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[gnfencer]

Still no relief from that bloody calendar!

[Sussex Groundie]

I know soon be time for the next one!!!!

[Kveldssanger]

Still no relief from that bloody calendar!

 

[mendiplogs]

I know soon be time for the next one!!!!

 

Hi all Who Were filling the tree thanks John

[gnfencer]

Jon, are you a man that likes to keep up with local news?

[maria warwick]

I do believe one of the team felling it , was the same guy that did my CS39 assessment………

 

[mendiplogs]

Jon, are you a man that likes to keep up with local news?

 

Hi mate Like no Who's doing the job thanks Jon

[openspaceman]

Did their GreenMech get a viewing?

 

Nice bit of free publicity there then!

 

I was concerned the MEWP operator was not sufficiently separated from the chainsaw operator

[David Humphries]

Yeah was a PICUS by the looks of it. Sweet Ganodermas and a shame about the beech being dismantled. I wonder if they had considered other options for retention, such as closing off the surrounding area to visitors (though I am sure they did). Hope they have more talk on it later.

 

With the wisdom of hindsight of seeing the cross section and

based on the images shown in the VT, I felt that there was still ample residual wall strength left in this tree and what looks to be good vitality in the functional sap wood.

 

Would have been interesting to have known which species of Ganoderma it specifically was and also whether the site had any near misses that may have led to the what I perceive to be a relatively risk averse form of tree management.

 

The decay 'looks' to be somewhat compartmentalised as it has a pronounced reaction zone that doesn't look to be breached by varying levels of degradation.

 

I would think a Resistograph would be a better option for measuring and monitoring this type of tree decay/dysfunction rather than a tomograph, particularly where the pronounced fluting would potentially interfere with the sonic readings.

 

Obviously there may have been other mitigating circumstances as to why this tree required removal that we are not privy to.

 

Having said all that, I think it was a good showcase for the general public to see what tree inspection and removal can involve.

 

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[Bird]

Anyone got a clip of the tree being felled?