And thou art dead, as young and fair

[David Humphries]

Horse Chestnut with terminal Armillaria attack.

Tree was in vascular decline and had shed a number of limbs in the last couple of years.

Apart from the tell tale rhizamorphs behind the bark, we found mycelium under sound bark, 25ft up the trunk.

Tree also had a worryingly deep included trunk split.

 

The area was a retreat for poets & writers from the mid 1700's on.

Byron, Shelly and D H Lawrence resided here, to name but a few.

 

 

 

(Title acceptable enough for ya, Peter? )

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[Joe]

nice work dave, looked like an interesting job

[Johny Walker]

why did you just not strait fell it seem to have been plenty of room

[David Humphries]

why did you just not strait fell it seem to have been plenty of room

 

Weight leaning back toward 17th century cottages, dysfunctional/decaying trunk.

 

I no takey chancey.

 

Speed is never ever an issue for me.

Systematic reduction/dismantle then fell, is my prefered modus operendi.

It works for my team.

 

Plus the fact that the fell zone is acid grassland with Tube web spider - atypus affinis in situe.

 

 

 

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Edited July 11, 2009 by Monkey-D

[John Hancock]

Weight leaning back toward 17th century cottages, dysfunctional/decaying trunk.

 

I no takey chancey.

 

Speed is never ever an issue for me.

Systematic reduction/dismantle then fell, is my prefered modus operendi.

It works for my team.

 

Plus the fact that the fell zone is acid grassland with Tube web spider - atypus affinis in situe.

 

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I could have written that myself David - nice one!

Edited July 11, 2009 by Monkey-D

[Mark Bolam]

My first thought was - why not just straight fell it? You have a tractor on site. My second thought was - I think Dave has done this before.

 

Good work fella.

[High Scale]

why did you just not strait fell it seem to have been plenty of room

 

I seem to remember somebody asking me that same question about the Beech in my avatar:sneaky2:

 

 

Nice work, like the cover on the car.

Edited July 10, 2009 by High Scale

[atree]

cool pics monkeyd,

 

so did u just turn up to take pics and drive the valmet?

[David Humphries]

cool pics monkeyd,

 

so did u just turn up to take pics and drive the valmet?

 

 

 

 

 

 

I was absolutely zombied out on the couch for an hour or so in the evening.

Dragin brush & timber up a verge then through long grass to a crappy little pto chipper in the rain

Iminantly 40 as well

 

Couldn't get the 1590 anywhere near the site.

 

 

Good spot on the Valmet btw.

 

 

 

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[atree]

hahaha good stuff monkeyd

 

well except dragging to a crappy chipper