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Soft felling heavy stems with bat potential .


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Natural England guidance in these situations is "Work should be conducted in a sensitive manner, and where reasonably practicable, timber with bat potential should not be directly sawn through. If such timber is removed, it should be left at the base of the tree for at least 48 hours. Where it is impractical to lower potential bat roosts, piles of brash or logs can be used to soften the impact of them hitting the ground."

 

You are in the realm of breaking the bat protection laws here, with hefty fines, so I'd suggest that you get the ecologist to specify what measures are to be taken. I can't see how a poorly defined term like 'soft felling' is enough to instruct you.

 

Very good advice we have felled one tree already using the method you suggest I'm just after improving the technique and seeing how people lower heavy stems to the ground possibly using other trees for the lowering .

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I'd of thought you'd be best off lowering the sections out.

 

I think it was in Scotland where the FC felled a load of Douglas Fir on some archeology. They tied the at the top and then they went through some blocks and pullys and i'm guessing some porta wraps to slowly lower the whole tree to the ground very slowly. It was in either Forestry Journal or the FCA mag it was a few years ago now though.

 

I will try and find this info cheers :)

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Defiantly the kind of thing I'm looking for but the trees we are dealing with are shorter and much heavier timber but great video thankyou :)

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We once had to crane some stems with bats in and attach them to some other trees on site which were staying so as not to disturb bats to much. Seemed daft but got paid for it so

 

That's a great idea for the future with smaller pieces but also all trees are being removed . I will defiantly use that idea if I get the chance in the future . I have seen it before at merristwood but I had forgotten about it .

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