L/A street trees.

[Mesterh]

Was just wondering on what your thoughts are (hopefully a few lads who run L/A gangs will chime in) on the replacing of felled street trees.

 

Just been noticing lately the amount of old stumps that the L/A seem to refuse to remove until someone either falls over them or threatens to kill someone in the council. While this isnt what I'm really talking about it leads to the fact that when DDD trees are removed they are hardly ever replaced. In fact, I dont think I have seen any replanting schemes around here within the last 10 years, apart from where a contractor has had to replace due to construction, road widening etc etc. (ie where it doesnt cost the L/A)

 

I would of thought that street trees would have a high amenity value like TPO'd trees and should therefore be replaced within 2 years of removal.

 

What happens down your neck of the woods then?

[Peter]

Used to work for an LA on street trees......

 

Every year we would remove around 25-30% of the previous years new planted trees......

 

The LA in question had a policy of replacing 2 for 1, which is great, but they got the gardeners to plant them in winter, not so great. A lot of the failed trees had had their roots chopped off with a spade to get them into the hole.......

 

We also had stumps that waited so long for grinding, they were added to the removing epicormic list every summer.....

[Mesterh]

The 2 for 1 does sound good, pity they didnt contract it out to get a good job done!

 

I assume from the number of views but the lack of response's that all other L/A's are doing a better job

[combined tree services]

down here the local L/A dont really take down many street trees at all ! this is partly because there are verry few street trees and secondly because the TO that inspects all of the street trees has a tough stance on felling trees . however its a shame that some of the street trees down here have been butchered by the minority of the LA tree cutters ! there are a few good climbers/ arborists down here that do take a pride in what they do but moving slightly away from the street trees , down here there is alot of highway road side pruing that gets done and quite frankly its shocking how poor alot of the work i have seen has been done !! i did look into why this is the case and the answer was - on the whole the tree cutters do the best they can but we dont have the time or the money to work on these trees in the same way we do with street trees !!! If that was a private company carrying out sub standard work and simply pasing it off in this way then im sure we would have the LA breathing down our necks!!!!

[kevwrenn]

our stumps are left until there are enough for a full days grinding. we leave them at around a metre high so they can be seen easily by drivers and pedestrians, avoiding a trip hazzard. Replacements are usually planted in typical planting season (Nov / March) by the lads that drive mowers in grass cutting season. 25/30% seems a high failure rate, but i would expect up to 15% loss on bare root planting.

[old snake]

One of the LA that we work for cut down tonnes of street trees and never replant any!!!

All that happens is,if the street is bein resurficed then the trees get cut down and ground out and never relpaced.

Id say you could count the amount of streets with trees on you could count on one hand. I know we've cleared at least 6 big streets of all there trees. Usually between 10/20 trees on each street.

I always ask if there's any scheme in mind to replanting and they just laugh.

 

Jo public dont seem to care either,all i here from them is "its about time they come down,do you know they drop there leaves every year?":crying:

[Xerxses]

our stumps are left until there are enough for a full days grinding. we leave them at around a metre high so they can be seen easily by drivers and pedestrians, avoiding a trip hazzard. Replacements are usually planted in typical planting season (Nov / March) by the lads that drive mowers in grass cutting season. 25/30% seems a high failure rate, but i would expect up to 15% loss on bare root planting.

 

Maybe worthwhile to look into a "Missouri peagravel beds"?!?

[Mesterh]

Sounds like its no so different after all !

 

Come on Monkeyd and Mr Hancock surely you 2 fair a bit better

 

Actually the smallest and prob therefore the least funded L/A in the area do a fairly decent job in replanting and after care, BUT this year it has all gone out to contract so I can prob see it starting to decline somewhat

[bob]

we try to replant 1 for 1

stumps get left at just above knee height or as pieces of timber till a days worth and stats obtained and if needed kerbs removed

then we try to grind and highways follow up reinstating

claims are a big issue these days

we do our own replanting

and have a good take other than vandals but now use 7 ft posts to stop them snapping the tops off above the ties which did make a difference to vandals

last year 300ish new street trees:001_rolleyes:

[David Humphries]

we do our own replanting

and have a good take other than vandals but now use 7 ft posts to stop them snapping the tops off above the ties which did make a difference to vandals

last year 300ish new street trees:001_rolleyes:

 

 

 

I understand the reasoning Bob, but surely this approach would not facilitate as stable a root plate as a low stake would?

 

 

 

 

 

 

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