Holding back the years.........

[treeseer]

3rd pic down shows a belted buttress; quite pronounced.

 

still rout how those get to be that way.

 

also in terms of epiphytes have you ever seen one split a tree apart? Removal or not seems to come more from what kind of ecology is the objective.

[David Humphries]

3rd pic down shows a belted buttress; quite pronounced.

 

still rout how those get to be that way.

 

also in terms of epiphytes have you ever seen one split a tree apart? Removal or not seems to come more from what kind of ecology is the objective.

 

Post 6?

 

would imagine this is a wrinkly sock effect of a white rot type decay (stripping the lignin) within that butress, Ganoderma perhaps

 

 

I've seen a couple of root jackers take out branch unions.

 

most notably an elder within a veteran wild service tree.

[David Humphries]

This one seems to be doing a good enough job by itself.

 

 

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[David Humphries]

This one seems to be doing a good enough job by itself.

 

Whereas, this one needed a bit of work to stabilise the crown on the hollow bolling.

 

 

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[David Humphries]

Whereas this one needed a bit of work to stabilise the crown on the hollow bolling.

 

Although Michal felt that the canopy was fairly stable whilst working on it, from the ground it had a fairly notable oscilation until a good bit of the weight had been removed.

 

 

 

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[David Humphries]

before & after

 

 

 

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[treeseer]

before & after

 

 

 

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If saproxylic wildlife habitat was the objective, nice work!

 

If tree preservation and maximizing other tree contributions were the objective, the cuts would have been different, right?

[David Humphries]

If saproxylic wildlife habitat was the objective, nice work!

 

If tree preservation and maximizing other tree contributions were the objective, the cuts would have been different, right?

 

Tree preservation for saproxylic wild life habitat would be the objective.

 

These are woodland trees Guy, not urban, so no Shigotastic pruning cuts required here.

 

One of the primary specifications is to leave stubs (ripped or stepped) of upto 500 mm.

 

See forthcoming article 'Restoration of lapsed beech pollards:

Evaluation of techniques and guidance

for future work' in volume 34 Issue 4 of the Arboricultural Journal

 

 

 

 

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[Le Sanglier]

Not a job for your fattest climber! interesting stuff.

[David Humphries]

Not a job for your fattest climber! interesting stuff.

 

Not the domain of old silverback gorillas for sure.

 

A lot of these are reduced by tracked mewp, but a number are inaccessible (root damage wise) and on steep slopes.

 

 

 

 

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