood high up in the canopy! And strapped a dead Beech trunk to the trunk of a living Beech.

 

Another trick was spear cutting limbs in an attempt to get them stuck in the ground, apparently Stag beetles love the bit of wood under the soil.

 

I just think all this work makes a nice change from the normal everyday treework.

[David Humphries]

Hello MattyF,

was the branch wood decayed enough to make the coronets easier?

 

Cheers

MonkeyD

[David Humphries]

Hello Marc,

hadn`t come across the spear technique for stags before, usually we cut Oak bollards and "plant" them at different heights in groupings.

The Bugs love this, but so does Armilaria !

 

Cheers

MonkeyD

[MasterBlaster]

It's so odd, around here customers pay us to flush cuts off that look like that.

[David Humphries]

Hello MasterBlaster,

where is round here?

Is it really Louisiana?

Don`t you folks do eco arb?

Its about getting away from Big Brother telling us to go sanitise everything in and around our environment.

Spread the word.

Cheers

MonkeyD

[Andy Collins]

Hello MasterBlaster,

where is round here?

Is it really Louisiana?

Don`t you folks do eco arb?

Its about getting away from Big Brother telling us to go sanitise everything in and around our environment.

Spread the word.

Cheers

MonkeyD

 

I think its just a fad, to be honest, all this eco-this and eco-that stuff. Next we wont prune trees at all, leave all the ivy on for the eco-purpose, before we know it we wont do any work at all. It looks ok in a natural environment, e.g. woodland, but in the real urban area it just looks crap. Few years back, the flush-cut was king, as was painting the wounds, filling cavities with rubble and concrete, then along came Shigo, and a new style was born. I have been reprimanded in the past for leaving deadwood in trees, however small, and leaving leaves in a woodland. But now its all ok, and we can leave messy looking wounds in the interest of "ecology". Lets face it, its takes longer to make coronet cuts, so the companies can charge more, in the name of "ecology", in reality just to line their pockets

[David Humphries]

BigA,

i don`t think anyone on here is truly advocating doing this anywhere near urban parks/gardens, rightly so that would look totaly crap & inapropriate.

But if we collectively broaden our skills & techniques then its Win Win. Lots of Horses for lots of different Courses.

 

In terms of just beeing a fad, you only have to acknowledge the amount of column inches that trade, national press, tv, radio and the Web have given to this issue over the last 5 years, it just goes to show how many people are naturaly interested.

Of course there are always hidden agendas, but

time will tell!

Monkeyd

[vduben]

I've only just started climbing but can honestly say I don't fancy that from a rope and harness! Think I'd be more willing froma MEWP but then I haven't seen it done around here at all.

 

stuart does a bit of that matey

[madmatt]

yeah seen the pics tonight on the puter! don't seem to be much he don't do LOL!

[MattyF]

Hello MattyF,

was the branch wood decayed enough to make the coronets easier?

 

Cheers

MonkeyD

 

no wood was solid....well dead/alive like you get on chesnut that far infected........spose it should be taken out and burnt really!