Expansion cracks?

[Johny Walker]

that looks like a prim candidate for a 3, cut reduction

[treeseer]

That is possibly the next option bracing it and a couple of others with Cobra bracing and reducing it by about 5 metres off the top but felling some neighbouring Ash to halo it so it can establish an inner crown.

 

The wind was ideal for the video today. Gusts of varying strength and length helped.

 

Yes extraordinary capture there--well done!

 

Depends on the site, but...reduction need not be hard, if support is adequate. And ashes could be reduced instead of felled as well. But my limited experience with beech is that they do not break dormant buds in the shade, so good thought to lighten the interior.

[Tony Croft aka hamadryad]

Yes extraordinary capture there--well done!

 

Depends on the site, but...reduction need not be hard, if support is adequate. And ashes could be reduced instead of felled as well. But my limited experience with beech is that they do not break dormant buds in the shade, so good thought to lighten the interior.

 

euro beech not Nothofagus Guy

[shillo]

Rod and brace in an ideal world. The crack was concerning though.

 

But i would just love to watch you pull the forks apart with a winch!

 

An arbtalkers day out!

[jomoco]

Were it my client?

 

3 staggered 3/4 inch rods with two and a half inch washers 1/4 inch thick, at the fault/crack.

 

25 feet above that one 3/4 inch ring/hub and three 7/16ths inch EHS cables anchored by 5/8ths inch through bolts.

 

In my experience drilling 3/4 inch holes 36 inches plus deep is too much for typical two stroke cabling drills.

 

But a 3/4 inch electric drill has enough torque to push one inch drills 6 feet, and break your bloody arms if you let it! So be forewarned. Just add the portable electricity generator cost on the clients bill.

 

IMO that alone with no pruning at all would be the ideal remedy for the long term of both tree and client's wallet.

 

Cost'd be about 1500 hundred bucks or so here in CA, including hardware n stuff.

 

Jomoco

[Adam M]

Were it my client?

 

3 staggered 3/4 inch rods with two and a half inch washers 1/4 inch thick, at the fault/crack.

 

25 feet above that one 3/4 inch ring/hub and three 7/16ths inch EHS cables anchored by 5/8ths inch through bolts.

 

In my experience drilling 3/4 inch holes 36 inches plus deep is too much for typical two stroke cabling drills.

 

But a 3/4 inch electric drill has enough torque to push one inch drills 6 feet, and break your bloody arms if you let it! So be forewarned. Just add the portable electricity generator cost on the clients bill.

 

IMO that alone with no pruning at all would be the ideal remedy for the long term of both tree and client's wallet.

 

Cost'd be about 1500 hundred bucks or so here in CA, including hardware n stuff.

 

Jomoco

 

not in a woodland you wouldn't.

[Tony Croft aka hamadryad]

not in a woodland you wouldn't.

 

 

and why the hell not

[Adam M]

and why the hell not

 

The UK equivalent of $1500 would be much better spent elsewhere, as noble as it is to want to save the tree. If it were the sole example of a species in the woodland then it would be more worth it. If there's other beech then make their lot better. Money is a pain in the proverbial.

[treeseer]

A reasonable plan, but if owner's arb undertakes the works it could be a lot less. Size seems overspecced; this is 3' diameter? Would just one rod below and one above do the job? I don't do a lot of these.

[jomoco]

The upper diameter of this pic looks about 3 feet to my eye Guy.