Fracture Pruning Retrenchment on Fulham Oak

[David Humphries]

Nearly a couple of years on from the original reduction & dead hedge and some bright spark has decided to have a wee bon fire.

 

There is a little canopy scorch, but I envisaged this and errected the Dh mostly out side the drip line.

 

Won't be tempting fate, so will abandon the regular topping up of brash and supplement by laying logs down and possibly planting up with native hedge species (nod in the general direction of North Wales)

 

Believe this to be the work of some idle young do bader, as opposed to someone with a grudge against blocking their access.

 

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[treemeup]

I like this thread!

I did a 20% fracture prune on a mature red oak about 3yrs ago...must go and check how its doing next time I'm in the area.

We get specced the occasional coronet/fracture and I enjoy doing it and appreciate why this technique is applied although it is tricky to cut a good one, respect monkey'd!

After reading some of the posts referring to stag heading would the occasional ring-barking or a 2/3rds ring barking in the right place instead of a reduction cut achieve this?

[gibbon]

After reading some of the posts referring to stag heading would the occasional ring-barking or a 2/3rds ring barking in the right place instead of a reduction cut achieve this?

 

I have been long thinking the same thing. In fact I ring barked and semi ring barked some Oak limbs and tops earlier this year on a frature/reduction.

 

I'm back to update the survey in November and I am intersted to see how its looking.

[gmanntpo]

hi mate

 

It is appropriate pruning for the woodland setting, emulating natural branch failure..

 

Whats not to like dude?!!

 

Superb job and advanced thinking I reckon!!!

 

gmann

[treemeup]

Cool...I'd like to see some pics of that, and if i get the opportunity i may try the same. I'm thinking a silky may be the tool for the job!

[gibbon]

Cool...I'd like to see some pics of that, and if i get the opportunity i may try the same. I'm thinking a silky may be the tool for the job!

 

I used a chain saw.

 

I've been wandering for some time about partial ring barking to stress a branch to stimulate newer shoots within a crown to help with phased reductions. Just an idea which I haven'tbeen brave enough to try.

[treemeup]

maybe we should go back to spiking when doing this kind of work

[gibbon]

You could call em wood pecker holes

[jonathan hall]

there seems to be alot of interest on this and ive been telling some of the boys up here about it, and we have some candidate trees for it.

how about an informal course on it? just get some people who are interested about it and do a tree?

i would travel to the south to see you do this, would help expand the amount of trees that get fracture pruned like this and more trees experimented on means a larger 'data' set to look at, monitor and understand the effects and would educate us with best practices.

a fracture prunning day would be verrrry intersting for all of us who woud like to give it ago but are aprehensive about the first attempt.