Making a Monolith

[Secretarb]

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[/ame] Edited January 23, 2016 by Secretarb

[flatyre]

nice video!

[David Humphries]

Is there a lack of standing dead wood in that woodland, hence the need for addititional habitat?

 

When creating monoliths at our site, we try and leave as many stubs and branches on as the risk of the site allows, as this replicates the natural phase of dismantling that a dead tree goes through as it disintegrates in sections.

 

The standing trunk alone will obviously provide great bio-mass for habitat in the long run but branches and stubs provide the micro niche habitat for a whole plethora of beasties and fungi as they dessicate and decay quicker than the trunk will.

 

Did time not allow for a bit of artistic licence on the stub ends with coronetting?

 

 

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[sean]

I agree with David... Perfect tree for tear cuts, fractures, coronets etc. at least it's a monolith however.

[essential]

But why monolith anyway seemed a healthy woodland tree ? And it won't be a monolith for long !

[Secretarb]

Hi, cheers for the comments

 

I have to admit a left out a few vital bits of info (sorry).

 

In terms of deadwood, I wouldn't really know how much dead there is hanging around but all I can say is, that this woodland seemed to be rather young, in comparison to the Sycamore. As there were only a few syc's around this size, I could only guess that the home owner (or who ever) planted a woodland around these larger trees.

 

The general stability of the tree was compromised by a large basal decay, looking back I should have recorded this for the video. All though no major targets were underneath the tree, the structure of the stem lent itself more to a monolith rather than firewood.

 

cheers for the comments

[kevinjohnsonmbe]

Is there a lack of standing dead wood in that woodland, hence the need for addititional habitat?

 

When creating monoliths at our site, we try and leave as many stubs and branches on as the risk of the site allows, as this replicates the natural phase of dismantling that a dead tree goes through as it disintegrates in sections.

 

The standing trunk alone will obviously provide great bio-mass for habitat in the long run but branches and stubs provide the micro niche habitat for a whole plethora of beasties and fungi as they dessicate and decay quicker than the trunk will.

 

Did time not allow for a bit of artistic licence on the stub ends with coronetting?

 

 

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Great vid, enjoyed that and picked up some tips for the future.

 

A while back I saw some details of a course that dealt with explosive (det cord) for dismantling. Need to look that up again!!

[sean]

Great vid, enjoyed that and picked up some tips for the future.

 

A while back I saw some details of a course that dealt with explosive (det cord) for dismantling. Need to look that up again!!

 

It was in Hatfield.