Matthew Arnold
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That has hit the nail on the head. If you inform the tree owner of a serious defect of the tree then it is their responsibility to deal with it. If the tree fails, then its their home which would be on the line. We did have a tree last year that we informed the homeowner about. It was on their land overhanging our boundary, approximately 2 weeks later the root plate failed in spectacular fashion putting their new shed onto its lid. They blamed our ditch works but the ditch hadn't been dug for approximately 20 years so the root system wouldn't have been affected and would have as fair as i am aware recovered to a point. We blamed the shed footing being dug 2 ft down into the rootplate. Which was riddled with Honey fungal laces. The shed would have been the final straw.
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If my dad and i are shooting in a private wood within 100 ft of a highway we put signs stating that shooting is in progress. that way if a horse bolts then we can say that we had signage warning them.
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THE am i liable bit. You cover your backside if you notify the LA as its there necks on the line if nothing it done not yours. Your neck is only on the line if you are doing remedial work or removing the tree and something goes wrong.
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Nope. We have done the same thing. Except we informed the homeowner and LA about the hazardous tree. We had an instance last year where we told a member of the public that their Limes were all looking very sick. They were well in target distance as they were in the front garden on the road side above 1000 volt elec lines. 2 days later tree surgeons were there felling the trees. The stumps didnt coppice up and they were ground out.
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I cant stand trophy shooting. They are basically killing the ones that are very fit and healthy and leaving no true blood stock. The Emperor was one of very few true blood Red deer on exmoor. Most of the stags you see on Exmoor are cross breeds of Red and Sika deer and even some Fallow breed with the Reds. My mums cousins used to live near a village called Dulverton and you could watch the Red, Fallow and Sika deer mass feed in the valley bottom. Very few large deer are hit on the roads out that way it is mainly the Roe and Muntjac that are hit. I don't have anything against the control of deer but just shooting a stag for its trophy is a shame. And as the local news has reported it was most likely one of the so called "high-earning trophy hunters" rather than a run of the mill poacher. But why leave it on the side of the road for some unsuspecting member of the public to find at first light?
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You know the one im on about. We will inspect it this year then re-inpsect next year. I am hoping that we wont need to fell it unless the rootplate starts to shift as its on very sandy/clay soil. Lovely to dig through but wont hold up much. -
The FC around my neck of the woods are keeping their productive pieces of woodland and are flogging off the pieces that are not productive (fungi ridden, small trees, heavy squirrel damage, etc). Dorset county council and a few local organisations have just bought 117 hectares of mixed plantation woodland around Hardy's Monument. My colleagues and i were deciding what would be best for the woodland. The first plan would be to remove the invasive species and non-native species of trees. There is a massive amount of Douglas Fir, Corsican Pine, Scots Pine and European Larch. We would thin out the fir plantations to give the trees a bit more growing room. The FC had removed a big chunk a few years ago and the heathland in the area has regenerated very quickly. So the long term plan is to restore it to heathland and keep the larger specimen trees.
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Any ideas what the fungi are growing on the Sycamore? My colleagues seem to think its Honey fungus as the root system on that edge has had it sometime in its life. And would they be be the cause of the massive cavity?
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Here are some pics of the super massive and mega old Ash stools. They are mentioned in the Doomsday book to give you a rough idea of their age. And i didnt have a tape measure big enough to measure their girth.
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Ive been taking lots n lots of pictures today of large tree on the sites i manage. The first set are of a massive Sycamore growing out of a steep slope in Shaftesbury. It is over a fairly busy footpath. I will let you guys judge this trees fait. The next set is of a Beech and Oak nearby. Same again growing from the slope but with no footpth underneath only shrubby hawthorn regrowth. The next set is of some of the old oaks that are on a piece of land i manage in Stur Newton (Most of em are vet porn candidates). The final set is of a few trees in a site in Gillingham. The veteran candidates are the Sycamore, Beech, Oaks and a pollarded Alder on the rivers edge. Enjoy... P.S Sorry for the massive amount of pictures.
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I may seem mad but i got three of em. One of em is 11 and the other two are 4 years old. They are called Charlie (11) Bracken and Bramble. All of them are worked and have aproximately 40 days this season. Here is a pic of em in the woods.
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It looks like polyester or nylon string. We are forever clearing the stuff up on our urban sites. Or when its carnival and festival time clearing the bog roll thrown in the thorn bushes. Its really annoying trying to pull it out.
