Home |
Search |
Today's Posts |
#1
|
|||
|
|||
150 year old beech tree
A 150 year old beech tree is due to be cut down soon. It looks healthy
but it has fungus sprouting from its base. The owner of the tree contacted the council and someone came round and said that it had to be cut down. They said the roots would rot away and then it would fall over. Does this make sense to you? I have heard that fungus will hollow out the inside of a tree and that actually makes it stronger. It makes it more flexible so that it can withstand storms better, and that it will live for many more years. It doesn't look like honey fungus. It occurred to me that maybe the council official wanted to be on the safe side. They might not want to say it could be OK because then if something happened and it did fall on someone or a car then they might be considered to be to blame. By the way, its costing £3,000 to get it cut down. |
#2
|
|||
|
|||
150 year old beech tree
The message
from hazchem contains these words: A 150 year old beech tree is due to be cut down soon. It looks healthy but it has fungus sprouting from its base. The owner of the tree contacted the council and someone came round and said that it had to be cut down. They said the roots would rot away and then it would fall over. Does this make sense to you? On the balance of probabilities, no. I have heard that fungus will hollow out the inside of a tree and that actually makes it stronger. It makes it more flexible so that it can withstand storms better, and that it will live for many more years. Some old trees have been hollow for centuries. It doesn't look like honey fungus. It occurred to me that maybe the council official wanted to be on the safe side. They might not want to say it could be OK because then if something happened and it did fall on someone or a car then they might be considered to be to blame. Well, if you have a website, and the fruit-bodies are still there, could you get a pic and post it? If no-one here can identify it, alt.nature.mushrooms would be a good place to ask. There are some serious mycologists in the group. By the way, its costing £3,000 to get it cut down. Hum. Don't get me started on the cost of tree-felling. I used to be a partner in a tree-felling company, and our quotes were generally about a third ov the next more expensive. -- Rusty Direct reply to: horrid dot squeak snailything zetnet point co period uk Separator in search of a sig |
#3
|
|||
|
|||
150 year old beech tree
"hazchem" wrote in message ... By the way, its costing £3,000 to get it cut down. It must be in a bloody awful location then, last tree I dropped I charged £320 + I kept the wood. I'd get a few more quotes if I were you. Tom |
#4
|
|||
|
|||
150 year old beech tree
"hazchem" wrote in message ... .. By the way, its costing £3,000 to get it cut down. Gordon Bennett! Are they replacing it with a gold one into the price? Get another quote, that one is ridiculous. |
#5
|
|||
|
|||
150 year old beech tree
On 7/10/08 00:17, in article , "Christina
Websell" wrote: "hazchem" wrote in message ... . By the way, its costing £3,000 to get it cut down. Gordon Bennett! Are they replacing it with a gold one into the price? Get another quote, that one is ridiculous. I can't help feeling there's a typo there with the noughts. We've had all sorts of trees taken down here when essential to do so and not one has ever cost that kind of money - Redwood cedars, Monterey pines - not a patch on that for price and all mature trees dying back. -- Sacha http://www.hillhousenursery.com South Devon (new website online) |
#6
|
|||
|
|||
Quote:
|
#7
|
|||
|
|||
150 year old beech tree
Sacha wrote:
On 7/10/08 00:17, in article , "Christina Websell" wrote: "hazchem" wrote in message ... . By the way, its costing £3,000 to get it cut down. Gordon Bennett! Are they replacing it with a gold one into the price? Get another quote, that one is ridiculous. I can't help feeling there's a typo there with the noughts. We've had all sorts of trees taken down here when essential to do so and not one has ever cost that kind of money - Redwood cedars, Monterey pines - not a patch on that for price and all mature trees dying back. I had a mature lime removed 2 years ago. The best quote there was about £1,000, that included traffic lights while the job took place, as we are near a corner, and were needed for H&S. The adjacent tree is looking poorly, how much that will cost I shudder to think as there are electric wires near it, so they will have to be disconnected before work can be carried out! |
