Dead Man's Fingers on Eucalyptus

[Dan Curtis]

How'd it go Dan?

 

You were right, I died:001_tt2:

 

Decay was fairly extensive, perhaps 50% holding, mostly the decay was on the tension side and into a main buttress root. The tree had a slight lean, caused by historic movement. The customer first noted movement about 4/5 years ago, and it has moved a little further in the last few months. All of this actually helped, as it moved most of the canopy over the drop zone:thumbup1:

 

Unfortunately we didn't go to ground with it, chicken wire and staples just weren't going to allow it, so the full extent of decay will remain unknown

[Tony Croft aka hamadryad]

the wood will be embrittled, keep rigging to very minimum, no big swings on your anchor.

 

from memory, its probably soft rot (brittle) as its ascomycetes.

[Dan Curtis]

the wood will be embrittled, keep rigging to very minimum, no big swings on your anchor.

 

from memory, its probably soft rot (brittle) as its ascomycetes.

 

Cheers Tony. I refused to rig, didn't have an anchor as such, I spiked up and knocked off what I could as I went. We pulled the back leant top off, then took a few sections of stem off with the backside limbs still attached.

[David Humphries]

I don't have a huge amount of experience looking at the decay of X polymorpha Dan. Photographed the fruit bodies a good few times but not looked at associated basal trunk failures.

 

Similar to what Tony says, I understand it to be a soft rot decay similar to Kd where the cellulose is degraded.

 

 

 

Shame you've not had the opportunity to show us a cross section

 

 

 

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[BenR]

You were right, I died

 

Decay was fairly extensive, perhaps 50% holding, mostly the decay was on the tension side and into a main buttress root. The tree had a slight lean, caused by historic movement. The customer first noted movement about 4/5 years ago, and it has moved a little further in the last few months. All of this actually helped, as it moved most of the canopy over the drop zone:thumbup1:

 

Unfortunately we didn't go to ground with it, chicken wire and staples just weren't going to allow it, so the full extent of decay will remain unknown

 

Glad to hear it mate! Keeping the competition down for the rest of us.. we don't want standards getting too high. Before long people will be expecting uni users to be good climbers!

 

Glad it hear it went well! Could have been worse than 50% holding Did a few stone dead eucs in oz but never with the dead mans fingers. All the ones I did were hard as stone and really dusty:thumbdown:

[BenR]

Cheers Tony. I refused to rig, didn't have an anchor as such, I spiked up and knocked off what I could as I went. We pulled the back leant top off, then took a few sections of stem off with the backside limbs still attached.

 

Sounds like a sensible approach, especially when you dont know the extent of the decay and the relationship between host and fungi..

[Dan Curtis]

 

Shame you've not had the opportunity to show us a cross section

 

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Sorry David, I was a little disappointed too. I guess I'm not too keen on donating my chains to mycological research

 

 

Glad it hear it went well! Could have been worse than 50% holding Did a few stone dead eucs in oz but never with the dead mans fingers. All the ones I did were hard as stone and really dusty:thumbdown:

 

Agreed, could've been a lot worse than 50%, hence I climbed it.

[David Humphries]

Sorry David, I was a little disappointed too. I guess I'm not too keen on donating my chains to mycological research

 

Shame on you Mr Curtis, it's all about the sacrifice

 

 

 

 

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