Another veteran gets blown over

[j r hartly]

Shame

http://m.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-wales-22202815

trees, waves and cakes!!:-)

[Charles Hey Arborist]

Very sad. Anyone know what caused it? Uprooted rather than stem failure?

 

 

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[Graham]

Hopefully something can be achieved from this to highlight Britain's veteran trees.

[andy perkins]

make nice fire wood

[JonnyVine]

Firewoodtastic

[Le Sanglier]

Stuff happens.

[Tom D]

Now if only Stevie Blair had pruned that, it would never had happened.

[Tom D]

OOps.. double post

[treeseer]

No stem breakage in picture, so soil/root failure. In 2 pics I could only see 2 roots, and small ones at that. Not that big a crown, but it could have been thinned/reduced. Any effort to preserve these old hulks might attend to the roots, at least as much as the branches.

[raker]

Looks like a lot of rot in there.

 

 

 

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