#8
|
|||
|
|||
150 year old beech tree
On 6 Oct, 15:17, Rusty Hinge 2
wrote: The message from hazchem contains these words: A 150 year oldbeechtree is due to be cut down soon. It looks healthy but it has fungus sprouting from its base. The owner of the tree contacted the council and someone came round and said that it had to be cut down. They said the roots would rot away and then it would fall over. Does this make sense to you? On the balance of probabilities, no. I have heard that fungus will hollow out the inside of a tree and that actually makes it stronger. It makes it more flexible so that it can withstand storms better, and that it will live for many more years. Some old trees have been hollow for centuries. It doesn't look like honey fungus. It occurred to me that maybe the council official wanted to be on the safe side. They might not want to say it could be OK because then if something happened and it did fall on someone or a car then they might be considered to be to blame. Well, if you have a website, and the fruit-bodies are still there, could you get a pic and post it? If no-one here can identify it, alt.nature.mushrooms would be a good place to ask. There are some serious mycologists in the group. I have put some pictures on my website http://www.geocities.com/rosestone/beech/beech.html can anyone identify it? |
#9
|
|||
|
|||
150 year old beech tree
On 7 Oct, 14:14, hazchem wrote:
On 6 Oct, 15:17, Rusty Hinge 2 wrote: The message from hazchem contains these words: A 150 year oldbeechtree is due to be cut down soon. It looks healthy but it has fungus sprouting from its base. The owner of the tree contacted the council and someone came round and said that it had to be cut down. They said the roots would rot away and then it would fall over. Does this make sense to you? On the balance of probabilities, no. Not sure about the fungus but the price quoted is a rip off. It looks like a dismantling job rather than a straight fell; but even so it shouldn't take more than a day for a couple of competent workers to fell+ whatever time it takes to deal with the arisings. |
#10
|
|||
|
|||
150 year old beech tree
In article ,
hazchem wrote: A 150 year old beech tree is due to be cut down soon. It looks healthy but it has fungus sprouting from its base. The owner of the tree contacted the council and someone came round and said that it had to be cut down. They said the roots would rot away and then it would fall over. Does this make sense to you? I have heard that fungus will hollow out the inside of a tree and that actually makes it stronger. It makes it more flexible so that it can withstand storms better, and that it will live for many more years. Yes and no, respectively. What you are describing is the life cycle of trees like oak and yew; beech is different, and tends to crash down. Note that I am not saying that it IS dangerous - merely that the explanation makes sense. Regards, Nick Maclaren. |
#11
|
|||
|
|||
150 year old beech tree
The message
from hazchem contains these words: I have put some pictures on my website Looks like a Giant Polypore a bit past its sell-by date: Meripilus giganteus If it is, it's common, and I haven't heard of it as a destructive fungus. I repeat, ask in alt.nature.mushrooms - you WILL get chapter and verse there. -- Rusty Direct reply to: horrid dot squeak snailything zetnet point co period uk Separator in search of a sig |
#12
|
|||
|
|||
Quote:
A much larger beech fungus is the GIANT POLYPORE (P. giganteus), the largest of our Bracket Fungi, which attacks the roots and base of the trunks, demoralizing the foundations, so that a huge beech that appears to have the solidity of a lighthouse, is snapped across in the first severe gale. The external manifestation of the fungus is made in autumn, when about twenty handsome, overlapping, fleshy fans, a foot across, and of a pale brown tint, with darker zones, make their appearance at the base of the trunk. The pallid underside of the flaps becomes dark at once when bruised. Its esculent qualities are appreciated on the Continent. |
#13
|
|||
|
|||
150 year old beech tree
Sorry about that. Don't know what went wrong there, the URL was
