The Old Man of Kent

[josharb87]

MEWP??? what an undignified end

[Mark Bolam]

I thought it was a shame mate.

Yes it was a big tree, but fairly straightforward for a fit competent climber.

Great dz's.

I wouldn't fancy the bill for the MEWP, so I guess there were valid reasons.

[David Humphries]

Thought it was a little disappointing that a standing monolith couldn't have been manged for its biodiversity value and also as a heritage nod to its past existence.

 

 

 

 

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[JaySmith]

As it is part of the FC I assume that they had to follow work at height regs and if they could get a mewp to it then they should, in theory. It was Greencut who took the tree down who are a good firm by all accounts. I saw the tree at xmas and it looked worse than when we worked there a year previous. It was obviously in a period of decline but it's sad that the tree had to be removed and maybe not a monolith left. This may have been a nice alternative to allowing the tree to decline naturally. To set up a suitable exclusion zone would have been huge in order to manage the decline and fulfill H&S obligations. It truly was a beast, the one we took down near by was 36m and that seemed a tiddler compared to the old man of Kent!

 

 

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[Mark Bolam]

Aye I reckon you're right Jay.

Greencut is Navin's co., so I'm sure he'd thought it out properly.

 

 

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