Trees Adj. Trekensa: 2025~6


For 30 years trees I've felled for various reasons: See tree-feeling-2023

Boundary of Triangle Field and Trekensa Gardens

March 13th 2025: Dave King drew my attention to an ash, that if fell would crash into one of his greenhouses. The first job was to clear adjacent trees that leant towards the △ to clear a path for the ash to be pulled back and felled in the △
The leaning ash to the left, with the ladder, is problematic.
Trees felled to make a way for the ash.

Diary 2025

  • March 30th
    Felled a 'smallish ash' to make way for a large 'sycamore'. There is a large ash to be felled to clear space for the overhanging ash which is to be pulled back to the △.
    Cleared a small amount of hornbeams brush and a half dozen or so logs.
  • March 31st
    Clearing the felled hornbeams, slowly . . . April 17th . . .

Diary 2026

  • March 19th
    Have tied the overhanging branch to two trees to help guide it when it falls and clearing space and putting up 'longer' ladder .
  • March 20th
    10:45 Cleared a blocking 4.5" sycamore and raised two parts of the three part ladder.
    Cleared up a bit and new ladder and position.

  • March 21st
    Lopped the two main branches, the larger got stuck in a fork.

    Felled main limbs, larger stuck in fork.

    Now to clear.

    Cleared the smaller limb, downed the larger from the fork and trimmed the branches off, and took down the ladder. So tomorrow the idea is to fell the main trunk on to the larger limb. The idea is that this will keep it off the ground a bit, if it falls as hoped, making it easier to saw the trunk for removal.

    Damage the top rung of the 'top' ladder. Not sure how but the ladder was tied tight to the tree at the very top and it could be that in feeling the large limb it split and pulled huge pressure on the ladder. A bit crazy of me as I was still standing on the ladder.

  • March 22nd:
    Took down the main trunk and another overhanging ash branch a meter or so tot the north
    Before and after

    The main trunk, logs from main limb and
    in the background the small ash lying horizontal.

    Logged up all but one piece. Dave King used the tractor and bucket four times to move the logs. Largely as otherwise my repeated walking back and fro carrying the logs would provoke Scoobie, the alsation, to jump and get aggressive.
    The tractor turned up a bit of the track but not the △
    Some tracks of the tractor.
    Pile to the left is tractor dump, logs to the right are handed.
  • March 23rd:
    Sawed and removed the remaining part of the trunk and cleaned up the ground around. ✅
  • March 28th: Removing previously felled hornbeam.
    Logs of lower trunk

    Remaining upper trunk

    Hedge cleared