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I shall get the vet porn for ya. Lol. Next time i go past the site i shall get some pictures. I shall try and get them up by the end of next week!!
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Nice tree to retain on the road edge. Most local authorities would have that felled to ground level due to it being a "hazard to road traffic". We had a pair of Meriplus infected Beech. After many consultations with the highways tree officer and head council tree officer we decided to go with a pollard as one of them had already been pollarded. The pollarded one is estimated to be 300 years old but only looks like a 150 year old and the one next to it is basically a massive sucker growth coming from the root plate 50 metres away. The elder of the two sadly passed on but is now home to many fungi and various species of birds. Despite it being only being dead a year. The elder tree is also a roosting, hibernating, breeding and brooding site for the Daubenton's Bat!!!. One of the few places for them to do all four in.
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This is my poor attempt of a log/timber store. I only have to feed a Chiminea though.
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Bin Wagons and Trees. They don't mix.
Matthew Arnold replied to Matthew Arnold's topic in Picture Forum
The limb has sadly been condemned due to unforseen rot caused by the last impact 2 years ago. No sign of fungi but there is brown rot in that section of the stem. And with it being over a fairly busy access road and on the edge of a car park the limb has to go. -
Tell herthat she can pay for the new clutch when it gives in. I've had it happen to me but it was a hill start with the handbrake up as i found the biting point i releases the handbrake and all i could smell was clutch goin up hill. When i reached the roundabout it finally went half way across. I was not the most popular person that day. lol
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We run Stihl 4-Mix and Rock Oil Bio-chain oil. The chain oil is basically slightly thicker chip fat. We buy both is 25 litre drums but we put he 4 mix in an old 5 litre container as its easier to measure out.
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Which timber have you found best for kindling and why
Matthew Arnold replied to gensetsteve's topic in Firewood forum
We use offcuts of pine from the local post making plant. You would expect it to be a massive factory but its just a corner of a farm warehouse and we can take on the offcuts from where the point is made and where the post is made completely round or square. But generally we use Poplar or Ash. -
Bin Wagons and Trees. They don't mix.
Matthew Arnold replied to Matthew Arnold's topic in Picture Forum
We had a letter through the same week the crane smacked the limb. Almost to the day infact. When we got the letter we asked the highways authority to close the road so we could do the work safely. Or as a bare minimum have temp traffic lights set up. They closed the road for 3 days for us to carry out the work. I know it is goin to sound silly but we felled the trees that were causing a nuisance as they were all pretty much nackered anyway (growing on loose banks, cankered up top to bottom, severely ivy clad, some with I. hispidus,etc,etc). We dropped the ones that were dodgy and within falling and blocking distance of the road and tidied/pollarded the ones further back. We just had the Limes done last year too. So it looks like more is too be done. -
Bin Wagons and Trees. They don't mix.
Matthew Arnold replied to Matthew Arnold's topic in Picture Forum
Most bin lorries go with trees. It just seems that around my neck of the woods they use em for impromtue crown lifting too. We take to take a big limb off further down as it had split after being thwacked very hard by a crane. It did take half of the bend with it though. Our first thought was why was the muppet trying to drive up there. Apparently he was following his Sat-Nav and it was saying to go up the access road to the site as it was a suitable route. You can just about get a fixed axle DHL lorry up there without taking the wing mirrors clean off. But generally bin wagons are very useful especially with massive quantities of wood chip as they can compact it into a block. -
Bit of a random thread. But i spotted this damage on a Broad Leaved Lime on one of the sites i manage. Its been smacked once before by a local bin wagon. Needless to say the bin wagon came off worse as it knocked the holder off its mounts and put a big split in the corner. The limb is a big co-dominant stem that we left as its acting as a balancing beam too. I have attached images of the most recent damage. The second image is of the chunk of wood that was ripped off.
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Ive got the exact same thing on an Oak on one of the sites i manage. It only shows where the fungi entered the tree but it also shows a vertical split running up the tree. There is a some dieback in the crown but only to one side.
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What was the cause of there demise? I know the car park wouldn't have helped.
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We have one based next to us in Dorset. It is used almost weekly for various jobs along the A-Road and B- roads around the area. It is incredibly efficent they normally have 3 people all with chainsaws and someone at he back dropping the branches off. Then have the chipper behind on a tipper. Its very clever. Weve used it on a couple of sections of trailway. It was just as well it had limb bars where the window would have been on the front.
