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Big cavity at about 15ft up, all the root buttress were rotten although trunk was solid at base. Was chock full of meripilus brackets the last couple of years. Shame as it was a lovely tree. Root plate was waterlogged and spongy from about 10” below surface down, felt like grinding through wet polystyrene.
https://www.instagram.com/p/B8_13h1Bshi/?igshid=sms14ge6iw29Afaik the company have worked on the tree a few times over the years and monitored the cavity over that time. Was home to parakeets for the last few years as well.
@Bobbo it’s not that common for us to get anything worth planking that stays in the yard very long. Most fells are domestic so they have to get cut into man sized pieces(unless we can get the Norcar loader on site) and even then we never get whole trunks out. If you ever want to come over to iver and pick through the log pile it’s probably doable but tbh it goes out again to biomass as fast as it comes in. We’ve got an Alaskan mill frame in the yard but not dusted it off in like a year as never have the time for it.
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edmundro
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Was the Beech diseased further up,
or
did the householder just want a better view (of the Thames?)