Octave Tree Care

Busy week last week. I unfortunately had to remove this copper beech as decay in the main union had caused half its canopy to fall onto the road below, causing a great danger and leaving the remaining tree unstable.
All safely down now.

Some early signs spring is on its way !

Another two days successfully completed of the flintham parish work.

On the list this week was to reduce the two large populars by 4 meters, this was to reduce the wind sail of the mature trees to ease the stress they face in high winds, which is important due to their location close to the cricket pitch and nets. I also brought back in the extended limbs toward the nets to reduce the tip weight on them so reducing chances of failure. The expanded growth and wood charistics of being weaker and prone to rot made this risk higher. You can see in one photo that one damaged limb was over a high traffic part of the cricket field.

Also a horse chestnut was reduce by 3 meters all around to take away weight from above the children’s playground which it was weighted towards and to rebalance the tree. The canopy was also lifted to allow better acces to the space, along with few other trees in the woodland belt, again increasing light ana access.