Tree's failing?.....So move the target.

[Mesterh]

I wouldnt bother using the acorns from that tree since its genes are obviously defective since it fell over!

Do all the other oaks a favour and remove this one from the gene pool:001_tongue:

[skyhuck]

95% of the crown foliage is outwith the reach of deer and donkeys. See pic below.

 

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:confused1: Err?? and when they drop?????:confused1:

[Mike Hill]

Do the Deer eat the Acorns as well as the leaves?

[skyhuck]

Do the Deer eat the Acorns as well as the leaves?

 

I believe they do Mike, cattle love em, so much so that it can do them harm if they eat too many.

[Amelanchier]

Nice work Dave. I personally would consider dismantling it to be the waste of money not its retention.

 

Also, in terms of replanting, I think its worth realising that in order to get just one tree to that age you'd be looking at quite an investment. Its not a sustainable practice to write old trees off.

 

Have you undertaken a CAVAT valuation of the tree Dave? Could make for a controvesial figure!!!

[scotspine1]

:confused1: Err?? and when they drop?????:confused1:

 

 

Try to be positive, its fairly simple to build a deer fence which would stop the deer and donkeys eating the acorns which Monkey'd will be using to plant millions of new oaks. Your plan for felling that tree leads to a dead end.

[Stephen Blair]

so its ok to cut down a tree to make a fence to protect a tree from being cut down?

[skyhuck]

Try to be positive, its fairly simple to build a deer fence which would stop the deer and donkeys eating the acorns which Monkey'd will be using to plant millions of new oaks. Your plan for felling that tree leads to a dead end.

 

MORE expense!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[David Humphries]

Have you undertaken a CAVAT valuation of the tree Dave? Could make for a controvesial figure!!!

 

Not as yet, have a few others further up the pecking order for an amenity valuation, (particularly one or two Vet Oaks in a forth coming subsidence claim) but agreed this would make an interesting study

 

 

 

 

 

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[scotspine1]

MORE expense!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

 

The reason Britain is in such a bad way these days is largely due to a lack of foresight and investment in the future. Short term answers like your felling option is indicative of the lazy mindset that stifles optimism in British culture today.

 

The best thing about this thread is that you have lost the argument retrospectively as Monkey'd has already implemented his excellent and imaginative management plan for the Oak. No matter how many times you reply in this thread with your negative responses it'll be fruitless unlike Monkeyd's Oak.

 

 

 

 

 

 

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Edited April 19, 2009 by scotspine1