light reductions

[treeseer]

That gave it some help, nice work. Retrenchment pruning is often considered a phased operation, with return visits being the default expectation. However with this one and perhaps many others it seems like the first operation may also be the last.

 

Who's to say the tree is not likely to stabilise its crown, and compartmentalise below, or at least add as much or more strength than it loses?

[David Humphries]

I plan to be flexible with the phasing of any future retrenchment on this one Guy.

 

If it looks like it shutting down over the next couple of years we'll either go back and carry out the next phase or make a decision on managing it down as a dying standing tree/monolith.

 

 

 

Personally I feel that the end weight removal will help it to manage its energy more toward foliage production rather than biomechanics.........we'll see.

 

 

 

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[David Humphries]

tried a different approach out today......

 

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[Dobson89]

I didn't know felco were doing tree shears now! :sly:

 

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[treeseer]

hahaha you had me thinking the felcos would be used to make 1 cm cuts.

 

End result is gut wrenching as viewed from here; not sure i want to know the rest of the story!

[David Humphries]

...........End result is gut wrenching as viewed from here; not sure i want to know the rest of the story!

 

Perenniporia & Ganoderma cavitating the base & Inonotus hispidus decay through out the trunk & canopy.

 

Today was its birthday !

 

 

 

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[Nick Harrison]

reckon felco would like to use that picture as part of there marketing technique

 

couldn't figure out where that ash is? not on the extension is it?

[David Humphries]

Yep, on the north wall path near the Greek Royal families gaff

 

The next in line to the west from the lightning struck one.

 

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[Nick Harrison]

nice to know my memory isn't totally shot!

 

is the lightening strike one up for some works soon?

[David Humphries]

Soon....ish

 

 

Probably this autumn

 

 

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