Tree Segmentation

[armybloke]

That's a cool thing to do - what was the prize out of curiosity?

[Peter]

The winner got to ring it up?!

[treeseer]

The winner got to ring it up?!

ring it up, like push it back up? No, most bettors went back to other work after it was pulled 0ver (took 4,000#+ of pull). I hung around and moved brush while the top was cut up, and noticed the trunk raising upward on its own.

 

When all the top was off, I gave it some help with me polesaw. Cassian leaned in when at~80 degrees, and we got it to ~85. The response growth along those segments over the years should be quite interesting.

 

A lot of bettors pinned $1USD under their tags, but a lot missed the memo, so it wasn't a big payday.

[David Humphries]

?............Any thought of that on the long stub, or is traffic quite low? From the looks of it, the branch is extremely unlikely to fail, but I wonder if perceived risk might be a factor.

 

Relatively low foot traffic, and reduced to an extent that it will likely crumble away slowly with its white rotting recyclers at work.

 

 

 

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[David Humphries]

re segmentation, pull testing can give a glimpse into how that can work. See how this maple comes apart; and joins back together?

 

saw this documentation once before and admired the logistics of getting a bunch of people together to talk and look at things like this.

 

Perhaps I could talk to the good burghers of burnham to let us have a go at severing a few segmented vascular tracks to record how quickly the associated sections demise

 

All in the name of science of course

 

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[Tony Croft aka hamadryad]

I think perhaps you posted too soon Tony.

 

the point of my example was given in the post before yours (P-22)

 

 

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argh that makes more sense!

[Tony Croft aka hamadryad]

saw this documentation once before and admired the logistics of getting a bunch of people together to talk and look at things like this.

 

Perhaps I could talk to the good burghers of burnham to let us have a go at severing a few segmented vascular tracks to record how quickly the associated sections demise

 

All in the name of science of course

 

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not even in jest!

[David Humphries]

Saw this fine old veteran hornbeam at Kew today, forming itself in to individual vascular connections........

 

 

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[Kveldssanger]

Wow that stem is so fluted it looked like a Robinia at first glance! Is that a load of G. applanatum upon the stem?

[David Humphries]

Yep, think it has all the hall marks of G. applanatum

 

 

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