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Had a hazard tree to take down today. A large beech, totally filled with conkers, I am amazed that it was still standing. The pressure side of the trunk had started to collapse, making the whole tree curve towards the lean. You can see the splits in the bark, where the tree has settled down . It...

On the type of trees I work on, the sapwood is a lot stringier than the heartwood and more flexible. So cutting away the sapwood and leaving mainly heartwood as done in the Coos bay, will make sure that the holding wood breaks easily, thus avoiding the barberchair.

Yep, practically ancient! I meant, of course, the current rise of global temperature during the last decade or so. The Earth seems to constantly be going through periods of minor temperature changes. Pollen analyses show that 3000 years ago, the temperatures around here (Denmark) were a lot...

Back when I first started logging in Denmark, before global warming started, we had some pretty severe winters around here. Sometimes at work, when the saws weren't making noise, one would hear a sound like a rifle being fired. That would be an ashtree splitting from the cold. Today, with...