Creating and maintaining deadwood habitat

[monkeypuzzle22]

Great pictures above Monkeyd...i have worked on a few projects in Leicestershire in which we completed a Walk over and Veteran Tree Survey on a large agricultural/old shooting estate. The estate had an abundance of veteran trees, namely old Oaks, Sycamores and several large lapsed pollarded ash and a large stored coppice stool.

 

I recommended the reduction of several large ash to create habitat poles/ monoliths, complete with coronet cuts and the retention of some deadwood and natural fractures. I will try to find the pictures and put them up...

 

Do you get a lot of this kind of work?

 

I wish i did...now with new company and different rules/oppurtunities!!

[David Humphries]

 

Do you get a lot of this kind of work?

 

I wish i did...now with new company and different rules/oppurtunities!!

 

 

 

You could say that

 

 

It's a growing side to our work, & tbh I get to spec the majority of it, which gives scope for a fair bit of flexibility.

 

 

 

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[David Humphries]

Dead oak that we part dismantled in 2007.

 

Had our bat licensed oppo have a look over it as were dismantling.

Although full of brown decay & cavities, no evidence of little furries were discovered.

 

So we left it as an 8m (leaning to roadside) monolith.

 

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[David Humphries]

Dead oak that we part dismantled in 2007.

Had our bat licensed oppo have a look over it as were dismantling.

Although full of brown decay & cavities, no evidence of little furries were discovered.

So we left it as an 8m (leaning to roadside) monolith..

 

 

5 years on the Monolith has been reduced down by a couple of metres.

This has left a gaping hole in the top.

 

 

 

 

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[David Humphries]

Hole required capping.

 

Used ply, cut to shape, screwed in and has a viewing port for future habitat surveying.

 

 

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[David Humphries]

Plunged in a few entrance slots through to the central cavity for potential furry inhabitants.

 

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[HCR]

Nice work!

 

Why did you have to take the top off?

[RobArb]

Awesome!

 

You have the bestest job ever:biggrin:

 

Sent from my Galaxy S2

[David Humphries]

Why did you have to take the top off?

 

 

Inspect our monoliths (80ish) annualy and have decided to reduce the population in height.

Mainly target based.

 

Due in part to having lost a couple of them (although these were ganoderma infected ash & willow & not oak)

 

The oak is roadside & next to a pedestrian entrance on to the heath with its weight leaning over utility boxes.

 

The reduction will earn the monolith far more time standing.

 

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[Graham]

How I envy you. We used to do work like this for an LA. In fact I was proud that I turned them to my way of thinking. There's another contractor now and they've gone back to their old ways:thumbdown: