Potential ANCIENT tree removal

[swinny]

yeah he's making us wait tonight

 

lol chop chop

[Ross Smith]

Day 5

Which went well

Some serious wood in this tree boys

[Ross Smith]

Monday wk we fell ze butt

[Ross Smith]

Pic 1 is the last slab I took off the top

[Mark Bolam]

Tidy work Mr. Schmidt, very tidy.

 

You deserve an ale or ten I reckon.

[Tony Croft aka hamadryad]

Man thats a mondo pile of firewood!

 

Just thought I would share (untethered and unabaited:001_rolleyes:) a very decayed beech I reduced a year ago, you can see that the basal area is completely undermined, with extensive decay also throughout the first order limbs, essentially coalescing with the butt decay. The beech has only a ring of roots, with discontinuations becoming clearly obvious (trunk becoming fluted) Ganoderma pfeifferi is the obvious agent here and starting to break out in between the active channels of the vascular cambium. Obviously this tree is on a different scale, but thats not really relevant, its illustrating high levels of decay, in a high target area, managed. Its a copper, and the pfeifferi brackets compliment those colours when in leaf, its a remarkably beautiful tree in leaf the brackets adding to that visual. Not bad for a halfwit:001_smile:

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

[Mark Bolam]

Credit due Tone.

 

I bet that looked butt-ugly just after you did it, but you can see that it would still be a nice tree when flushed up.

 

If the customer is happy to pay for maintenance work it's all good.

[Ross Smith]

After seeing what I've seen with this trees stability and health wise over the last 5 days I would def have reduced the sail affect as per d humphries post

[Tony Croft aka hamadryad]

Credit due Tone.

 

I bet that looked butt-ugly just after you did it, but you can see that it would still be a nice tree when flushed up.

 

If the customer is happy to pay for maintenance work it's all good.

 

does it look butt ugly Mark?

 

[JonnyVine]

Good pictures of a very nice tree Tony

 

As for the similarity with the tree that Ross is dealing with I'm afraid the only similarity is the species

The target potential Ross is/was dealing with is every arbs nightmare, 360 degrees worth of total destruction.

From an insurance and arboricultural perspective the tree you display pails into insignificance.

 

My eyesight is not doing me justice this eve Tony because I fail to see any pictures of Gano, felling, your presence etc, perhaps these are pics you gleaned off the net today?

I'm sorry but I dont quite get what your trying to say

 

Best wishes

Jonny