Ustulina Beech Removal

[jeanesy]

I Was a bit unsure whether to post this as i didnt want people to think id nicked someone elses job, but....

 

a while back there was a thread on here about a beech with ustulina/kreutschmaria deusta that had to come down. Basically, the property it was in, was an old house turned into flats and the property management company that looked after it is a regular client of the company i work for. We look after the trees on all their properties and at the bosses house. The tree was overhanging the road/footpath and was on quite a busy junction.

 

There was quite a few opinions on how everyone would tackle the job, so for those that may be interested, this is how we did it.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

All went swimmingly. Boss put two days on it and we easily got it done by lunch on the second day, even squezed another job in as well.

[mistahbenn]

Taking care of business!

[David Humphries]

nice set of shots of an efficient looking job.

 

Tree had had its time judging by the extent of the soft rot in the cross section

 

Good call on the removal

 

 

 

 

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[Mark Bolam]

Good job Jeanesy, bigger than it first looked, as usual!

Is that a GRCS there? I can't tell from my iPhone pics.

Any more info on the procedures you used?

[Le Sanglier]

Ah yes I remember the tree, no fuss, no bother, cones, climber, telescopic, well done.

[jeanesy]

Not a grcs, wish it was! It's a Hobbs. Would love a grcs bit the boss wouldn't stretch to it, still, we muddle on through!.

It was quite straight forward really. Stripped off the back side of brash, leaving plenty of the timber up there till the front side had been rigged off, in the hope of trying to keep it balanced....just in case the decay was proper bad. The important thing for me, was the lowering was nice and smooth to avoid shock loading, which it was, well done to Chris! It was deceptively fat so the stem was rigged off itself and then felled onto the Manitou forks and gently eased to the floor.

[jeanesy]

Cheers bud. Manitou saved a lot of ringing up of some very heavy timber.

[jeanesy]

nice set of shots of an efficient looking job.

 

Tree had had its time judging by the extent of the soft rot in the cross section

 

Good call on the removal

 

 

 

 

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Thanks David. You can't tell from the photos but the tree looked like an old graft as well. It had quite a prominent graft line just below where the fruiting bodies were. And the two stems had included bark. How long do you think before it would start to hollow out?

[David Humphries]

Thanks David. You can't tell from the photos but the tree looked like an old graft as well. It had quite a prominent graft line just below where the fruiting bodies were. And the two stems had included bark. How long do you think before it would start to hollow out?

 

 

The included union certainly looked to be a significant hazzard.

 

The soft rots (like Kretz) take a long time to create hollow trunks compared to the white rots like Ganoderma.

 

But the non affected ring growth certainly looked to be a lessening resource.

 

 

 

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[Marc]

Why didn't you just straight fell it into the car park?

 

Well done good job.