slack ma girdle
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The original leader was pruned out when it was in the nursery to encourage horizontal growth, for better fruit production. Fruit trees are always best left to their own devices.
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The tree is still standing after the 2 pre Christmas storms. Ratchet straps are a godsend to reassure the climber . Levels of leaf cover in the canopy is the deciding factor. A tractor and 8 tonne winch is the safest method. -
The chain speed on grapple is below 25m per sec, so chainshot isn't an issue.
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Here you go @Squaredy a couple of pictures. There isn't going to be enough to make up a lorry load from the windblow, but we will thinning here this winter.
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With the simpler ones the trees do wobble about when you shear them, but i have only lost a tree when the dead wood was to brittle to support the tree. If you are going to do alot of roadside trees, then i would get one with an extra grab. Have you considered a grapple saw, a GMT35 would tick most of your boxes
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Its about a 50/50 split for second homes, and none of the younger locals can afford to buy a house in Angle, unless they have a job with the refinery. The refinery is only noticeable with sound and smell on a cold frosty days or easterly winds, but 1 in 5 families in Pembrokeshire have some work connection with the refinery. It is going to hit Pembrokeshire hard when it finally closes.
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Never managed to sell them as saw logs in the past. The logs will be stacked here Google Maps WWW.GOOGLE.COM Plenty of room for a lorry to turn around in. I am there tomorrow, i will take a couple of photos of what is cut so far.
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The bark beatle chambers that are visible, makes them easy to identify, as each beatle has an unique pattern. You will be able to work out whether it was the primary cause of death, or just a secondary opportunist.
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We Are just starting storm damage and windblow here, there is definitely saw log in lime and beech. The transport from Angle may be a killer through.
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Lime and sycamore
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Winching trees that don't have anywhere to go. I am starting to appreciate the power of this winch, to create it's own space. 20250516_095409.mp4
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Dead branches on apple tree.
slack ma girdle replied to waterworks's question in Homeowners Tree Advice Forum
If the tree is producing huge amounts, then leave it alone. It is quite happy, and the bits of dead wood are potentially important habitat for rare beasties and fungi . My apple trees are the most unloved trees in Pembrokeshire with loads of broken branches, dead wood, and no pruning. All fruit prolifercally. Buggering around with a mature tree will just stimulate vigorous regrowth, and become counter productive. -
Some trees are naturally lazy at getting up in the spring. See what it looks like in a months time. But looking at the photos most of the other trees are behind fences, so it could be the first indication of compaction/ root damage.
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Ash dieback - Different perspective?
slack ma girdle replied to Mark Bolam's topic in Tree health care
Ash Dieback 😁 -
Ash dieback - Different perspective?
slack ma girdle replied to Mark Bolam's topic in Tree health care
Ash's saving grace is its genetic diversity. The woodlands that have been planted with ash have all done very badly, but the seed source will be very limited in genetic diversity, and as a result 80-100% loss. In the wider countryside around me there are still healthy trees. From my kitchen window I can see 7 healthy ash, 10 ash with ADB, but still alive, and 8 dead ash. -
The Trametes are growing on the dead wood, and shouldn't affect the living wood. The important bit is where the living and dead wood meet, providing that the callus growth is intact, and separating the two, the tree is probably fine. Same with the buttresses, providing the structural wood is intact, small bits of decay between the buttresses will have little consequences.
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The same people also make one wrapped in wild garlic.
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I would start with blossom wilt, but check the curled leaves to see if anything in living there. You will need to remove all infected growth, cutting back to healthy wood. This material either needs to be burnt or taken away from site. I've had good success with a winter spray of Jays fluid diluted 50/50 with water.
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blossom wilt/brown rot
slack ma girdle replied to openspaceman's question in Homeowners Tree Advice Forum
I normally recommend removing all flowers both wilted and healthy, making sure that you pick up fallen material, and spraying the tree with Jays fluid the following autumn once the leaves have dropped (picked up as well). Most trees bounce back in a couple of years. -
The Timberwolf chips faster than the Greenmech. But the extra metal in the Greenmech should mean that it lasts longer. However neither is as good as the TP chipper .
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Plum tree trimming
slack ma girdle replied to Unfortunate Fool's question in Homeowners Tree Advice Forum
The reason your tree is doing this is your dreadful hacking. All of the growth is fast grown, and hasn't had time to put on structural wood to support itself. Every time you cut more off, you are just stimulating more of this floppy fast growth. Leave the tree alone for a couple of years to calm down, and then very slowly over the next 10-15 years remove small amounts of top growth. Or cut the tree down and start again. -
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A fantastic piece of kit.
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