TPO'd Poplars...x16 and around 100ft. Helpful suggestions please

[AA Teccie (Paul)]

There is according to Mynor. Varies according to usage of rooms, it's an easement & I think the twenty yrs of use applies.

 

But no succesful cases/claims for compensation involving trees, as far as I'm aware. And certainly unlikley to be so where deciduous trees are involved.

[AA Teccie (Paul)]

My genneral view with Pops, other than deadwood removal n crown lifting optiions (not suitbale here) is "all or nothing".

 

Hence, as an aletrnative approach, I would suggest the multiple trees owners, guided by yourself, consider engaging the services of a 'suitably competnet perosn' (who can spell better than me ) to make an assessment and write a report highlighting the fact the trees are unsuitable to retain long term and to produce a management plan for 'phased' removal and replacement program, with something more suitable, over say a 5 year period.

 

Indiviudally, the TO is unlikely to go for this but as a collective approach he/she just might. Also, in implementing it, particularly if white poplar, you will need to be very mindful of the potential 'suckering' effects from the roo system and be very active in managing this.

 

just an alterantive, hopefully worthy of a thought.

 

Paul

 

PS Just a word of caution for 'topping' (it is inappropriate, and in fact probably incorrect, to use the word pollarding for trees of this size and age, accrding to BS3998:2010, although it is still commonly done), whilst there may be an abundance of regrowth, viewed as positive, in my expereince as Pops don;t compartmentalise well, often extensive decay sets in and the regrowth often fails/'snaps out'.

[Al Cormack]

But then you have a job for life managing the regrowth every few years ;)

[MattyF]

If you want to get rid of them you will have a good case if you can find hornet moth bore holes around the base..

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The damage is pretty amazing I would also guess in this area 98% of all poplars especially hybrids have a problem,this photo shows what you will find in terms of damage from the larvae eating the roots..usually them stem is solid above 1-2ft from ground level showing only signs of decay as this tree did.

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[Peter]

Forest research say there is no link between hornet moth boring and decay Matt.

 

 

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[Nimby]

Top them, thin them, Crown raise them or fell them. You have to laugh at these threads.

[Paul Cleaver]

In my experience - all thngs considered -FELL

 

Reasons have been covered already - I will add - Do your client/s a written quote and mention about the shoot from the roots problem that may arise and its not in your quotation to address this or

"make good" any damage that these shoots may incur.

 

This is what I have done in the past - glad I did when shoots were pushing through tarmac drives - 200ft away

[HCR]

If the trees are on his own property then an easement (right) for light can never exist as there needs to be a dominant tenement (the property that benefits from the easement) and a servient tenement (the property that 'supplies' the benefit).

 

You can't claim a right against yourself.

[MattyF]

Forest research say there is no link between hornet moth boring and decay Matt.

 

 

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I'm gonna argue mate but I personally feel there is a big link ... Not so much in trunk decay but roots...really I do not think you can say there is no link between the moths and decay and die back...

You can see the bore holes in the roots in the photos I posted.. I have seen this over and over on failed trees. Last time I asked forest research a question they changed there minds two months later! I may be proved wrong though??

[Peter]

Worth asking again, but the research they had done last time I asked was fairly conclusive.

 

I thought the same as you, still not 100% convinced, but I wouldn't assume there is decay just because there is borer damage. Like you say, 90% of pops have borer holes, but most of them are still standing......

 

 

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