Obituary of the Sycamore Gap Tree

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Tourists who have travelled to pay their respects to the Sycamore Gap Tree after it was cut down have been urged to stop touching its stump and removing pieces from it.

The area around the tree has been fenced off and a chalked blackboard sign from the National Trust erected.

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Does anyone have exact specs on the tree? Looking for age, size and exact type of tree. Width at the cut? The articles do not seem to be so exact.
I some times cut or help store firewood from assorted trees.
Also harvesting or reusing local trees for assorted projects.
 
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All is not lost.

You could own a part of this iconic tree!

A charity, which operates a sawmill in Herefordshire, said it would professionally dry and store the sycamore timber until it could be made into beautiful objects by master craftspeople.
 
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We've just had some bronze delivered at work, currently on one pallet truck, cost us around £17,000. Casting such a thing wouldn't be too difficult, as when molten it flows like water (just like cast iron or aluminium), but welding the sections together might be more difficult.
 
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I respectfully offer my condolences, however, the very definition of an obituary reads, "...a notice of someone's death..."...note the word SOMEONE, not something. That noted, this obituary makes about as much sense as chronicaling the education of a body of water...Non-sequitur.

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#70
Like getting emotional about a collection of ice cubes because they melted?...newsflash, ice cubes readily melt within room temperatures. It is us humans that apply meaning onto things, these inanimate objects contain no reason, no emotions, no anger, no sentiment, no revenge, no courage, none of it...if we deem these things notable, noble, brave, significant, THEN we apply and ascribe meanings.


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Yes of course, a tree is a biological form of life, but those who espouse a "respect for all forms of life", does it also apply to a petri-dish of mold spores? It is and always has been a sliding-scale of lifeforms....can you honestly say one has the same empathy towards a puppy-dog as to a blob of mold? To quote a song, "...we decide which is right, and which is an illusion.".

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Maybe a single meter away from this very keyboard I'm writing on this very moment, there are two sprouts from some bulbs that have been dormant in the cold...two green sprouts. Yes this tree may very well grow up recovering from all this...too bad, in the centuries to come the "Hadrians Wall" story will be long forgotten & somebody else will chop down the tree again looking to burn the wood.
 
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No one now knows how the Celteach living on the steppes and foothills of north western China came to know about 'the great forest' (Europe) but it was this that first started the great journey to find it. Eventually all the tribes left and made that journey. Trees, forests were respected by lots of different peoples. The Arabs and Jews of El Andaluz certainly respected the huge forests that once covered so much of the land and mountains. Sadly the Christians razed so many of the forests. Guadix behind the Snowy mountains/Sierra Nevadas once had a river that ran all year, I only ever once saw a trickle one year when I lived there. By cutting down the forests of the south the Christians changed the climate forever. In the Asturias NW Spain there is an American guy that lives near the Picos de Europa who planted some trees. The local hunters told him his fortune and what would happen if he didn't cut them down.

There are now no real forests in the UK or Ireland but luckily I live in France and walking through a huge deciduous forest at any time of year is a wonderful experience. Maybe before I die I will get to visit Romania it's vast forests and moving quietly get to see the wolf,the bear and the bison. That tree was special, standing like a sentinel watching over history. A wise man once told me when I was young - just because something stumbles and lurches around on two legs doesn't make it a human being it only makes it a biped - how true
 
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Black Stuart said:
There are now no real forests in the UK...
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The Great Caledonian Forest once covered much of Scotland, below the high tops.

The Roman name for Scotland, Caledonia, means wooded heights.

We’re still lucky to have some remnants of the ancient forest, including Scots pine, birch, rowan, aspen and oak.

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The ancient pinewoods pictured above clad the southern slopes above the head of Loch Maree,
 
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