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Damn straight Carl! 2.30pm on a still sunny afternoon. Extremely fortunate there was nobody on that bench.
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Some more pictures for ya'll. The small fruiting body was found below the soil level. You can see the small area of staining on the butt which corresponds with the location of the decay. I think the FB may be Inonotus dryadeus - it's going off to a lab for confirmation though.
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We could use the stump grinder guards close by, but we currently have nothing bigger. To be honest I would rather cordon off a large area all around the trees and exclude the public for some distance while we are working - particularly if we find any similar decay on nearby trees! No photos of the butt section that I know of - I will speak to the crew leader.
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One of our surveyors, plus one of our crews, were called to this tree failure yesterday. I have not seen the tree up close yet. Mature Turkey Oak in the region of 80ft tall in a town centre park. No winds. No obvious signs of defects. The rootplate appears to be completely shot to bits and the tree has just socketed out of the ground. Understandably the tree officer is very relieved but also quite anxious about a similar even happening to nearby trees. I have suggested we take the air-spade over and do some root collar investigations on the adjacent Turkey Oaks. So far his thoughts are perhaps Meripilus or Ustulina, but there were no fruiting bodies present to confirm this. He is going to send some wood samples off to a lab to see if the pathogen can be identified. I would welcome your thoughts/comments on the pictures.
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I should add that I do not know for sure that the trees have been poisoned by anyone - that was my best guess. Good point about the TPO staying Tony. I have recently found a number of TO's trying it on with TPO facts. I recently did a pre-development report for the siting of a new house close to a TPO'd Oak tree, with car parking under the canopy (I didn't approve of the scheme but I still have to write the report!). The scheme was refused partly because it was noted that the crown would need ongoing management in order to avoid debris falling on the car. Apparently schemes that require ongoing work to TPO'd trees are unacceptable? Although I agreed that the design was pretty crap, I didn't understand this as a sound rebuttal. Surely many TPO'd trees require ongoing maintenance. And if the TO wanted, they could give consent for cyclical maintenance works...
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Nice post taupoman. I agree with your logic and agree there is often misplaced sentimentality about preserving isolated individual trees. I am not saying there is a right or wrong way in this incident but the public signs raise an interesting discussion. To say the wall cannot be repaired whilst the trees are there is not true. But the council may have made the wrong call. Either way, the owner appears to have fought his corner by attempting to kill the trees off. No doubt they will be gone soon and the wall will be repaired. And there will be alot more sky to look at from his house!
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Hard to say to be honest, they both look in the region of 60-80 years old. If I had to choose I'd say the wall.
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It may be BS to you, but there are 3 decent (ok, not decent any more) trees there that could be retained while the wall is simply fixed with a simple lintel bridging the roots.
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Exactly
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Spotted this today - it made me chuckle. Obviously some disgruntled home owner has applied to fell 3 trees that were/are damaging his wall. I can understand the home owners frustration, but surely the wall could have been fixed without felling the tree? Oddly enough, since the signs were put up in 2008, all 3 trees are displaying serious symptoms of decline. I wonder who/what has caused that:sneaky2:
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Really? The crack looks like it has an opening on the branch edge to me. And I thought bats only needed very small cracks...I have heard they will even rest behind patches of flaking bark.
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I didn't mean to start a blame thread when I commented that I hoped the owner had an inspection regime in place. At the core of this is a terribly sad story. However, we are by nature a forum that discusses tree care and management - it's what we do for a living. This sad event may affects how we approach our work every day when assessing and working on trees that affect people. It's not wrong to look at a news report such as this and see what we can learn from it.
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If I had used my brain before typing the last post I would have worked out it'll be outside the crematorium....
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Where's the timber John? Might have to swing by in the truck on the way home...
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Poor girl and her family. I hope the owner had some sort of inspection regime in place.
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Managing Trees with Decay & Dysfunction
Paul Barton replied to David Humphries's topic in Tree health care
What did you find then David? How decayed was the lower stem? -
Spot on.
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Two counts of leaving dogs in hot cars is extremely negligent and I would have thought he should be dismissed from the force and prosecuted. However, since the last event the chap has thrown himself out of a moving vehicle - he is obviously very troubled. What he did was wrong, no doubt, and there should be consequences. But why would you wish him to die for this? I find the attitude that says he should go ahead and top himself sickening to be honest.
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What to do after cheques get cancelled
Paul Barton replied to jaime bray's topic in Business Management
Would PAYPAL work - or is that no better than BACS? -
Bad day Tony?!
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Looks like Dryad's saddle (Polyporus squammosus) to me.
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Take a look at this: PC Software for Tree Contractors, Tree Contracting Software, Software for Arborists, Arboricultural Software, Tailored Database Design, Digital Green Solutions Looks like a great program. I gather they are offering low-cost monthly subscription as well so you don't have to spend a lot to set it up.
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Nope!
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Nope!
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Ditto the above. They are offering an opportunity for student sponsorship at the moment. I think you have to write a bid explaining why you deserve it. Definitely worth a shot to help with the cost.
