Felling large 100ft pulse pops with squral nest

[Pbtaylor2014]

Hi guy been ask to fell large pop with a possibility of a grey squiral best is this allowed or not the tree has not tpo and has cavity through centre all help will be great full

[Mark Bolam]

Technically illegal, unless you shoot the squirrels first, then it's legal!

 

I don't mind the furry little buggers now, quite like seeing their antics, so if feasible I'd try and make sure no one was at home before felling.

 

 

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[edwood]

Go and give the dray a wiggle, if it squeaks leave it a couple of weeks, if not drop the bugger

[Old Mill Tree Care]

Technically illegal, unless you shoot the squirrels first, then it's legal!

 

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Excellent solution!

[IanW]

just fell it and watch them BASE jump like lemmings.....

[TORNADOS7]

Grey Squirrels are classed as a pest/vermin species, their antics include bark striping, egg and hatchling raiding and passing 'Squirrel pox' onto our 'native Reds' almost wiping them out in the process but I'm sure you already know all this so as a shooter I'll take em out when ever I get the chance and one of the recognised/accepted methods used to flush em out of the drey is to poke it with some form of pole at which point they'll tear off through the tree tops at about 120mph leaving you free to chop said tree down !...

Edited August 19, 2015 by TORNADOS7

[Pbtaylor2014]

Thanks guys for the good deed back I will see next week if there in I won't be knocking just chopping lol see what the future holds

[peatff]

Would you be allowed to take it down if it had a rat's nest in it ? Grey squirrels are just fancy rats with better PR.

[10 Bears]

one of the recognised/accepted methods used to flush em out of the drey is to poke it with some form of pole :

 

Not anymore - Drey poking then blasting with a shotgun (I'm assuming that's what you are suggesting here?) is now considered bad practice due to the amount of damage that occurs to the tree that you are trying to protect by taking out the squirrels.

 

You may of course be talking about a rapid shot air rifle or similar, so I would stand corrected in that case.

[Mark Bolam]

Heaven forbid you damage the tree before felling it!

 

 

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