correct. Try this one:- http://www.geocities.com/gdvbqz/beech/beech.html If not I can try it again somewhere else. On 7 Oct, 14:23, AriesVal wrote: On Tue, 7 Oct 2008 06:14:41 -0700 (PDT), hazchem wrote: On 6 Oct, 15:17, Rusty Hinge 2 wrote: [29 quoted lines suppressed] I have put some pictures on my website http://www.geocities.com/rosestone/beech/beech.html can anyone identify it? Oh dear - Sorry, Service Temporarily Unavailable. The server is temporarily unable to service your request due to maintenance downtime or capacity problems. Please try again later. Additionally, a 503 Service Temporarily Unavailable error was encountered while trying to use an ErrorDocument to handle the request. Please check the URL for proper spelling and capitalization. If you're having trouble locating a destination on Yahoo!, try visiting the Yahoo! home page or look through a list of Yahoo!'s online services. Also, you may find what you're looking for if you try searching below. -- An investment in knowledge pays the best interest Benjamin Franklinhttp://ariesval.co.uk/val/ |
#14
|
|||
|
|||
150 year old beech tree
On 8 Oct, 04:44, beccabunga
wrote: hazchem;818345 Wrote: On 6 Oct, 15:17, Rusty Hinge 2 wrote:- The message from hazchem contains these words: - A 150 year oldbeechtree is due to be cut down soon. It looks healthy but it has fungus sprouting from its base. The owner of thetree contacted thecounciland someone came round and said that it had to be cut down. They said the roots would rot away and then it would fall over. Does this make sense to you?- On the balance of probabilities, no. - I have heard that fungus will hollow out the inside of atreeand that actually makes it stronger. It makes it more flexible so that it can withstand storms better, and that it will live for many more years.- Some old trees have been hollow for centuries. - It doesn't look like honey fungus. It occurred to me that maybe the councilofficial wanted to be on the safe side. They might not want to say it could be OK because then if something happened and it did fall on someone or a car then they might be considered to be to blame.- Well, if you have a website, and the fruit-bodies are still there, could you get a pic and post it? If no-one here can identify it, alt.nature.mushrooms would be a good place to ask. There are some serious mycologists in the group. - I have put some pictures on my website http://tinyurl.com/3o45yw can anyone identify it? This would seem to be the culprit: A much largerbeechfungus is the GIANT POLYPORE (P. giganteus), the largest of our Bracket Fungi, which attacks the roots and base of the trunks, demoralizing the foundations, so that a hugebeechthat appears to have the solidity of a lighthouse, is snapped across in the first severe gale. The external manifestation of the fungus is made in autumn, when about twenty handsome, overlapping, fleshy fans, a foot across, and of a pale brown tint, with darker zones, make their appearance at the base of the trunk. The pallid underside of the flaps becomes dark at once when bruised. Its esculent qualities are appreciated on the Continent. -- beccabunga- Hide quoted text - - Show quoted text - I don't know if you managed to see the pictures I put onto the website, if not I have tried to put them on a different site he- http://www.geocities.com/gdvbqz/beech/beech.html From what you said the council could be right about it being likely to fall over. Hazchem |
#15
|
|||
|
|||
150 year old beech tree
The message
from beccabunga contains these words: /Giant polypore/ Its esculent qualities are appreciated on the Continent. I've tried it, and I agree with the opinion reproduced below: "Not edible due to its sour taste and fibrous texture." (From Mushrooms and other fungi of Great and Europe by Roger Phillips.) -- Rusty Direct reply to: horrid dot squeak snailything zetnet point co period uk Separator in search of a sig |
Reply |
|
Thread Tools | Search this Thread |
Display Modes | |
|
|
Similar Threads | ||||
Thread | Forum | |||
[IBC] For old, Old, OLD members ;-) | Bonsai | |||
[IBC] For old, Old, OLD members ;-) | Bonsai | |||
Planting a 3 week old tank and propagating a 2 year old sword rhizome | Freshwater Aquaria Plants | |||
4" Bulkhead into 150 gallon stock tank? | Ponds | |||
150' Norfolk Pine in Backyard and growing...help! | Gardening |