K-K-K-K-K-Kretzch

[Matthew Arnold]

Was doing site checks this arvo and noticed the beech were very tufty in the top. Not the usual flowing lines. They are next to a busy main road and a garage. The district council tree officer has said monitor the past 3 years but i think its time to act and get these bad boys reduced. What do you recon? And how hard a reduction?

[Tony Croft aka hamadryad]

time to fell i am afraid to say

[Matthew Arnold]

time to fell i am afraid to say

 

Thought so. Our in house tree team wanted a challenge. We'll give em this pig of a job lol. Next a main road so all going to have to be lowered and traffic lights too as on a blind bend.

[Dean O]

from the photos I'd continue to monitor some more

[skyhuck]

Get it down, IMO, too much risk.

[treequip]

F-f-f-f-f-f-f-f-f-fell

[Fungus]

Was doing site checks this arvo and noticed the beech were very tufty in the top. Not the usual flowing lines. They are next to a busy main road and a garage. The district council tree officer has said monitor the past 3 years but i think its time to act and get these bad boys reduced. What do you recon? And how hard a reduction?

 

Matt,

As Tony says, high time to fell, because Ustulina fruiting on the outside is an indication for the mycelium having done is destructive work inside, starting in the middle and working his way through to the outside by soft rotting all the wood it encounters on his "journey", with the tufty top as a consequence of the cambium being invaded by the mycelium secreting toxics.

Besides, beeches can not be heavely reduced without killing the major roots corresponding to the major branches too, because the tree species is compartmentalised and on top of that, reduction would also activate the mycelium to intensive the rot before the tree dies and it has to live on as a saprotrophic on a diminishing and rather poor remaining substrate.

[WoodED]

Matt,

As Tony says, high time to fell, because Ustulina fruiting on the outside is an indication for the mycelium having done is destructive work inside, starting in the middle and working his way through to the outside by soft rotting all the wood it encounters on his "journey", with the tufty top as a consequence of the cambium being invaded by the mycelium secreting toxics.

Besides, beeches can not be heavely reduced without killing the major roots corresponding to the major branches too, because the tree species is compartmentalised and on top of that, reduction would also activate the mycelium to intensive the rot before the tree dies and it has to live on as a saprotrophic on a diminishing and rather poor remaining substrate.

 

what he said:thumbup1:

[Matthew Arnold]

Sweeeeet. Time to get the 090 ready then. But only for the trunks. Depending on how bad the rot is will depend on what the outcome is for the timber.

[Pete Mctree]

I would be conservative & with any rigging, avoiding it, if at all possible. Krech will have weakened the stem at the point where the lever forces encountered by big rigging will be greatest.