Open Space Arboriculture - Urban tree conservation videos

[Nick B]

Not seen this thread before I have enjoyed watching the videos and some great soundtracks.

You have a great variety of work and it is good that you have the time to do all these jobs and keep these old trees alive or create habitat for the wildlife.

 

Thanks for posting I will keep an eye open for the new videos.

[David Humphries]

Cheers Nick, appreciate your comments.

 

 

 

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[scotspine1]

good work David, well put together vid. Like the set up for the highline.

[David Humphries]

Thanks Mr Pine

 

 

 

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[scotspine1]

I had that album round about the time it was released, long lost now though.......good old youtube eh....some decent tunes on it

 

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Edited February 20, 2015 by scotspine1

[David Humphries]

a lime tree that was significantly colonised by Kretzschmaria deusta.

 

Too unstable to climb, so we winched it over with an Igland

 

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[scotspine1]

did you hear about the trumpet tree they planted in Hampstead Heath?

 

they had to rootatoot

 

 

nice work as always David

 

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[David Humphries]

did you hear about the trumpet tree they planted in Hampstead Heath?

 

they had to rootatoot

 

 

nice work as always David

 

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Timothy, that's just plain awful

 

glad you enjoyed the vid

 

 

 

Have you ever come down a lime or beech with Kretz that just didn't feel right ?

 

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[scotspine1]

Have you ever come down a lime or beech with Kretz that just didn't feel right

 

not specifically Lime or Beech with kretzch but probably beech with gano, or oak with dryad's saddle, beech with merip, chesnut killed by armillaria, dead elms- so many different variables/situations/extent of rot, weather conditions, can't remember coming down any specific trees but probably have and for good reasons - the choice to climb is very subjective, based on experience/skill level and some book knowledge VTA etc as well as loads of other variables such as targets under the tree etc.

 

Making decisions based on feelings about the strength of a tree or it's rootplate is so subjective you'd never really learn anything from discussing it. One person might think it's unsafe to climb a particular tree, the next person might think it's perfectly fine, the first person who thought the tree was unsafe might be happy to do another similar tree somewhere else but the second person this time thinks it's a bad idea. The two different approaches will be based on two different experiences over time in treework. I think it would be sickening to see someone killed climbing a tree that could've been felled at ground level though.

 

There are climbers out there who would've climbed that lime in your vid. But just as an example of variables and different approaches had they made the first cut here (red line) knocking out that centre stem (for whatever reason) they may just have unbalance the tree enough to rip the rootplate right up, down goes the tree with them in it.

[David Humphries]

Tethering a veteran pine.....

 

 

 

 

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