Gary Prentice

He could have bought it back cleaned and sharpened. Then he'd really be a great bloke.

Don't be coming into a proper tree thread and starting your name-calling and trolling antics

I can't believe how much elm just went for firewood twenty years ago. No one wanted it. When I worked for the LA I felled a stem that was burred to around 4m. I arranged with my manager to plank it at cost for a local wood turning club, but there was insufficient interest to do it.

Stop felling stuff. There's no more work for anyone once they're gone Mark

sh.... keep it on the down low

Using woodchip, the sugars released by the breakdown of the chip itself will encourage the right type of fungi for tree itself, rather than throwing some 'works for everything' spores that are often not even viable anyway. Sorry not of fan of mycorrizal inoculations, I don't believe we understand the relationships involved enough to be able to produce anything that isn't largely snake oil as yet.

I'm not sure that that would be much of an issue. I've some cypress root that was growing between the bricks of a small brick planter. I bought it home and threw it on the window sill. Full sunlight and a radiator below. I can't distinguish any ill effects of rapid drying apart from a few minor cracks originating from axe wounds incurred getting the root out.

quite possibly, but with a full load that would be a puller, compared to a transit with the equivalent volume - which would (probably) be O/L but wouldn't look it.

I think that pretty much exhausts the money making opportunities for this one. Jokes aside, that's not a bad idea, to poison before felling.

And grind the stump so that no-one trips over it.

So it's lifting the tarmac, that's only to be expected and if it was left be, it would be unlikely to be of any detriment to the tree. The problem comes when someone wants to make good the distortion in the footpath to prevent trips and falls and then tears away half of the root system to relay a new path! You need an aerial inspection to assess the extent of any decay in or around existing pruning wounds. The results of this should go to deciding further action, if any. The discolouration on the stem if just lichen by the look of it. No concerns, just an indicator of air quality.

Mulching is always a good idea, the universal panacea

No-one would know what you're carrying if you didn't sign write your name all over it

Got any photo's Steve? Staging might be more stressful than hitting it once. Every cut made will be compartmentalised, then that cut gets cut off again, and again. It's a big call on the trees energy resources. Can you mulch the tree - to give it both a health boost and improve it resistance to drought. Get the tree in better health before surgery? e

It was a bit more complicated than that. The case was fairly straightforward legally, but the LAs legal team made an error in attempting to blame the victim, the candyfloss construction of the conservatory. That shifted the medias focus on the case with a nice soundbite and shifted public perception of the legalities involved. In law, you have to take the victim as you find them. It's like battering someone over the head with a bat and then arguing that because they had an unusually thin skull they died, whereas someone with a normal, average, thickness of skull would have survived. So, the crux of the claim that the foundations were inadequate, with the already known tree roots/subsidence problems, wasn't going to be particularly great in the first place. If the trees roots weren't abstracting water from the land the foundation specification would be immaterial. This is the problem with medias reporting, the public get the wrong idea about all the principals of the case and in some situations trees get removed out of fear when it is unnecessary or there would never be an obligation to do so. Burge V South Gloucester Council - Candyfloss Construction.pdf

If you've got an opinion, don't be shy in expressing it!

Duncan Slater's done quite a lot of work on this.

I doubt it, considering that lots of LAs don't even have up to date interactive mapping or their TPOs online as it is. There is a data.gov site where the LAs have provided information - but even that is incomplete and or inaccurate. It's a great idea for an app but I can't see how you'd get all the information to create it.

come on elaborate. What did you install etc

Why would anyone not, if the app was guaranteed to be accurate and up to date?

And grind the stump out surely.

Is that Wisewood?

This thread seems apt for a Welsh dragon causing traffic problems... https://www.walesonline.co.uk/news/wales-news/25ft-dragon-thats-causing-havoc-15772469

Mattheck has a real thing about monoliths. He's vehement that they shouldn't be taller than a metre or two when adjacent to paths and roads.