Island Lescure

A >50cm diameter branch came down a few days ago in the winds. There is white rot of some sort, a little mat of mycelium, a nice deep (+1.5meter) hole down the stem and another mat of mycelium? It is shiny, wet, non odorous, marshmallow like. Just wondering if anyone can confirm what this is? I may be going back to the site later to do an actual inspection and report. It is a bit of a weird one as the tree is in a no man's land, no one owns it, so essentially the people with the adjacent building want it down. It looks like the soil gradient was raised when the building was constructed so the tree's base is actually more than a meter below current soil levels. They will not want to lower the soil level, though by now I doubt it would be very beneficial apart from allowing access to inspect the lower stem.

Just looking at this tree which a client wanted the branches that may eventually damage the adjacent structure to be removed. I ended up reducing a few <5cm dia branches that were about to touch it and recommended leaving the rest as it is quite an old tree and I would be more concerned with the whole thing coming down on the structure than a few branches coming down on it... It does not seem to be the case any time soon but I was intrigued by the longitudinal rib. The setting is a woodland edge: building, woodland edge, woodland that was thinned of large trees not so many years ago as most of the trees on the edge are leaning towards the building but don't have other trees pushing them that way and it doesn't make sense with regards to where the sun is. Chainsaw (150) is for size reference. Lower trunk seems fine. 4th pic is opposite side of trunk where rib is. 5th has rib encircled. I was not actually inspecting it so I did not have my sounding hammer. Vitality is fine. No dieback. It seems to me that the tree has dealt with the longitudinal crack with the rib. Looking at it more, I noticed the line running to the right of the rib (parallel). Seems a bit strange. Does anybody have any idea if this is a concern?

I was just curious as I saw it on a website connected to Mattheck which didn't have much info on it. I keep on hoping for a cheap and portable non-intrusive decay detection device to be able to be more accurate when asserting trees for their risk...

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Extract taken from Collins Tree Guide 2004, wild cherry description of buds: "cherry buds are clustered only on flowering spurs" Here is a Prunus? that I looked at a while ago: http://arbtalk.co.uk/forum/tree-identification-pictures/87201-deciduous-just-emerging-what.html

Cheers Gary. I guess it is not very popular...

Looks like a prunus to me. Seeing the bark would help

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How expensive would it be to use a ground penetrating radar to figure out where the roots are? At least on the parking side.

Cheers Guy! Great stuff!

Any chance of some of this? Very interested

I have looked at a few condemned trees. Many trees that are not at the end of their lives and not unsound are being removed. Some streets have been completely cleared of trees! I am sure that there are several sides to the story but the result is still that too many trees are being removed too quickly. At least phase some of the works...

Cheers! I will have to keep an eye out from fresher specimens.

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Thanks for confirming! It is basically what we ended up doing; Reduced the heavier and more exposed branches and left the rest. Sorry no pics...

It seems to be the size of the pic. I resized everything that I wanted to upload and they all worked. Never had problems before though...

resized pics seem to work. Apparently it was all around the tree, as in covering the lower stem when first discovered...

Here are the pics:001_smile:

Cheers David. I will have to save that list. It has a few species that I know from the tropics which will come in handy in the future, if only just to compare. I think much more able persons may be able to answer that. I would need more information to give you a good guess. More pictures for a start. Once inoculated, whether a tree can stop, compartmentalize, the fungus or not depends on many factors; vitality, species, extent of damaged cells, how much exposed surface there is....

On National trust property. A ranger got us in to check out this old ash that has had the shaggy scalycap fungus for at least 8 years. More fruiting bodies emerge every year. It is just within falling distance of a habitation. Very few people pass by under it (cul de sac with 2 dwellings housing 3 people). I didn't have my mallet or probe with me. They will not get a decay detection device to check it out. The tree has good vitality: Not much dead wood, good growth increments. Would you say that the base is compensating enough to deal with the fungus? The pics are not able to upload. I will try again tomorrow...

Sorry to get back to you so late. It is still sporadic. My speed with no load is 4.89 Mb/s down 0.96 Mb/s up I have also cleared my cache... Cheers

Have not noticed this. I will keep an eye out.

I have been using the combo for a month or so now Originally with a Honey Bros tether and now with some friction rope(not stiff yet) attached between the wrench and the top krab. On Tachyon. I find that it is smoother using the ZZ on this configuration than on double rope. There is excessive wear though. Note the wear on the plastic (black) bit as well. I don't know if this is usual or if this is because of this use. Can any one confirm that they have such wear on theirs from so little use? The ZZ is a few months (<3) old... I tend to engage the wrench manually as it is not on a stiff tether so it usually takes most of the load. I weight about 75kgs... When I can afford it I would really like to get a Rope Runner or other mechanical single rope device...

Sorry bit of a derail, though it is already a different post to the original... Is there a list of the strength of compartmentalization of different trees somewhere? I have never come across it and my views seem to differ from others... I found this but don't know if it is accurate: The Good, the Bad, and the Rotten…Trees. | Tomlinson Bomberger Great post by the way!

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