Trust your instincts lads

[Lorry thompson]

Was up this tree a couple weeks back was asked to take it down. I came down thought I was being soft went back up it only to come down again. We've been waiting for some dry weather to get a mewp in and in the mean time it decided to come down itself.

 

The tree itself is around 60ft and on top of a hill I was lucky.

[Ewan Murray]

Wow glad no one was hurt mate, goes to show.

[Pat Ferrett]

I've missed you Lorry

 

Glad to see your still having ago mate

[Stephen Blair]

No one was hurt, good stuff:)

[swinny]

Good job you trusted your instinct on this one!

 

What is it that didn't feel right?

[Lorry thompson]

Can't explain it mate to be honest just didn't feel right thought I'd lost it haha I got on the deck annoyed with myself and ran up only to feel the same way. The tree had a heavy lean and a couple pockets of rot with signs of brackets that may have been knocked off lower down.

 

Glad you've missed me jammy mate haha am keeping busy hope you are too pal

[Tony Croft aka hamadryad]

Good shout Lorry, was there no options to rope in to one of those neighbouring trees?

[Dean Lofthouse]

Looks like very wet boggy ground, mind the Hogweed at the base of the tree

[Stubby]

We were felling (in lumps ) some dodgy looking chestnuts and others that were in a hedgerow near a road for a local farmer .My buddie was up there knocking big ugly lumps off , as big as poss just to get them down . We were to leave them where they fell . We stopped for a break and sitting in the truck eating our scram when there was this almighty crash . We went and had a look and a bigun about six trees down the line had come out of the ground root plate and all ! The soil very dry we had no rain for weeks . May be the pounding from the lumps we dropped helped or not I don't know . but we could ha easely been under it or worse still my mate up it . Oh and it brought down the phone lines and cut off the farming village in the middle of the south downs for a few days .

[skyhuck]

Looking at pictures, it looks like it could have been felled (missing the other tree).

 

Is there a reason this was not done????