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The Black Poplar Tree as mentioned in the 'Most Expensive Single Tree' post have been scanned and will be posted below as promised..
A bit of background for who ever didn't read the post it was a very rotten, leaning and dangerous tree that no one wanted to touch. The photos don't really do it justice they were taken with a disposable camera and don't really capture how immense this tree was. It hard to believe that something so big and heavy could support itself at such an angle. It was severely decayed in the one upper section and the base, it was also stood in water which was an overflow channel for the lake it stood by (I had to stand on a 20ft construction board so as not to be up tp my chest in water). There was no access for vehicles. It was half a mile from the nearest track and a mile from the nearest road. View attachment 92844
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View attachment 92846The job basically entailed felling the beast, but a healthy stem had to be bought down in sections so as not to wreck a brand new boat jetty. That was what was bad about the job as we knew there was a fair amount of rot at the base and the roots but it only became apparent how bad when the tree was on it's side.
I proceeded with my face cut and, after about 12inches I was into some hollow stuff. You could actually hear stuff dropping off inside the tree and land in water! So I left the face cut small and climbed the embankment and started to make a series of progressively deeper back cuts as it was too wide for a conventional boring cut. Eight inches into my back cut the earth beneath us started to groan so I pulled out the saw stepped back, just as the roots, and about thirty feet of embankment gave out and collapsed into the lake.
One of our guys Tom captured it on a disposable camera. The guy with his arm in a sling was W--y-e who you may remember from One of the funniest moments' posts who was caught crouching down in some bushes as a lady came out with some tea although this incident was some 12yrs previous. This tree was felled in 1999.
I had to join three photos together although this still left the bottom 20ft out of the photo on top of this they were hanging out of the scanner so it is somewhat clipped but I included plenty of others so you can join the dots. I excluded the photo of me looking white as a sheet just after it was felled as I realized how little was holding me in the air when I bombed down the healthy stem the day before. Also not shown on the photos is the ton and a half of Ivy that we dragged half a mile to the chipper on the first day it was growing from a stem ten inches thick! Everything else was dismantled and left as 'snake cover' . Everything had to be moved by Turfor winches and cables due to the lack of access. A ground guy who was also an engineer proved a great help with this.
Hope you enjoy the pictures.
A bit of background for who ever didn't read the post it was a very rotten, leaning and dangerous tree that no one wanted to touch. The photos don't really do it justice they were taken with a disposable camera and don't really capture how immense this tree was. It hard to believe that something so big and heavy could support itself at such an angle. It was severely decayed in the one upper section and the base, it was also stood in water which was an overflow channel for the lake it stood by (I had to stand on a 20ft construction board so as not to be up tp my chest in water). There was no access for vehicles. It was half a mile from the nearest track and a mile from the nearest road. View attachment 92844
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View attachment 92846The job basically entailed felling the beast, but a healthy stem had to be bought down in sections so as not to wreck a brand new boat jetty. That was what was bad about the job as we knew there was a fair amount of rot at the base and the roots but it only became apparent how bad when the tree was on it's side.
I proceeded with my face cut and, after about 12inches I was into some hollow stuff. You could actually hear stuff dropping off inside the tree and land in water! So I left the face cut small and climbed the embankment and started to make a series of progressively deeper back cuts as it was too wide for a conventional boring cut. Eight inches into my back cut the earth beneath us started to groan so I pulled out the saw stepped back, just as the roots, and about thirty feet of embankment gave out and collapsed into the lake.
One of our guys Tom captured it on a disposable camera. The guy with his arm in a sling was W--y-e who you may remember from One of the funniest moments' posts who was caught crouching down in some bushes as a lady came out with some tea although this incident was some 12yrs previous. This tree was felled in 1999.
I had to join three photos together although this still left the bottom 20ft out of the photo on top of this they were hanging out of the scanner so it is somewhat clipped but I included plenty of others so you can join the dots. I excluded the photo of me looking white as a sheet just after it was felled as I realized how little was holding me in the air when I bombed down the healthy stem the day before. Also not shown on the photos is the ton and a half of Ivy that we dragged half a mile to the chipper on the first day it was growing from a stem ten inches thick! Everything else was dismantled and left as 'snake cover' . Everything had to be moved by Turfor winches and cables due to the lack of access. A ground guy who was also an engineer proved a great help with this.
Hope you enjoy the pictures.
