horrible oak

[MattyF]

all the stems bar part of1 were very soft,also 95% needed to be rigged down to avoid the garage fence shed and hedge below

 

nothing worse than rigging out an ivy covered tree to see the lowering rope has bit on the ivey and the limb has slipped right though! i do what sky huck does and try and strip out the ivey first esp on the bigger timber...good to see your job went well for you though

[jpbeaver]

ivy is great for wildlife though!

[MAX]

Ivy covers the hidden dangers, you never know whats going on with the wood underneath the stuff!

[Deb]

Come on guy's! It may be a pain to climb with but Ivy is a great habitat for birds!

Haven't we moved on from the all Ivy is bad idea!!

[MattyF]

no ivey is bad ! in every sense for me, it now grows faster in are milder climate and i dont care what people say ive seen it constrict growth and weaken trees,every storm blown tree ive done this year has been covered in ivey........ read an article i think in euro arb saying that in a few years time ivey will have taken over most are hedge rows replacing the traditional species and most hedge row will be lost forever,oh and its a pain in the arse to chip!dont get me wrong im all for it in certain habitats but its definietly a problem getting worse and encouraged becouse its been left for years for the nesting birds story

[Mr Ed]

All our woodlands are now choked with Ivy as most smallwoods are'nt worked anymore. I hate it, it chokes the lfe out of everthing. I particularly dislike the way it grows accross the woodland floor, reminds me of HG Wells the red weed.

[Jamie]

hate it, i reckon tehre should be a poll. love or hate.

 

it may be good habitat in much the same way as a slowly rotting tree is in a park, but I would argue the extra weight on the tree isn't safe. I dont know of any studies to back up my thoughts however.

 

I'd back any governement that launched an ivy removal program.

 

Jamie

[John Shutler]

max has hit the nail right on the head,from the ground the structural problems of this tree of this tree could not be seen,ok there was a bit if dead wood, but no more than would be expected from a tree that had been previously cut so badly.

[skyhuck]

Come on guy's! It may be a pain to climb with but Ivy is a great habitat for birds!

Haven't we moved on from the all Ivy is bad idea!!

 

Our native tree have mostly evolved to shed there leaves to prevent wind throw in the winter storm season, ivy reverses this,not good.

[Log-ologist]

If that Oak was sound enough to stand up and suffer a few gales then it was sound enough to climb , gently. The problem with that sort of take down is the climber bricks it and tries to speed the job by lowering big sections causing stresses on the tree. I have yet to see or hear of a standing mature tree collapse under the weight of a climber. I know because I have taken down some really dead and manky trees, I go steady and work slow and deliberately.