200year old cedar in Dorset..

[Mark Bolam]

I'm pretty sure Jo is involved.

 

It's a shame for sure, but the media bleating on about the loss of a compromised tree are the same ones who call for heads to roll when someone is injured or killed by a failure.

 

As said, I doubt the NT took the decision lightly.

[Mike Hill]

Why did they not just Dump it like a Fat Bird.

I never climb a Tree I can straight fell.Well,unless I priced it for a dismantle and the owners decided to stay home that day.

[ben lightfoot]

Yeah was Jo, saw a pic of lowering device on their Facebook page

[Olliebradbury]

The decay was pretty bad, on most of the top cuts the saw only had to touch the wood before the branches and the hinges snapped clean off!!

[scotspine1]

The decay was pretty bad, on most of the top cuts the saw only had to touch the wood before the branches and the hinges snapped clean off!!

 

that's how normal, healthy Cedar of Lebanon branches or stems react when a top cut is made, it's a brittle wood.

 

There must have been other options available to retain that tree.

[mdvaden]

"The National Trust said the 'landmark' tree had to be felled immediately after experts found there was only five per cent live wood left in trunk"

 

"........recently surviving the 'roughest storm in 30 years"

 

Mmmmm

 

 

Certainly would be interesting to see a cross section

 

 

& a partial monolith being left for the long associated biodiversity would of been a good touch.

 

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I'd be curious too.

 

We've got one of the same species the town over, that's less than a century old, and not much less wider at dbh ...

[David Humphries]

A tomograph reputedly from a 3rd December BBC Dorset report on the Cedar

 

Doesn't mention the height of the test or type/extent of decay.

 

BBC News - Duke of Wellington's Kingston Lacy tree to be felled

 

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[scotspine1]

It isn't all bad news out there David, some people get it

 

BBC News - Scottish oak in Perthshire to enter European contest

 

'Rory Syme from the Woodland Trust Scotland said: "Niel Gow's Oak is a perfect example of a tree that has great story to tell and a real connection with people.'

[scotspine1]

Spoke too soon -

 

BBC News - Perth High School pine tree memorial pine felled

[David Humphries]

It isn't all bad news out there David, some people get it

 

BBC News - Scottish oak in Perthshire to enter European contest

 

'Rory Syme from the Woodland Trust Scotland said: "Niel Gow's Oak is a perfect example of a tree that has great story to tell and a real connection with people.'

 

Good to read Mr Pine, though I'm now somewhat miffed as I've walked that Tay path down to the Hermitage to visit the big Dougies but didn't realise this oak was in the vicinity

 

 

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