ring barked

[elfinwood saws]

Went to visit my parents today and noticed this ring barking on 5 trees in a row, i used to play in and around these trees when i was a kid, after chatting to a few of the neighbours, find out the trees were shading someone's greenhouse,Luckly they haven't cut quite deep enough and the trees are starting to heal themselves, i,m guessing an electric chainsaw and a extension lead, i,m guessing they been done about a year. trees are on coucil land as well. So Tuesday i will be seeing our local tree officer.Photos are of 4 different trees.

[Gary Prentice]

Unfortunately the offender is simply likely to have another attempt. Council legal departments seem loathe to prosecute, even at times when the offenders caught in the act.

 

The best outcome likely is a good TO who will talk to the neighbours, not singling anyone out, pointing out how keen the authority is to prosecute. It might be a bluff, but it may just work.

 

Good luck, but don't get your hopes up.

[Stubby]

Its a good way of getting dead standing fire wood but obviously this is not the case . Are they willows ?

[Gary Prentice]

Limes?

[Gnarlyoak]

I'd go limes.

 

Shameful behaviour nonetheless.

[Stubby]

Yea I thought limes at first but the growth is willow colour

[renewablejohn]

If it is willow I doubt a saw cut like that would kill off the tree.

[Stubby]

No you could fell it an inch from the ground and it would sprout .

[Stephen Blair]

I say lime with the red buds

[Eddy_t]

Limes (probably Tilia cordata), and with the epicormic growth, the cuts will heal over without the crown dying, although it probably will develop a bulge at the cut line

 

 

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