Interesting Biomechanics

[Gary Prentice]

Interesting 'life belt' on an oak yesterday.

[David Humphries]

Apprentice Se was up undertaking some haloing of this old veteran pine when he came across these very fine inosculating beech branches.

 

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[sean]

They're amazing. They would be great to do some carving with. Any plans for them?

[sloth]

Nice find, unusual to see that on branches with (presumably) a lot of flex, being so far out...

[sean]

And fair play to him, looks like he's taken to the climbing lark getting out there.

[Jake Andrews]

David, can you explain the term 'haloing' for me in a bit more detail please?

[David Humphries]

They're amazing. They would be great to do some carving with. Any plans for them?

 

Going to sit on my shelf of weird and wonderful interesting biomechanical wonders..........though it won't be long before it breaks under the weight of all the crap I've come across over the years

 

 

 

 

 

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[David Humphries]

David, can you explain the term 'haloing' for me in a bit more detail please?

 

Felling adjacent trees or prunning back branches that are encroaching/shading a target tree (usually a veteran/ancient) to allow more light for epicormic growth to help develop lower canopies on retrenching trees.

 

Worth remembering that this type of work should ideally be carried out over a phased time line as a number of species can suffer from over exposure to direct sun light, if carried out in one hit.

 

http://arbtalk.co.uk/forum/picture-forum/39903-haloing-around-reducing-veteran-pollards.html

 

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Edited February 1, 2017 by David Humphries

[David Humphries]

Nice find, unusual to see that on branches with (presumably) a lot of flex, being so far out...

 

We were suprised that the grafts were as solid as they were Kev, thought the flex would have limited a strong bonding.

 

 

 

Don't think I've ever seen an example like this on beech before

 

 

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[David Humphries]

May of posted this before, but visited it again today so thought I'd share.

 

Liriodendron at Ickworth NT

 

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