Making the news today....

[scbk]

Google maps is optimistic, it is only marked as "temporarily closed".

 

I assume they will reopen it fully once the tree has been stood back upright?

 

 

 

 

Edited September 29, 2023 by scbk

[AWarb00]

@TimberCutterDartmoor must be mortified at the height of the stump! 

[roboted]

21 minutes ago, AWarb00 said:

@TimberCutterDartmoor must be mortified at the height of the stump! 

And Stubby

[sime42]

2 hours ago, Blackbriarwoods said:

He's an undercover NPTC assessor

I wonder what the Conspiracy Theorists are making of the mask? Something outlandish no doubt.

[dan blocker]

3 hours ago, Blackbriarwoods said:

He's an undercover NPTC assessor

They’ve called out Special Branch🤔

[Mick Dempsey]

Developments..

 

[Mick Dempsey]

Saying now a 60 year old man has been arrested. Disgruntled farmer or something. 
 

 

[sime42]

Dry Stone Wall Builder, running short of work. (Good chainsaw skills too, but weather conditions got the better of the fell on the day).

Edited September 29, 2023 by sime42

[Steven P]

1 hour ago, Mick Dempsey said:

Saying now a 60 year old man has been arrested. Disgruntled farmer or something. 
 

 

 

That's what I reckon too, sent 'the boy' to chop the tree down, shown him how it was done, marked the cuts on the tree, probably drove him up there on the quad bike (it is about a mile round trip to a car park otherwise), never without doubt the boy didn't go alone and for a bit of a laugh. Farmer and his son my thoughts, and probably snapped at the weekend when he'd either had a field gate blocked by a walkers car or had to pull over in his tractor to let someone pass for one too many times. Remove the tree... remove the walkers...

[peds]

4 minutes ago, Steven P said:

. Remove the tree... remove the walkers...

I am a thousand times more likely to make a pilgrimage to the spot than I ever was before if this turns out to be the case. 

I'd make up to an hour's detour to climb over the man's fences, purely out of spite.