demise of an old oak

[Johny Walker]

well got called to mi yard this aft as 1, off the old oaks had tumbled over in the gales, which is shame as it was a good screen ,was expecting a beech or 2 to laid down.

[Dean O]

shame.

the stem looks shattered.

any obvious causes (other than the wind)?

had decay entered from the old pruning wound in pic 3?

[Johny Walker]

the ajoinig field was a soil store when the bypass was built may have has some impact

Edited October 3, 2009 by Johny Walker

[Dean Lofthouse]

Get back down there quick before the wind subsides and get a big rope round the top of that beech and give it a tug Johny

[Johny Walker]

not even a wif of movment on that beech, looks like she going to a stubbern old thing

[Dean Lofthouse]

Just had a call out to a veteran Ash I have deadwooded over the years, has some big cavities from previous storms but has surcumbed to this storm and will be left as a monolith on tuesday.

 

My foot gives some idea of scale with stones grown into the trunk just above my toe

[tommer9]

You guys getting some good breezes up there then?? Its not that bad down here- 20mph gusts at most i would have said. Dying down tomorrow i hope........me and my mate are off to climb what he reckons is a 150' sitka he knows about. I have bought a big tape measure.

[Dean Lofthouse]

You guys getting some good breezes up there then?? Its not that bad down here- 20mph gusts at most i would have said. Dying down tomorrow i hope........me and my mate are off to climb what he reckons is a 150' sitka he knows about. I have bought a big tape measure.

 

I couldn't stand up in the drive earlier on it was horrendous, I just drove down to my yard and there's a top out on one of the oaks down there.

 

The road down to my yard looks like a war zone with all the leaves and deadwood on it.

[penfold]

there's a big tree down across wetherby road at oakwood near me. This is a main bus route, saw the bus driver on his mobile to head office, i think, to report it as there was no way he was getting through.