Peter Bomen
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Yes the twists up there were really nice! The cavities in this tree don’t worry me very much. At some point we might take a little bit of weight from the top, but first I want more growth lower in the tree. There was a young totally sunburned beech next to it, covering the whole lower region of the oak. We removed this do now the oak can lower down a bit.. For the oak I wouldn’t have removed the whole beech already. But the beech removal was the main reason we were there, the oak was a beautiful bonus
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not a big one, but a beautiful veteran tree with so much microhabitats… We were asked to prune the dead wood for safety, so I just took of the wood that I could take by hand or a swing with my lanyard from time to time... For the rest I was just touristing around and enjoying this beautiful tree.
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Thanks! that's one on the list already We don't mind driving a bit, and as you mentioned it is easier to find a place to camp.
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I am going with a friend to the Tree architecture and morphophysiology symposium on the 7th and 8th of April in Kew, London. We come from Belgium and I have a few questions here We will come a few day in advance to drive around and visit some beautiful trees in the region. Which places or trees would you advise to go to? I want to make an itinerary for 2 days in the area... And how about sleeping in the area? We come with my friends van, or with my pickup with rooftoptent.. The van is more incognito to sleep on the road, but the pickup will be cheaper to get on the ferry to England... We also like to have a good diner from time to time, so if you have a good restaurant recommendations near some beautiful trees, that's welcome too
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Not chainsaw trousers... guilty these are rain pants from revolution race. A Swedish brand of outdoor clothing where I buy all my climbing pants. Very affordable and very very durable!
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Nice. I really like these challenging situations And yes, we did most of the tree without spurs, so leaving a nice frame for standing and grabbing is really nice...
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In the old graveyard of Roermond, The Netherlands, are these 4 old pollard beeches that haven't been pollarded in quite a long time. The city had a report made by a European Tree technician, and the advice was to bring the trees back into pollarding cycle in 3 Phases. This is the first phase, where we reduce the biggest poles for about 50%. In the following years they have to be monitored very well on how they react to the pruning. If they react well, we can continue to phase 2 in a few years.
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My bad, I posted them in the wrong order... fixed I understand it was a very difficult plot to follow
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I prune much more than I remove trees. But I have to say that I also enjoy a nice tree removal. This was a really nice job full of speedlining because of a shed and some fences. Divided into 3 clips...
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Great video! off course they say you can not use it as PPE, but I feel as save as on any other friction device ascending on this thing... With an 11m rope there is so much friction in there. The only downside of it, for which I still have to find the little trick, is to get the rope out at the anchor up in the tree. I disconnect it and lower it down with the end of my climbing line when somebody else still has to use the access line. If not I just leave it hanging and can bring it down when I'm on the ground. lovely little thing
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It's the Awah Z2R. I use it in big trees or when there are a lot of trees. Otherwise my elbows don't like it much..
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I can answer with just another video
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I will never ever get bored climbing those big beautiful beeches!! This one on a very nice location as well
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Hehehe it is Dutch but from Belgium… There trees are located north from Antwerp. I have to say I don’t remember what I had for breakfast, but the trousers are from Revolution Race (I like them a lot!), and the boots are arbpro.
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thanks @Steve Bullman and @Retired Climber A bit breezy it was for sure! Here is another part of this super nice climb where the breeze increased a little bit...
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What a gorgeous tree this was to climb! This absolute massive and beautiful tree has been pruned pretty hard about 20 years ago (estimation), and there were a few big limbs with big (20 years old) reiterations growing straight up. Two limbs were cracked and resting on other limbs already, so to prevent some other limbs from overloading we went in and got some weight and wind drag out of the limbs.
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Just some fun climbing in this beautiful white oak. There was much more and bigger dead wood that I took out, and this is a place where children play underneath the trees... but here I just want to show some fun climbing. The techniques I used here like the canopy anchor with cambium saver and retrievable redirect were there to film and show, but this didn't make it to a video. In this tree I normally would not use this techniques. I would just use a base anchor and natural redirect in the end.
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It's difficult to take a picture of the whole tree. It is a quite steep hill it is standing on. In these pictures you see the upper crown that we pruned. The foliage in the bottom of the picture is the top of the lower crown... A picture from the street looking up the hill shows even less, because of the rich undergrowth around the tree.
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We were roped into both trees. We decided to enter form the oak for different reasons. There was a lot of vegetation under the beech that was difficult to go through (and I can be quite lazy), the lower crown of the beech was very dense, all the wood that fell could stay just where it fell, we had to reduce the oak too anyway, and there was a nice branch bridge between both trees...
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One of the nicest projects I have done This beautiful beech is already retrenching its crown. The whole top and big scaffolds are dead, and under this massive dead crown there is a very lively new crown with a beautiful structure! We tried to spare is as much as possible given the conditions... but the dead wood was too decayed to climb further and throw smaller pieces. This tree needed to be "pruned" for safety. We left as much dead wood as possible for microhabitats, just so the tree or branches would not reach the street and the paths in the park.
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I have been searching and reading on this forum a long time, and would like to contribute something myself.. Recently I started filming my work climbs, and I enjoy editing the footage into fun video's... Here is one where this beech needed an overall reduction after a tensile test because of Meripilus giganteus. This video is about half of the tree being worked and I tried to edit the whole work climb into a short and fun to watch video...
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