sort of - The ground we are working on is ancient peat bog. Traditionally bogs were drained and planted, but they found that lots of rare species were loosing their habitat as a result. The trees dry out the bog, and its usually your pioneer species that cover the ground Common BirchBetula...
On this job, being as its a nature reserve, the client asked if we could leave the spar trees topped, and leave a few limbs on them as they make good wild bird perches. Traditionally, I would fell the spar tree.
hardhat? well Fenders go on top of the wheel, but hard hats dont :D if you do leave them on top of the wheel, they end up underneath the wheel.
quite impressed by the way it stood up to a 6 tonne tractor driving over it
Spar tree is a yank term, its the tree that holds the skyline cable in the air. the tail spar is the tree the skyline is terminated / tied off too.
Leaving the top on would mean it continues to broadcast seed over a wide area, not really what you want when your trying to remove the invasive...
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