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

[David Humphries]

Now that Nelly's back home, we've got a stack of Coronet and Fracturing jobs to catch up with.

This is on a Beech in decline, which is to be retained, monitored and reduced in phases.

Laterals by MEWP, Apex of the crown later by rope.

3rd,4th & 5th are my attempt at replicating delamination.

I know it looks odd, but the ravages of a little time will be kinder on the aesthetics.

 

Got soaked and cramped today

[David Humphries]

A couple more.

[skyhuck]

Looks good!

[Dean Lofthouse]

Fourth one looks like the olympic torch :wave:

 

Nice Monkeyd

[Mac McLennan]

Those cuts are pretty cool. Bet they look great once they have aged a little.

[David Humphries]

Thanks fellas, appreciate your good will.

Doesn't rock the majorities boats :wave:

[Mac McLennan]

I first seen them when Jack Kenyan took us on one of his 'fungi walks' in Great Windsor Park. Some students from Merrist Wood had done them.

 

Looked fantastic in that environment.

[Paul Smith]

Thanks fellas, appreciate your good will.

Doesn't rock the majorities boats :wave:

 

I like em for what its worth!

[David Humphries]

Yawn Yawn, more coros.

When will the senseless vandalism cease.

 

Some of my colleagues are starting to compare my obssession/madness with the infamous...................... Colonel Walter E. Kurtz

[Jack-Arb aka Tiago Sinclair-Julio.]

I personally love to coronet trees, theres an art in it, to make something look naturally fractured/ ripped/ cracked/ broken with a mechanical tool that cuts in straight lines its not as easy as one might think. I really enjoy doing them because one as to be creative and experiement different thecniques. But nature is hard to copy, so i do see quite a few that look totally man made and then half there purpose is lost, but maybe they still work for the general public, hopefully!

 

For the ones that think that coronetting is a fashion that eventually going to die out, i think they are wrong, more and more people are trying them out and theres defenatly a place for them in arb these days. People are aware of the importance of preserving dead trees and blend them in with there natural enviroment.

 

The reaction of the public that approach us while we doing them as been great, most of them find it odd and ask whats those things all about, and once we've explained I have heard only positive stuff. I think people really appreciate to see the effort we put into to preserve and encorage wild life, and thats why I believe its something thats going to be more common in years to come...

 

 

Jack is back