Anchor point ? Take your pick.

[Stephen Blair]

Well done for retaining it. Too many peope would have felled it and charged 3 or 4 times as much for the job. Our creeping crawling mates will be most gratefull.

 

there is an excellent example of a big hollow sycamore in blairquan estate in maybole, its in the book 'a pleasure in scottish trees' it gets pollarded every few years. you can stand in the middle and look right up the inside:001_smile:

[Big 'Ammer]

Habitat great.

 

Repeat pruning job, even better!

 

Not having to repeatedly sharpen your saw and cart away a load of shitty rotten logs......

 

Priceless!!!!

[Will Hinchliffe]

Nice work Dean. I wonder how much longer it will go on for ?

 

I keep meaning to come and explore your neck of the woods. My great Granddad was from Holmfirth. There is supposed to be a church up there that my great great granddad did the stained glass windows for. I think its in somewhere called Delf but when I look on the maps I cant find any where of that name.

[Peter]

Delph?

 

My Dad does maintenance work at this church, amongst others, for the churches conservation trust.

[Dean Lofthouse]

Nice work Dean. I wonder how much longer it will go on for ?

 

I keep meaning to come and explore your neck of the woods. My great Granddad was from Holmfirth. There is supposed to be a church up there that my great great granddad did the stained glass windows for. I think its in somewhere called Delf but when I look on the maps I cant find any where of that name.

 

It should go on for another 100 years provided it has sympathetic owners

 

The reason you wont be able to find Delf is because it is spelt Delph, it's just over the hill from Holmfirth on the manchester side. Nice little village, been there loads of times, infact Treequip on here just live the next village on.

 

Try putting Delph into google earth

[madclimber]

Done a great job on that Dean

[Will Hinchliffe]

Cheers Peter and Dean. I think that's probably it. Doesnt sound like it has a stained glass window though. There is some sort of story about a flood in Holmfirth and the family's cottage becoming uninhabitable so they moved to Delph. Im unsure of it all really I never really paid much attention. My dad reckons there are loads of Hinchliffes (my name) in that area. Its not really a very common name down here.

[Peter]

There is a newer church actually in the village of Delph, thats probably the one.

[Will Hinchliffe]

Ill pick my Dads brains on it sometime. Sorry for hijacking your thread Dean:001_tongue:

[nepia]

Sorry didn't get a before pic but it is reduced to roughly half it's original height, looks a bit stubby for my liking but not a lot of choice.

 

 

Looks great Dean: I'd be chuffed to have that in my garden, for both the habitat and aesthetic reasons.