Tree inspection with Paul and latterly Rob, September 2026. It is shocking how many Oaks are dying. Estimated between 30 and 40. Should an area be thinned to prejudice the surviving oaks?
- Contact Uk power network to get quote to fell Turkey Oak, pollard 2 oaks, and Ash pollard over wires
- Alice Holt – acute oak decline – advice on thinning
- Timber merchant Sotterly – 30 oaks 45 quid square meter. Use thin oaks for self, sell thick oaks
- With digger, create area beside entrance for oak trunks to be stacked.
- Create larger parking area at central entrance for 2-3 cars.
- Aim soon – December? George Watts First Cut
- Take parachute down – being replaced anyhow
- Tracked hoist hire
Coppice south western corner 1/2 acre.
0. Contact UK Power Network to fell Turkey oak, pollard 2 oaks 1 ash coppice
- South west area around pond
– Oak pond 3 stem pollard
– Lift hornbeam
2. Clarissa area
– Ash die back
– Oak thin in this area
– Top dead oak
3. Igloo
– Dead spruce and ash x2 fell
– Top ash
Path beside Summer House
Dead oak branches
4. Entrance
– 13 dead oak
– Path
– Pollard track oak hollow Ash
– Dead oak ones pollard / Standing dead Oak
5. Move tree nursary
– More light to cabin
– Take all dead branches over car park
6. Kinda parachute area/Mud kitchen
– Take all dead branches
– Ivy clad oak pollard
– Missing leader oak pollard
– Take all dead branches
7. Walking back into circle
– dead ash on left two or three spindly ash
– Oak branches on path
– Big dead branch over on the right side, leaning ash
