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  1. openspaceman
    In the case I cited fallen trees do not require felling licences, in the past neither did public open spaces made at the time of the 1899 act and I am not sure if that changed. Interesting one about nesting birds, even on conservation sites we see a rush to get trees on the ground by March for later extraction but very few birds nest in trees yet many do nest in heaps of brash, robins and troglodytes spring to mind.
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    Too true, the woodland by my house is littered with fallen trees and has never been managed, the owners, a charity, won't allow anyone other than their contractors to collect any timber over 4" diameter and their contractors leave it on site in inconvenient sizes. Health and safety is reason given, it wouldn't pay me to get public liability insurance even though I could just use a wheelbarrow for my needs.
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    my interpretation is loose
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    In that case you could prune out the dead and hope.
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    The main stem has died as a result of stress and a bacterial or viral infection, may well be fire blight but leaves in the background suggest some recovery from basal shoots, I think I would cut back the stem and look to these shoots to grow on. They could be stored back to one stem if they survive or left multi stemmed.
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    I would wait a year or two before replanting.
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    I lit it for the last two evenings, house at around 18C now but my feet are cold Yes but watch out as the slightest scratch has the red stuff gushing out
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    I've very little experience of it (only one poplar IIRC); it's a brown rot, so it has rotted out the cellulose and left the brown lignin and would normally cause structural failure before killing the tree, I wonder if another pathogen, like honey fungus is also involved. Neither of the species you mention have been recorded as common hosts for R ulmarius, how close to the stump would the replacement be planted?
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    I haven't used mine for 5 years but found it just chewed a conical hole in knotty holly, most other species it ground its way into and either split the log or stopped the tractor. It also kept trying to rip my arm off.
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    Yes, OP will need to factor in both of them running once the air pressure drops.
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    I don't remember those but I still have the petrol ration coupons for the MGB issued in anticipation around 1975.
  13. openspaceman
    Yes a vastly superior saw, the MS181c is a good,cheap homeowner's saw whereas the 550 is a full professional tool.
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    Similar happening here where there is a large population of first and second generation immigrants and is why we were in the early trials of having to show evidence at the poll station.
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    I'd love to see what they finally decide to do, and the result if they go for a repair.
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    I remember folding wedges being advocated to temporarily fix green floorboards while they dried , then sanding and nailing.
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    If I can get within about 50metres with a vehicle I can drag them out and the cost in labour doesn't mean too much when you're retired. It's strange that what you did as a youngster for pay can be an enjoyable job when retired.
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    Me too but I only need a dozen boot loads and the OP hasn't said which area.
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    I agree but it's a way of selling softwood logs to the punters I suppose. Of course I was only meaning to demonstrate that the lignin got hot by the wasted energy pushing the wood through the die. Wear on the die and auger is high too and in Asia where the press originated they have to be resurface with stellite type material regularly.
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    It will have already have lost some dry matter depending how extensive the rot is, after all the fungus has been living off it and respiring. The thing to minimise dry matter loss to fungi and bugs is to dry it as fast as possible, below 17% stops all activity except termites I think. So cutting splitting and stacking in an airy covered space is the way to go.
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    Looks like it is, does it go a bit red in the autumn?
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    Yes that is my understanding too. Similarly when one steams wood in order to bend it it works because the cellulose fibres are the tensile strength of the wood and the lignin is the stuff that binds them all together ( like glass fibre in polyester resin). Heat the lignin and it loses some stiffness and can flow and reform as it cools. My boss sold his briquette making machine before I could see it working but that hammered a wadge of sawdust through a 2" die and, again, it was the heat generated from the friction of the sawdust binding in the die that caused the softening of lignin. If you watch pictures of the shimada screw press working you can see both steam and smoke rising from the emerging briquette from this friction generated heating, often the briquesttes emerge with a charred surface. About 2:30 below.
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  24. openspaceman
    I spent the first 35 years of my working life paying landowners for standing timber, sometimes I would do a clearance job in exchange for the timber, so it's a transaction like any other, it may be that someone might want the timber, your consideration would be having it taken away, theirs being not having to pay for it. The thing is arborists are a service industry and expect to be paid, forestry is sylviculture, the growing of trees for profit. You need to find where you sit on the divide between the two disciplines.
  25. openspaceman
    No way, it may break a window, a few battens and tiles, maybe a rafter/truss but that's about all. You don't know what trees were next to it before the development that caused it to lean because they are long gone. It doesn't look like there is an sign of soil lifting so , as Khriss says pick a spot about 10ft up facing the house and measure to a known spot on the house then monitor. There's not much scope with doing anything to the tree and the TPO means you best get used to it being there as once confirmed there is not much you can do. It looks like a Pinus nigra variety, are the needles in pairs?

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