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Paul, I agree, but.. Benefits can be easily observed and recorded, without a lot of calculations.
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For correctness, follow the 1/3 rule, or post a pic for more detail. Good strategy possible to manage both plants.
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What astoundingly quick service! Thanks Steve; this place has class.
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Paul, good points and re propriety yes I said "This is not an uncommon methodology and my purpose is not to flame or praise its author. It's the method and criteria I am wondering about." but somehow it did not make the post. If the moderator could pull the attachment, i will try to put up an anonymised version. My bad. re putting up my own reports, I already have, several. re budget constraints leading to felling, I wonder how cost/benefit was calculated. I've seen pruning inserted as an annual item, when 5-10 years would have worked. And the most confounding thing: the value of the tree itself omitted from the equation.
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Follow the link to the full report, if you have a minute. I'm wondering how this compares to 1. typical UK reports and 2. the way that UK arborists think that tree risk should be assessed.
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V.T.A symptoms "the chatty trees"
treeseer replied to Tony Croft aka hamadryad's topic in Tree health care
That would depend on species, site, style and specifications and extent and season of pruning, etc. I don't think frank would say those results had universal applicability, and that axiom is just one aspect of biomechanics. Thanks for posting the link. If anyone here's gonna be in Hong Kong next month, he'll be repeating it here: IASHK: International Arboriculture Summit - Hong Kong -
a third small stem has grown through the gap about a foot above the split?? got a camera?
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Ha yes most relevant; thanks!
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Managing Trees with Decay & Dysfunction
treeseer replied to David Humphries's topic in Tree health care
Maybe reduce to clear targets, and prevent damage/injury from branch failure, then install a tree-to-tree guy to direct after root failure if it occurs. ? -
bump. Why this never got a reply I can't guess; advice is seldom lacking so badly. I'm revisiting the tree again this fall. Don't mammals defecate in your cr...um, the forks in urban british trees? i have not climbed enough over there to know. this tree's branches are over a newly rebuilt gentrified to the maximum house, and one frame house that is historical, at least to its owners, and a garage, fences, you name it.. these coons favor the same latrine so it gets quite nitrogenous I would imagine.
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Managing Trees with Decay & Dysfunction
treeseer replied to David Humphries's topic in Tree health care
Hmmm that'll hasten the hollowing all right. If it fits species location why not? The fractured stem looks like the hand of the peaceful chief of a tribe one happens upon. -
none at all; that comment was expanding into generalization. that's the internet for you... Yes totally; inevitables. i did nto see Japanese, tho i might have mistaken it for Javascript.
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Polyporus squamosus - extensive white rot.
treeseer replied to David Humphries's topic in Tree health care
with the area fenced off, is target rating really high? Fascinating study though; I'd rather see it sprout and repruned rather than sliced and diced. if someone were curious i would suspect mere probing would reveal a bit. -
Semantics but because of the low occupancy and the fact it is still standing it's a low risk." The thread was about terminology; how doth that differ from semantics? "That is a different beast though, a shear crack, where the fibres at the meeting of the compression side and the tension side have dislocated in shear. Still a good example though." mmmall the action seems to be on the tension side. but the main thing is, a lot of these terms get lost in translation, even when the lingo is the same. each tree is different, and vta tuning into "defects" can become a witch hunt if not balanced with tuning into response and adaptation.
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Yes I've seen agrilus sp(?) borers do stuff like that, but never so big! a boxcutter type knife will cut out a wedge with less damage than a saw would make. the knotty stuff at the fork might be something else; could be cleaned i.e pluck out dead stuff to assess the damage.
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Does that pine need action? If not, it's not a hazard, by definition of the term. This oak is hollow as a drum and needed action. Pruned 15% to lessen lean; that was 5 years ago; owner is fine with it. crack oak.doc
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"Depth wise could be better for its future growth but that's not my problem." Does this mean they are buried way deep but you see no connection between deep planting and leaf condition? Suggest you reconsider that. Isn't the tree's problem your problem, or are you not the arborist/tree Dr.?
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Tree_health_and_disease-An_ecosystem_approach-Neville_Fa
treeseer replied to sean's topic in Tree health care
a quick skim shows a lack of detail re treatments that is disturbing; compost tea to foliage and woodchip to soil (composted we hope) do not sound practical without knowing more, and the "specialist phased retrenchment pruning" is tantalizingly obscure. It's another step on the path, but mind the potholes. will give it a thorough read soon, and hopefully see and hear more in hong kong in november, where nev was recruited to keynote on short notice, thank goodness! -
Thanks chaps for keeping this one going, and the pruning treatments seem a good compromise between public and tree health. Gf fairly common here on our q phellos mainly, and noninvasive means of assessment seem to bear out the notion it is not a super-aggressive rotter. 15-20 cm is after all 15-20 cm. Across the pond here most arbs would not comprehend this, and i'm not sure i'm all the way there, but am grateful to see tree care practiced at this level. I'll be looking for that little hare, Gerritt, and thinking of the mycorrhizal associates. Carry on!
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Agree with Tony here. No idea if you have a straight M grandiflora or a grafted hybrid--the suckering issue may be a good one to raise to lessen client pressure to whack hard. they are native here and i have seen them come back from hard pruning but managing the sprouts can be higher mtc than from a lighter pruning. frikn clients always wanting more off; like they do not want to see you ever again. weird ins. stipulation; is not passing the smell test, tho i am a ways off...
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wifelet tells me you are not far from st. malo. can you show me an old tree or two?
9/15-9/17 in Rouen, France
@ Hotel Morand +33235714607 (phone #)
9/17-9/19 in St. Malo
@ Hotel Ambassedeurs +33299402626
9/19-9/21 near Quimper
@ La Ferme de Kersuntec (a B&B) 06 86 99 78 28 (cell #)
9/21-9/24 Monteaux, near Blois
@ Le Moulin de Pasnel (a B&B) 06 79 55 00 20 (cell #)
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if that is cercis canadensis or other redbud sp., check the bark for old cankers, Botryosphaeria or D something
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Mmm that is not the first genus desired is it? heres a pic of mulch gone wrong
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Not to worry, you can go anywhere, by the sounds of it! This isn't a thread; it's a forum, it's a franchise. Arboricultural Passion pays!
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David, the mulch appears to be rather coarse, and 6"+ deep. Am I seeing this right? The results are impressive. Cardboard is a great carbon source to jumpstart the ecological processes.
