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9 Jun 14 - Crawley, West Sussex. Pound Hill. Worth Road. County Tree Surgeons at work. I can watch people work for hours!!
9 Jun 14 - Crawley, West Sussex. Pound Hill. Worth Road. County Tree Surgeons at work. I can watch people work for hours!!
The Great Cedar at Painshill receiving some tlc from tree surgeons.
Using a very approximate measuring method the tree is at least 190' high, probably higher so a great view to be had from the top.
2019PAD 196/365 (15/7)
It was with mixed emotions I took this photo..I was SO quietly mad...the lads had worked hard all day and of course they were jubilant when their hard work had gone to plan ...the exhilaration of the last fall and thud to the ground of the huge tree shot a bad whiff of testosterone into the air...and they roared and punched their fists into the air and slapped backs...but the atmosphere around them was on the whole...grim. None of the locals wanted this tree gone...some had reminisced earlier in the day how much they had loved that tree...
but for saving some money, clearing a ditch all those years ago...a bigger price had been paid.
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Tree Surgeons.
This old fir tree believed to be around 120 years old was causing problems for the nearby buildings ( the root system ) plus it was going rotten on the inside. It was the second large tree in this garden that had been cut down. It’s hard work and you really need to be agile and young.
A tree surgeon carries out all kinds of tree work including planting, care and maintenance and tree hazard assessments. Tree surgeons are also known as tree climbers or arborists. As a tree surgeon, you would need to be physically fit and have a head for heights. If you are interested in conservation and the environment, and you would like a practical job working outside, this job could be for you.
To get into this type of work you will need to be trained in using equipment such as chainsaws, ropes, ladders and harnesses. Many people move into this job after getting experience as a ground worker or helping tree surgeons. You may also be able to get into this job through an Apprenticeship in Trees and Timber.
As a tree surgeon or tree climber, your work really begins once you have climbed into the tree. Your duties will include:
Inspections to assess the health of trees, street or park tree pruning and branch removals, felling, planting, hazard assessment and diagnosis and pest control.
Your duties may also involve other tasks such as snow removal to take the weight off branches. You will usually work from a rope and harness, or you might use elevated work platforms known as cherry-pickers. People able to care for your trees are generally either consultants (tree advisors or arboriculture) or contractors (tree surgeons or arborists)
At least today I had my point and shoot for when this guy was back in the tree outside my office window.
MINES BIGGER THAN YOURS - Rohan and Stihl versus Tony and Husquvarna - whos best - theres only one way to find out - FIGHT!
I was fascinated watching this tree surgeon atop a Swamp Cypress - so agile swinging through the branches - you could have set it to music!
The owner of this house has been quoted £27,000 of work needed to underpin and repair the damage done to the house by the roots of this tree which had it's water supply stolen from the Brue river authority.
Fortunately for him,the buildings insurance will cover this, I think. The Walrow Ponds fishing authority allegedly own the strip of land where the tree is and were not pleased about having to cough up the money for the removal of the tree.
Apparently they now have grand plans of building a row of garages down the green strip of land that the Terrace has enjoyed for maybe a hundred years or more to recoup the expense.
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Urban (ɜːʳbən) adjective [usually ADJECTIVE noun]
Urban means belonging to, or relating to, a town or city.
Arborist (ˈɑːrbərɪst)
noun
A specialist in the cultivation and care of trees and shrubs, including tree surgery, the diagnosis, treatment, and prevention of tree diseases, and the control of pests
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How do you manage trees that were planted in the 1960s as part of post-war housing development in the third decade of the 21st Millennium? With great care, dinosaur smoke and mankind’s great pursuit in conquest over nature.
The process being undertaken in these photos is what's called pollarding, where a trees limbs are removed entirely to encourage later dense growth within 1 to 2 years. Only certain species of trees can handle this brutal operation, like these London Plane trees here. Once a tree is pollarded, it has to be regularly maintained in 5-10 year operations.
Historically, wood harvested from this method would be used to feed livestock or for light timber, but these days, thanks to the infernal combustion engine, two operatives can pollard five trees in as many hours, with the tree limbs being quite violently mechanically separated and carted off to be used either as mulch or biofuel.
I find arboriculture rather fascinating; living amongst the trees in an urban environment, arborists have been a regular sight over the years, performing everything from whole tree clearings to dead wood pruning, I’ve seen them do a lot.
It’s a highly skilled profession with some of the most dangerous and violent tools possible in the workplace – Darwin Award nominees are quickly weeded out.
There is a strange beauty to the brutality of efficiency, especially towards articles of nature.