Potential ANCIENT tree removal

[Ross Smith]

Day 5

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[DrewB]

Meh to the pictures rossco, the debate is far better bro

[Big J]

Final pictures of the stump?

[Ross Smith]

End of play Monday

[Ross Smith]

She's down

Some very interesting decay patterns

I've never cut a piece of wood as hard as this

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[Arctostaphylos uva-ursi]

Good to see the decay at this level. Nice pictures.

Will you be taking the stump any lower? If so could you post some more pictures of the decay further down?

Would be good to see some pictures of the wall repair too!

[Arob]

Thanks for creating a very interesting thread Ross.

I do not envy you one bit in looking to decide how to deal with this situation.

Reading some of the replies in this thread reminds me of just how little i know, but your last comment,

I've never cut a piece of wood as hard as this

is interesting; with hindsight, had you the opportunity to have carried out a Picus or Resistograph test do you think this may have produced results making retention any more of a possibility?

[Rich Rule]

Ross you mentioned about the hardness of the wood...

 

I did a road side Beech today with Merip, no where near the size of the job you had. Also some interesting patterns in the wood.

 

I commented to one of the guys it was like concrete when the splitting mall impacted.

 

[Ross Smith]

For me I think the hardness of the wood with the that the tree was over 350 yrs and had so much callous growth here their and everywhere within its lifetime but yes also the infected wood was surprisingly tough and to answer your question about keeping the tree with what I've seen throughout the dismantle is still a tough question, a big part of me wants to say yes because of the healthy appearance of the canopy and strength within 90% of the timber removed but reality and facts told me the tree was potentially vulnerable to complete failure considering the nature of how quick the fungus attacks the root and heartwood of the tree.

It was a tough job from start to finish and hopefully I will never take a tree of this age down again, although I'm starting a bigger beech next week that has merip but is probably 150yrs younger

[Mark Bolam]

You're becoming a one-trick pony Herr Schmidt.

 

Only yesterday I performed an aggressive yet sensitive 75% reduction on a Birch, I'm not kidding!