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[gregmcateer]

Love your local tree surgeon;



And here is the mother ship;



It's about 4 feet across at the main trunk - must have made a helluva noise when it landed.

Great shame to see such a beautiful tree knocked flat by the high winds, but as a passerby said - it's an ill wind that blows nobody any good....

I'll do my best to do them justice.

Greg

 

[MMUK]

If there's any spare, I'm not far away

 

[Dalboy]

Fantastic haul and there looks like a few gnarly bits on the main trunk

 

[Random Orbital Bob]

spot on....you want to get back there quick and get your hands on those burrs on the trunk....gold dust

 

[paulm]

Reckon there could be some lovely figuring deep into the trunk at the base, looks promising

Worth slabbing it up in the first instance if you can, 4" to 6" or somewhere around that perhaps, and then you can see how best to make use of it from there.

Cheers, Paul

 

[Roger C]

Greg get pieces from the base that is where the history of the tree lies Regards Roger

 

[Grahamshed]

Some windfall. I look forward to seeing the results when its useable

 

[gregmcateer]

I've got to time it so the tree surgeons cut some of it up for me - maybe I should get a CCTV monitor watching it which calls my phone when it sees movement!!

MMUK, If I get any more, You'll be welcome.

Greg

 

[winemaker]

Brilliant, that's what happened to me a Beech fell in the graveyard across the road from my house, went and asked the Vicar gave him £10 note he said can help myself to a few bits :twisted: (four visits over four night I had a few bits lol :roll: ) could hardy carry some trunk slices so heavy :wink: . just bought a chainsaw from screwfix so I can saw them up.

 

[gregmcateer]

Further to my OP, what do you think it is?

Oak, Chestnut? I had thought oak, but the twist in the trunk may seem chestnutty. Shame there are no leaves to have a look at!

TIA

Greg

 

[KimG]

I thought Chestnut too, are there any twigs? the buds would give an immediate ID. Also two other factors, the smell, Oak has a distinctive whisky like smell (of course in fact whisky smells like Oak) plus the silver grain, I couldn't see any in the pics, but that would point out Oak straight away as it isn't part of Sweet Chestnunt.

 

[gregmcateer]

Kim,
Thanks for that - There are couple with twigs on and they have the telltale little silvery-white spots of the chestnut.
Greg