Retrenchment Images

[treeseer]

Definitely; snags for perching are quite underrated as habitat features!

[sedgemoortree]

Third time lucky!

[David Humphries]

They're fantastic, nice one

 

 

 

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[Hodge]

Today's job

[Gray git]

Nice finish hodge, looks natural.

[Hodge]

Cheers, good climber and and eye on the ground.

[David Humphries]

Today's job[ATTACH]191089[/ATTACH][ATTACH]191090[/ATTACH]

 

Fine piece of work, thanks for sharing on the thread.

 

 

 

 

 

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[David Humphries]

An oak that we started a (first phase) retrenchment program on a few years ago.

 

No before image (bizarrely) but you can see in the second shot the pruning cuts and also the lower canopy that we will be reducing down towards.

 

We should be returning to this tree in the next year or so to attempt to keep on track with the Individual Tree Management Plan (ITMP) schedule regarding its retrenchment phase.

 

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[treeseer]

There must be a whole lot of rot, to removed that much crown!

 

I've seen very few hollow trees that need to have reduction past the second pruning, as shown in an ITMP or by other cautious assessors. And despite 6 years of begging Mr. ITMP, I have yet to hear any kind of reason for going farther.

 

But of course I do not know trunk condition, wildlife objectives, the sociopolitical milieu, and a whole lot more! Plus, if that tree comes out looking like Mr. Hodge's, all good!

[David Humphries]

There must be a whole lot of rot, to removed that much crown!

 

I've seen very few hollow trees that need to have reduction past the second pruning, as shown in an ITMP or by other cautious assessors. And despite 6 years of begging Mr. ITMP, I have yet to hear any kind of reason for going farther.

 

But of course I do not know trunk condition, wildlife objectives, the sociopolitical milieu, and a whole lot more! Plus, if that tree comes out looking like Mr. Hodge's, all good!

 

Guy, we didn't remove that percentage of canopy due to decay (the trunk is actually quite sound) the below image shows where we worked on the 'red' section to rebalance/restructure the asymetrical crown which had been left after significant storm damage some decades before.

 

We did not touch the 'blue ' side of the tree. That particular section of crown has been left to reiterate/rejuvenate on its own,

 

Our 'retrenchment' plan is to bring back in the 'sticky out bit' to produce a more symmetrical lower canopy to lessen wind load on the over extended section.

 

Couple of other images attached to show the tree in its context from 100 years ago.

 

 

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