Quite a few coppice stools are leaning, and will be dealt with in the next few days:
Some have come right down:
while others had a 'domino' effect:
Note - this is why you have to be TWO tree-lengths away from a person felling a tree...
Some of the stools I cleared up yesterday, after the wind had died down:
There was also a branch in the path by Sweep Wood:
it had come from this oak tree:
Here's a quick video of me using a chainsaw to clear the fallen branch and also a coppice stem that was leaning over a path, taken using a chest-mounted GoPro camera:
The oak tree that split up the middle was up the top of the hill in Chestnut Coppice:
It's made a bit of a mess and I need to go back up there to sort it out with a winch...
Still, could have been much worse, we're thankful this is all that fell!
Mike
Will you push the fallen coppice stools upright and try and re-root them? Or cut them off short at the base, and hope they re-sprout?
ReplyDeleteBoth - cut them off as we would if we were coppicing them, and then tip the stools back into the ground. They may get to re-root and grow next spring then. They'll be in the shade, so won't grow fast, but they'll stay alive until we next coppice that area.
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