I'm not a botanist...
So you couldnt do a little upper branch trim, put some scaffolding, maybe some porous carbon fiber rods in the wood and re-align half A to half B with a little rooting enzyme and some tar sealant?
I know they do grafts successfully. Even I fixed a busted limb on a pear tree by putting it mechanically back into place and sealing. One would think someone, somewhere would know how to do it. Before its truly too late, as in dont just stand there; get a crane!
Nothing like those modern Lithium battery powered saws, when you dont want to make a lot of racket.
So you couldnt do a little upper branch trim, put some scaffolding, maybe some porous carbon fiber rods in the wood and re-align half A to half B with a little rooting enzyme and some tar sealant?
I know they do grafts successfully. Even I fixed a busted limb on a pear tree by putting it mechanically back into place and sealing. One would think someone, somewhere would know how to do it. Before its truly too late, as in dont just stand there; get a crane!
Nothing like those modern Lithium battery powered saws, when you dont want to make a lot of racket.
The Curious Case of the Sycamore Tree that Died in the Night (L. Acer Pseudoplatanus) rumbles into more weirdness!
Introduced into Britain in around 1500 AD apparently.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Acer_pseudoplatanus
My experience is that these trees grow like weeds. We call them Helicopter Trees round here.
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-tyne-66977582
Surely the News Silly Season is over? 🙁
Introduced into Britain in around 1500 AD apparently.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Acer_pseudoplatanus
My experience is that these trees grow like weeds. We call them Helicopter Trees round here.
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-tyne-66977582
Surely the News Silly Season is over? 🙁
Beautiful... and you were not alone 🙂
I notice that the stones in a circle that look like a well are now gone.
Hugo
I notice that the stones in a circle that look like a well are now gone.
Hugo
What amused me was that Robin Hood actor Brian Blessed has offered to talk to a replacement tree in order to help it grow.
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-tyne-66975967
Let's hope he can tone his thunderous voice down a bit!
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The link below mentions a sycamore sapling near the tree, which was protected from the local sheep by a circular wall.
https://www.northumberlandnationalpark.org.uk/places-to-visit/hadrians-wall/sycamore-gap/
Please keep your illustrious personalities and overtly unique opinions out of this.
Yes, I recognize the redundancies I just put forth. I hope you understood the point.
Carry on Gents, but please do so in the spirit of an audio based forum.
I'm glad that "GORGON'S ALIVE!" Brian Blessed is still with us, my theory is that whenever the grim reaper creeps up on him, Brian turns around, and with a great "RRRAAAAWWWWW!" scares him away.
When I was at school, I can remember a teacher telling us about some bloke who just wanted to turn delinquent boys lives around, when he heard that a boy had broken a window, he collered the boy, and took him around the establishment and made him break each window untill he could see how pointless it was, at the time I thought the punishment was stupid, and a waste of money, now I see the wisdom. Whilst I hate the thought of chopping down a tree, surely there's some trees grown for their wood that could be felled.
Isn't there an old saying, something like "any punishment beyond correction is revenge"?
I hope they don't. Teenagers and pubers are an invention of the Victorians. thousends of years before you were fully grown at 16. You could marry, have children, buy property and all the rest. If they wouldn't be treated like "being special flowers" they would probably not act as stupid as they do now.
And, during the Bronze Age, you had a life expectancy of around 26 years.
Not much time to get up to mischief. You were too busy converting millions of acres of wildwood into farmland! 😉
I don't know if that's down to dyslexia, or because I've recently been googling the Medusa (one of the three Gorgons).
In Shakespeare's original story, Romeo is given the age of 16 years and Juliet is given the age of 13 years (source: Britannica).
And, from the story, we may conclude they had no interest in felling trees.
But, like the sycamore tree, things didn't end well for them!
Anthropomorphism run amok, we heap significance upon non-human entities, driven by our own egos. No tears for majestic 300 year-old Sitka Spruces or any of the old-growth tress hurriedly felled worldwide.
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