Coronet cuts

[Stubby]

Yea, sounds good to me, no problem with that. I was thinking along the lines of someone doin it for its own sake...

 

Pollarding a tree and hacking away at the branches, that sort of thing...

 

It seems you were the only one thinking that then .....

[Thesnarlingbadger]

Hello all,

 

Im looking at doing my cs40 aerial pruning techniques and on reading up i came across coronet cuts,something ive never heard of before,the description is as follows.

 

A coronet cut is for producing a natural fracture effect in the cut stubs ends of the tree.It is carried out as a pruning treatment of the stub ends or limb to mimic the natural breakage.The form of the coronet cut is designed to shape the branch or trunk end surface to resemble the fracture that might be imagined following a storm to give it a shattered appearance.

 

Does anyone have experience of using this technique..?

 

Can anyone explain what situation this technique would be employed and what species of tree would benefit from it.

 

Thanks in advance to anyone answering

 

 

 

Cheers

 

 

I've done a little bit on some old vet oaks a couple of years ago. Always just called them fracture cuts though. It's a nice technique and one I'd like to do a little more of. Though it does feel very wrong not leaving a clean cut.

[scotspine1]

Hello all,

Im looking at doing my cs40 aerial pruning techniques and on reading up i came across coronet cuts,something ive never heard of before,the description is as follows.

A coronet cut is for producing a natural fracture effect in the cut stubs ends of the tree.It is carried out as a pruning treatment of the stub ends or limb to mimic the natural breakage.The form of the coronet cut is designed to shape the branch or trunk end surface to resemble the fracture that might be imagined following a storm to give it a shattered appearance.

Does anyone have experience of using this technique..?

Can anyone explain what situation this technique would be employed and what species of tree would benefit from it.

Thanks in advance to anyone answering

 

Cheers

 

I can think of a few places around Glasgow where you can see examples of coronet cutting (RSPB woodland walk Ross Priory, pathside Birches), Glasgow Uni (Vet School, Bearsden, on large Oak near Beatson Building), also a few big Beech monoliths on this site which were created for habitat/biodiversity. There's more around Glasgow but you dont always notice them because they've been done so well.

 

They can be done on healthy trees where for example a large Oak limb has died back and has become a hazard, the limb can be removed and a coronet cut left.

[Gary Prentice]

There are many situations than are currently being utilised, where their use would be both defensible and appropriate. Lack of knowledge, both within and without the arboricultural industry, undoubtably creates the biggest barrier to their adoption.

Edited January 25, 2016 by Gary Prentice

[scotspine1]

Hello all,

Im looking at doing my cs40 aerial pruning techniques and on reading up i came across coronet cuts,something ive never heard of before,the description is as follows.

A coronet cut is for producing a natural fracture effect in the cut stubs ends of the tree.It is carried out as a pruning treatment of the stub ends or limb to mimic the natural breakage.The form of the coronet cut is designed to shape the branch or trunk end surface to resemble the fracture that might be imagined following a storm to give it a shattered appearance.

Does anyone have experience of using this technique..?

Can anyone explain what situation this technique would be employed and what species of tree would benefit from it.

Thanks in advance to anyone answering

 

Cheers

 

I'll occasionally send this video to clients who have an interest in encouraging and helping wildlife on their land or property. The feedback is always positive and usually leads to a better understanding of trees in relation to bio-diversity/habitat etc. Those in the know in treework are well aware of the positive advantages of this kind of treework for many different reasons other than purely bio-diversity.

 

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[David Humphries]

I'll occasionally send this video to clients who have an interest in encouraging and helping wildlife on their land or property. The feedback is always positive and usually leads to a better understanding of trees in relation to bio-diversity/habitat etc. Those in the know in treework are well aware of the positive advantages of this kind of treework for many different reasons other than purely bio-diversity.

 

 

 

Charlatans, the lot of them !

 

 

 

 

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[stihlmadasever]

I'll occasionally send this video to clients who have an interest in encouraging and helping wildlife on their land or property. The feedback is always positive and usually leads to a better understanding of trees in relation to bio-diversity/habitat etc. Those in the know in treework are well aware of the positive advantages of this kind of treework for many different reasons other than purely bio-diversity.

 

Thanks for the info mate,much appreciated.

[MattyF]

A little thinning job on a shelter belt of aspen and alder and oak on the out skirts of ancient woodland in the Northumbria national park this morning.

Asked to leave the site messy and not in neat stacks so we did but also selected 5 or six of the larger trees like this ....coronets and false cavities for nesting birds.

Most of the trees we ring barked to varying degrees to kill or slow down regrowth leaving one intact to see what the results would be.

The tops came in handy for hopefully trying to keep deer off the hazels being coppiced for the first time as well.. Will be interesting to visit the site in a year or so's time and see if the trees have any new habitants.

[silky fox]

Like the cavities...could get bats?

[MattyF]

Not sure if they would be big enough as the trees are quite small still, I'm not a bat expert but I've only seen them in much larger cavities ... There was some nice natural habitat in the older growth though, plenty evidence of woodpeckers and nesting.