And another one bites the...err...mud.

How sad...

Just seen a grand, 200-plus year-old horse chestnut lying on the grass in the local park. How sad it looks, much the same as seeing a dead whale on the beach. Consider - this tree saw the Battles of Trafalgar and Waterloo come and go, two World Wars,and everything else since! What gets me is that it didn't collapse through age or disease but because its roots couldn't hold it up in the flooded ground. We won't see the likes of it ever again, for as good-intentioned as we are, if we plant a tree in its place then twenty years down the road it will be deemed to be in the way of something called progress - and down it will come! I'm feeling very melancholy at the loss (plus I can't get ahold of any of the wood!)

Bob.

It is upsetting, especially as you can't get hold of any of it..


Just think what a missed opportunity that is..

Very sad indeed... and that such a tree fell down.

Bob,

Phone up the local council and ask to speak to the trees Officer. If they say "we dont have a trees officer" ask to speak to the person who you report dangerous trees to, and that will get you through to the right person. They will tell you when the clearance team will have been contracted to move it and ask if you attend site can you have a few pieces as you are a local resident and wood turner and can put the pieces he is about to let you have to good use.

I got five tons of False Acacia on one occasion!

Good luck Bob, hope you get a load of it

I hear what you say Bob, and agree it is a sad occasion and one which could have been helped had you got a few logs from it ...

Be careful Bob you seem to be developing feelings,
Feelings of an almost human nature. This will not do. Call the schoolmaster!
Enough Floyd.
That is truly sad mate you plant a seed as a young lad and watch it grow for all those years only for it to be taken from you.
As Neil says get in touch with your local authority and see if they can drop a log or two your way from it, then at least somebody can remember what did grow there.
Its nice to be able to leave something behind when we shuffle off this could be a golden opportunity for you.